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BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) - We're getting close to the end of the Relay for Life season for the American Cancer Society and one Birmingham church is making a significant donation. St. James Missionary Baptist Church donated $1,500 to the American Cancer Society Sunday morning. They raised the funds through t-shirt sales. |
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or Todd Weiler, a Republican Utah Senator, has embarked on a crusade to save the state’s young people from the perils of pornography. |
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The 16-year-old girl arrived at her 19-year-old boyfriend’s house in Rio de Janeiro around 1 a.m. last weekend. She remembers being alone with him there. The girl says her next memory is waking up in a different house surrounded by more than 30 men, many of them armed. All, or at least some of them, took part in her rape. |
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P aris, France — French estate agent Benjamin Pastor finally found a filling station that had not run out of petrol on Thursday after four others turned him away. Like many other Parisians, his sympathy is in short supply for a three-month-long campaign by unions against the government’s hotly contested labor reform. |
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USFS designated-dispersed areas are free, do not have amenities such as picnic tables, restrooms or electrical hookups, but are typically marked as such and sometimes include an established fire ring. The rules are that nobody can occupy one for more than 14 consecutive days or 28 days in a 60-day period. |
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This senior standout on girls' track and field was given a college scholarship from the New Jersey Interscholastic Athletic Association.
What's love got to do with it?What is love, anyway? Pastor Ken Jasko continues his message series on the first letter of John and will answer these and other questions Sunday morning at 8:30 and 11. |
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I know politicians aren't honest. How can they be when the other side treats honesty as a weakness? Thus there can be no thinking through in the public sphere; there can only be assertions as to the ultimate truth of what you say. Unfortunately, this creates a fundamentalism that could easily segue into forms of fascism. |
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‘Heat and Light’ by Jennifer Haigh Ecco, 430 pp., $26.99. A small town’s fortunes can wander like the line in a jagged bar graph — zooming up, plunging down. Such is the case with Bakerton, Pa., the former coal-mining company town that’s the setting for Jennifer Haigh’s vivid, haunting new novel, “Heat and Light. |
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Memorial Day events as submitted to The Vindicator. Unless otherwise noted, all events are Monday, the official holiday. MAHONING COUNTY. Boardman: The Boardman Kiwanis will host its 112th annual Memorial Day parade and service starting at Boardman Center Middle School at 10 a.m. Thomas Petzinger is the grand marshal and featured speaker. |
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Which political party has Nevers Mumba s led Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) s faction gone into alliance with? Is this surprising or it s normal? Why are politicians going into alliance with or joining political parties or fellow politicians who they differed with before? Considering many.... |
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By Pastor Jasper Mutale. “Zambia needs leaders of integrity” states a young entrepreneur sitting across from me in a mini bus on its way to Lilanda. These are words many of us have repeated. The conversation involved most on the bus and there was clear disdain at the rate of corruption in government and political circles. |
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Christians obey God and do good deeds not because they fear Him but because they love Him, says Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church. Non-believers wrongly assume that Christians obey God out of guilt, fear, and obligation. But Warren says this idea is wrong because Christians are actually motivated by love. |
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Violence is almost always reduced to statistics. That is particularly true of the murder rate. Cities compare themselves to each other based on that number. Residents' sense of safety is tied to it. Is this year's count lower than last year's? Or is it creeping up? Too often we leave it at that, though. |
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Ten years ago, there were few, if any, studies of why someone with a criminal past involving drugs and guns would gravitate toward terrorism. Now there seem to be numerous examples, including Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the organizer of the November 2015 attacks in Paris, who had a long rap sheet before going to Syria. |
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As much as people try to maintain a semblance of peace in their lives, there will always be bad things happening that will inevitably get them upset or riled up. Even though Christians might want to take a rest from experiencing all these bad scenarios, Pastor Joel Osteen of Lakewood Church says they can't. |
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Rev. Franklin Graham cannot understand why a transgender 5th grade teacher in Oregon was awarded $60,000 by the school district after she complained of being harassed and "misgendered" by her colleagues. The teacher got upset because her co-workers reportedly kept addressing her as "she," "lady,".... |
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To honor the memory of South Carolina state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, his alma mater is going beyond just establishing a scholarship. Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington is establishing a whole new track of study for students to follow in the footsteps of the pastor, slain along with eight.... |
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To honor the memory of South Carolina state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, his alma mater is going beyond just establishing a scholarship. Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington is establishing a whole new track of study for students to follow in the footsteps of the pastor, slain along with eight.... |
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To honor the memory of South Carolina state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, his alma mater is going beyond just establishing a scholarship. Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington is establishing a whole new track of study for students to follow in the footsteps of the pastor, slain along with eight.... |
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Cast members Keri Russell (L) and Matthew Rhys participate in a panel for the FX Networks drama series "The Americans" during the Television Critics Association (TCA) Cable Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, California January 16, 2016. Reuters/Kevork Djansezian.
“The Americans” recently aired “Dinner for Seven,” the eleventh episode on Season 4. |
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Pastor Anita has debunked rumours circulating on social media that she is back with her ex husband and founder of popular church, Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome. The mother of two took to her official blog to put to address the rumours. “It has been brought to my attention that there are.... |
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Gospel music can loosely be defined as any music type which contains Christian beliefs and values regardless of the form used to deliver it. By Kennedy Nyavaya. Over the years, singers have become synonymous with the type of genre they croon and in the same vein, gospel musicians have technically.... |
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FOLLOWING Prophet Walter Magaya's visit to Nigeria last week, the prophet has dismissed claims that he visited the country to acquire spiritual powers.
There is wide speculation that some of the young pastors and prophets are flocking to their West African "spiritual fathers" to get powers to perform miracles. |
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INDEPENDENT MEDIA When political parties speak they use the refrain our people and our artists when they want to sell something, says the writer. Picture: Boxer Ngwenya Political parties will use and abuse blackness to hold onto power, writes Madala Thepa. Blackness is a key demographic. Everyone wants it for validation. |
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CELEBRATION Churches International has partnered the Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services to build baptism pools and fonts at prisons.
Celebration Church prison ministry leader Pastor Winnie Kanoyangwa said pools had already been built at Chikurubi Maximum Security and Farm prison, while.... |
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