Candid Reflections of A Female Missioner Pastor In Panama
Inundated By Death In Panama
After 7 funerals in exactly 2 months, I feel like I’ve overdosed on death. In Jamaica, we have a popular folk saying that death comes in threes. I’ve watched 3 turn to 6 and then last Thursday I had my 7th. That’s not a lot of funerals by some standards. One [...]
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Panama’s Festival of El Christo Negro is testimony to the fact that some Black Panamanians and people from other parts of the world, do not count their devotion as foolishness but are filled with hope in their encounters with this representation of Christ. It is important to clarify this common error made by some Christians.
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Black Panamanians are gearing up for Black Ethnic / Black Heritage celebrations May 2008. This will culminate in Black Ethnic Day closing event in Colon. While talking about Blackness is a sure way to light a fuse in the US these days, the rest of the world’s Black peoples continue to move on. Nevertheless, the [...]
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Baptist women of Central Panama Baptist Association reminded the 48th General Assembly of the folk heritage of the first Baptists in Panama. The Jamaicans who came to Panama to work on constructing the Panama Canal took their Baptist faith with them. They established the first Baptist church on the Isthmus and so effectively began the [...]
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The 1989 Invasion of Panama contained many mysteries for me. I recall watching the horrors broadcast on TV. Years later living in Panama, it soon became apparent that what I heard in the US news of the invasion did not even begin to capture a good representation of what really happened in Panama.
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Even as mourning becomes the official choice as the way to remember, there are voices that continue to explore and uncover the injustices of the 1989 US Invasion of Panama.
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