you cannot go to rome and say that peter did not make it to rome. rome was forever changed by the life of peter. merry christmas and welcome to this special holiday edition of new day. i m boris sanchez. it is a challenge cal morning. i m amara walker in for christi paul. just as it seemed the country was opening up again, concerns over emerging variants could spell trouble for the economy heading into next year. plus, a veteran still making a difference after her time in the military gets the surprise of a lifetime just in time for
anti- roma and i m a highly pai pop art is. you probably couldn t do it mus your dad s president. that is how hunter biden pulled it off. he sold five of his finger painting for 75,000 apiece and he s trying to sell so hunter biden present our sho just opened. a highly non-decrepit columnist and she visited the art show an that to tell the tale. she joins us now. think so much for coming on forced europe reporting venture to the art show. how did they go? well, unfortunate wasn t allowed in. i did try. there was a very large security guard out of the front who said that i had to have an appointment. i did try to make an appointment . i need and ailed the gallery owner i asked if i could have one of these exclusive use of hunter biden s painting but unfortunately unfortunate got n .esponse
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50 million miles an hour. narrator: in india, a tradition preserved in song, dance and the acts of thomas tells how the apostle came here to spread the word of jesus in the first century. i think it s possible, even plausible that thomas went to india, because we know that this was a fairly well trod route and we have a text that explains thomas s evangelical mission to india, and we have a community in this corner of india that goes back to antiquity. narrator: to this day, st. thomas christians perform parts of the liturgy in sir yak, the language of early christianity, close to that spoken by jesus. indian christians are fond of saying that it is as likely that thomas went to india as it is that peter went to rome, and i think that s basically fair.
for all her central role at the time of the resurrection, mary then disappears from the story of the early church. one of the great mysteries of early christianity is what happened to mary magdalene? because there she is on the pages of the gospels in all the key moments at the end of his life, at the tomb and experiencing the resurrection, and then we don t hear any more about her. it s very difficult to know what happens to mary magdalene after the resurrection. she seems to drop out of the story of the early church. instead, it is peter who goes on to become one of the leaders of jesus movement. peter emerges as a powerful figure in the church. he is the one to whom jesus