Marisa Acocella s Big She-Bang Theory
With her latest book, the cartoonist and author brings history s forgotten women back into the picture
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Marisa Acocella was raised in a devout Catholic family. But one of the Bible’s main teachings seriously bugged her. “I always thought, how could a male God give birth to all this?” Acocella says, gesturing at … everything. “It never made sense to me. There had to be a God the Mother.”
The question nagged her all through her childhood in Roselle Park, New Jersey, her college years studying art at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, her early jobs in advertising in the Eighties. In 1992, while she was working on her first comic strip, “She,” for
Pope s visit brings attention to Iraq s dwindling Christian population
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Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Iraq on Friday at the government s invitation. File Pool Photo by Gennari/Spaziani/UPI | License Photo
March 4 (UPI) Pope Franciswill arrive in Iraq on Friday in a first-ever papal visit to the country that is expected to raise awareness about the challenges facing Iraqi Christians a majority of whom are Catholic.
In the past two decades, the Christian population in Iraq has fallen by over 80%. The 1987 Iraqi census reported that there were 1.4 million Christians in Iraq, and today it is estimated that the Christian population is less than 250,000. Spurred by political instability and war, many Christians have immigrated to other regions, including North America, Western Europe and Australia.
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