In the early 1920s, Irish priests of the Order of the Holy Ghost established their mission in southern Nigeria. Later St. Patrick’s Society for Foreign Missions, dedicated on March 17, 1932, became one of many Catholic groups in Nigeria providing education both religious and secular.
These days Catholics in the country number some 20 million, and Nigerian seminaries send their ordinates all over the world to serve as priests. In fact, since numbers of clergy in Ireland have long been in decline, Nigerian priests have recently been assigned to churches there.
Though St. Patrick’s Day is not an official public holiday in Nigeria, plenty of Guinness stout will be consumed anyway. It’s the second most popular beer in the country, brewed with sorghum or maize instead of the European recipe’s barley, and packs a 7.5 percent alcohol content.
It’s said that St. Patrick’s revelers thought wearing green made them invisible to leprechauns, who would pinch anyone they could see (anyone not wearing green). People began pinching those who didn’t wear green as a reminder that leprechauns would sneak up and pinch those not sporting the color.
The Walking Dead creator debuted his new series Outcast at the South by Southwest film festival on Monday. The upcoming Cinemax series is adapted from Kirkman’s comic about demonic possession and exorcism.
The first episode’s climactic exorcism scene involves – spoiler alert for those who have not read the comic – the show’s troubled hero Kyle Barnes (Gone Girl’s Patrick Fugit) violently and repeatedly punching a possessed 10-year-old child in the face. Previously the character revealed such a method for driving out a demon worked for him in the past.
“He was a monster and he deserved it,” joked Fugit when asked about the scene, then added of the young actor: “He was such a little trouper.”
The only two ways to meet people that have had increased chances of success lately: Bars and online. The new reality of dating. Lots of lovely people now alone on couches with Netflix.. 💋💄
A good tale about why not to pick up hitchhikers. And a lot more.
I am fascinated by a growing number of younger people of didn’t know a thing (understood) and didn’t learn a thing in school (not understood) about Charles Manson..
Web entrepreneur Dmitry Itskov is behind the “2045 Initiative”, an ambitious experiment to bring about immortality within the next 30 years by creating a robot capable of storing human personalities.
The group of neuroscientists, robot builders and consciousness researchers say they can create an android that is capable of uploading someone’s personality.
We know they want to try it and do it.. But will it work?
Please please please.. Never again lecture me that I’m a kook who deserves a tin foil hat for believing hat weather modification and chemtrails are real things..
My latest trip there yielded sad results.. the mall is just about mostly vacant now. The newest stores appear to be struggling with the lack of foot traffic as well..
The once great shopping center on the hill in Frackville PA .. And the home of a ….future…prison? To join the rest.
I have been into this story ever since a few years back when Ian Punnett hosted a show about the potential ‘Smiley face killer’ nationwide on Coast to Coast AM.. Now this new book just released looks promising. I may consider a purchase..
The true mysterious unexplained story of the Drowning Young Men. Hundreds of young men; vanishing without a trace, only for many of them to be found dead; weeks or months later, in remote rivers or creeks, shallow ponds or canals, in areas that search parties have searched multiple times before; their bodies later discovered there, as though placed to be found.
Also if you’re as fascinated and equally creeped out by the entire thing, give the Smiley Face Facebook page a looksee.. http://ift.tt/1pioKUI
And just when you want to dismiss the entire idea–or at least dismiss the possibility of some weird connection between all of the vanished youthful men of the same age group who are subsequently found face down in bodies of water already searched in the aftermath of their disappearances, dive deep into the topic before rendering a verdict.. See where the information takes you.
“For me, out of everything I’ve ever done, the quality of the writing is so far superior to any of the other work I’ve done”
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Jamie Lee Curtis on SCREAM QUEENS..
Sharing her love for FOX’s hit Scream Queens at LA’s Paleyfest Saturday with costars Lea Michele, Emma Roberts and Niecy Nash – all of them returning for season 2 – Curtis said she knew from the premiere episode that the show would be a hit, and that she was in love with her character, Cathy Munsch, dean of murder-prone Wallace University.
Ronald Reagan giving a speech in Nevada in the early 90’s is startled by a crazed protestor who is tackled by the secret service. From CNN Headline News
DAILY MAIL REPORTS THE GORY DETAILS OF THE NEARLY 60-YEAR-OLD:
Swigging tequila from a fan’s hip flask, Madonna suffered another onstage meltdown yesterday as she branded ex-husband Guy Ritchie a ‘son of a b***h’ and begged 'someone please f*** me’.
The 57-year-old singer, locked in a bitter custody dispute with Guy over their son Rocco, couldn’t contain her emotions during a second mumbling show in Melbourne, Australia.
Her ‘chaotic’ appearance at the Rod Laver Arena included an emotional plea to the crowd, begging, 'Somebody take care of me please. Who is going to take care of me?’
Meanwhile, MADGE is apparently drunkenly attempting to audition for a SAW movie.. Tricycle and all.
A Bangladeshi man who suffers from an extremely rare disease causing tree-like roots to grow from his hands and feet has undergone surgery to relieve his condition and give him greater mobility ..
Dubbed “Treeman” because of the large growths, Abul Bajander has had the first of many surgeries to free the ‘bark’ encasing his hands and feet, reports Reuters.
