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Tehran (AsiaNews / Agencies) - After spending six years in jail, the Protestant pastor Behnam Irani has been freed and left his cell in the Ghezel Hesar prison, the largest in the country about 20 km north-west of Teheran. According to sources from his religious community, the man had served the full term of his sentence and so was released. |
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The gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Akwa Ibom State in the 2015 elections, Okon Umana, on Wednesday dismissed as baseless allegations by Justice Inyang Okoro that he and his party attempted to induce the judge to swing the ruling of the Supreme Court in their favour. |
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Justice John Inyang Okoro of the Nigerian Supreme Court has alleged that Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi and Umana Umana, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom, tried on separate occasions to bribe him in order for him to invalidate the outcome of the 2015 governorship election in Akwa Ibom. |
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Remember when Pastor Chris scandal was all over — it was revealed that the man of God had a secret lover that was a church member. Then the divorce between he and his wife happened. So now, news report from Dawntodusk.com says Pastor Anita Oyakhilome, the former wife of Pastor Chris Oyakhilome of Christ Embassy, has remarried. |
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Close friends of Jodie Wilkinson, who was stabbed in a Newcastle street, want to plant a tree at the city centre spot in her memory.
Close pals of tragic Jodie Wilkinson want to create a lasting memorial after she was stabbed Miss Wilkinson, 27, died in hospital after allegedly being assaulted in A.... |
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A judge determined a Salisbury pastor was not guilty of sexual battery following a three-day trial, according to the Salisbury Post. District Court Judge Kevin Eddinger said after hearing testimony and the evidence presented that Kenneth Darrell Worley, senior pastor of New Hope Baptist Church in Salisbury, was not guilty. |
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Justice Okoro, one of the judges arrested by the Department of State Services, DSS , recently, had alleged that he was being victimized over his refusal to do the bidding of the APC in the election appeal cases as it concerned Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Abia States.
Reacting to Justice Okoro’s claim, Umana in a statement by his Media Adviser, Mr. |
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Community activist Zac Henson held nothing back during a community meeting about racial equality at Beloved Community Church on Tuesday night. As the head of the Cooperative New School for Urban Studies and Environmental Justice , he joined other social justice organizations that stood in solitary.... |
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. PanArmenian.Net Wednesday 19th October, 2016 PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian Christian churches from the Los Angeles area and Bethania Lutheran Church in Solvang are celebrating the life of the late missionary Maria Jacobsen Sunday, October 23, when a bust in her honor will be unveiled, the Santa Maria Times reports. |
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The Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources has halted sand mining on Lake Victoria by Aqua World, a firm that belongs to Kampala Pastor Samuel Kakande. The directive was issued by the chairperson of the committee Isingiro South MP Alex Byarugaba while interfacing with lawyers of Pastor Samuel Kakande over illegal sand mining in Lweera. |
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PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian Christian churches from the Los Angeles area and Bethania Lutheran Church in Solvang are celebrating the life of the late missionary Maria Jacobsen Sunday, October 23, when a bust in her honor will be unveiled, the Santa Maria Times reports. |
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The 14-year-old victim, who is an orphan, was brought from a village in the south eastern part of Nigeria to work in Nathaniel’s house on Ajisegiri Street, Egbe, in the Ikotun area of the state. The suspect allegedly lured his unnamed housemaid with a cup of juice penultimate Monday, which contained a sedative. |
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opinion. Early this year, Pastor Tunde Bakare, apparently in response to his dwindling church collections, called for the resignation or sack of Mr. Godwin Emefiele, Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. Some legislators including Dino Melaye, the unofficial spokesman of the embattled Senator.... |
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Three students who took part in a peaceful protest at their University of Zimbabwe graduation ceremony last month have been summoned to a disciplinary hearing for behaving in a way that might harm the university's interests, rights lawyers said on Tuesday. |
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Photo; Courtesy. Threats can come flying, or crawling in, from any corner of life. But none beats the ‘kikulacho ki nguoni mwako’ variety (or in English, help, there’s a jigger in my coat). We have all seen on ‘Jicho Pevu’ (KTN) the sad saga surrounding a certain pastor prophet Victor Kanyari, he of ‘mpande mbegu’ (plant a seed) fame. |
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Marriage. Everyone talks about it. Every girl and guy has this as a life goal somewhere at the back of their mind. The thought of how it will be can mesmerize you to think that every day will be a walk down the aisle. Think of the lovely family that smiles as you walk down that short path way. |
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Rev. Ouellette passed at a Massachusetts hospital on Monday, Oct.17, 2016. He was 67 years old. “[The priesthood] is not a job, it's a way of life. You sense that the Lord is calling you to do that and [becoming a priest] is an answer to his call, not just something that you decide to do your own,” Rev. |
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Orchids to … • to the family that gave a disabled person some pants at Flintwood Wesleyan Church. • Columbus Regional Hospital’s ambulance service for quick response Saturday evening at Ninth Street, from a Ninth Street resident. • The Republic. • Second Baptist Church for an awesome community feeding on Saturday, from a friend. |
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A HOUSE built for Muzarabani traditional leader, Chief Kasekete, by United Families International Church leader Emmanuel Makandiwa stands out among the pole-and-dagga huts in the entire village and is already setting tongues wagging amid claims it is haunted. by XOLISANI NCUBE. |
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If there’s one inescapable reality to interrogate without fear or favour today, it is that Zimbabweans have reached a moment of truth to come to terms with the fact that Zimbabwe’s national survival and economic prosperity are inextricably intertwined first with President Robert Mugabe’s.... |
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EARLY this year, Pastor Tunde Bakare, apparently in response to his dwindling church collections, called for the resignation or sack of Mr. Godwin Emefiele, Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. Some legislators including Dino Melaye, the unofficial spokesman of the embattled Senator Bukola.... |
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This is just as Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, who had also written to the CJN on the circumstances which he claimed led to his arrest by the DSS, yesterday withdrew from the trial of the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd). |
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A mother has been charged with dangerous driving causing the death of her eight-year-old son. James Crous was killed in a a nose-to-tail crash in Napier in April when the car his mother was driving failed to stop for a line of traffic. Kim Crous, 38, allegedly failed to slow for a 300-metre queue of vehicles waiting at roadworks. |
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The death of a 15-year-old boy whose body was found burned beyond recognition in a West Side alley last month was ruled a homicide Monday. The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said he was burned alive. Demetrius Griffin Jr. was a freshman at Steinmetz College Prep. |
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This small slice of Hennepin Avenue was the epicenter of three major religions during the horse-and-buggy days. The Christian architectural gems drew thousands of faithful every Sunday and still do today. "It was a time when Minneapolis was growing very fast," said Judy Zabel, senior pastor at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist. |
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