Nine Things that Caught My Eye Today (Dec. 23, 2015)

1. ISIS warns against celebrating Christmas.

2. 

This apocalyptic landscape is all that remains of one suburb in Syria’s capital Damascus https://t.co/iqi2f4FQANpic.twitter.com/3rmKpDM94h

— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) December 23, 2015

3. Middle East patriarchs encourage persecuted Christians to find hope at Christmas

4. King Abdullah II:

Arab Christians are an integral part of our past, present and future. Ever since the great battle of Mutah, Arab Christians have been an essential partner in building our culture and civilisation and in defending Islam.

5. The legacy of a Catholic teacher from Brooklyn lives on at NYU’s campus on the Persian Gulf

6. 

Philippine parish hosts wedding for couples who could not afford one https://t.co/xFKWBEp2Zbpic.twitter.com/37MRILIBLg

— Catholic Herald (@CatholicHerald) December 23, 2015

7. Camille Paglia:

Nothing in the world will ever be totally safe, even the plushy pads of an infant’s crib, to which feminist ideologues would evidently wish to reduce us all.

8.

Photographer captures splendour of the ‘iceberg capital of the world’ in Greenland https://t.co/R1OaRhZRiQpic.twitter.com/ZrvC9q3ZGw

— Daily Mail Pics (@DailyMailPics) December 23, 2015

9. T. S. Eliot:

There was a Birth, certainly, We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death, but thought they were different.

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