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Columbus. Linda May Jerome, 76, died from complications of COPD at 8:20 p.m. Thursday, December 29, 2016, at Our Hospice of South Central Indiana. She was surrounded by her husband, many children, grandchildren and close relatives. She is survived by her husband of 30 years Frank Jerome and her son, Martin Hensley of Greenfield, Indiana. |
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Richard III, V, 3. Nobody wants to be beaten, bobb’d and thumped, unless they’re a masochist, or as the saying goes, a sucker for punishment. Those words could very well be spoken by the collective voices of so many women who were subjected to physical abuse by men. |
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Services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel, with the Rev. R. Paul Johnston, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, with a prayer service at 7 p.m., at the funeral home. |
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Separately, clerics, including Pastor E.A. Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), and the immediate past President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, assured that all will be well in the new year. The govs and clerics spoke in their new year messages. |
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Captains of industry, leading members of the cultural fraternity, four senior serving members of the local journalism fraternity, and well-loved members of the sporting community, including a schoolboy who died during a football game, were among the many prominent Jamaicans who left us last year. |
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William Christopher, best known for his role as the gentle Father Mulcahy on the legendary TV series M*A*S*H , died Saturday at the age of 84. He was born in Evanston, grew up in Glencoe, and graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka. Christopher died at his home in Pasadena, California,.... |
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On a night of praise, worship and prayers to mark the last day of 2016, head pastor of the Restoration Temple of the International Central Gospel Church, Osu has charged Christians to cross over into 2017 in anticipation of God's manifold blessings. Reverend Ashford Tawiah Smith said the blessings.... |
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Murray Greenberg was a Miami-Dade County attorney known for his work on high-profile cases, including the 2000 presidential election recount. Greenberg’s blunt speech and “unflappable integrity and honesty” endeared him to his colleagues, his opponents in court and the community he represented. He died Saturday at age 73. |
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Thousands of Ghanaians have yet again converged at the Accra Sports Stadium to join the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) Crossover celebration. The Crossover service is an annual service organised by Pastor Mensah Otabil's ICGC to transition from one year to another on the 31st of December. |
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LEIPZIG, Germany Order Reprint As a boy, Helge Voigt celebrated Christmas Eve listening to Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, opening a few gifts and savoring a special dinner. Notably absent were a nativity scene, angels atop a tree or any mention of Jesus. Voigt’s family was typical in the region of.... |
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‘Church Should Be The Most Effective Platform For Demonstrating True Love’ (Rev. Dr. Eseme Unen, President/Senior Pastor, Grace Impacts Church, Bariga/Vice Chairman, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Ifako Chapter, Lagos) WE have put in place a two-pronged scholarship package for all members of Grace Impacts Church in our mission school. |
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Nearly 50 people stood shivering in the rain listening outside City Hall on Sunday, Sept. 3, 1967, as then-Mayor Chuck Wright advocated banning property owners and managers from refusing to rent or sell to people because of their race, the Topeka Daily Capital reported. |
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The bible admonishes us not to be anxious for anything. But unfortunately, the Ghanaian approaches a new year with so much anxiety. It does look like we are always dissatisfied with the passing year and on the eve of the new year ,we would wish everything about the old year away and we would address.... |
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Part I Making references to and deductions from statements of secular essence and value made by other people is something I do not do in my writings or teachings. This is simply because my writings are always of spiritual intent and flavor and thus could be diluted or even polluted by secular thought. |
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Adah Jiroghene Emmanuel, a 32-year old classroom teacher in Ugboroke area of Warri, was one of the 78 persons who heartily jumped, rolled on the concrete road, to demonstrate their joy, profusely thanking God for an instant end-of-year divine turn-around in their fortunes. |
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By Michael Awe. The leaders of the two leading religious bodies in Nigeria are indisputably strategic national leaders. They are very influential considering the size of their followership. Conventionally, one of them often talks less in the public; he is not known to be a newsmaker while the other.... |
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High Life …Amazing lifestyles of Nigeria’s rich and famous. The Delta State Government House listed to their grace, like a vessel tilting to the splendorous splash of the Atlantic. Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and his wife, Edith, celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary some days ago. |
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There is a strange sense of competence that comes with struggle. The Olu of Ilaro, Oba Kehinde Gbadewole Olugbenle (Asade Agunloye IV), chairman of Ogun State Council of Obas and Yewa Traditional Council, who recently clocked 50, and four years on the throne of his ancestors (December 4, 2016), has been in these struggles. |
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By Olayinka Latona. G eneral Overseer of the Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Ministries, Pastor Lazarus Muoka has called on Nigerians to intensify their prayers for quick solution to the myriad of socio-economic challenges currently confronting the country. |
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Separately, clerics, including Pastor E.A. Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), and the immediate past President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, assured that all will be well in the new year. The govs and clerics spoke in their new year messages. |
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LEIPZIG, Germany Order Reprint As a boy, Helge Voigt celebrated Christmas Eve listening to Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, opening a few gifts and savoring a special dinner. Notably absent were a nativity scene, angels atop a tree or any mention of Jesus. Voigt’s family was typical in the region of.... |
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Cory Williams, far left, a volunteer with St. Sabina Catholic Church, and the Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor at St. Sabina, unload some of the crosses that were erected along Michigan Avenue on Dec. 31, 2016, to memorialize those killed in 2016 in Chicago. Greg Zanis, of Aurora, constructed over 700 crosses, a cross for each homicide victim. |
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By Muideen Olaniyi | Publish Date: Jan 1 2017 2:00AM No doubt, the year 2016 is not running out without some attention-grabbing-elections that actually revealed what Nigerians should expect from power seeking politicians ahead of 2019 general elections. |
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By Olakunle Olafioye. as preparations for the next general elections get under, the 2019 presidential election in the country may climax in another major upset if the 2017 prophecies of a popular Ibadan based pastor, Prophet Wale Olagunju, Presiding Bishop of Divine Seed Chapel Ministries, are anything to go by. |
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By Enyeribe Ejiogu. the year that rolled away yesterday had its bitter and sweet moments, the ups and downs, low and high points. These ranged from tragedies, social and economic upheavals, face-offs and political episodes that remain red-lettered even as we welcome the New Year. |
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