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Ranchi: With less than a week to go for Christmas, shops here are all decked up with lights, stars and other decorative items but the buyers are nowhere in sight. “At this time of the year, we hardly find a minute to relax as shops are bursting at the seams. But this year, I am sitting idle and have not even been able to sell a single greeting card yet, which usually sells like hot cakes ahead of Christmas and New Year’s,” Ramesh Prasad, who owns Hallmark Epsy at Purulia Road in Ranchi, ...

This is, of course, due to the pandemic and the restrictions we find ourselves living under. With the limit of three households, it will be difficult to have the big gatherings that we are used to. For many families, Christmas will be different this year. However, Christmas is not cancelled… As a Christian, Christmas for me is more than just a day to eat turkey, open presents, play games and watch the Queen’s message. Christmas is a time to celebrate because it reminds us that God came int...

Heres how to see the Christmas star tonight It is one of the central and most enduring elements of the Christmas story – the sighting of a bright star in the skies guiding the Wise Men to Bethlehem and heralding the birth of Jesus Christ. The Vatican now believes one explanation for the Star of Bethlehem may have been what is known as a ‘Great Conjunction’ of planets, in this case bringing Venus and Jupiter in close alignment and creating an unusually bright light in the sky above the Hol...

Greatest alignment of Jupiter and Saturn since 1623 visible in the Azores By TPN/Lusa, in News · 21-12-2020 13:00:00 · 1 Comments The phenomenon happens every 20 years, but the two planets have not been so close since 1623. The conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, when the two planets align, happens today on 21 December and, depen...

Our agony uncle answers your questions each week. Write to him at dearrichard@telegraph.co.uk 21 December 2020 • 12:00pm Our festive get-together always descends into a frenzy of present opening, excess and waste Credit: Rii Schroer / Getty Images Dear Richard I have married into a very large family who have always seen the giving and receiving part of Christmas as very important and our festive get-together always descends into a frenzy of present opening, excess and waste. This year, as we ...

A diagram of the conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn on December 21. This article was originally published as part of the Out of Space series on Sciblogs.co.nz. ANALYSIS: There have been many articles in the media about the ‘Great Conjunction’ between Jupiter and Saturn that will occur on December 21. Some of them have been good, and informative. Many have been fairly poor. Others have been… well, weird. Some writers have imagined that there is something vitally significant about the ...

Login Jupiter and Saturn align to create Star of Bethlehem for first time in 800 years21/12/2020|3min On December 21st the night sky will light up with a close alignment of Jupiter and Saturn, their closest since the early 13th century. Reports are claiming the conjunction may be a rare glimpse of what the Star of Bethlehem may have looked like. For centuries, scientists have looked for the origins of the star which the Bible says led the Wise Men to the place of Jesus’s birth in Bethlehem....

WITH a pandemic still lingering, Christmas lovers throughout the area have been more heavy-handed with the holiday decorations than ever before. And for the 30th year, my list of Grand Holiday Displays will prove it. Below you will find many—but certainly not all—of the most highly decorated, brightly lighted and outright delightful displays in our area. They’ve all been nominated by readers and verified by this columnist. If you go out looking, you’ll see countless decorate...

The McLean Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Dec. 11-12 hosted a drive-through live Nativity display and food drive in the parking lot of its chapel on the corner of Great Falls Street and Kirby Road. Displays included a manger scene and Bethlehem scenery, with shepherds, angels and Wise Men scattered throughout various areas of the parking lot, alongside more than 20,000 Christmas lights. Displays included live llamas, sheep, goats, donkeys, miniature horses, chickens...

“The light shines in the darkness,” wrote St. John nearly two millennia ago, “and the darkness has not understood it.” How strange that tomorrow night, the night of the Northern Hemisphere’s winter solstice, offers a reminder of what Christians regard as the cosmic signal that the world’s long-awaited Messiah had come. God and west central Nebraska skies willing, we’ll see the closest conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn since 1226 in the southwest sky just after...