Postingan

Menampilkan postingan dari Agustus, 2023

Here’s Why 12 Senate Republicans Broke From Party To Support Same Sex Marriage Bill

Gambar
Rural areas sacrificed for Xi Jinping’s new city, satellite imagery shows The damage was wrought when Chinese authorities opened floodgates and dams this month, sacrificing whole villages to spare politically important cities. Mitch McConnell appears to freeze again while talking with reporters The freezing incident while taking questions from journalists in Kentucky mirrored another occasion when the Senate minority leader abruptly stopped speaking last month. In the Gulf, a growing scramble for Ozempic and other weight-loss drugs Ozempic is surging in popularity in the region, where obesity rates are among the highest in the world — driven by near-universal access to cars, punishing heat that keeps people indoors and the increasing prevalence of processed foods. Twelve Republican senators joined Democrats in voting in favor of a same-sex marriage bill on Tuesday, a share that would have been all but imaginable a decade ago that shows how internal party divisions have grown on the iss

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday

Gambar
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that five soldiers who defended the Azovstal plant in the southern city of Mariupol would return to Ukraine. “We are returning home from Türkiye and bringing our heroes home. Ukrainian soldiers Denys Prokopenko, Svyatoslav Palamar, Serhiy Volynsky, Oleh Khomenko, Denys Shleha. They will finally be with their relatives,” Zelensky said in a Telegram post. In the video, Zelensky is seen meeting and hugging the men at an airport field before boarding a plane. The five Ukrainian soldiers surrendered following the fall of Mariupol. After their release from Russian captivity, they were taken to Turkey as part of a prisoner swap back in September, where they were obliged to stay until the end of the war, according to the terms of the swap. Zelensky was in Turkey to hold talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Додому 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/vDJvqjCPsC — Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) July 8, 2023 Background on Azovstal and Mariupol: The

Thousands attend memorial service for Timothy Keller, beloved Christian pastor: He was 'full of Jesus'

Gambar
NEW YORK CITY – More than 2,000 people, the vast majority of them Protestant, filled the pews of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan on Tuesday evening to bid a final farewell to a man whose unique brand of intellectual preaching, writing and speaking changed their lives.   Thousands more watched the service streamed online. For 28 years, Dr. Timothy Keller was senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York, a congregation he founded in 1989. His goal was to transform the city and bringmore of a den of iniquity, spiritually speaking, than a city ready for a revival.  But Keller lived by the mantra that God loves cities, because in cities, especially New York, a plethora of God's image bearers reside. Every color, creed, age, shape and size live here. It's a land ripe for planting seeds of faith.  Keller's specialty, said his longtime friend, Glen Kleinknecht, was "listening to people who were most opposed to his faith." He transformed lives because