BOSTON — A group of Christian leaders and advocates are fasting to bring attention to immigration issues impacting members of their congregations. Advocacy and legal services group Agencia ALPHA is working with the group of Hispanic churches to start a 40-day period of fasting, when the pastors will.... |
In 2014, Robinson received help from a London-based firm, Cambridge Analytica. The company has been in the news recently because of the scandal involving Facebook users' private information. The company ended up in this unwelcome spotlight when several former employees became whistle blowers. |
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Fifty years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader's shocking murder on April 4, 1968, marked one of the most significant moments in U.S. history. |
Vertical WorshipCover for Vertical Worship's 2018 album Bright Faith Bold Future. Chicago-based Vertical Worship is announcing the release of their latest album Bright Faith Bold Future , available everywhere on April 6. The new album is their fifth release with Essential Worship/Provident Label.... |
In 2014, Robinson received help from a London-based firm, Cambridge Analytica. The company has been in the news recently because of the scandal involving Facebook users' private information. The company ended up in this unwelcome spotlight when several former employees became whistle blowers. |
BOSTON (AP) - A group of Christian leaders and advocates are fasting to bring attention to immigration issues impacting members of their congregations. Advocacy and legal services group Agencia ALPHA is working with the group of Hispanic churches to start a 40-day period of fasting, when the pastors.... |
Missoula, MT (59801) Today. A shower or two around the area early, then partly cloudy during the afternoon. High 46F. W winds at 5 to 10 mph, increasing to 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 30%.. Tonight. Some clouds. A few flurries or snow showers possible. Low around 30F. Winds W at 10 to 20 mph. |
Editor's note: This article is part of the Deseret News' annual Ten Today series , which explores the relevance of the Ten Commandments in modern life. SALT LAKE CITY — Dishonesty isn't a deal breaker for most Republicans in the age of Donald Trump. Fifty-five percent of Republicans say they would.... |
By Luminous Jannamike. ABUJA – The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev Dr Samson Olasupo Ayokunle, has called on all churches in the country to use the coming Good Friday solemnity to pray for the release of Leah Sharibu from the captivity of Boko Haram terrorists. |
MACON, NC (FOX Carolina) - The Macon County Sheriff's Office and SBI are investigating after two deceased individuals were found in an abandoned vehicle. Deputies said they responded to a reported abandoned vehicle on Jack Cabe Road. According to the sheriff's office, the vehicle belonged to one of.... |
BOSTON (AP) — A group of Christian leaders and advocates are fasting to bring attention to immigration issues impacting members of their congregations. Advocacy and legal services group Agencia ALPHA is working with the group of Hispanic churches to start a 40-day period of fasting, when the pastors.... |
Fourty years later, eight of those original Evangelical Lutheran Church of America congregations now jointly support and benefit from the internship program. Participating parishes are First Evangelical Lutheran, Gol, Hegre, Vang, Grace, Trinity (in West Concord), Dale and Holden. |
2. Everything will depend on turnout. this week. In Fabricio’s favor, his strongest support is in the country’s three coastal provinces (Guanacaste, Limón , and Puntarenas), where 28 percent of ticos live, and voters there won’t be far from their polling stations. |
The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Rev Dr Samson Olasupo Ayokunle has declared Good Friday March 30, 2018 as a day when all churches in the country should pray for the freedom of Leah Sharibu from the captivity of Boko Haram terrorists. |
Arguments broke out Tuesday evening as protesters made their way from a Sacramento City Council meeting to Golden 1 Center, blocking fans out of the arena for a Kings game for the second time in less than a week.
Sacramento Kings principal owner Vivek Ranadive and chief operating officer Matina.... |
· Ebenezer Obey, Tope Alabi, Chioma Jesus, others on the bill. The sprawling city of Ikorodu, near Lagos, will, on Good Friday, be locked down with a gospel music festival, tagged EMBRACE. It is the 11th edition of the yearly musical crusade that draws about half a million Christians and non-Christians to the city. |
The US supreme court’s 1954 decision in Brown v Board of Education proved a landmark in the struggle for civil rights in America, and Linda Brown, who has died aged 75, was at its centre. It began in September 1950, when seven-year-old Linda walked with her father Oliver to enrol for third grade at.... |
Clark died March 18 after two officers, believing he was a burglary suspect and armed, fired at him 20 times in his grandparents’ backyard after a helicopter pilot saw him jumping over a fence. Turning over Clark’s handcuffed corpse, police found not a gun but a cellphone. |
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A half century after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, visitors still flock to the Memphis, Tennessee, site where the civil rights leader was assassinated and say that while there has been progress in racial equality, more strides need to be made. |
Hundreds of mourners hold candles Sunday, March 25, 2018, in remembrance of the Sharp family, who died during a vacation to Mexico. The vigil was held at the VFW Field in Creston. (Scott Vicker/Creston News Advertiser)
A community service for a Creston family who died while on vacation in Mexico has been set for Saturday afternoon. |
March 28, 2018 Baltimore Imani Holt was just 10 when she saw a neighbor get fatally shot by a triggerman riding a bicycle. The African-American girl from Baltimore was so traumatized by the drug-fueled bloodshed she refused to leave her family's apartment for weeks. |
Vickie Lynn Plante, 62, of Meetinghouse Road in Hinsdale died unexpectedly Friday morning, March 23, 2018, at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital following a lengthy period of declining health.
A lifelong resident of the area, Vickie was born in Brattleboro on March 3, 1956, the daughter of Robert and Lois (Grover) Johnson. |
U.S. President George W. Bush meets with the Southern Baptist Convention Leadership in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington October 11, 2006. From L-R are: President and CEO of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention Dr. Morris Chapman, President of the Southern Baptist Convention Dr. |
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History means remembering, but it also involves forgetting. The hurly-burly of daily life is gradually shaped into a tidy tale of causes and effects, heroes and villains — much as a jagged stone is smoothed under rushing water. I think about that whenever I see a book or film about the struggle to end racial discrimination in the United States. |
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