{"id":16813,"date":"2015-11-08T13:23:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T13:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/?p=16813"},"modified":"2019-08-02T07:54:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T07:54:48","slug":"christian-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/christian-stamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting a stamp on religious imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve covered two news stories this week to do with the world of philately. Firstly, the UK have a set of beautiful watercolours depicting Biblical scenes for their Christmas stamps this year. And below that a Belgian stamp featuring a Bishop, an Imam and a Rabbi. Wait for the links to load then click through to read the articles (or click &#8220;Comments&#8221; to see what our Facebook subscribers said about them).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[ (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); \/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Musicademy\/posts\/10153756453529433\" data-width=\"500\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Musicademy\/posts\/10153756453529433\"><p>In the UK, Royal Mail&#8217;s Christmas stamps feature secular and religious imagery in alternate years. This year they are rather beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Musicademy\/\">Musicademy<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Musicademy\/posts\/10153756453529433\">Friday, November 6, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The article below resulted in quite a lot of discussion. You can go straight to the comments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Musicademy\/posts\/10153760732589433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Facebook with this link<\/a>\u00a0or by clicking the word &#8220;Comments&#8221; below the image.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[ (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); \/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Musicademy\/posts\/10153760732589433\" data-width=\"500\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Musicademy\/posts\/10153760732589433\"><p>More stamp news!What do you think of this multi-faith &#8220;Everybody equal, everybody different&#8221; approach by the Belgian Post Office?<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Musicademy\/\">Musicademy<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Musicademy\/posts\/10153760732589433\">Sunday, November 8, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve covered two news stories this week to do with the world of philately. 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