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Sunday, April 20, 2003
posted by gbarto at 1:05 PM:
Very late French news update so we'll see if Figaro and Libé are updated yet too.Le Monde: China and SARS: Analysis and Punishments. The Health Minister and Mayor of Beijing both stepped down or were fired.
Le Figaro: not updated
Libé: Libé has a One-Year Ago piece about last year's French election cycle, which started... one year ago. You can click the links up top on that election cycle to find out more than you'd ever want to know.
Ouest-France: Ouest-France leads with Easter, the Resurrection:
Pâques, la Résurrection
"Easter is the greatest holiday in the universe," wrote novelist Virgil Georghiu. Christians carry its memory. From generation to generation, they pass along its story: Jesus betrayed, condemned by a false trial, put to death as a criminal amid the cries of an angry mob, enclosed in a tomb, then seen again alive by his friends who could barely believe their own eyes.
For Christians, this event transformed the perspective through which to see human life. Death remains a sorrowful mystery but it is not the last word on existence. No longer is it an impenetrable wall down which our tears run. To the contrary, it's days are numbered because the return of Christ outside death announces that of all men and thus of Humanity.
In the eyes of many, this perspective reveals History as an Aurora announcing a new day. It invites peoples to care for one another, to step outside their egoism and their jealousy in order to build Peace on new foundations: cooperation among peoples by development, respect for people, the sharing of natural treasures...
On this day, Christians celebrate the joy of Easter, which signifies passage: passage from the shadow of the world to the light, from the darkness of the human condition to the recreation of the being that regains life wake of the Creator.
In the great Jewish tradition, God carries many names and many are the faces by which he reveals Himself to man. One of these names signifies the Place. One can hear this name as the Place for life, as the Place for return, as the space created where man can exhibit his humanity.
Jeanne Emmanuelle HUTIN.
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