{"id":4493,"date":"2019-12-19T16:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/?p=4493"},"modified":"2021-09-02T15:34:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T14:34:35","slug":"greetings-from-friends-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/2019\/12\/19\/greetings-from-friends-in-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from Friends in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong>One of Bridgend Soroptimist\u2019s Friendship Links is Soroptimist International Uusikaupunki in Finland. As well as contact throughout the year regarding projects and general Soroptimist news, at Christmas we exchange festive greetings. Here\u2019s what Paula said.\u201cOur club\u2019s tradition is to have dinner together and usually we have some young people singing or playing for us.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year we had a group of school boys performing an old (from the 16th century) play telling about the Three Wise Men and King Herod and the King of Mauritania and also how King Herod ordered all baby boys under two years old to be killed in order to have also the Baby Jesus to be killed among them. This play is called Tiernapojat which means Star Boys.<\/p>\n<p>This tradition has awakened a lot of discussion lately due to the predicted racism in it \u2013 the face of King of Mauritania is being blackened in the play\u2026 but so has been done hundreds of years in the play \u2013 but times are changing\u2026<\/p>\n<p>May we wish our Soroptimist friends in Wales a very Happy Christmas!\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]One of Bridgend Soroptimist\u2019s Friendship Links is Soroptimist International Uusikaupunki in Finland. 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