(Accu Weather) — An 8.1 magnitude earthquake shook Mexico and Guatemala late Thursday night, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake struck off the coast of Chiapas, a state in the southern part of the country. At least 32 people are dead in the states of Oaxava, Chiapas and Tabasco, with the death toll […]
Continue reading …(The Telegraph) — John Lewis has launched a range of gender-neutral children’s clothes, becoming the first retailer in the country to remove “boys” and “girls” labels. The department store said it did not want to “reinforce gender stereotypes” with its childrenswear, which now has unisex labels on all clothing from 0-14 years. School uniforms are […]
Continue reading …MOMBASA, Kenya (Garowe Online) — Gunmen killed two police officers guarding a church on Kenya’s southern coast on Sunday in an attack that police said bore the hallmarks of Somalia’s Islamist militant group al Shabaab. Four gunmen confronted the police stationed at the entrance of an Anglican church in the town of Ukunda, south of Mombasa, regional […]
Continue reading …(New York Times) — Louise Hay, who from a 1984 best seller built a self-help publishing empire that has attracted millions of devotees with its messages about the power of thought and attitude, died on Wednesday at her home in San Diego. She was 90. Her death was announced on the website of her company, […]
Continue reading …(PBS NewsHour) — The radical militant group Boko Haram has already used four times as many child suicide bombers in northeast Nigeria this year than it did in 2016, the United Nations Children’s Fund reported Tuesday. Eighty-three children have been used as “human bombs” since the start of 2017. Fifty-five were girls, and 27 were boys, UNICEF […]
Continue reading …(Daily Caller) — Women’s Health published a feature story recently about a woman who claimed she wasn’t prepared for the “ungodly mental anguish” she experienced after undergoing an abortion. Kassi Underwood, author of “May Cause Love: An Unexpected Journey of Enlightenment,” wrote that she had dreamed about a joyful first pregnancy, but instead found herself paying […]
Continue reading …(Yahoo News UK) — Hundreds of people in a South African town have admitted eating human flesh. The shocking revelation came to light at a community meeting following the arrests of four men in the area for killing a woman and eating her body. Nino Mbatha, Sthembiso Sithole, Lindokuhle Masondo and Lungisani Magubane were charged […]
Continue reading …(Christian Concern) — A Christian street preacher who was arrested and held for 13 hours in a police cell, after displaying placards depicting love for Muslims and criticising the ideology of Islam, has been informed by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) that no charges will be brought against him. Ian Sleeper was arrested outside Southwark […]
Continue reading …HOMEWOOD, Ala. (New York Times) — Roy S. Moore, a former chief justice of the State Supreme Court, and Senator Luther Strange emerged from a crowded Republican field on Tuesday in a special Senate primary in Alabama, according to The Associated Press. They will face off for their party’s nomination next month in a runoff election, a contest […]
Continue reading …(Evangelical Focus) — Forty former prisoners grabbed water bucket, sponge and soap, and showed up on Sunday in Houston, Texas, to to clean police officers’ personal cars. It was an initiative of the C.H.A.R.M. Prison ministry (Christ’s Hope and Reconciliation Ministry), a Christian organization dedicated to current and former prison inmates. The focus of the […]
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