By A. Gaffar Peang-Meth
Pacific Daily News
Christians, who make up about a third of the world's population, celebrate the birth of Jesus to Mary on Friday. Non-Christians worldwide, too, will join this public holiday festivity.As words of love and compassion ring here, there and everywhere, taped next to my computer is a postcard I purchased years ago at the United Nations bookstore in New York, when my wife and I were students in a university U.N. program. It is a postcard of Norman Rockwell's wall-sized mosaic painting, hung at the U.N. headquarters.
The painting shows men, women and children of different races -- black, brown, yellow, white -- wearing serious, solemn faces, children with hands clasped, others carrying religious offerings, mothers carrying youngsters, all standing behind a scripture which reads: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" -- Matthew 7:12, the "Golden Rule."
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