Doves have a long connection with the winter holiday season. Along with the Magi that brought gifts to the Holy Family at the first Nativity scene, there were shepherds who brought gifts of fruit, ...
Shepard Faireywas a thriving underground artist when his iconic Hope image of President Barack Obama catapulted him into the national spotlight last year. His first solo exhibit, at Boston's Institute ...
Earlier this week, while stopping at a country store in Monroe County to buy some snacks, I ran into an old acquaintance decked out in well-worn, camouflage hunting clothes. “Going deer hunting?” I ...
A global symbol of peace will soon have a home at the Wyomissing Public Library. As part of the Rotary District 7430 Youth ...
Peace has many spiritual meanings stemming from religious and historical beliefs. Peace means to be free from war and civil unrest. In today’s society, peace is referred to as the absence of internal ...
The four-legged companion continues to charm followers as he walks alongside Buddhist monks on a 2,300-mile pilgrimage for ...
In 1945, an estimated 340,000 people died when the United States dropped nuclear bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. After those attacks, other countries around the world began ...
In 2014, Pope Francis oversaw the release of two doves from the papal studio window and they were immediately attacked by a crow and a seagull. The Vatican no longer engages in the releasing of doves ...
As I gaze at the bird feeders outside my living room window in Decatur, three mourning doves swoop in. Two of them land beneath the feeders and start pecking at seeds that have spilled onto the ground ...
In 2016, the Colombian government and the guerrilla group FARC-EP ended their five decade-long war. As part of the peace agreement, FARC-EP’s weapons had to be collected, a process known as ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WLNS) — An Ingham County veteran is using skills from his days of serving in the Marines as a Combat Videographer to capture symbols of peace at Art Prize in Grand Rapids, Mich.
In downtown Batavia, Illinois, a simple message, 12 feet high, is etched in permanent, illuminated steel against the sky: “PEACE ON EARTH.” Reflecting in the waters of the Fox River, the display is a ...