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"It Ain't Me" singer Selena Gomez might have a jam-packed schedule because of work, but she still makes time for God. The 24-year-old singer opened up about her faith once again on her Instagram account (@selenagomez) by sharing a photo of Pastor Judah Smith. "Today I watched a sermon from one of my favorites. |
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in Jamaica lay their hands on the Reverend Teddy A Jones (seated, left) during a prayer to officially instal him as pastor of the Grace Missionary Church in St Andrew on Sunday. From left are: the reverends Omar Morrison, Spencer Colquhoun, Rodger Kirby, Jacob McLean, Mark Dawes (partially hidden),.... |
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DETROIT Derick Hutchinson - One topic that unites Detroit residents in anger: increasing auto insurance rates. Rates are climbing higher and becoming more and more unaffordable, so there's a new push to change the Michigan auto insurance law to give residents some relief. |
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Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand has launched its own anti-Romeo squads, with police pouncing on young men found loitering around schools and colleges without any reason. I am told there is much excitement in Firenze, Milano and Roma over the pro-Juliet squads launched by our hardline ascetic newly-appointed chief minister. |
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After years of complaints about retail staff who routinely follow, search, ignore, insult and provide poor service to visible minorities, one province has decided to do something about it in a big way. On Monday, the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission launched a free, online training program aimed.... |
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POMONA, Calif. -- Police in southern California say they have arrested a suspect in the slaying of an 8-year-old boy who was killed in a drive-by shooting as he was about to have dinner inside a home. The Pomona Police Department said Sunday it has arrested 35-year-old Sengchan Houl in the killing of Jonah Hwang. |
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A St. Louis church pastor, Ronald P. Ewing, was charged Monday with three counts of statutory rape, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The 59-year-old Jennings man allegedly had sex with a teenager at three city motels last year, according to the newspaper. Court documents state the pastor met the teenager at church. |
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Bangladeshi security forces appeared to gain the upper hand Monday in a four-day siege with heavily-armed militants reportedly backed by the Islamic State group in northeastern Sylhet city. Since Friday, 12 people, including two policemen and four suspected militants, have been killed and 50 others.... |
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But less known are the stories of Utica, and Goshen, Ind., and other small towns across the Midwest, where whiteness has been a feature of life for so long that most no longer realize it was not always that way. These towns are only now beginning to come to terms with a legacy of racism that has largely evaded history books. |
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COLUMBUS, Ind. — A Columbus pastor who claimed someone broke into his house while he was preaching at Sunday church is now facing criminal charges. Prosecutors say the pastor helped a teen steal more than $11,000 from his own home in order to scam his insurance company. After leaving his home on the morning on Dec. |
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A Holman Prison inmate has gone on hunger strike after prison officials banned a popular African-American newspaper because of its "racially motivated" content, according to a letter sent to the inmate from staff at the correctional facility. "I'm going to fight with all my might in protest by going.... |
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More than a decade after racial profiling was identified as a festering problem among some police forces, it is now being addressed in another sector: retailing. After years of complaints about retail staff who routinely follow, search, ignore, insult and provide poor service to visible minorities,.... |
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg school administrators had been planning to use , about a young boy who likes to wear dresses, in first-grade classes as part of Child Abuse Prevention Month in April. On Friday, however, Superintendent Ann Clark told The New York Times that the 2014 book had been replaced “due to some concerns” about content. |
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A newly formed alliance of Detroit church groups and community leaders is urging state lawmakers to pass legislation to lower car insurance rates in the city. The Detroit Alliance for Fair Auto Insurance had its first news conference Monday at Salem Memorial Lutheran Church on the east side and.... |
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These are the stories of “sundown towns” – towns where, black Americans knew, they were not welcome once the sun went down. In some cases, such as Goshen, town brochures boasted of “no negro population” as recently as 1955. In others, such as Pierce City, Mo. |
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Pastor of the Albouystown Fellowship and leader of the Guyana Apostolic Team, Elsworth Quintel Williams, is the new Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA), GINA said today. Williams’ appointment was disclosed by Minister within the Ministry of.... |
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COLUMBUS, Ind. — A Columbus pastor who claimed someone broke into his house while he was preaching at Sunday church is now facing criminal charges. Prosecutors say the pastor helped a teen steal more than 11 thousand dollars from his own home in order to scam his insurance company. |
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A group of Topeka activists hope the story of a famous Kansan will inspire bipartisan advocacy for children in the Kansas Statehouse. Charles Sheldon, a Congregationalist pastor who sought social justice in Topeka at the turn of the 19th century, is famous for coining the motto, “What would Jesus.... |
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SEVERAL local pastors have praised Prime Minister Perry Christie and his administration for the impending opening of the Baha Mar resort and called it a “victory” for Bahamian workers. In a joint statement released on Sunday, four pastors said Mr Christie and his government “are to be commended for.... |
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HAVANA >> Fidel Castro’s government sent the Rev. Juan Francisco Naranjo to two years of work camp in the 1960s for preaching the Gospel in a Cuba where atheism was law and the faithful were viewed as suspect. For years, Naranjo’s church was almost abandoned, with just a handful of people daring to attend services. |
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AFTER several months of being independent, Cebu City Councilor Dave Tumulak confirmed that he is now with Bando Osmeña Pundok Kauswagan (BOPK), if the group will accept him. The move will increase the number of BOPK members in the City Council even more after Mayor Tomas Osmeña confirmed that Councilor Nendel Hanz Abella is also with them now. |
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"Conviction" (Minotaur), by Julia Dahl. Julia Dahl's examination of the myriad communities that exist " sometimes not so harmoniously " in Brooklyn, New York, fuels her third excellent novel featuring freelance reporter Rebekah Roberts. In "Conviction," Dahl effectively uses the backdrop of the.... |
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Apia, SAMOA — Former Reverend Opapo Soana’i Oeti has set the record straight dismissing rumors circulating that funds used for their trip to Rome were from the government of Samoa. However, he explained that $10,000 was a gift from the Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi and his family, and it’s not taxpayers’ money. |
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CHINHOYI— Zimbabweans express a negative outlook over the country’s 2016 economic prospects with some saying nothing will change for the better as the same methods of trying to fix the economy have been used several times without any success.
The general belief among some Zimbabweans is that the.... |
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Harare – Confused and somewhat betrayed: That’s how one Zimbabwean feels about #ThisFlag protest leader Evan Mawarire’s failure to return to Zimbabwe more than a month after thousands gathered to support him in court. Tempers ran high in Zimbabwe this weekend over Mawarire’s no-show in the.... |
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