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The National Conscience Party (NCP) has announced indefinite postponement of its presidential primaries earlier scheduled for between Sept. 28 and 30. The Publicity Secretary of NCP , Dr Okereke Emmanuel , told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Thursday in Lagos that the primaries were postponed due to lack of funds to financed the meeting. |
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A Scarborough church has terminated its more than three-year-old contract with a Toronto sign company over the sign company's refusal to post "gay-positive" and other messages on the church's behalf. St. Paul's United Church is the latest to be embroiled in a dispute with Archer Mobile Signs Limited. |
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GENEVA: The UN Human Rights Council voted Thursday to set up a panel to prepare criminal indictments over atrocities committed in Myanmar, amid allegations of genocide against the Rohingya minority. The top UN rights body voted to “establish an ongoing independent mechanism to collect, consolidate,.... |
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The recent stop of the Rev. Dr. Kevin Cosby for supposedly making an “improper turn and having an improperly displayed license plate” has once again brought the issue of policing in black communities to the fore. While this controversial stop has elevated emotions on both sides, it is dangerously myopic to reduce the examination solely to Dr. |
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The president and rector of Christ the King Seminary in Aurora said Thursday that he was taking of leave of absence to recover from the rigors of the job – not because of an accusation of inappropriate conduct that was lodged with the Buffalo Diocese earlier this week. “I had no knowledge of it at all. |
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The creative writing went better than I expected and during the second semester we used Friday to learn about the school newspaper. It was the first academic success I had in high school. I was able to write a few stories that year and as a junior became the sports columnist. Cabrini’s pastor at the time was Msgr. |
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By DENISE MAYCOCK. Tribune Freeport Reporter.
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. A local religious leader in Grand Bahama is calling for the passing of more effective and stricter laws in relation to gun violence to solve the country's "murder crisis". Apostle Anthony Grant, of Agape Christian Centre in.... |
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* Gulen network request highlights policy gulf on eve of visit. * Erdogan seeks to repair strained ties with Germany. * But he faces frosty reception, protesters. * Spying allegations highlight mutual mistrust (Adds German president's comments) By Thomas Escritt. |
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky police chief has defended his department's tactics after a commander said a white officer who pulled over a black pastor this month was following orders of what to do in certain neighborhoods. Louisville police Chief Steve Conrad tells the Courier Journal he expects officers to behave respectfully. |
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Graham Morant has pleaded not guilty to aiding and counselling his wife to take her own ife.
A Queensland jury will likely retire on Friday to determine if a man persuaded and then helped his wife take her own life so he could use her life insurance money to build a religious commune. |
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The Hon. K. Peter Turnquest, Acting Prime Minister, and the Hon. Marvin Dames, Minister of National Security, gave tribute and condolences during the Service of Praise and Thanksgiving for the Life of the Late Police Inspector Carlis Blatch, Aide-De-Camp (ADC) to Governor General, Her Excellency the Most Hon. |
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In a unanimous judgment, the five-member bench of the top court struck down a law that meant a man who had sex with a married woman without getting her husband’s permission could be charged and face up to five years in jail if convicted. “Adultery cannot and should not be a crime. |
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* Call on Gulen network highlights policy gulf on eve of visit * Erdogan seeks to repair strained ties with Germany * But he faces frosty reception, protesters await him * Spying allegations highlight mutual mistrust. President Tayyip Erdogan, arriving in Germany for a three-day state visit, urged.... |
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Funeral service for Anthony Audley “Fowler Boy” Fowler, 56 yrs., a resident of Deveaux Street, will be held at Prevailing Church of God, Deveaux Street, on Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. Officiating will be Assistant Pastor Patrick Coakley. Cremation follows. |
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A Queensland jury will likely retire on Friday to determine if a man persuaded and then helped his wife take her own life so he could use her life insurance money to build a religious commune.
Jurors in the Brisbane Supreme Court trial of Graham Robert Morant, 69, heard the case summed up on Thursday. |
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged Germany on Thursday to designate the group that he blames for a 2016 coup attempt as a terrorist organisation. His call, in a newspaper article as he arrived for a three-day state visit, highlighted the gulf Erdogan must bridge if he is to repair strained political and commercial ties. |
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X Dear Reader, As you can imagine, more people are reading The Jerusalem Post than ever before. Nevertheless, traditional business models are no longer sustainable and high-quality publications, like ours, are being forced to look for new ways to keep going. Unlike many other news organizations, we have not put up a paywall. |
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Australian Evangelist Christine Caine from Hillsong Church, a frequent guest speaker at the Church of the Highlands in Birmingham, has been accused in a lawsuit of plagiarizing another Christian author in two of her most recent books, according to the Christian Post. Christian author Carey Scott filed a lawsuit in the U. |
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Monaco heiress Helene Pastor, 77, was gunned down in her car with a sawn-off shotgun in the neighbouring French city of Nice on May 6, 2014. She and her driver, 64-year-old Mohammed Darwich, both died of their injuries after the attack in broad daylight. |
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky police chief has defended his department’s tactics after a commander said a white officer who pulled over a black pastor this month was following orders of what to do in certain neighborhoods. Louisville police Chief Steve Conrad told the Courier Journal in a.... |
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged Germany on Thursday to designate the group that he blames for a 2016 coup attempt as a terrorist organization. His call, in a newspaper article as he arrived for a three-day state visit, highlighted the gulf Erdogan must bridge if he is to repair strained political and commercial ties. |
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JUST over two weeks after he was shot in his own apartment in Dallas, Texas, Botham Shem Jean was finally laid to rest Monday at the Choc Cemetery amid calls to all Saint Lucians and people in the city he was killed in to stand up for justice. It was a time for Saint Lucians and his home country to.... |
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It took about seven years for the vision of Frank and Shirley Schilling to be realized — and that dream continues to be built upon at the Shrine of Christ’s Passion in St. John. “The family has been successful and been blessed, and they wanted to give back,” said Paul Anderson, general manager. |
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BRASILIA (Reuters) – On a visit to Israel two years ago, far-right Brazilian lawmaker Jair Bolsonaro leaned back into the River Jordan in a white robe to be baptized in the arms of a fellow congressman and evangelical pastor. While still an avowed Catholic, Bolsonaro is riding a wave of support from.... |
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