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"16 February – 28 March 2026 – Writing and contribution period"

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"Creation of new Ramadan-related articles"

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"Ramadan traditions in Nigeria"

"Islamic practices during Ramadan"

"Ramadan foods and cultural practices"

"History of fasting in Islam"

"Laylat al-Qadr"

"Zakat al-Fitr"

"Taraweeh prayers"

"Eid al-Fitr preparations"

"Notable Islamic scholars connected to Ramadan teachings"

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"He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God."

"Now when He rose early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven demons. She went and told those who had been with Him, as they mourned and wept. And when they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe."

"Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!”"

"For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time."

"In typical Palestinian masculine style, the Twelve refused to believe the women, since according to Jewish law they were not allowed to bear legal witness. It is clear that Jesus was aware of this legal norm. His first appearance to the women and the fact that he entrusted them with bearing witness to the most important event of his life cannot have been anything other than deliberate choices: this is clearly a dramatic link between a very clear rejection of the principles that placed women in a position of inferiority and the most important moment of his Gospel, namely the resurrection. Jesus' effort to link these two points is so evident that it becomes a damning indictment of the intellectual short-sightedness of men who have failed to discern its great value for two thousand years."

"The question is often asked, "What do women want?" We want men "to stand out of our sunshine"; that is all."

"The New Woman is she who had discovered herself, not relatively as mother, wife, sister, but absolutely...she recognises her restrictions, and she further recognises that these restrictions must be struggled against, not in the direction of denying her nature, but rather of shaking off every artificial restraint and repression which will in any way hinder her own full and free development..."

"...I would rather have this new woman - even in her occasional perversity, exaggeration, and revolt - than the female oyster who discovers no interest in life outside the limits of her own shell."

"We want to grow as flowers of the field are permitted to grow, whether they be of male or female form. We want to develop as do the mothers of the animal world where infanticide or female subjections are alike unheard of and undesired. Let woman but have free course and she will glorify not only herself, but the whole race; and in order to her having free course our request for woman is only this, that she may have a fair field and no favour, freedom to give expression to her own powers. Our New Zealand University has been thrown open to women on the same terms as men, and nothing but good has eventuated. Our professions have been thrown open to women, and neither have the skies fallen nor wedding bells ceased to peal.Our polling booths have been thrown open to women, and drunkenness and rowdyism, bribery and corrupt practices have in great measure given place to decency, good order and kindly camaraderie. Let the Civil Service, and other posts, appointments and positions in the colony-or beyond it for that matter-be thrown open to women. In a word, let disability of sex be withdrawn, as have those other disabilities of colour, race, caste and class, and only good will result..."

"...The political head of this colony says women do not want the removal of their disabilities. I can believe that a few women, through sheer ignorance, say they do not want it. I can believe that some dare not admit they want it. But that the majority do not want it is, I believe, simply untrue. We women of the National Council do not pay annual visits to the towns of the colony for our own amusement. There is no royal road to the capacity for real service, as there is no royal road to any supreme attainment, and we who have taken up the white woman's burden of responsibility in this corner of our great Empire are bound to do what we can to put an end to this hell born conspiracy of silence which is eating into the very vitals of our humanity. We crave for education and free and unhampered life-a life of wholesome economic independence. It is perhaps too much to expect those who have grown up in indifference or ignorance to adjust themselves to the new conditions which a century of scientific discovery has rendered inevitable, but surely our younger brothers who have grown up side by side with our girls in the happy comradeship of mixed schools and colleges will range themselves, as I believe they are already doing, on the side of justice and right."

"And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us; and we saw his glory, glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."

"A wonderful discovery has coloured our lives. An extraordinary event, the event of events: the ineffable, the unspeakable, the indescribable, the transcendent, the Almighty, the Exalted, the immensely unattainable, has come to dwell among us, has made himself small, fragile, palpable. For us! And that is the mystery. The mystery of our faith: the incarnation, He who is the Absolute, He who is God becomes Emmanuel, God with us, God present among us. This is the discovery that has changed our lives, that makes us dance, makes us jump, makes us rejoice, makes us smile."

"The Incarnation accomplishes two things in us: the first is that it fills us with love; the second is that it makes us certain of our salvation."

"The Word of the Eternal Father, who in his immensity encompasses all things, in order to raise mankind—fallen through sin—back to the heights of divine glory, chose to make Himself small by taking on our smallness, without relinquishing his own majesty."

"What we call the incarnation of God in Jesus of Nazareth is only complete in the community of believers, who have and feel the mission to proclaim his event to the world and to propose it to the world again with their testimony."

"The two main points of Christian doctrine against which the pagan opposition, and especially the Platonic polemic against Christianity, directed its weapons were the incarnation of the divinity and the resurrection of the human flesh. To the idealism of the Hellenistic Neoplatonists, bent on a mystical form, both of these doctrines, organically connected to each other, were a “stumbling block”. To believe that the divine nature could come into contact with matter was to contaminate it, because bodily matter is something negative and impure. As such, it is a vain illusion and absurd to hope that the fleshly body can become incorruptible and eternal through resurrection."

"Fragments of the schisms came back to his mind, passages from the heresies that had divided the Churches of the West and the East for centuries. Here Nestorius contested the title of Mother of God for the Virgin, since, in the mystery of the Incarnation, she had carried a human creature in her womb and not God."

"In the Incarnation of the Son of God we see forged the enduring and definitive synthesis which the human mind of itself could not even have imagined: the Eternal enters time, the Whole lies hidden in the part, God takes on a human face. The truth communicated in Christ's Revelation is therefore no longer confined to a particular place or culture, but is offered to every man and woman who would welcome it as the word which is the absolutely valid source of meaning for human life."

"In the time of Christ, multitudes shared the same fate, whereas today we do not share ours, but each suffer it on our own. It is one of the most dramatic visible symptoms of our time. A kind of prophet who must speak to the multitudes speaks on television, through the television image, finding each person closed in their own cell. What would “incarnation” be like today? Incarnation was like that because man was visible and bound to a community that shared his sufferings; man was limited in his physicality, in his body, which was so important and valued in the Eucharist. And where would the divine be incarnated today? Perhaps on the “Internet”. :*Mario Luzi, La porta del cielo. , a cura di Stefano Verdino, Fabbri Editori, R.C.S., I Classici dello Spirito, Milano, 1998, p. 48."

"The soul must always remain in continuous awareness of God, submerged and drowned, so to speak, in the infinite abyss of his love, manifested to us in the Incarnation of his Divine Word, which “ad extra” was the greatest work that an almighty God could do, and the highest heavenly Intelligences remain astonished and almost beside themselves with admiration."

"The incarnation of God is the certainty that our flesh is holy in some of its roots, that our history is sacred in some of its pages. And looking at our brother, no one can say anymore: here God ends, here man begins, because Creator and creature are embraced. Finite and infinite are within us in a prodigious mixture of intensity of plans, of vigour of transformation. God became man so that man might become God."

"Unhappiness: man's superiority over God. The Incarnation was necessary so that this superiority would not be scandalous."

"The Incarnation becomes life only if we understand that, through us, the very life of God is at stake."

"The Incarnation, therefore, does not mean that God descends to earth, where he was not, because he was already there. The Incarnation means that humanity becomes present to God, an eternally present God. It was man who was absent, not God who was not present."

"More and more, we are being required to know what are the implications of living in a society that is increasingly diverse through the arrival of immigrants from all walks of life and very different parts of the planet. I would like to think that our work is a tangible example of what people can achieve when they work together."