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Regina A. Johnson- Putting Her Talents To Use In Multiple Fields
Every person from their birth is gifted a special skill set, something they excel it. And for every person, it is different. While some people’s expertise lies in teaching, others are good at playing sports. For some people, painting is where they perform par...
Coronavirus Will Affect 68% of Easter Observers’ Spending Plans this Year – WalletHub
Around 68 percent of Americans who observe Easter say their Easter spending will be affected by the coronavirus this year, according to WalletHub’s new Coronavirus Easter Survey, released today. This survey, which follows WalletHub’s report on the State Economies Most...
How To Attract A Woman
It’s not that simple to attract a girl or a woman; lots of guys and men agree with that. But after all, they only choose partners who attract them with their appearance and inner world, those who can win their heart. The fact that men can’t sometimes take a chance to...
Good Gospel Playlist: Carissa Sharon Oyakhilome is the Princess of Loveworld
Loveworld Music and Arts Ministry (LMAM) has a brand-new star on the rise and her name is Sharon Carissa Oyakhilome. Carissa Sharon Oyakhilome, more popularly known as CSO is gospel royalty. The singing sensation who is behind the mega-hit 'Holy Spirit', has become a...
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Chris Tomlin’s new song resurrects the world’s oldest known hymn
(RNS) — In the 1890s, a pair of British archaeologists began digging in an ancient rubbish heap at the edge of the ruins of Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, looking for a glimpse into the city’s past. They’d eventually find tens of thousands of documents, written on papyrus and...
Russian missiles hit Ukrainian city of Sumy during Palm Sunday celebrations, killing more than 30
SUMY, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles struck the heart of the Ukrainian city of Sumy as people gathered to celebrate Palm Sunday, killing at least 34 people, officials said, in the second large-scale attack to claim civilian lives in just over a week. The two...
Historic domes of Hagia Sophia are renovated to protect the landmark from earthquakes
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on preserving the monument’s historic domes from the threat of earthquakes. Officials say the project will include reinforcing Hagia...
Witness in Marko Rupnik trial details allegations of sexual and psychological abuse
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A former nun in Slovenia, one of five witnesses in the sex abuse trial of the Rev. Marko Rupnik, an ex-Jesuit priest and artist, recently detailed what she claims was sexual and psychological abuse that Rupnik subjected her to for years. The...
A study found Black Christians often distrust American Muslims. A new program hopes to change that
(RNS) — When he remembers the sermon given at his grandmother’s funeral service, Tariq El-Amin describes feeling surprised as the Baptist minister preached. While El-Amin expected a sermon about death and the afterlife, he said the pastor mostly talked about how...
Funerals for cadavers: How one professor gets aspiring ministers comfortable with death
(RNS) — Several years ago, theology professor Mike Tapper asked a group of young, aspiring pastors how many had ever been to a funeral. Less than half, it turned out. Many had never been in the same room as a dead person. Tapper, who teaches in the school of theology...
Jewish families channel Passover story after devastating losses in Los Angeles wildfires
PASADENA, California (AP) — Aty Rotter lost her family home and her spiritual home in the ravenous fire that scorched a large swath of Los Angeles County earlier this year. The house her late father built in Pasadena more than 60 years ago is gone to the fire that...
Syria extends the deadline for a probe into coastal killings of Alawites
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s presidency announced on Friday that it would extend a probe into the killings of Alawite civilians in coastal areas that left hundreds dead after clashes between government forces and armed groups loyal to former President Bashar Assad spiraled...
Judge says sexual abuse cases against San Francisco Archdiocese can go to trial
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The cases of two men who allege they were sexually abused as children in Northern California by a now-deceased priest can proceed to trial, a federal judge ruled. The decision Thursday by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali comes nearly two years...
New York City places street sign honoring influential Buddhist monk, Thích Nhất Hạnh
NEW YORK (RNS) — Dozens of Buddhist monastics and lay believers huddled together on a busy Upper West Side street corner on a cold, rainy day to bear witness to a historic new street sign placed in their spiritual leader’s honor Friday (April 11). Thích Nhất Hạnh...
In new book, Adam Sobsey retraces his ancestors’ exodus and finds his Jewish soul
(RNS) — Passover is about memory. The central commandment at the traditional seder feast is to remember the exodus, the flight of the ancient Israelites from slavery to freedom. Adam Sobsey’s new book, “A Jewish Appendix: A Memoir,” isn’t about Passover, but it is...
Joan Brown Campbell, global and national ecumenical leader, dies at 93
(RNS) — The Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, the first ordained woman to lead the National Council of Churches and the U.S. office of the World Council of Churches, died in late March at the age of 93. Campbell, who also was the director of religion at the Chautauqua...