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Local Caribbean Holidays

Every culture has their own ways of celebrating and relaxing including St. Lucia.  Since St. Lucia was settled in the 1600’s, competing cultures that have left their mark on the island.  The French, the British, and even India and China have all left remnants of their past.
La Rose and La Margurite Festival …
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Easter in Mexico

One of the notable differences in in the celebration of Easter in US church traditions and Mexico is that Easter is anticlimactic when compared to the rest of Holy Week.  We as Lutheran Christians use those days as repentant contemplation in preparation for the triumphant celebration of his resurrection. In much of Latin America the [...]