Nokia working on Smartphone With Android 5.0 Lollipop

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Nokia working on Smartphone With Android 5.0 Lollipop

After launching its first Android tablet in November, the Nokia N1, the Finnish firm is now rumoured to be working on an Android 5.0 Lollipop-based smartphone called Nokia C1. If the rumour is true and smartphone is released as the Nokia C1, the firm would be breaching the Microsoft acquisition agreement.
According to Techweb, Nokia is working on a device codenamed Nokia C1 that runs a custom build of Android 5.0 Lollipop based on the Nokia Z Launcher.

The tipped specifications by the Chinese blog (via Phonearena) include a 5-inch display; an Intel processor coupled with 2GB of RAM; 32GB internal storage; an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 5-megapixel front camera for the alleged Nokia C1.

To remind you about the Microsoft-Nokia acquisition agreement, the Finnish company Nokia can no longer use the Nokia brand on smartphones till Q4 2016, and on feature phones for 10 years. To bypass the restriction, Nokia may very well launch the smartphone under a different brand.

Microsoft had completed the acquisition of the devices and services division of Nokia in in April this year. After the deal, Nokia was left with its core network equipment and services business, Here mapping and navigation unit, and Nokia Technologies. Since then the two new consumer-facing products from Nokia have been the Z Launcher and the N1 tablet.

Earlier this month, Nokia announced its Here maps app will only be developed by it for Android and iOS, while Microsoft would take over development of the application for the Windows Phone platform.

Last month, Nokia had announced its “first Nokia-branded Android tablet” called the Nokia N1. The tablet will be launched in China in Q1 2015 with a brand-licensing agreement extending to an OEM partner (Foxconn) that will manufacture, distribute, and sell it.

The Nokia N1 will cost $249 (roughly Rs. 15,400) before taxes, and will be made available in other markets globally, said company during the unveiling. The Nokia N1 features a 7.9-inch (2048×1536 pixel) IPS LED-backlit display protected by Gorilla Glass 3; a 64-bit 2.3GHz Intel Atom Z3580 processor (4 cores, 4 threads) coupled with a PowerVR G6430 GPU; 2GB of LPDDR3 (800MHz) RAM; 32GB of inbuilt storage (non-expandable); an 8-megapixel rear autofocus camera; a 5-megapixel fixed focus camera; 5300mAh battery, and predictive Nokia Z Launcher interface on top of Android 5.0 Lollipop.

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Prayer Vigil Held for Slain NYPD Officers

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Prayer Vigil Held for Slain NYPD Officers

Family and friends of the two New York police officers killed on Saturday have responded by attending a candlelight vigil on Sunday evening and calling for peace.

Officers Wenjian Liu, 32, and Rafael Ramos, 40, were shot in the head while they were sitting inside a police patrol car in Brooklyn.

The suspected gunman, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, indicated on social media before the attack that he wanted to kill two policemen in the wake of the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases, where police had killed unarmed black men.

Brinsley, who has a criminal record, reportedly shot his ex-girlfriend in Baltimore, before travelling to New York, and after shooting the officers, later killed himself in a New York subway station.

Liu, who had been a police officer for seven years, got married just a few months ago. Ramos was married with two children, and known as a devoted family man and Christian.

According to the Wall Street Journal Ramos’ cousin, Ronnie Gonzalez, said: “My cousin had a couple of priorities in his life. One was God, because he was a God-loving man.

“I wish I could be half the man my cousin was,” Gonzalez added. “He was sweet. He didn’t deserve…to die.”

His aunt, Lucy Ramos, said in a statement that she hoped they could “move forward and find an amicable path to a peaceful coexistence.”

Ramos was also due to be commissioned as a lay chaplain on the day that he was killed.

Rev Marcos Miranda, the president of the New York State Chaplain Task Force where Ramos was training to become a chaplain, told the Christian Post: “I will remember his kindness the most — even the kindness in his eyes — in our talks, he asked what I thought of him being a police officer, and I said it was an honourable job. He said he thought it was ministry because he was helping those in need.

“He never thought he could be a chaplain, he saw himself doing this type of ministry after he retired from the NYPD. He was very excited about that possibility,” Miranda said…Read More

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Christians Remaining in Syria Fight to Keep Their Land

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Christians Remaining in Syria Fight to Keep Their Land

Thousands of Christians have been forced out of the Hasaka province in Syria this Christmas.

Syria’s Christian population was about 2.2 million, or 10 percent of Syria’s population. Many fled their homes because of fear of persecution for allegedly supporting the Syrian government.

The Christians say they do not support the government.

“We used to have big Christmas celebrations here and now look at the streets,” said a resident named George. “What is there to celebrate? I can’t and won’t leave my home.”

The Syriac Union Party has created a Christian militia to support and to protect the Christians still in the area. The militia, called Sutoro, formed in 2013.

“We are protecting what has been ours for hundreds of years,” said Aboud, who only gave his first name to reporters. “We are the original owners of the land.”

Said Ashur Abu Sarkun, general commander of Sutoro: “It’s very connected to the land. People don’t want Christians around … We welcome an autonomous region where Christians make decisions with the Kurds and Arabs.

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Church gets Anonymous $52,000 Check in Christmas Card

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Church gets Anonymous $52,000 Check in Christmas Card

The Africa Lighthouse Baptist Temple has received an early Christmas blessing.

An anonymous donor wrote a big check for the church located in Albemarle County, Virginia, a gift that enabled the congregation to pay off the mortgage on the property.

Peter Chege, the church’s pastor, recounted how a church spokeswoman opened the envelope containing the check. He said he was shocked when he was shown the contents.

“She opened it up, thinking it was just a regular Christmas card, and in the middle she found a check. And it was not just a check for $1,000 or $2,000, but a check for $52,000,” the pastor said.

Chenge said it would have taken his church a decade to raise that amount of money.

Services on Sunday saw the Africa Lighthouse Baptist Temple congregation celebrating and giving thanks for the generous donation they have been given.

“One year ago, we moved to this property with nothing but faith and $5,000 we had put down for the down payment for the property,” Chenge said according to NBC29.com.

The church of African refugees needed $120,000 more, so they began raising money to pay off the property.

Now, thanks to the substantial donation, the property is paid for in full a year after the church members started their fundraising efforts.

Laura Kesavuka, a church member, said, “We now have our own piece of land. We pray in peace and in our own language, and we are truly grateful.”

Chenge, who emigrated from Kenya nine years ago, said the money will help the church support African immigrants in central Virginia.

“We help them with their first cellphone, we help them even get cars, learn to drive, learn English lessons, apply for a job,” said the pastor. “Now we have a home, we have [a] base from where we can operate and grow and launch more into the community.”

As for the future, the church, whose goal is to “reach the world for Jesus through evangelism, fellowship, discipleship, and church-planting endeavors,” has big plans.

“The future is exciting. We want to have a homeless shelter, we want to have a lot of things that we want to do just for the community,” shared Chenge.

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“Al Shabaab Militants Have Put Bounty on my Head” ,Kenyan Pastor

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“Al Shabaab Militants Have Put Bounty on my Head” ,Kenyan Pastor

A pastor in Kenya of Somali descent whom Islamic extremist Al Shabaab militants have threatened for leaving Islam fears he soon could be killed.

According to the East Africa Correspondent of Morning Star News (morningstarnews.org), Somali Al Shabaab rebels have offered a reward to anyone who kills the Rev. Mahad H. Birik, and after a video of him describing his conversion from Islam seeped into major Somali broadcast, Web and print media two months ago, the pastor of an undisclosed church on the outskirts of Nairobi said longstanding threats on his life became concrete this month.

“My family is now living in a sleepless state,” said the father of two children – one age 15 from a wife who was taken from him when he left Islam, and a 2-year-old from remarriage.

“My life and that of my family is in imminent danger. It is very serious and real, as Muslim extremists are strategizing on having my head.”

Morning Star News reports that on Sunday (Dec. 14) Somali men unknown to him followed Birik and his wife to their church. A security guard stopped the men, asking them who they were and what they wanted, and they left. Birik said police identified their car as registered to Kamau Kamotho, whom officers have long sought on suspicion of being a hit-man for hire. After several masked men hovered near his house one night early this year, he relocated his family to another area of Nairobi.

On Dec. 4, masked men showed up at about 7:30 a.m. at their new residence, located in a compound where around two dozen other families live. They arrived in a car with tinted windows, he said, according to the Morning Star News report.

“One of them came out of the car and started asking whether a Somali pastor was still inside the compound,” Birik said. “The watchman became suspicion as it was very early in the morning. He was able to see through the lowered window, where the driver of the car came out from, and saw two masked men, and then he raised an alarm by whistling.”

A second person got out of the car, and the watchman retreated backwards, he said; residents rushed to the scene, and the suspicious figures got back into the car and drove away.

The Morning Star News explained that Al Shabaab, an Islamic extremist insurgent group in Somalia, announced through Kenyan and Somali media and over mosque loudspeakers in 2009 that they would pay a large sum of money for Birik’s head, he said.

“The Al Shabaab have a sophisticated network,” said Birik, who also works for a relief agency. “I do not know when they will hit me; I am sure I can no longer hide myself. I therefore want the Christian world as well as human rights groups to know that my life is in danger, and I need urgent rescue…Read More

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School Assignment on Islam Angers Parents

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School Assignment on Islam Angers Parents

Parents of children attending a North Carolina school are demanding to know why their children were given a vocabulary assignment that included the Prophet Muhammad and the Islamic faith.

“It really caught me off guard,” a Farmville, North Carolina High School student said. “If we are not allowed to talk about any other religions in school, how is this appropriate?”

Students were given a worksheet that read, “In the following exercises, you will have the opportunity to expand your vocabulary by reading about Muhammad and the Islamic word.”

The assignment included the words “astute,” “conducive,” “mosque,” and “zenith.”

“I was reading it and it caught me off guard,” the unnamed student said. “I just looked at it and I knew something was not right, so I emailed the pages to my mom.”

A parent called the assignment Islamic propaganda.

“It’s very shocking,” she said. “I just told my daughter to read it as fiction. It’s no different than another fictional book you’ve read.”

A school district spokesman said the lesson adhered to the Common Core standards for English Language Arts.

“The course is designed to accompany the world literature text, which emphasizes culture in literature,” a statement from the district said.

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Bin Lorry Crashes into Christmas Shoppers

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Bin Lorry Crashes into Christmas Shoppers

A minister from a church in Glasgow City Centre says he’s praying for the families of people who have died after a bin lorry crashed into a group of pedestrians.

Police Scotland has confirmed there is an “ongoing serious incident” in Glasgow’s George Square close to Queen Street Station.

The Ambulance service says two people have died whilst the number of causalities is in double figures.

Revd Dr Colin Dow from Glasgow City Free Church told Premier: “It’s too raw to even think about it at the moment.

“When you think about things like this, you just have to think, why oh Lord?

“How long will these things happen? Last year we had the Clutha crash here in Glasgow and this year we’ve got this.

“And you want the Lord to bring peace to these people at Christmas because their families are going to be absolutely devastated.”

Eyewitnesses described bodies lying in the road and ‘hundreds’ of emergency services.

The Scottish Fire Service tweeted: “Firefighters are in attendance at a serious incident in Queen Street, Glasgow. Our crews are working alongside other emergency responders.”

Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy, who’s a Catholic, tweeted: “There is a major incident in Glasgow’s George Square. Multiple emergency services on the scene. Thoughts & prayers with everyone injured.”

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British Ambassador Accused of Supporting Christian Missionaries in Nepal

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British Ambassador Accused of Supporting Christian Missionaries in Nepal

The British Ambassador to Nepal has been accused of supporting the work of Christian missionaries in the majority-Hindu nation.

Andrew Sparkes, who became the ambassador in Kathmandu in April 2013, wrote an article in the Republica newspaper to mark International Human Rights Day on 10 December.

“We encourage you to ensure that the right to change religion is protected and that the right to hold opinions and to express them freely will remain strong,” he wrote.

It was framed as an open letter addressed to members of Constituent Assembly in Nepal, the body currently responsible for redrafting Nepal’s constitution.

His remarks, which were interpreted by Hindu conservatives as part of a conspiracy to convert Nepalis to Christianity, led a number of Hindu groups to call for the British government to remove Sparkes from his post, EKantipur news website reports.

The British Embassy in Kathmandu responded with a statement last week to clarify Sparkes’ comments. “Some have misunderstood the letter’s reference to protecting an individual’s right to change religion. This was simply a reference to a fundamental individual right, set out in Article 18 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was not a reference to supporting ‘forced’ conversion or proselytising.

“Nor was the Embassy or its officials preaching or imposing any religious point of view on Nepal’s democratically elected representatives and Nepal’s citizens. Contrary to some claims, the Embassy does not hold any position on secularism – that is a matter for Nepal’s people and their elected representatives to decide,” the statement said.

Christians make up just under three per cent of Nepal’s population, although there has been significant growth among the Christian community in recent years. Critics in Nepal say this growth is owed to conversions with ‘monetary inducements’, according to the national newspaper The Rising Nepal.

Nepal was a Hindu kingdom until the end of the civil war in 2006, when it became a secular state. Hindus constitute about 80 per cent of the population, and some are calling for it to return to being a Hindu nation.

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Winners Chapel Membership Adopts New Salutation

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Winners Chapel Membership Adopts New Salutation

Believe it or not, members of Living Faith Church Worldwide, a.k.a. Winners Chapel, have adopted a unique way of greeting themselves.

Speaking at the weekend during a special thanksgiving programme of the church which was held at Canaanland, the headquarters of the church, along Ota-Idiroko road, Ogun State, Bishop David Oyedepo, general overseer of Winners Chapel, informed the church’s congregation of the new way of greeting.

According to reports, the new way of greeting is called “Heaven on Earth”.

It was disclosed that Oyedepo informed his congregation that the new greetings is a divine one which will now be a global way of greeting for all Winners Chapel members.

“As the year’s running to an end, several things will be happening and it shall be good ones. Like from now in our church, we have adopted a new form of greeting which will now be the way we greet one another.

“The new greetings shall be, “Heaven on Earth” and the response will be, “Wonders without end, that is your realm and that is my realm,” Oyedepo stated.

The man of God admonished Nigerians to remain steadfast and prayerful especially at this trying period of the nation.
Oyedepo maintained that only God can deliver the country now, adding that, all hands must be on deck to ensure the country remains an indivisible one.

He however called on the people to allow God decision to prevail during next year election,as failure to accept that may cause crisis in the country.

Oyedepo submitted that God loves this country as it was blessed with both human and mineral resources, adding that, if politicians thread softly in 2015, the country will be better to live in.

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House On The Rock “Project Spread” Outreach Touches Thousands

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House On The Rock “Project Spread” Outreach Touches Thousands

Two weeks after successfully hosting one of the biggest Gospel concerts in Africa and probably in the world (The Experience Lagos), House On The Rock, ahead of the Christmas celebration launched one of their community outreach initiatives to the less privileged simultaneously at four different locations in Lagos state on Saturday, 20th of December 2014.

Project SPREAD the theme of the outreach touched thousands of lives at the Makoko, Ijesha, Jakande and Isale Eko communities all at the same time. Inhabitants of these communities turned out en mass to receive food items, love and a short Message from the Founder and Pastor of HOTR, Pastor Paul Adefarasin who was on ground to witness the unmistakable Joy the People of the community had in their body language.

The children were not left out as they had time their own corner to party. Toys, edibles, gift packs were handed to every child present.

“Christmas is a special time for us to celebrate the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. It is also a time of sharing gifts because the coming of Jesus Christ into the world is the ultimate gift which humanity received. It is only appropriate for us to extend gifts and indeed our love to those around us, especially those who cannot afford to celebrate as elaborately as we can.” This was a statement released by the organizers days before Project SPREAD took place…Read More

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