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Erbil (AsiaNews) - A group of Iraqi Christian refugees who fled from Mosul and the Nineveh Plain in the summer of 2014 with the rise of the Islamic State (SI), are preparing with prayers and meetings for World Youth Day (WYD) scheduled to take place in Poland July 27 to 31. |
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A shortage of housing remains the hot-button issue in Hout Bay. The craggy mountains that form the flanks of Hout Bay create a majestic, ocean-facing amphitheatre that is Cape Town's Ward 74. But what looks at first like an idyllic, wooded valley is split residentially along stark racial lines. |
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702/Cape Talk's Redi Tlhabi speaks to Pastor Evan Mawarire regarding #ThisFlag protests, which has galvinised Zimbabweans to speak out against the unpleasant conditions they have to endure under President Robert Mugabe's regime.
A former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. |
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Over the last few months a new type of politics has been brewing in Zimbabwe. Fed up with the mainstream parties, people have been taking to social media to express their demands. The most prominent has been the #ThisFlag movement, adopting the national flag as the symbol to rally around. |
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Predictions of President Robert Mugabe’s imminent downfall, sparked by recent demonstrations and stay-aways, are wrong says Zimbabwean academic Blessing-Miles Tendi. “The reason is quite simple: the angry urban social media activists and pro-democracy pundits have failed to absorb two key lessons of the Arab Spring,” he argues. |
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Joshua Simpson. Author Rob Cocuzzo. WESTFORD Once a week every winter while he was in middle school, Rob Cocuzzo climbed onto a bus at the ice rink in Arlington, his hometown, and headed with his classmates out to Nashoba Valley. Wearing his mother’s hand-me-down ski boots, which he’d covered in.... |
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The frontman of #ThisFlag Evan Mawarire has said President Robert Mugabe is directly responsible for rampant corruption in government. In an interview with a South African based media network CNBC Africa today, he said the #ThisFlag campaign is a legitimate one aimed at holding government which Mugabe leads to account. |
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SAN FRANCISCO - An openly lesbian senior pastor of San Francisco's Glide Memorial Church has been elected a bishop of the United Methodist Church, which raises concerns among the church's leadership, according to officials with Glide and the United Methodist Council of Bishops. Rev. |
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The roster of speakers at the convention to officially nominate Donald Trump is a colorful mix of political leaders, entertainers, personalities and the candidate’s family members — in keeping with his campaign’s unorthodox style. The presumptive GOP nominee’s wife, Melania Trump, will speak on Monday, the convention’s opening night. |
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ZIMBABWEANS concerned about the worsening economic situation in the country staged protests around the world at the weekend in solidarity with the #ThisFlag campaign pro-democracy fronted by Harare-based cleric Pastor Evan Mawarire. Anger against President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party spiked.... |
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A group of several hundred Muslim youths have stormed and destroyed a Catholic church in Nigeria, days after a female pastor was hacked to death and a week after the similarly brutal killing of another, male evangelical pastor. The latest attack came on St Philip's Catholic Parish, Baki Iku, close.... |
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His wife just laughed. It was three years ago. Although Gary West had served 26 years in the Air Force, logging time as a fighter pilot, the retired colonel had become a “bit of a couch potato,” he recalled last week. So when West said that maybe he would bike across the country, his spouse, Colette, had a “very sincere belly laugh. |
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Tourism minister Walter Mzembi has dismissed the popular #ThisFlag movement protests as "a political fringe" trying to take advantage of the worsening economy. Pastor Evan Mawarire is the face of #ThisFlag movement that has rattled government and gone global. |
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Tajamuka/Sesjikile, a grouping of political parties and ordinary Zimbabweans, has vowed to ramp up pressure on President Robert Mugabe to quit office before the 2018 elections and in this instalment its spokesperson Promise Mkwananzi tells senior assistant editor Guthrie Munyuki that it has the.... |
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Demba Ba suffered a horrific leg break while playing for Shanghai Shenua in China – and football fans have immediately taken to Twitter to wish him well.
Ba was playing in his side’s Chinese Super League clash with Shanghai SIPG on Sunday afternoon, before being forced off through injury following a collision with Sun Xiang. |
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DALLAS, N.C. — A Dallas man was killed Saturday after he was struck by lightning on the Blue Ridge Parkway at the entrance of Mount Mitchell State Park. Scott Pasour, a lay minister at Venture Church and owner of Pasour Auto Repair, was riding down from the peak of Mount Mitchell around 1 p.m. |
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Bruce Bray is no longer facing another cold, long winter of sleeping in a vehicle. After more than a year of homelessness and living in his van with his dog, Bud, he was offered a Housing New Zealand property in June. Bray is now settling into the two-bedroom house in Bayview on Auckland's North.... |
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A 41-year-old officer is in critical condition, while two sheriff's deputies, aged 41 and 51, were less seriously wounded. Baton Rouge Mayor Kip Holden said he had spoken to officials from the White House, who offered to assist in any way possible. "It's touched, basically, people all across the country," he told WAFB in a telephone interview. |
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Joycelyn Jackson was already sitting in church when she found herself needing God most. She hadn’t yet learned that her little brother Montrell Jackson was among the three officer killed in Baton Rouge when her pastor asked the congregation to send prayers to her family. |
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Jocelyn Jackson was already sitting in church when she found herself needing God most. She hadn’t yet learned that her younger brother Montrell Jackson was among the three officer killed in Baton Rouge when her pastor asked the congregation to send prayers to her family. |
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— One by one, the women walked down the aisle to the front of the New Hope Baptist Church on Sunday, several clutching photographs, each them carrying the story of the loss of a son to a gun violence or while in police custody. "We have a mother's club. It's a sad club. |
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Low Moor Days ended Sunday afternoon, July 17, with a chicken dinner at the community center. The tiny town in Clinton County is home to less than 300 Iowans. The Low Moor Days Festival is held each year to promote community and shows surrounding areas a piece of small town America. |
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More than 100 people attended a multicultural meeting at a church in downtown Ames Thursday to have a conversation about race and ethnicity while sharing personal stories about how those issues have personally affected their lives. The meeting was organized by Body of Christ Church, the Ames Police Department and Ames Progressive Alliance. |
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Police said the suspect was shot and killed at the scene. Authorities initially believed that two other assailants might be at large, but hours later said the dead gunman was the only person who fired at the officers. However, a state police spokesman said investigators were unsure whether he had some kind of help from others. |
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anasema US hakuna ubaguzi.. Habari kamili hii hapa: Nyani Ngabu BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers were killed and three others wounded Sunday, less than two weeks after a black man was shot and killed by police here in a confrontation that sparked nightly protests across the city that reverberated nationwide. |
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