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A prophet is without honour in his or her own homeland, they say, and it may sound an overused and somewhat boring cliché but this adage cannot be further from the truth for UK-based Malawian female charismatic preacher, Evangelist Elizabeth Kalonga. While her compatriots from the homeland, Malawi.... |
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Thousands came together Wednesday night in prayer and peaceful protest during a candlelight vigil held at the place Alton Sterling, 37, died at the hands of two Baton Rouge police officers just one day earlier. Speakers urged attendees to hold police accountable. |
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My dear people of Edo State my services has not been retained as I write this piece but I have found it absolutely necessary to join forces with the right minds to effect this desired change. You have the power to change the political landscape of Edo State. |
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Zimbabweans stayed at home on Wednesday and foreign banks and most businesses in the capital shut down, in one of the biggest protests against high unemployment, an acute cash shortage and corruption for nearly a decade. Evan Mawarire, a pastor whose social media movement #ThisFlag organised the.... |
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Mauricio Aguilera-Garcia, a pastor at Our Father's House in Salem, was arrested this week for multiple sex crimes, Marion County Sheriff's Office deputies said. ((Marion County Sheriff's Office))
Deputies arrested a Salem pastor for raping a juvenile he met through his work at a local church, Marion County Sheriff's Office officials said. |
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A strike in Zimbabwe started winding down on Thursday with opposition groups promising future protests over the southern African nation’s economic collapse that has led to a shortage of cash, import controls and the failure of the government to pay salaries on time. |
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Harare – Zimbabweans stayed at home on Wednesday while foreign banks and most businesses in the capital shut down operations, in one of the biggest – and peaceful – stay-away actions in nearly a decade. The national stay-away day, fronted by social-media movement #ThisFlag, followed violent clashes.... |
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ONE of ZANU-PF's notorious activists, Fidelis Fengu, is quitting active politics to become a Pentecostal church pastor. Likening himself to biblical prophet, Daniel, who was thrown in a den of lions and survived the ordeal unscathed, Fengu has joined a local church called the Living God Ministry.... |
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Abuja The European Union (EU) and the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs are planning a N36 billion water project for nine states of the Niger Delta, which are expected to contribute N350 million each as counterpart-funding. According to the minister, Pastor Uguru Usani Uguru, the states have a window of 30 days to take advantage of the offer. |
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Alton Sterling, the black man whose fatal shooting by Baton Rouge police outside a convenience store is raising questions across the country, was a father of four and small-scale businessman who is being described by those who knew him as generous, hardworking and nonviolent. |
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Originally published in the on June 29, 2016. Chapel Hill News The lynchpin underlying support for House Bill 2, the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, is the notion that transgender people ought to use bathrooms that match their biological sex, not their gender expression. |
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HARARE – The question that was being asked and debated the most by many Zimbabweans, after long-suffering citizens staged the biggest general strike ever mounted in the history of the country yesterday, was whether the unprecedented stay-away marked the beginning of the end for President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF. |
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Thousands of people flocked from all over the world to attend the 2016 Hillsong conference in this week. Sydney The evangelical christian mega-church has enjoyed huge success with its conferences over the last 30 years. Pastor Brian Houston told 7News that his first conference was attended by 150 people in a warehouse in Baulkham Hills. |
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Abuja The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by Senator Ahmed Makarfi has demanded the immediate arrest and prosecution of Senator Ali Modu Sheriff for contempt of court for issuing certificate of return to Matthew Iduoriyekemwen as the factional candidate of the party in the Edo State governorship election. |
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SIDNEY, Ohio ( WDTN ) – A teenager from Ohio died while serving on a mission trip to Tijuana Mexico on Sunday. Ty Martin,17, was one of eight students and four adults visiting an orphanage on a mission trip with Sidney First United Methodist Church when he took a fatal fall. This was his third mission trip with the church. |
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 06, (THEWILL) – Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State on Wednesday attributed the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to God’s punishment of the party for allegedly destructing the country. Noting that thieves who brought Nigeria to its knees were now on the.... |
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EPA A man walks along empty stalls in Mbare, Harare, Zimbabwe, on Wednesday. Most workers went on strike after a call by pressure groups for workers to stay at home as a form of peaceful protest as the government has failed to listen to the worker's plight of not being paid for months. |
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Men can now check out men, and women can search for women, on the religious dating site ChristianMingle, which previously sanctioned only heterosexual relationships. The site opened to gay users after settling a lawsuit that claimed that it violated California’s non-discrimination law. |
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– One of the survivors of the Boko Haram attacks recounted how his family was murdered over rejecting to convert into Muslims. – The man demanded justice from the government of President Buhari. – John escaped to the Anambra state while his brother moved to the USA. |
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Mbah, who now resides in Okpoko, Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State, said he was living in Dadawa, an outskirt of Sabongari, Kano State when the incident occurred on April 30. The victim lamented how his entire family was burnt to death in his church – Discipleship Ministries in the area by the dreaded Islamic religious sect. |
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The matter would then be listed for sentencing or trial very promptly, Mr Heath said. Impicciatore's bail has been extended. Another man accused of abusing the girl, Ryan Trevor Clegg, also appeared in the same court on Thursday. Clegg, 42, is charged with 61 offences including five counts of.... |
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ZIMBABWE’S government is facing an ultimatum from activists: act decisively against corruption‚ injustice and poverty or citizens will embark on a second‚ longer national stay-away. Pastor Evan Mawarire‚ the man behind the #ThisFlag movement that mobilised civil society to protest against President.... |
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BATON ROUGE, La. The Latest on the police shooting of a Baton Rouge man (all times local): 5:20 p.m. Court documents say one of the two white officers in the fatal shooting of a black man outside a convenience store was previously involved in a shooting with an armed man. |
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The officers, identified by the chief as Blane Salamoni, a four-year member of the department, and Howie Lake II, who has been on the force for three years, were placed on administrative leave, standard department procedure. Authorities would not say whether one or both fired their weapons or how many times. |
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by Greitnah Machingura, Xu Lingui. HARARE, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Business activity was severely subdued in Zimbabwe's capital Harare and other major cities on Wednesday after a social media-organized movement successfully persuaded many urban Zimbabweans to stay at home to protest against the country's economic decay. |
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