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During a sermon last month, the Rev. Michael A. Walrond Jr. hit his stride, as he often does, about 15 minutes in. Speaking about David, one of his favorite biblical characters, Mr. Walrond’s tenor voice rose, and he began revving up, removing his eyeglasses and punctuating his speech with a wag of his finger or a tug at his earlobe. |
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Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal is facing mounting pressure from Hollywood heavyweights to veto a religious liberty bill that critics describe as anti-gay, with some threatening a boycott that could cost the state billions in business and thousands of jobs. In the past week, nearly three-dozen actors,.... |
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This Wednesday, North Carolina passed the most dangerous piece of anti-LGBT legislation in the country, restricting cities from passing nondiscrimination laws and preventing trans people from using bathrooms that represents their gender identity. All of this has been done in the name of so-called "religious freedom. |
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Anne Hathaway, Julianne Moore and some 30 other Hollywood actors and directors added their voice on Thursday to entertainment industry threats to boycott Georgia if the US state's governor signs a new law seen as discriminating against gay people. Movie and TV studios 21st Century Fox, NBC Universal.... |
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The Archdiocese of Detroit has scrapped plans to create a regional Catholic school in western Wayne County. Plans to open Divine Mercy Regional School were dismissed earlier this month because enrollment numbers didn’t reach targeted numbers, according to a letter to parents posted on the school’s Facebook site March 16. |
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A JetBlue flight attendant accused of trying to sneak a suitcase full of cocaine through Los Angeles International Airport and making a dramatic dash to escape has been ordered returned to California. U.S. District Judge Andrew Birotte Jr. in Los Angeles issued the order Thursday after prosecutors.... |
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winnipegfreepress.com berichtet dazu: TORONTO - Canada has returned to the top 10 of the FIFA world women's soccer rankings The Canadian women, winners of the Algarve Cup, moved up one spot to No . Canadian women return to FIFA top 10 after win at Algarve Cup tournament. 10 in the rankings released Friday. |
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Japan's Kyodo news agency reports a Korean-American man has admitted to attempting to steal North Korean military secrets The agency says Kim Dong Chul, a naturalized American citizen, asked for mercy and described his actions as "shameful and ineffaceable" when he was paraded in front of the media in Pyongyang Friday 25. |
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Thousands of law enforcement officers, officials and ordinary citizens gathered Friday for the funeral of Prince George’s officer Jacai Colson, who died during an ambush on police earlier this month. A joyful gospel choir clapping and swaying greeted attendees as they filled nearly every chair in.... |
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A Korean-American man detained in North Korea has confessed to stealing military secrets and plotting subversion with South Koreans, the North's official news agency and foreign media reported yesterday. North Korea, which has been criticized for its human rights record, has in the past used.... |
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Federal prosecutors want a judge to freeze the assets of a priest sentenced to 17 years in prison for molesting Honduran orphans, saying he hasn't paid the $70,000 in fines and restitution the court ordered and has been transferring money and property to his niece as part of a plan captured on a recorded jailhouse phone call. |
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Most days, Lutheran pastor Kazuhiro Sekino preaches to his congregation in a soft voice with religious hymns playing in the background of a Tokyo church. However, as night falls, he hits a smoky stage criss-crossed with whizzing strobe lights, shedding his pious day job in a battle of the bands against a group of Buddhist monks. |
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A former pastor and father of seven no longer faces a felony charge for distributing pamphlets on jury nullification outside a Michigan courthouse. Keith Wood, who currently works as an insurance broker, was arrested two days before Thanksgiving and charged with jury tampering, a misdemeanor, and obstruction of justice, a felony. |
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SEOUL, South Korea — An American detained in North Korea said he had spied against the country and asked for forgiveness at a media presentation Friday, nine days after a U.S. tourist was sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor for subversion. Kim Tong Chol told a press conference in.... |
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Kim Tong Chol, a U.S. citizen detained in North Korea, is presented to reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea on Friday, March 25, 2016. North Korea presented another American detainee before the media on Friday, nine days after it sentenced a U.S. tourist to 15 years in prison with hard labor for subversion. |
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Black activists are working for political change, but might also change the church.
There's at least one major difference between the civil rights movement and the Black Lives Matter movement, The Atlantic reported this week: The former was led by clergy. The latter, largely, is not. |
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A Protestant pastor touches a cross hanging from his neck during a Good Friday procession on March 25, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. Christians across the globe will celebrate Easter throughout this weekend, including Good Friday, when according to Christian tradition Jesus Christ was crucified and died. |
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An American detained in North Korea said he had spied against the country and asked for forgiveness at a media presentation Friday, nine days after a U.S. tourist was sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor for subversion. |
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The groups said they advocated peaceful demonstrations, but the onus was on the police department for its “decades of violence” against the black community. Pastor Danny Givens of Black Clergy United for Change, said that Harteau’s “response was that of someone who said ‘I’m coming to intimidate you. |
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On that first Good Friday, darkness descended at midday. The followers of Jesus looked on in disbelief. The one that they had hoped would liberate them from oppression was hanging helpless on a wooden cross: the most inhumane form of torture and execution ever devised by humankind. |
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A Korean-American man detained in North Korea has confessed to stealing military secrets and plotting subversion with South Koreans, the North's official news agency and foreign media reported on Friday (Saturday NZ Time). North Korea, which has been criticised for its human rights record, has in.... |
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Thousands of law enforcement officers, officials and ordinary citizens gathered Friday morning for the funeral of Prince George’s officer Jacai Colson, who died during an ambush on police earlier this month. A joyful gospel choir clapping and swaying greeted attendees as they filled nearly every.... |
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CHICAGO After a decade of outsiders serving as Chicago's police chief, local politicians and church leaders are pushing for an insider to take charge of the 12,000-member force after a history of police shootings that have damaged public trust in the department. |
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A man identified by North Korea as an American detainee said Friday he conducted espionage against the Communist nation and appealed for leniency at a state-controlled appearance that marked the first official accounting of his alleged crimes. The highly scripted display of the prisoner — identified.... |
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SEOUL: An American detained in North Korea said he had spied against the country and asked for forgiveness at a media presentation Friday, nine days after a US tourist was sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labour for subversion. Kim Tong Chol told a press conference in Pyongyang that he had.... |
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This picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Friday, shows Kim Dong-Chul, a Korean-American as he addresses a news conference in Pyongyang on March 25. A Korean-American detained in North Korea admitted to attempting to steal military secrets as he was paraded in front of media groups in Pyongyang. |
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