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Photo: Garwin Davis Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn, sharing a light moment with Custos of Trelawny, Paul Muschett at a recent awards functrion for Justices of the Peace in Clark’s Town, Trelawny. Story Highlights “Justices of the Peace are the true pillars of their community,” Mr. |
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While more and more people seem to be turning away from the church, it might be surprising to hear that the Orthodox Christian Church is getting more popular with black Americans.
reports that first time Karl Berry stepped into an Orthodox Christian Church it was 1983 and he was shocked by what he saw. |
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- If you listened closely to the sounds of Sunday morning church service at Montavilla United Methodist Church, you would hear a message of equality. “This is at the heart of who God is: love and acceptance,” said Pastor Tim Winslea. On Sunday, Pastor Winslea invited the
to sing during worship. |
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De’Kayla Dansberry imagined herself sprinting down the deep-blue track at Eastern Illinois University later this week. Her little track team — seven girls total — from Johnson College Prep in Englewood qualified for state last week. “The track is painted this pretty blue, and it feels like going to.... |
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The St. James drop-in centre serving Montreal's homeless community is looking for a new location after conditions were placed on the lease that it feels are unfair. The organization decided not to renew its lease with the St. James Montreal Church on Ste. Catherine St. west after taking up residence there the past three and a half years. |
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Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett gets a text message whenever there's a shooting in the city. He knows that Sundays are the deadliest day of the week — in the hours just after midnight — and he knows the victims are disproportionately minorities. "This is going to be a young, African-American male," he thinks whenever those text messages come. |
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A weekly one hour program, airing on Channel 7, that's dedicated to covering the issues and interests of the African-American community in the New York tri-state area. THIS WEEK on Here and Now: May 15, 2016 Coming up, "Bring Back Our Girls," the push for more international support to find nearly 300 hundred kidnapped Nigerian school girls. |
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On the same day that the state of North Carolina and the U.S. Justice Department filed dueling lawsuits over the state’s controversial “bathroom law,” one South Carolina pastor wants to go further. Joey Deese told Rock Hill City Council on Monday that the city needs to take a “biblical stand” on the.... |
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A 62-year-old pastor in Ibadan, Pastor Isaiah Ojo, allegedly took a seven-year-old daughter of his friend and fellow pastor, Bidemi (not real name), laid her on the altar of his church and had carnal knowledge of her.
According to Nigerian Tribune, though the incident occurred on Monday, May 9,.... |
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Pastor Yohanna Buru, the General Overseer of Christ Evangelical Intercessory Fellowship Ministry, Sabon Tasha, Kaduna, has urged marketers not to increase the cost of goods as the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan approaches. He made the call on Sunday when he led a team of Muslim and Christian clerics on a tour to some markets in Kaduna. |
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The founder and general overseer of Day Spring Family Chapel, Egbeda area, Ibadan, Oyo State capital, Pastor Isaiah Ojo has been accused of defiling a 7-year-old girl in his church. The incident happened on May 9 and the little girl, simply identified as Bidemi, as at May 13, was bleeding profusely. |
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Pastor David Popoola, the State Pastor of Living Faith Church, Lokoja, on Sunday urged parents and guardians to spend adequate and quality time with their wards. Popoola gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja, on the sidelines of this year’s celebration of International Day of Families. |
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Out of the second-story windows of downtown’s Cheatham Community public housing complex, Nashville’s skyline glimmers as children play in near-barren patches of dirt. Just up Ninth Avenue North, plots of land are now sold for the construction of $400,000 homes. |
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The founder and general overseer of Day Spring Family Chapel, Egbeda area, Ibadan, Oyo State capital, Pastor Isaiah Ojo has been accused of defiling a 7-year-old girl in his church. The incident happened on May 9 and the little girl, simply identified as Bidemi, as at May 13, was bleeding profusely. |
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Pastor Yohanna Buru, the General Overseer of Christ Evangelical Intercessory Fellowship Ministry, Sabon Tasha, Kaduna, has urged marketers not to increase the cost of goods as the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan approaches. He made the call on Sunday when he led a team of Muslim and Christian clerics on a tour to some markets in Kaduna. |
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The incident happened on May 9 and the little girl, simply identified as Bidemi, as at May 13, was bleeding profusely. According to the Nigerian Tribune, the 62-year-old cleric allegedly took Bidemi, his friend and fellow pastor’s daughter to the alter of the church, allegedly laid her therein and had carnal knowledge of her. |
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A church volunteer was slashed with a machete in an attack on Saturday outside the McDermot Avenue Baptist Church. Police said a 60-year-old man approached a male youth wearing a balaclava in the 100 block of McDermot Avenue around 8:45 p.m. The volunteer asked the suspect to leave the property,.... |
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After years of growth and expansion throughout Lafayette, the Flatirons Community Church now looks to capitalize on its proven business model in another market: education. During a sermon earlier this week, church leaders announced plans to build and launch its own school in the fall of 2017. |
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Pastor Joel Osteen of Lakewood Church is warning Christians against "alarmists," or people who treat everything as a major problem or crisis. These kinds of people are very demanding of other people's time and require others to drop everything else for them. |
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DURHAM, N.C. — In this state where the modern bathroom wars began, some church and civil rights leaders have begun to spread the word that there’s plenty else to worry about in the controversial new law known formally as the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act. |
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After years of growth and expansion throughout Lafayette, the Flatirons Community Church now looks to capitalize on its proven business model in another market: education. During a sermon earlier this week, church leaders announced plans to build and launch its own school in the fall of 2017. |
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Ottawa is failing to take "clear" steps which could help secure the release of a seriously ailing Toronto pastor from a North Korean prison, despite messages relayed from the authoritarian country that those steps would up his chances of getting home, say Canadian sources familiar with the case. |
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I often encounter people who assume that God sees them as worthless throwaways, deserving to be cast into the nearest hellfire, or punished by His wrath. The truth is, God doesn't see you or anyone else that way. He sees you as His beloved creation, with whom He desires to spend eternity. |
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Pastor Yohanna Buru, the General Overseer of Christ Evangelical Intercessory Fellowship Ministry, Sabon Tasha, Kaduna, has urged marketers not to increase the cost of goods as the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan approaches. He made the call on Sunday when he lead a team of Muslim and Christian clerics on a tour to some markets in Kaduna. |
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My sincere appreciation to the many readers who called to identify with the first part of this subject and for their kind words! Yes o! No one is immune to the crisis. Difference if how well we handle it. In my book Nigeria's Men of God, there are many examples of people who were made to turn to God by one problem or another. |
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