FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Fox News) — A kindhearted waitress whips up fresh meals for the homeless in her community and says she has dished out 75,000 dinners from her own kitchen. Granny Gloria Lewis, 54, spends her weekends making 225 fresh dinners and 180 breakfasts from her two-stove, four-fridge kitchen after years of living on […]
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG-TV) — A Frayser pastor came face-to-face with the man who carjacked him nearly two years ago. Pastor Ricky Floyd of Pursuit of God Church says he’s been anxiously waiting for an arrest, but this wasn’t how he imagined it would play out. “It’s a chapter that closed and an open chapter at […]
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WASHINGTON (Fox News) — During his secretary of state confirmation hearing, CIA Director Mike Pompeo refused to say whether he thinks same-sex relationships are a “perversion” when pressed multiple times and said he stood by his earlier views against gay marriage. Referencing a past speech Pompeo gave, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., asked the former Kansas […]
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(Sci News) — The 1.5-cm (0.6 inch) bronze coins are well preserved, probably because they were in use for a short time. “The coins were left behind by Jewish residents who hid in a large cave for four years (66-70 BC) — from the Roman siege of Jerusalem, up until the destruction of the Second […]
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(ABC News) — A pastor at an Illinois church that serves more than 25,000 worshipers at eight locations stepped down more than six months ahead of his scheduled retirement amid allegations of inappropriate behavior with parishioners. Bill Hybels, founder of the Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, resigned on Tuesday after an internal investigation […]
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Beijing (AsiaNews/AP) – Scores of missionaries risk their lives every day on the border between China and North Korea to spread the Gospel and help North Koreans. Most of them are South Koreans, but some are ethnic Korean who have lived in China for generations. Their lives are permanently at risk. In recent years, ten […]
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. law enforcement agencies have seized the sex marketplace website Backpage.com as part of an enforcement action by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to a posting on the Backpage website on Friday. Groups and political leaders working to end forced prostitution and child exploitation celebrated the shutdown of Backpage, a massive […]
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LONDON (The Denver Post) — Friends say Israel Ogunsola was a bubbly young man with a knack for making people laugh. This week, the 18-year-old was stabbed to death, becoming London’s 53rd murder victim of 2018. The British capital is being shaken by a spike in deadly violence, much of it involving young people with […]
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(CNN) — The Bible appears to have been removed from online marketplaces in China, as Beijing clamps down on how its citizens practice religion. China has always controlled sales of the Bible, only allowing it to be distributed and printed by state-sanctioned churches, but in recent years it had been available to buy online. That loophole […]
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(Fox News) — A New Jersey man has been arrested and accused of kidnapping and murdering a man trying to buy a PlayStation video game console that was advertised online, according to multiple reports. Rufus Thompson, 29, was arrested Saturday morning in Trenton. He is charged with murder, felony murder, robbery, kidnapping and weapons offenses […]
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