[Goanet] Looking back at 2016.

[Con Menezes]

   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2VruHbzKKo

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[Goanet] George Michael in music.

[Con Menezes]

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38435954?ocid=global_bbccom_email_26122016_top+video

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[Goanet] The Australian pair providing childirth training to Indian doctors.

[Con Menezes]

   
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/12/18/australian-pair-providing-hand-ons-childbirth-training-indian-doctors?cx_cid=newsdaily-edm-2016

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Re: [Goanet] [Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar] Christmas Eve in Goa

[Roland]

Lovely pics senhor Parrikar. 
Zogzogra soglem - lights, church, people, their Sunday best.

Hope they have as much faith as their dresses; though you would not have been 
able to capture the former.

Roland Francis
Toronto.

> On Dec 24, 2016, at 11:44 PM, Rajan Parrikar  wrote:
> 
> Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Christmas Eve in Goa'
> 
> Midnight mass.
> 
> Gleðileg Jól, Feliz Natal, Merry Christmas!
> 
> Scenes from last night's celebrations at the Holy Trinity Church in Nagoa
> which
> also services the neighboring villages of Arpora and Baga.
> 
> 
> You may view the latest post at
> http://blog.parrikar.com/2016/12/25/christmas-eve-in-goa-2/
> 
> 
> Warm regards,
> 
> Rajan Parrikar
> ra...@parrikar.com

[Goanet] Goa's hippie days!

[eric pinto]

http://trancentral.tv/goa-in-the-70s-80s/





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[Goanet] Easy liistening Christmas Season selection.......The Holy City Jerusalem.

[Con Menezes]

  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRlBsuhT_Fk

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[Goanet] Goa's hippie days!

[Roland]

A precious set of pics forwarded to me by Eric's eldest brother.

Just beautiful, if you view it with the background music of "Aquarius/Let The 
Sunshine In.
When the moon is in the seventh house

An age of gay abandon and free love (whatever that meant, nothing is really 
free, that was when AIDS was born).

>> http://trancentral.tv/goa-in-the-70s-80s/
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[Goanet] AIFF REPORT: INDIA READY TO TAKE ON AFGHANISTAN IN THE GROUP B OPENER

[AIFF Media]

Dear Colleagues,



Please find below the report regarding India's opener against Afghanistan
in the SAFF Women's Championship 2016.



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INDIA READY TO TAKE ON AFGHANISTAN IN THE GROUP B OPENER



*NEW DELHI:* India Women's Team are gearing up to taking on Afghanistan at
the Kanchenjunga Stadium in Siliguri at 06:30 PM tomorrow (December 27,
2016).



*READ MORE:* https://www.the-aiff.com/news-center-details.htm?id=7734



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[Goanet] Simla gets a white Christmas after it snows for the first time in over two decades

[eric pinto]

https://scroll.in/latest/825139/shimla-gets-a-white-christmas-after-it-snows-for-the-first-time-in-over-two-decades

   

[Goanet] Words from nativity: Uncovering the language of the first Christmas

[eric pinto]

http://scroll.in/article/824910/words-from-nativity-uncovering-the-language-of-the-first-christmas

   

[Goanet] Fwd: Christmas song....Georges Michael - Last christmas

[Gabe Menezes]

R.I.P. George Michael.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TipZHAipfbU

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Gabe Menezes.

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Atheist China could have largest number of Christians in the world by 2030 (Sutirtho Patranobis, HT)

[John Fernandes]

What a shame , that the Chinese would want to go down the road to
Christianity. Sure,they could find something better, rather than the
neo-liberalism they now espouse? They are welcome to Christianity, as
Gandhi said " It's a good idea". Maybe if the Western world heeded what the
present Pope is wishing, then maybe there is hope. In the meantime enjoy
the wonderful world we live in.

On 25 December 2016 at 22:16, Goanet Reader  wrote:

> Sutirtho Patranobis
>
> Hindustan Times. Beijing
>
> PHOTO: People attend a Christmas Eve Mass at a Catholic
> church in Shanghai, China, on Saturday. (REUTERS)
>
> The Amity Printing Company in Nanjing city in eastern China
> is the world's largest producer of Bibles. Between 1987 and
> July 18 this year, it produced 150 million copies in 90
> languages and sold them in 70 countries.
>
>   If that's surprising, here's the controversy:
>   Officially atheist China, according to an estimate
>   sharply criticised by Beijing, could have the
>   largest number of Christians in the world by 2030.
>
> Actual numbers are hard to come by. The Chinese government,
> which differentiates between Catholics and Protestants,
> pegged it at between 23 million and 40 million in 2014. It
> counted those who take part in religious activities in
> government-sanctioned churches.
>
> Independent estimates vary. A 2011 Pew survey said around 5%
> of China’s population in 2010 -- or around 67 million -- were
> Christians. It took into account those who are part of
> non-registered or "home" churches that function informally
> out of sitting rooms, attics and garages.
>
> Then there are experts who suggest the number of Christians
> in China is easily more than the number of Communist Party of
> China (CPC) members, currently 88 million.
>
> Take the cases of young professional Ling and Lily, an
> undergraduate student at a top university in Beijing. Neither
> visit formal churches but are regulars at informal gatherings
> where they read the Bible and sing hymns.
>
> "The gathering spot varies. We used to go to a fellow
> student's home or a coffee shop or restaurant. Because it's
> not very convenient to sing hymns in public, we would pick a
> comparatively private place," Lily said.
>
> "My friends and I don't go to normal churches, most of the
> church-style buildings in China are Three-Self Churches (run
> by the CPC-approved Three-Self Patriotic Movement). We
> generally go to family churches. Those churches are not
> legally recognised, so they’re illegal in a way."
>
> Then there is the phenomenon of large but unregistered
> churches in big cities, said Carsten Vala, an associate
> professor of political science at Loyola University,
> Maryland, who studies Christianity in China.
>
> "The most interesting development to me is that of large,
> unregistered churches in cities like Beijing, Shanghai and
> Chengdu, where hundreds of high-status, white collar Chinese
> participate in churches not officially registered but which
> nevertheless exist due to permissiveness of local officials,"
> Vala said.
>
> An example, he said, is Early Rain Church in Chengdu, which
> neither fits into the typical, small-scale "house" churches
> nor the large-scale, official churches of Protestant
> associations.
>
> The informal churches fill two requirements -- first, they
> make up for formal churches, and, second, they keep things
> private for those who want to keep their faith away from the
> CPC's prying eyes.
>
> Beijing has kept a wary eye on, and strictly regulated,
> Christianity since the CPC adopted a conciliatory approach to
> religion four decades ago. The growth of Christianity in
> China began at the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76),
> a period when all religions were suppressed, often brutally.
>
>   This coincided with economic reforms. As the
>   economy boomed, a gradually wealthier China needed
>   a spiritual belief system to invest in; the purely
>   political CPC wasn't able to provide succour for
>   the soul.
>
> Sociology professor Yang Fenggang, founding director of the
> Centre on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University,
> Indiana, explained the phenomenon in terms of economics and
> globalization.
>
> "Every convert has a uniquely personal story to tell about
> their change of faith. However, so many Chinese have been
> converting to Christianity in the last few decades, which
> amounts to a social phenomenon that I would call 'mass
> conversion' in modern times," he told Hindustan Times.
>
>   "Sociological speaking, the social, political, and
>   cultural changes in the process of modernisation
>   are the contextual factors for this mass conversion."
>
> Yang, author of *Religion in China: Survival and Revival
> under Communist Rule*, explained it in his article Lost in
> the Market, Saved at McDonald's: "The crucial contextual
> factors