Contributed photoLisa Pearce, Open Doors U.S. interim CEO, introduces the group’s 2023 World Watch List, which tracks Christian persecution. ORANGE, Calif. – Violence against Christians is spiking in Sub-Saharan Africa, driven by violence nurtured in Nigeria by Islamic and Fulani terrorists, Open Doors U.S. said Jan. 17 in its 2023 World Watch List tracking Christian persecution globally. Nearly 90 percent of the 5,621 Christians killed in the study period were in Nigeria, Open Doors U.S. said, verifying 5,014 such killings there. “Open Doors only records the events that we can verify. In reality much persecution, including killings, happen in very…
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Nearly 100 students were slated to work at Book for Africa on Monday. Books for Africa, the Minnesota-based nonprofit with a warehouse in Atlanta helping solve what it calls a “book famine” on the continent, hosted a volunteer work day with more than 100 university and high school students on Martin Luther King Jr. day. About a hundred student volunteers from Morehouse College, Spelman College, Kennesaw State University and The Lovett School split two-hour shifts in the morning and afternoon, packing books for shipment to Africa. Off from school, many students use the federal holiday created to mark the civil…
Local activist and community leader Bea Robinson Mendez, 88, died from pneumonia on Jan. 13, but her legacy lives on. Robinson Mendez founded Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence, the first bilingual shelter in the country and second domestic violence agency in the state. The organization, which started in a San Jose garage in 1971, provides supports and resources to 3,000 survivors of domestic violence annually. Robinson Mendez’s mother, who emigrated from Mexico before 1950, was a victim of domestic violence, according to Next Door Solutions. “The one word that really describes Bea is ‘fierce,” Teresa Alvarado, founder of Latina Coalition…
Everything runs its course eventually, even if that course can sometimes seem a little short. Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, Freaks & Geeks, and Police Squad are just some of the many one-season wonders to have graced the airwaves over the years, but other shows go on for so long that it’d probably take a catastrophe just to put them on hiatus. Related: Great TV Shows That Ended in 2022 The longest-running TV shows span multiple decades and generations, entertaining countless people in the process. Some do eventually come to an end, leaving their mark on history, while others are still being…
Back in the early 2000s Jennifer Sookne was fighting to achieve marriage equality in California. She and her former partner married in San Francisco 19 years ago during the Winter of Love, when city officials wed thousands of same-sex couples in violation of the state’s marriage statutes. It led to a yearslong legal battle in state and federal courts to win the right to marry for same-sex couples. With Sookne’s initial February 19, 2004 wedding to Theresa Mizell annulled by state courts, the Willits residents were the first same-sex couple to be married in Mendocino County in June 2008 when…
Molly Fish has a vision for a downtown bookstore that encourages kids to read with colorful board books and a stellar selection of YA novels. What better place to put such a store than next to the Madison Children’s Museum?By Independent Bookstore Day this spring, April 29, Fish intends to open Lake City Books, 107 N. Hamilton St.Lake City Books will stock a little bit of everything — the latest bestsellers, nonfiction, cookbooks and popular fiction. But the kids’ section will be the main event.“At least a third is going to be kids and YA,” said Fish. “I’ve been so…
Lagos, Nigeria, Jan. 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Rukkiesdecor, has created a Niche and she is breaking barriers with her exceptional creativity in the Art of Floristry. Rukkiesdecor differs from traditional florists by creating customer intimacy based on personalized relationships that will save its customers time and reduce anxiety often associated with the floral buying process. We Use technology to make the floral buying experience easy for customers and, at the same time, enable the company to identify and track its customer base. We pride ourselves in creating a new fresh flower arrangement buying experience for customers. Offering exquisite, artistic…
African heads of state and global CEOs at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting backed the launch of the first of its kind report on how public-private partnerships can support the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). AfCFTA: A New Era for Global Business and Investment in Africa outlines high-potential sectors, initiatives to support business and investment, operational tools to facilitate the AfCFTA, and illustrative examples from successful businesses in Africa to guide businesses in entering and expanding in this area. The report aims to provide a pathway for global businesses and investors to understand the biggest trends,…
Sporting Sustainability on April 29 | Sporting KC vs. CF Montreal Launched in 2018, the club’s Sporting Sustainability platform aims to raise awareness around the impact of food waste prevention while utilizing educational tools to encourage the adoption of sustainable practices such as recycling, composting, water conservation and use of renewable energy sources. The collaborative platform unites eight prominent organizations – Sporting Kansas City, Compass Minerals, Missouri Organic Recycling, The Nature Conservancy, BIOLO, Dairy Farmers of America, Anheuser-Busch, Huhtamaki and Sun Solar – to achieve key sustainability outcomes across the Midwest region. The annual Sporting Sustainability night comes during Keep…
Pope Francis in Nairobi, Kenya, during his first papal visit to the African continent in 2015. Nichole Sobecki/Getty ImagesDuring his planned visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Sudan in February 2023, Pope Francis intends to be in dialogue with African Catholics – but also to listen to political leaders and young Africans.This visit comes at a defining moment in what is regarded as a fairly progressive papacy.Pope Francis has convened a worldwide consultation on the future of the Catholic church. This consultation, called a synodal process, began in 2021 and will conclude in 2024.It is the…