Christians across the world celebrated Christmas today under unusual circumstances due to the coronavirus pandemic. Streams of drummers marched through Bethlehem yesterday and Notre Dame hosted a choral concert for the first time since it was destroyed by fire. Pope Francis hosted Christmas Eve Mass in St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City slightly earlier … Read more
Jupiter and Saturn will appear closer to each other in the sky tonight than they have in the last 800 years — forming a celestial beacon akin to the ‘Star of Bethlehem’. The gas giants — the largest planets in the solar system — have been slowly getting closer in the sky since the summer, … Read more
With Christmas approaching, I couldn’t help wondering how The Nativity might have turned out if coronavirus had been around back then. The Bible would probably have recorded it something like this… And lo, Caesar Borisius decreed that a mass vaccination for the pestilence which is called Co-Vid should take place among all the citizenry of … Read more