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Deadly violence in Nigeria tied to United Methodist Church schism over LGBTQ policies

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Deadly violence in Nigeria tied to United Methodist Church schism over LGBTQ policies toggle caption Peter Smith/AP A religious schism has turned deadly in Nigeria, with a church member fatally shot and two young children killed as homes were set ablaze, according to United Methodist News Service. The news service said the reported violence on Sunday stemmed from a schism …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

Deadly violence in Nigeria linked to breakup of United Methodist Church over LGBTQ policies

Associated Press

A religious schism has turned deadly in Nigeria, with a church member fatally shot and two young children killed as homes were set ablaze, according to United Methodist News Service. The news service said the reported violence on Sunday stemmed from a schism in the worldwide United Methodist Church over its decision to repeal LGBTQ bans — and the ensuing …

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3 weeks, 2 days ago

NFL star Rashee Rice’s mom learns her fate for stealing packages from neighbor

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4 weeks, 2 days ago

SM Krishna: The statesman who put Bengaluru on global IT map; envisioned development on lines of Singapore

New Indian Express

After six decades in politics, Krishna announced his retirement in January 2023. During elections, senior leaders, particularly from his Vokkaliga community, often visited his Bengaluru residence to seek his blessings, a practice that continued during the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. After completing his studies at Maharaja’s College, Mysore, and Government Law College, Bangalore, he pursued further education in the USA …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Third woman dies under Texas’ abortion ban as doctors use riskier miscarriage treatments

Raw Story

Wrapping his wife in a blanket as she mourned the loss of her pregnancy at 11 weeks, Hope Ngumezi wondered why no obstetrician was coming to see her. But when Dr. Andrew Ryan Davis, the obstetrician on duty, finally arrived, he said it was the hospital’s “routine” to give a drug called misoprostol to help the body pass the tissue, …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Thanksgiving Fete Begins at Churches in Hyderabad

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Churches have turned active with Thanksgiving celebrations, with the faithful participating in events that began in the first week of November and will conclude in the coming week. Mary Jyothsna, a member of the church, mentioned, "We decorate the church and altar, giving a theme of nature using all natural products." Senior church member Susana John explained, "People get …

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2 months ago

Costa Mesa church members forego politics for peace during election night vigil

LA Times

Tustin resident Bobbie Lee Throne reads a passage during an election night service at the First United Methodist Church in Costa Mesa. Matt Hambrick, lead pastor at First United Methodist Church in Costa Mesa, led a Vigil for Peace and Centering Tuesday to help calm nerves on election night. A portrait of Fred Rogers of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” greets visitors …

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2 months ago

Kemi Badenoch: The battling Boudica who isn’t who you think she is

The Independent

Kemi Badenoch is the woman who always wanted to wear Margaret Thatcher’s “trousers”. By now she’d come to the attention of party heavyweight Michael Gove who acted as her mentor and was pushing her to the fore of the party, even announcing at a party dinner: “Kemi Badenoch will be the next leader of the Conservative party.” Gove’s “puppet master” …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Grace Church: A Haven of Peace Amid Election-Divisive Landscape

Associated Press

Grace United Methodist Church in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has become a peace hub in the midst of the divisive election. The church installed a pole with the message 'May Peace Prevail on Earth' as a symbol of their commitment to protecting democracy. However, the location of the pole and the timing of its installation suggest that it was done in response …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Mother Bethel African Methodist Church: A Beacon of Hope and Resilience in a City Divided by History

Associated Press

Two historic Philadelphia churches, Christ Church and Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, continue to serve as the spiritual home for hundreds in the city. Both churches have a complex history, marked by both contributions to the freedom movement and struggles with racial inequality. Christ Church, founded by colonists as the first parish of the Church of England in Pennsylvania, …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Takeaways from AP's report on the past and present of two historic Philadelphia churches

The Independent

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Fall City boy, 15, 'who annihilated his parents and two siblings' is banned from contacting surviving sister

Daily Mail

A 15-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of killing his parents and three siblings has been forbidden from contacting his surviving sister who escaped the massacre. Mark Humiston, 42, his wife Sarah and three of their children were found shot dead inside their home in Fall City by Lake Alice, about 30 miles east of Seattle. King County Superior Court Judge …

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4 months ago

Minnesota man with history of driving drunk charged in patio crash that killed 2 and injured 9

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Matching sets of dinosaur footprints found thousands of miles apart

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. CNN — Matching sets of footprints discovered in Africa and South America reveal that dinosaurs once traveled along a type of highway 120 million years ago before the two continents split apart, according to new research. “One of the youngest and narrowest geological connections between Africa and South America was the elbow …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

How does heat kill? It confuses your brain. It shuts down your organs. It overworks your heart.

LA Times

A man pours cold water onto his head to cool off on a sweltering hot day in the Mediterranean Sea in Beirut. That’s only 7 degrees away from catastrophe in the form of heatstroke, said Ollie Jay, a professor of heat and health at the University of Sydney in Australia, where he runs the thermoergonomics laboratory. “Clotting around the body …

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7 months ago

Australian teens learn Chinese to broaden horizon

China Daily

One contestant of the Australia final of the "Chinese Bridge" Chinese proficiency competition gives a speech in hanfu costume in Sydney on May 27. The Australia Final of the 17th "Chinese Bridge" Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign Secondary School Students wrapped up in Sydney on May 27, with 12 young contestants from all across the Oceanic country. After taking a …

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7 months ago

Australian teens learn Chinese to broaden horizon

China Daily

One contestant of the Australia final of the "Chinese Bridge" Chinese proficiency competition gives a speech in hanfu costume in Sydney on May 27. The Australia Final of the 17th "Chinese Bridge" Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign Secondary School Students wrapped up in Sydney on May 27, with 12 young contestants from all across the Oceanic country. After taking a …

Australia Chinese

7 months ago

Australian teens learn Chinese to broaden horizon

China Daily

One contestant of the Australia final of the "Chinese Bridge" Chinese proficiency competition gives a speech in hanfu costume in Sydney on May 27. The Australia Final of the 17th "Chinese Bridge" Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign Secondary School Students wrapped up in Sydney on May 27, with 12 young contestants from all across the Oceanic country. After taking a …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Christian group temporarily opens beaches it has closed on Sunday mornings as court fight plays out

Associated Press

OCEAN GROVE, N.J. — For the first time in generations, beachgoers were out on the sand in a New Jersey shore community on the Sunday morning before Memorial Day as a Christian religious group fights the state over its regular beach closures there during Sunday services. The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, a Methodist group that established a Christian seaside …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Defrocked in 2004 for same-sex relationship, a faithful Methodist is reinstated as pastor

Associated Press

Twenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked as a United Methodist Church pastor after telling her Philadelphia congregation that she was in a committed same-sex relationship. In a closed meeting of clergy from the UMC’s Eastern Pennsylvania region, Stroud exceeded the two-thirds vote requirement to be readmitted as a full member and pastor in the UMC. Bishop John Schol of …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Heavy equipment, snow shovels used to clean up hail piled knee-deep in small Colorado city

Associated Press

DENVER — Residents in a small city in northeastern Colorado were cleaning up Tuesday after hail the size of baseballs and golf balls pounded the community, with heavy construction equipment and snow shovels used to clear ice that piled up knee-deep the night before. The hail was still about a half-foot deep on Tuesday morning, said Curtis Glenn, a trustee …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

A Christian group allows Sunday morning access to a New Jersey beach it closed to honor God

Associated Press

OCEAN GROVE, N.J. — A Christian religious group that has closed its beaches on Sunday mornings for generations to honor God is relenting temporarily, allowing beachgoers onto the sand while it fights a court case with New Jersey over whose rules are paramount. The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, a Methodist group that established a Christian seaside retreat at the …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

United Methodists scrap their anti-gay bans. A woman who defied them seeks reinstatement as pastor

Associated Press

Twenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked from her beloved job as a United Methodist pastor in Philadelphia. Earlier this month, delegates at a United Methodist Church conference struck down the UMC’s longstanding anti-LGBTQ policies and created a path for clergy ousted because of them to seek reinstatement. “I want to continue to be a part of the church and …

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8 months ago

UC president recommends UCLA pay Cal $10 million a year for leaving Pac-12

LA Times

The president of the University of California system is recommending that UCLA pay Cal $10 million a year for leaving the Pac-12 for the Big Ten. In another possible blow to a UCLA athletic department awash in debt, the president of the University of California system is recommending that the Bruins pay sister school California $10 million a year through …

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Deadly violence in Nigeria tied to United Methodist Church schism over LGBTQ policies

Deadly violence in Nigeria linked to breakup of United Methodist Church over LGBTQ policies

NFL star Rashee Rice’s mom learns her fate for stealing packages from neighbor

SM Krishna: The statesman who put Bengaluru on global IT map; envisioned development on lines of Singapore

Third woman dies under Texas’ abortion ban as doctors use riskier miscarriage treatments

Thanksgiving Fete Begins at Churches in Hyderabad

Costa Mesa church members forego politics for peace during election night vigil

Kemi Badenoch: The battling Boudica who isn’t who you think she is

Grace Church: A Haven of Peace Amid Election-Divisive Landscape

Mother Bethel African Methodist Church: A Beacon of Hope and Resilience in a City Divided by History

Takeaways from AP's report on the past and present of two historic Philadelphia churches

Fall City boy, 15, 'who annihilated his parents and two siblings' is banned from contacting surviving sister

Minnesota man with history of driving drunk charged in patio crash that killed 2 and injured 9

Matching sets of dinosaur footprints found thousands of miles apart

How does heat kill? It confuses your brain. It shuts down your organs. It overworks your heart.

Australian teens learn Chinese to broaden horizon

Australian teens learn Chinese to broaden horizon

Australian teens learn Chinese to broaden horizon

Christian group temporarily opens beaches it has closed on Sunday mornings as court fight plays out

Defrocked in 2004 for same-sex relationship, a faithful Methodist is reinstated as pastor

Heavy equipment, snow shovels used to clean up hail piled knee-deep in small Colorado city

A Christian group allows Sunday morning access to a New Jersey beach it closed to honor God

United Methodists scrap their anti-gay bans. A woman who defied them seeks reinstatement as pastor

UC president recommends UCLA pay Cal $10 million a year for leaving Pac-12