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The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is an ecumenical Christian observance in the Christian calendar that is celebrated internationally. It is kept annually between Ascension Day and Pentecost in the Southern Hemisphere and between 18 January and 25 January in the Northern Hemisphere. It is an octave, that is, an observance lasting eight days.
Easter time is the period of 50 days, spanning from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday. [ 13] It is celebrated as a single joyful feast, called the "great Lord's Day". [ 14] Each Sunday of the season is treated as a Sunday of Easter. In some traditions, Easter Sunday is the first Sunday of Eastertide and the following Sunday (Low Sunday) is the ...
Pentecost may also refer to the 50 days from Easter to Pentecost Sunday inclusive of both. [88] Because Easter itself has no fixed date, this makes Pentecost a moveable feast. [89] In the United Kingdom, traditionally the next day, Whit Monday, was until 1970 a public holiday. Since 1971, by statute, the last Monday in May has been a Bank Holiday.
"Islands in the Stream" is a song written by the Bee Gees and recorded by American country music artists Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. It was released in August 1983 as the first single from Rogers's fifteenth studio album Eyes That See in the Dark. The Bee Gees released a live version in 1998 and a studio version in 2001.
21: Channel 4 chief executive Alex Mahon apologises to a member of the television channel's staff after a report finds that Channel 4 failed to investigate a complaint made against Russell Brand in 2009. [80] The UK government appoints a panel of nine experts from the world of radio, television and business to advise on the future funding of ...
Annual inflation was 9.5% in 1990, 5.9% in 1991, 3.7% in 1992. and 1.6% in 1993. [citation needed] Interest rates were stubbornly high initially but declined from a high of 14.8% at the start of the recession to a low of 5.9% by the end of the recession, [citation needed] though interest rates were hiked twice during Black Wednesday. Great ...
The channel's launch on 30 March 1997 (Easter Day) at 6 p.m. After a brief voice over by continuity presenter David Vickery, the first broadcast was the Spice Girls singing a re-written version of Manfred Mann's hit "5-4-3-2-1" as "1-2-3-4-5", with Emma Bunton being the first person to appear on-screen on the channel.
The Bible is a television miniseries based on the Bible. It was produced by Roma Downey and Mark Burnett [ 2][ 3] and was broadcast weekly between March 3 and 31, 2013 on History channel. [ 4] It has since been adapted as a feature film, Son of God . Burnett, best known for producing prime-time hit reality shows, considers the scripted 10-hour ...