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According to CBS Local, the event which sold tickets for N8000 ($25) was sold-out. Reports say that the event took place at an undisclosed industrial building downtown Detroit, with an estimated crowd of 700 people in attendance. The location was kept a secret because of the threat of religious protests. |
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LANSING, MI — A video outlining the Flint water crisis is set to play during the 2016 Democratic National Convention Wednesday evening, according to a release from the convention committee. The three-and-a-half minute video - which will serve as a preview to Flint Mayor Karen Weaver's convention.... |
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THE Soweto Gospel Choir will detour from its national Australian tour for what is sure to be an emotional performance at Mount Beauty on Friday. They are making their third visit to the North East town for a special benefit performance to honour Tawonga South resident David Vigo, who lost a battle with cancer on July 10. |
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PHILADELPHIA: US President Barack Obama was to step onto the Democratic convention stage yesterday to champion former political foe Hillary Clinton, defend his own legacy and bury Donald Trump’s chances of reaching the White House. Clinton on Tuesday became the first woman to win the presidential.... |
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– Leader of the Celestial church seals off the parish where Korede Taiwo was chained for weeks in Ogun. – All the church members, especially those seeking spiritual help, had deserted the place as it has been sealed. Five days after National Security Civil Defense Corp (NSCDC) rescued the.... |
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Fort Worth youth minister Graham McMillan surprised his friend, nurse Danny Kolzow, to tell him he's a match for a kidney donation. (Published Tuesday, July 26, 2016)
Born with a rare disease and just days away from kidney failure, Fort Worth nurse Danny Kolzow is getting a lifeline from a longtime friend. |
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REUTERS Zimbabwes President Robert Mugabe. File photo: Philimon Bulawayo Harare - Zimbabwe's 92-year-old president on Wednesday said the longtime loyalists who turned against him last week should face “severe” punishment, and he vowed to stay in power for “a long time. |
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Recent editorials from Tennessee newspapers: July 26. The Commercial Appeal on United Way of the Mid-South: The venerable philanthropic force United Way of the Mid-South, known for dispensing millions of dollars over the decades to organizations throughout the Memphis metro area, is sharpening its.... |
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One of the great gifts for a busy parish priest -- and these days most parish priests are very busy indeed -- is the gift of a retired or elderly priest who offers to "cover" the parish for a few weeks so that the pastor has time for some rest. Looking at the pictures of Fr. |
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The body of a 7-year-old boy who went missing from his day-camp was found Tuesday evening in the water off of Carson Beach in South Boston, authorities said. Police and community members searched air, land, and sea for hours, before the Boston Police Harbor Unit, along with the Quincy Police found the body of Kyzr Willis of Dorchester, Mass. |
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Fort Worth youth minister Graham McMillan surprised his friend, nurse Danny Kolzow, to tell him he's a match for a kidney donation. (Published Tuesday, July 26, 2016)
Born with a rare disease and just days away from kidney failure, Fort Worth nurse Danny Kolzow is getting a lifeline from a longtime friend. |
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Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State on Monday said that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and his godfathers stole N1.5billion from the $2.5billion arms deal scandal. Oshiomhole made the allegation when women of Edo State converged at the Samuel.... |
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ROSWELL, GA (CBS46) - Sitting outside of Silvia Browning Cotriss' house are two flag poles. They're bare right now but according to a Roswell police internal investigation that wasn't the case two weeks ago. Sergeant Silvia Browning Cotriss was Pastor Lee Jenkins and one of his Eagle Nest Church members complained to the police chief two weeks ago. |
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Adibe Emenyonu in Benin City. The campaign rally of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, slated for Egor Local Government Area of the state was nearly aborted on Wednesday after the state government allegedly cancelled the approval earlier.... |
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ROSWELL, GA (CBS46) - Sitting outside of Silvia Browning Cotriss' house are two flag poles. They're bare right now but according to a Roswell police internal investigation that wasn't the case two weeks ago. Sergeant Silvia Browning Cotriss was Pastor Lee Jenkins and one of his Eagle Nest Church members complained to the police chief two weeks ago. |
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— A Superior Court judge Wednesday sentenced an Irvington woman to 45 years in prison for the 2011 killing of her 8-year-old daughter, and starving and beating of the girl's two siblings. Krisla Rezireksyon Kris, 34, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for a charge of Superior Court Judge Michael L. |
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HARARE (Reuters) – President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe on Wednesday dismissed demands by once stalwart war veteran supporters to quit, saying he was in power by popular vote and accusing critics of plotting his ouster with longtime Western opponents. The 92-year-old Mugabe, the only president.... |
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Churchgoer Lee Plinkit said: 'Remarkable waste of resources that could have been better spent to help the homeless, the needy. Rather, $3,000 was put to take a single rifle off the market for what? As a statement? Is this really the type of Christian pursuit and use of resources that Christians are.... |
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A new clergy group with plans to keep church leaders on the the financial straight and narrow is looking for new members, the founder of the group said. The Rev. Eugene C. Overstreet, pastor at New Covenant Baptist Church of Christ in Jersey City, said he created the New Jersey Clergy United for.... |
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The former fighters, who for years have led the 92-year-old leader’s often violent election campaigns, announced they were withdrawing their support.
However, the veteran ruler told the former fighters at a solidarity rally in Harare, that he would stay on as long as God allowed him to continue ruling. |
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– As the governorship election in Edo state hots up, there are reports of alignments and this is currently causing a level of heat in the political environment. – Part of the heat is the seeming battle between Don Pedro Obaseki and Godwin Obaseki, both cousins but in rival political parties in the state. |
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe's 92-year-old president on Wednesday said the longtime loyalists who turned against him last week should face "severe" punishment, and he vowed to stay in power for "a long time." President Robert Mugabe made his first public response to a scathing statement by veterans of the country's 1970's liberation war. |
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Interim Memphis Police Director Michael Rallings is seeking to drop the word "interim" from his title. Rallings is one of six candidates vying to head the Memphis Police Department, and fill the vacancy created in January when former director Toney Armstrong retired. |
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Now, Father Moanda-Phuati, a Congolese who came to serve in the dwindling French collective parishes, where priests are shared over several churches, has to live with the knowledge that Father Jacques died in his place. ‘It would have been me,’ he revealed, his voice breaking as he came to terms with the horror that was inflicted upon his church. |
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The new acting chair of proceedings, Marcia Fudge - brought in after DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz quit in disgrace when her anti-Sanders bias was revealed - desperately called for 'respect'. Even the opening prayer was interrupted by chants of 'Bernie, Bernie' which began from protesters outside the venue and quickly spread inside. |
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