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Rev. Howard Hynes is the pastor at St. Stephen the Martyr Anglican Network Church, which organized the flag raisings. Hynes said the flag does not represent anti-homosexuality, adding he doesn't understand why people reacted so negatively.
'All I can say is that we're not anti anything. We are Christian and we stand for love and peace. |
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By Morenike Taire. IT was with consternation that many Nigerians, last week, received the news of the rejection of a bill seeking gender parity and prohibition of violence against women by the red chamber. Interestingly, this is coming in March, a month internationally set aside for honouring women,.... |
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GREER, South Carolina A South Carolina mother says her 11-year-old son died playing a game in which people challenge each other online to choke themselves until they pass out. Latrice Hurst says in a statement released through her pastor that her son, Davorius Gray, was playing the "pass-out game" before he died last week. |
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There has been an outpouring of support for members of a historic church in Englewood, New Jersey, that went up in flames Tuesday night. The flames broke out just after 8 p.m. at 150 E. Palisade Ave., at the First Presbyterian Church of Englewood. Flames ripped out of the 150-year-old church,.... |
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Port Elizabeth – A 43-year-old man charged with raping an 11-year-old girl, and a 28-year-old man who allegedly murdered his girlfriend, both abandoned their bid for bail in the Port Alfred Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. More than 150 community members, among them a local pastor and a political.... |
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Gallery: First Presbyterian Church of Englewood, N.J., burns Tuesday, March 22, 2016. Investigators are trying to determine what caused a fire that destroyed the 150-year-old church while the pastor tries to find a place to worship on Easter. No one was in the building at the time and no one was injured. |
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Discord over when to celebrate the Resurrection has reigned for centuries. Some scholars have referred to it as one of the oldest disagreements in Christianity. Early Christians sought to celebrate Easter to coincide with Judaism's Passover, for the gospels of Matthew, Mark and John place the Last Supper within that eight-day festival. |
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Eugene police arrested a man they say returned for his pants after he broke into a church and burned some items Tuesday morning, according to a news release.
Jason Duque, 29, faces accusations of first-degree arson, second-degree burglary, interfering with a peace officer and resisting arrest. |
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A fire destroyed a historic church in Englewood, N.J., Tuesday night. The flames broke out just after 8 p.m. at 150 E. Palisade Ave., at the First Presbyterian Church of Englewood. Flames ripped out of the church, shattering century-old stained glass and scorching wooden beams that have both sheltered a congregation for generations. |
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Members of the United Church of Christ in Nigeria otherwise known as HEKAN were thrown into tears following the abduction of the national leader, Rev. Emmanuel Dziggau, his assistant, Anthony Iliya and a retired Pastor of the church, Rev. Yakubu Dzarma in Kaduna. |
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. By ZNS News, Mar 23 2016 5:12PM.
Prime Minister and Minister of Finance the Rt. Hon. Perry Christie (centre) speaks with Senior Pastor Rev. Dr. Wesley L. Thompson, after the Palm Sunday service at Mt. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, International Ministries, on East and Quakoo Streets, on March 20, 2016. |
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Artikel von buzzfeed.com: Don’t read this if you’re hungry Yo You hungry? Televisa Well, how about some tacos de juicy, tender carne asada, sprinkled with chopped onions and cilantro, and drizzled with some bomb-ass salsa verde? chenoodlez / Via instagram com Or what about these tacos al pastor with.... |
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The Ekiti State House of Assembly on Wednesday said it has instructed its counsel to seek redress and damages over what it called “the undemocratic, unpatriotic, dictatorial and brutish” incarceration of one of its members, Mr Afolabi Akanni, by the Department of State Services (DSS) for 18 days with neither explanation nor trial in court. |
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(ABUJA) Against the background of the violence that apparently characterized the rerun elections in Rivers State, Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State has lashed out at president Mohammadu Buhari, saying that God is angry with him and that Nigerians should ask Buhari why they are suffering. |
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The House of Assembly, which condemned “strongly the illegal arrest, detention and dehumanization of Honourable Akanni” and demanded unreserved apology, made this disclosure on Wednesday at a press conference held at its chamber in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital. |
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By Shuaib I. Shuaib. On March 28, 2015; exactly one year ago, 15 million Nigerians voted to elect Muhammadu Buhari president. Behind the scenes however, the process to make sure every single one of those votes counted was fraught with danger and state created booby traps. |
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by Mohammed Aly Sergie, Robert McMahon, Jeremy Sherlick, and Hagit Ariav.
by John P. Manley, Pedro Aspe, William F. Weld, Thomas P. D'Aquino, Andres Rozental, and Robert A. |
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The Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) Southlea Park Assembly is embroiled in a leadership dispute which has led the committee members to haul their congregants before the Harare Civil Court. AFM, represented by its committee member Marshal Muyambo, hauled its 20 congregants on allegations of vandalising.... |
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Sometimes you've got to let people fall on their face, scrape their knee, break a few bones, suffer an unrecoverable injury and you not be there to kiss their wounds. Let them nurse their own pain. Survive with no survival kit. And learn even without you they can still find their way. We are our brother's keeper, but we're not our brother's savior. |
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TAKE A LESSON. Shared traits of the world’s longest-lived people: 1. Move Naturally The world’s longest-lived people don’t pump iron or run marathons. Instead, their environments nudge them into moving without thinking about it. 2. Purpose Why do you wake up in the morning? Knowing your sense of.... |
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Get involved. Several organizations in Pittsburgh are working to improve its food system: Grow Pittsburgh: Dedicated to sustainability and urban farming. It is partnering with Western Pennsylvania Conservancy to create community gardens. Burgh Bees: Promotes beekeeping through mentorships, seminars and hands-on classes. |
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Some church leaders in Kaduna have been abducted, a source at the headquarters of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Abuja has confirmed to SaharaReporters. Their kidnappers are demanding N100m for their release, said our source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he had no official clearance. |
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After Joe Mitchell’s accounts of mid-century New York had entered the shared canon of journalism and literature, an interviewer asked him whether, in all the years since he’d stopped writing, he’d considered going back through his old work in search of his lost impulses. |
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At the beginning of the 18th century, the global and regional political processes started to set the stage for ridding the Christion population of the Muslim pressure. The Armenian meliks’ plan to do that required a meeting with the powerful Russian monarch, during which the latter was to be.... |
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HAYWARD -- A San Leandro man accused of fatally stabbing his father, a well-known Menlo Park pastor, pleaded not guilty to murder in court Tuesday. Isaiah Bostic, 21, appeared in the Alameda County Superior Court in Hayward on Tuesday in white-and-green jail clothes in a holding cell. |
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