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Healed Ebola victim Causes a Stir in Church

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />One of the health attendants that attended to the Liberian Patrick Sawyer, but survived the ravages of the disease, allegedly caused commotion in her church last Sunday.<br />According to reports, the young woman (name withheld) had stepped out to testify to the goodness of God in her life.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When it was her turn to share her testimony with the congregation, she sang and thanked God for helping her survive the ailment and testing negative to Ebola. Everyone allegedly joined in clapping and thanking God on her behalf.However, when it was time for her to return the microphone to the pastor to call the next person, THISDAY reports thus:</span></div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The Pastor said she should handover the microphone to the next person, but the next person shifted back<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6089869001362915509" name="more"></a>and refused to collect it. The Ebola survivor tried to hand the microphone over to other testifiers but they also declined, claiming that they would testify later. The sister had to put the microphone on the floor. Before she could turn back to return to her seat, almost everyone around her in the church had jumped outside to escape contracting the disease.”</span></div>
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Healed Ebola victim Causes a Stir in Church

Who is in for some loud and long laughter? One of the health attendants that attended to the Liberian Patrick Sawyer, but survived the...

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Iraqi Christians abandoned by UK: France, Germany offer them Assylum

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Church of England has slammed the Government for abandoning Christians in the Middle East, citing fears that any offers of asylum would cost the Tories points against Ukip and the anti-immigration movement.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In a strongly-worded attack on David Cameron's handling of the crisis in Iraq - backed by the Archbishop of Canterbury - the Bishop of Leeds said "many" senior clergy were seriously concerned.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Rt Rev Nicholas Baines has written to the Prime Minister questioning whether there is any long-term strategy and criticising a "growing silence" over the fate of the plight of persecuted Christians. In particular he raised questions about ministers' failure to respond to calls - including through parliamentary questions - to set out what arrangements would be made to offer asylum in the UK.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Despite appalling persecution, they seem to have fallen from consciousness, and I wonder why," he said. "Does your government have a coherent response to the plight of these huge numbers of Christians whose plight appears to be less regarded than that of others? Or are we simply reacting to the loudest media voice at any particular time?"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Decrying the lack of response to repeated appeals for asylum provision to be made for Christians, and other minorities, he said that in contrast to France and Germany there had "so far been only silence from the UK Government".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And he expressed fears over the future of the Government's "commitment to religious freedom". The cleric said he recognised "the complexity and interconnectedness of the challenges" but joined criticism of an apparent failure to respond effectively to the advance of Islamic State fighters.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It appears that, in common with the United States and other partners, the UK is responding to events in a reactive way, and it is difficult to discern the strategic intentions behind this approach," he wrote in the letter, which he issued to newspapers and published on his website.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Please can you tell me what is the overall strategy that holds together the UK Government's response to both the humanitarian situation and what IS is actually doing in Syria and Iraq?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Behind this question is the serious concern that we do not seem to have a coherent or comprehensive approach to Islamist extremism as it is developing across the globe.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Islamic State, Boko Haram and other groups represent particular manifestations of a global phenomenon, and it is not clear what our broader global strategy is - particularly insofar as the military, political, economic and humanitarian demands interconnect."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Church internationally should be "a primary partner in addressing this complexity", he told him. The bishop welcomed the "notable and admirable" focus on the plight of the minority Yazidi community, who have been at the centre of an international aid operation as they flee IS massacres.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"However, there has been increasing silence about the plight of tens of thousands of Christians who have been displaced, driven from cities and homelands, and who face a bleak future," he went on.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Refugees, fleeing from Mosul, and Christians attend a concert at the yard of Saint-Joseph Church in Ankawa suburb of Arbil, Iraq</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kurdistan Regional Government holds a concert with the participation of different music groups to give refugees, fleeing from Mosul and taking shelter at Saint-Joseph Church</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Iraqi Christians, fled from Iraq due to the Islamic State, abbreviated as IS,-led armed groups' attack, receive aid showing their passports during an organization held by Chaldean Catholic Church in Beirut</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Iraqi Christians, fled from Iraq due to the Islamic State, abbreviated as IS,-led armed groups' attack, receive aid showing their passports</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Iraqi Christians, fled from Iraq due to the Islamic State, abbreviated as IS,-led armed groups' attack, receive aid showing their passports</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Iraqi Christians, fled from Iraq due to the Islamic State, abbreviated as IS,-led armed groups' attack, receive aid showing their passports</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Kurdish Christian family from Qaraqosh sleeps in the room that they have been allocated at Bazar International Shopping Mall in Erbil City center.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">House of Lords questions on the subject tabled by the Bishop of Coventry remain unanswered, he said, "something that causes me and colleagues some concern".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Underlying these concerns is the need for reassurance that a commitment to religious freedom will remain a priority for the Government, given the departure of ministers who championed this. Will the Foreign Secretary's Human Rights Advisory Panel continue under the new Foreign Secretary?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Is this not the time to appoint an Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom - which would demonstrate the Government's serious commitment to developing an overarching strategy (backed by expertise) against Islamist extremism and violence?"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Bishop of Manchester, the Right Rev David Walker, said the Government had a "moral obligation that it is repeatedly failing to rise to". He told BBC Radio 4's Sunday programme that he believed the failure to offer asylum could be down to political sensitivities over immigration.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There is always a concern around anything that could play into the debate around immigration," he said. "But the numbers that would come here are so small that effectively they are not going to disrupt British society in any noticeable or meaningful way. In fact they would be good assets to our society."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If the Government failed to act then Parliament should be recalled to debate the issue, he suggested. "But the issues are fairly clear. The Government needs to act."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A social media campaign to draw attention to the plight of Christians in Iraqi has seen many high-profile religious leaders, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, change their Twitter profile pictures to a snap of the Arabic 'N', which symbolises 'Christian', and using the hashtag #WeAreN. It has been daubed on houses by militants to identify where Christians lived in captured cities, but <a href="http://www.christiantoday.com/article/wearen.thousands.unite.to.support.persecuted.christians.in.iraq/39026.htm" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">Christians worldwide have expressed a desire to "reclaim" the symbol.</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A social media campaign to draw attention to the plight of Christians in Iraqi has seen many high-profile religious leaders, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, change their Twitter profile pictures to a snap of the Arabic 'N', which symbolises 'Christian', and using the hashtag #WeAreN. It has been daubed on houses by militants to identify where Christians lived in captured cities, but <a href="http://www.christiantoday.com/article/wearen.thousands.unite.to.support.persecuted.christians.in.iraq/39026.htm" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">Christians worldwide have expressed a desire to "reclaim" the symbol.</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There is something chilling about a black flag, even if it does bear the words from the shahada: “There is no god but God.” In Mosul, northern Iraq, the black flag of Isis flies where once stood a statue of the Virgin Mary.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The last Christians were reported to have left the city this week, following a declaration by Isis, which now calls itself the Islamic State, that they must all choose submission to Islam, the sword, or payment of the jizya, a tax formerly paid by Jews and Christians living under Islamic rule. The choice seemed unrealistic, the tax being set too high to be affordable.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Arabic letter nun for “Nasrani” was painted on Christian houses. Crosses were removed from the outside of churches. Perhaps 1,500 Christian families fled, robbed of their possessions. It is part of a more terrible toll of murderous violence in Iraq and Syria, but it is also, for Christianity in this region, if Isis has its way, the end of a history that goes back to the beginnings.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A detail in the cultural eradication of Christianity in northern Iraq was the expulsion of the monks from the monastery of Mar Behnam (St Behnam), 15 miles away. The monks were not allowed to take with them their holy relics. Isis does not like relics, and is reported to have smashed up the reputed grave of the prophet Jonah, and even that of Seth, the son of Adam.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By comparison the shrine of Mar Behnam is modern. He and his sister Sara are believed to have lived in the middle of the fourth century AD. At that time the region was in contention between the Roman Empire under Julian the Apostate and the Sasanian Empire under Shapur II. To the north were the Armenians, who had become Christian, to the south the Arabs, who had not yet dreamt of Islam.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mar Behnam’s father was a king, Assyrian by nation, Zoroastrian by religion. His name is given as Sennacherib. When Behnam and his sister became Christians he was angry and they were killed. Later the king was himself converted by Mar Mattai (Matthew), the monk who had converted his son. The nearby monastery of Mar Mattai also survives from those times.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Christianity in northern Iraq comes in puzzling varieties, but these are the surviving islets of a strong, populous and cultured Church that throve in the first millennium of Christianity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The monastery of Mar Behnam that Isis has closed down was run by Syriac Catholics. They are in communion with the Bishop of Rome and come under the Patriarch of Antioch. The language of their worship derives from the Aramaic that Jesus spoke. The monastery of Mar Mattai, by historical fortune, is, or was, run by Syriac Orthodox, with the same ethnic roots, but with their own Patriarch of Antioch, and they are not in communion with Rome.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These Christians share a history of holiness and literary and theological culture of which the West is largely ignorant. This week they issued a joint appeal to the world for help.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Iraq has also been the cradle of East Syrian churches: the Chaldean Church in communion with Rome, and the Assyrian Church of the East, which is not. The Church of the East was reputed to hold heretical Nestorian beliefs, but in practice they could hardly have done so, and an agreed statement on belief in Christ was reached with the Chaldeans in 1994. Both these churches of Iraq, which in 1990 numbered a million, follow a marvellously ancient liturgy bearing the name of saints Addai and Mari.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Just as ecologists prize biodiversity, so Christians should prize liturgical and cultural diversity of this kind. It retains something from which Western Christians should profit. In 2007 I reported here a plan to set up a “safe” Christian enclave on the plain of Nineveh round Mosul. Events show how foolish that was. But can the remaining Christians of the region survive there?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Many were feared dead during a bomb explosion after church mass service at St Charles Catholic Church No man’s land in Kano, witness said</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The police also confirming the report said five people were killed and eight injured in bomb blast.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police spokesman Frank Mba said that the bomb was “probably an IED (improvised explosive device) thrown from across the street” at the Saint Charles Catholic church in Kano’s Sabon Gari district, which has suffered previous attacks by the Islamist group Boko Haram</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Police in Kano state this morning July 27th averted what could have been another fatal bomb blast in the ancient city. Police operatives averted the calamity after discovering a Peugeot 406 car with registration number AA 513 ZAK, loaded with explosives at the mosque of Sheikh Isyaku Rabiu at Goron Dutse. Bomb experts neutralized the explosives immediately and no casualty was recorded. The Kano state commissioner of police, Mr. Aderenle Shinaba has confirmed the reports</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The wife of Cameroon's Vice Prime Minister, Amadou Ali, was kidnapped this morning July 27th after men of the Boko Haram sect stormed her home in the northern town of Kolofata, Cameroon's information minister and government spokesman revealed.<br /><br />Mrs Ali was kidnapped alongside her domestic staff and one other person. The insurgents also killed 3 people in the attack on Kolofata, a town in Cameroon's Far North Region near Nigeria<br /><br />Colonel Felix Nji Formekong, the second commander of Cameroon's third inter-army military region (RMIA3) based in the regional headquarters of Maroua, said the sect members are believed to still be in the town fiercely engaging military officers</span><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The situation is very critical here now, and as I am talking to you the Boko Haram elements are still in Kolofata town in a clash with our soldiers. Some of them have already taken away the wife of Vice Prime Minister Ahmadou Ali and her house help while the bodyguards of the Vice Prime Minister have succeeded in taking him out of the town to Mora," Formekong said, adding that there could be more casualties" he said</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Speaking recently on the spate of bombings and attacks in the country, GO of the Living Faith Church aka Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo said that Nigeria is on the verge of a break up. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I hope that we are willing to find solution to it. I would be the last person in this world to believe that government has not discovered those who are behind Boko Haram. Otherwise, we don’t have any intelligence service in our country. Are they sacred cows that cannot be brought to book? Until we cut the source of their supplies and get those who are involved, we cannot stop them. But the danger is this, and I must say it here, we are at the verge of a break up. That is the truth. It’s unfortunate. The Nigerian nation is too intelligent to claim not to have discovered those who are behind this. So, I really believe it’s all in the hands of the authorities to decide whether they want to confront the issue headlong or to keep watching it until Nigeria breaks up......All that the church can do is to pray. The church is not in power, it has no political power. And when invited, we give advice, when required or called upon. You can’t call someone and say can I advise you?" - Bishop David Oyedepo</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sudanese woman, Meriam Ibrahim, who flew into Italy this morning in company of her husband Daniel Wani and their two children Martin and Maya, met with Pope Francis at Casa Santa Martath inside the Vatican.<br /><br />According to the head of the Vatican Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi, the meeting took place in a 'very serene & affectionate' environment, and Pope Francis thanked Meriam for her 'courageous witness to perseverance in the Faith.'<br /><br />Fr. Lombardi said Meriam thanked the Pope for his prayers, saying they provided great support and encouragement to her during her ordeal. See more photos after the cut...<br /><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6089869001362915509" name="more"></a></span><br />
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