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Two former church members, one of whom was sexually abused as a girl, say the organisation they grew up in was a "cult" in which multiple abuses were carried out. Sophia and her cousin Anna believe the old Commonwealth Covenant Church was as much a cult as any higher-profile religious group such as the Gloriavale community on the West Coast. |
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A Nobel peace prize winner, Mother Teresa was one of the most influential women in the Church's 2,000-year history, acclaimed for her work amongst the world's poorest of the poor in the slums of Kolkata. Hundreds of thousands of faithful are expected to attend the canonisation service for the tiny.... |
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The Queen has approved the nomination of the Very Reverend Catherine Ogle, MA, MPhil, DLitt, Dean of Birmingham, to be appointed to the Deanery of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity and Saint Peter, Saint Paul, and of Saint Swithun in Winchester, on the resignation of the Very Reverend James Edgar Atwell, MA, BD, ThM on 14 July 2016. |
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Tima Kurdi said the year since they died has been a "stressful and painful" one, and called on the international community to act urgently to save others from dying in the same way. Speaking from Irbil, she told ITV's Good Morning Britain: "Why we are closing our eyes on them? Why we cannot help.... |
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As Brazilian politics seeks to find a way through its current crisis, a group of evangelical leaders say their prayers were part of removing the former President. Dilma Rousseff was this week removed from power by the Senate and she has been replaced by Michel Temer. |
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Harrowing pictures of three-year-old Alan Kurdi's tiny body on a Turkish beach in September 2015 sparked global outrage, but his family said little has changed since then. The toddler died alongside his brother, Galip, and their mother, Rehana, as they attempted to make the crossing from Bodrum to.... |
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(AP) – Some Hispanic leaders who have been advising Donald Trump say they feel betrayed after his long-awaited immigration speech that definitively ruled out a pathway to legal status for people living in the country illegally. Trump stopped short of calling for the mass deportation of millions of.... |
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"I thought, and he thought, we were making a small character documentary," says Panti's alter-ego, Rory O'Neill. "Conor started to realise he had a film when I got into trouble on the TV show. And he was absolutely delighted." O'Neill's "trouble" began when he named a few people in the Irish media.... |
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It’s been a month now since Leinanyana Tsiane was laid to rest. To be specific, it was on a Sabbath, 29th July 2016, year of our Lord. I was honoured to be one of the speakers at the memorial service organized by her peers from the media industry, two days before the funeral, on a Thursday. |
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By John Kelly, The Washington Post. A razor-sharp chisel in hand, Zev Zalman “Z.Z.” Ludwick leans into the violin he is making and shaves off a sliver of wood. It curls up, a simulacrum of the Hasidic curls — payot — that hang on either side of his bearded face. |
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Max Reger, who died 100 years ago in 1916, revered Bach, saying, "There is nothing so complex in our modern harmonies that Bach didn't anticipate long ago." The Bach cantata we heard in our last Concert Hour, "O Eternity, You Word of Thunder," included visions of the Apocalypse, as does Reger's Requiem. |
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