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Mali Music is just one of those old people who believe. Listen to the audio player to hear his single “I Believe” from his album “Mali Is…” that explains in every perfect way why he believes in God.
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MGM Invests Millions Into Joint Venture in Faith and Family Entertainment
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer shelled out $343 million for a 55% stake in a joint venture with Mark Burnett, Roma Downey and Hearst Entertainment, according to the company’s quarterly earnings releases.
As part of the push in the faith and family business, MGM revived the dormant United Artists brand and installed Burnett as CEO of the newly created United Artists Media Group. Burnett and Downey helped mastermind “The Bible,” a successful mini-series that was a ratings hit and spawned the movie “Son of God.”
In terms of quarterly results, MGM’s revenues dipped 3.9% to $233.5 million for the three-month period ending in September, down from $242.9 million in the year-ago frame. Net income, however, rose 72.2% to $28.6 million, compared to $16.6 million in the prior year, while EBITDA increased 6% to $67.9 million, up from $64.4 million in the 2013 quarter.
MGM’s film unit fielded two major summer releases over the period: low-budget heartstring tugger “If I Stay” and the expensive action film “Hercules.” This December brings the release of the final film in “The Hobbit” trilogy which MGM is releasing with Warner Bros.
On the television front, the company has been working to transfer its library of film titles to the small screen, backing series such as Fargo and Teen Wolf.
MGM is privately held, but since it emerged from bankruptcy protection in 2010, it has been publicly releasing its financial results.
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Update: Jerusalem Synagogue Attack, Three Americans Among Victims
Palestinian militants killed at least four people in an attack on a Jerusalem synagogue today (Nov. 18). The victims in the attack include three Americans. More victims were injured in the attack and were promptly taken to area hospitals.
Two of the attacker were also killed by Israeli police.
ABC News reports that militants carrying knives and axes stormed the synagogue in Har Nof, an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood with a population of about 20,000 people.
Hamas militants reportedly praised the work of the assailants but did not claim responsibility for the attack.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that attack was a “cruel murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by despicable murderers.” The Prime Minister also vowed that Israel would “respond harshly” to the attack.
United States Secretary of State John Kerry said, “The people who had come to worship God in the sanctuary of a synagogue were hatcheted and hacked, were murdered, in that holy place in an act of pure terror and senseless brutality murder. I call on the Palestinian leadership at every single level to condemn this in the most powerful terms.”
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Dr. David Burrows Appointed New Senior Pastor, Bahamas Faith Ministries
The baton has been passed to Dr. David Burrows who is now the Senior Pastor of Bahamas Faith Ministries. Kersh Darville, the new BFM Fellowship Pastor was appointed in April of this year, and Darville officially took over the same week Dr. Pinder died.
Myles Munroe Jr. spoke during the first service held by the Church since the incident, obviously touched and moved surrounded by his blood family and church family.
“I was gonna prepare a speech, but as I was getting ready this morning I just knew that I was coming to talk to family,” Myles said, holding back tears. “I figured I would just speak to family. It’s been the hardest week for my sister and I and my family, and everyone else that has been affected; and it’s because of family why we are able to stand here today,” Munroe continued.
“My dad always spoke about his belief in people, nothing else mattered but the people, regardless of how long he spoke or he travelled, he always made time for people. That’s just the kind of person that he was. And we sometimes take that for granted just because people are here every day and you just don’t think certain people won’t be here tomorrow,” he added.
“I encourage people this week to tell people in your life that you love them. If they mean a lot to you make sure you tell them. Don’t take for granted that you will be able to tell them tomorrow because tomorrow isn’t promised.”
“You really don’t know who is sitting next to you and what they are capable of but my dad believed in everyone and that they were gifted in their area of gifting.”
Chairo added, “It’s amazing that my mother isn’t here with us either. She was a helpmate, the perfect helpmate for my dad…Read More
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Pakistani Christian Professor Arrested for Blasphemy
A 40-year-old Christian man was arrested for blasphemy in Lahore, Pakistan, and has been charged with insulting the Prophet Mohammad, the same offense that Christian mother-of-five Asia Bibi is facing the death penalty for.
Qaiser Ayub, a computer science professor, had been a fugitive for close to three years, Fides News Agency reported. He was charged in 2011 of having written blasphemous comments on his blog, and has been avoiding police ever since.
BosNewsLife added that Ayub is currently being held at a police station in the town of Talagang in Punjab’s Chakwal District.
Sardar Mushtaq Gill, national director of advocacy group Legal Evangelical Association Development, revealed that despite the threat of arrest, the professor had been teaching recently at a school in Lahore, which triggered the police warrant.
“We also request prayer for him,” Gill said, noting that his group will be providing legal assistance.
Ayub’s alleged violation of Pakistan’s Penal Code mirrors that of Bibi, who has been in prison for five years and is facing execution, unless the country’s Supreme Court reverses the decision. Bibi was sentenced to death in 2010 for an incident where she was accused of blaspheming against Islam by a group of Muslim women…Read More
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“I am Prepared to Die,” Says Priest Defending Human Rights in Honduras
Seven months after a colleague in human rights’ work in Honduras was murdered, Fr Ismael Moreno is pragmatic about the possibility that he will meet the same fate.
Fr Moreno, director of the Jesuits’ Radio Progreso in northern Honduras, told the American Catholic News Service that the April murder of the station’s marketing director, Carlos Mejia Orellana, remains unsolved. Mejia was stabbed to death in his home in El Progreso, near the crime-ridden city of San Pedro Sula.
Gunshots heard regularly around the country “we say are normal”, Fr Moreno said. “That’s probably how I’ll die, not from natural causes. I am prepared for that. If something happens, people are prepared to run things. They know where my papers are.”
The murder of Mejia came after another unsolved killing of a Radio Progreso worker three years ago. Nery Jeremias Orellana, a correspondent for the station, was shot dead in 2011.
Fr Moreno said authorities have refused to release any information about the investigation into Mejia’s death, beyond saying that there was an arrest warrant on the books.
“They wouldn’t show it to us or give us a name,” he said. Then, about a month ago, the prosecutor in charge of the case was killed, Fr Moreno said. The prosecutor was also investigating the recent murder of Margarita Murillo, a prominent advocate for peasant landowners.
The priest said that on a day-to-day basis, his relatives and friends in Honduras face more risk of death than he does, because everyone’s life is rife with danger from out-of-control crime…Read More
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New Christian Film Serves as Alternative to Fifty Shades of Grey
As the release of the much-anticipated Fifty Shades of Grey movie edges closer, the inevitable has happened – someone has created a Christian alternative.
Filmmaker Rik Swartzwelder’s ‘Old Fashioned’ tells the story of a former frat boy (played by himself) who attempts to embark on an “old fashioned” courtship with a free-spirited young woman who moves into the apartment above his antique shop.
The film centres on love and romance. Written long before Fifty Shades reached Hollywood, Swarztwelder is keen to stress that it “provides a stark contrast” to EL James’ hit novel.
“That’s the point,” he said. “The conversation should be pushed. Not all fantasy is harmless and not all paths lead to true and lasting love. We have two movies here, both about people with troubled pasts…but taking very different approaches to getting romance right.”
“We didn’t create our film in response to any other specific book or film, at all…but the decision to hold-off on our release so it could open alongside Fifty Shades? Yes, that was indeed deliberate.”
Both films will open in cinemas across the US on Valentine’s Day weekend 2015. “We thought it was a unique opportunity to set up a film as antidote,” Swartzwelder added. “Think of a young woman you care about…which love story would you wish for her…Read More
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Muslims in Jakarta Protest against Christian Governor
The inauguration of Jakarta’s first Christian governor in 50 years has been delayed to allow for a presidential decree on his appointment, another setback on his contested journey to power.
Deputy Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama had been scheduled to be sworn in today. He succeeds Joko Widodo, who last month became President of Indonesia.
However, it is not the first obstacle Chinese Christian Purnama, who is known by the nickname Ahok, has faced. His rise to power has been contested by religious hardliners who have held multiple protests in Jakarta.
In September, around 200 members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) staged a demonstration in front of a regional legislative building in the capital city. One of the group’s leaders told news agencies that it is “forbidden to have an infidel as the head of Jakarta”.
“Ahok Basuki Tjahaya Purnama, we reject him to be the governor of Jakarta because he has no moral ethics,” the spokesperson said.
Another protest was held on October 3, which became violent and resulted in the injury of 16 police officers.
A further demonstration on November 10 saw FPI members and those from other Muslim groups, this time numbering over 2,000, march to Jakarta city hall, again to call on the government to stop Ahok’s appointment. The rally was thought to be organised by Islamic scholar and activist Muhammed Rizieq Shihab, who founded the FPI. The group has declared that it remains “a faithful support of the Islamic Jihad Movement all around the world”.
However Ahok has suggested that the protests could be politically swayed, rather than as a result of his religion or ethnicity.
The Indonesian constitution guarantees freedom of religious belief, and the country is predominantly moderate, however Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) reports that militant Islamists have been able to push through a number of measures in recent years which could have “serious, long-term implications” on minority rights.
A report released in February of this year found that rising religious intolerance across the country “poses a threat…to all Indonesians who value democracy, human rights, peace and stability.”
Political parties have “pandered to the Islamist narrative, perceiving a need to appeal to religiously conservative constituencies at a local level,” CSW said, and “a variety of radical Islamist organisations have emerged and gained a disproportionate influence over policymaking and implementation.”
“Indonesia’s pluralism is in peril, and almost all of Indonesia’s different religious communities are affected… Religious intolerance, once thought to be confined to specific regions, now appears to be spreading nationwide,” the organisation warned.
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Google Play Services 6.5 Introduces New Features
Google on Monday has announced the updated Google Play services 6.5 for Android developers that includes several new features for Google Maps, Google Drive, Google Wallet, and Google Fit APIs. The company said that it will be rolling out the new Google Play services 6.5 over the next few days, and will make the SDK available once the rollout completes.
The biggest new addition in Google Maps Android API is the maps toolbar that lets users get directions and turn by turn navigation without leaving the third-party app. The Google Play services 6.5 also brings the new ‘lite mode’ map option in Google Maps API.
“A lite mode map is a bitmap image of a map at a specified location and zoom level,” explains Google’s Android Developer blog.
With Google Drive API, developers can add both public and private custom file properties to Drive files for improved search and information that can be used across editing by other apps. It has further included user and battery friendly syncing of Drive files with better file control for “when files are uploaded by network type or charging status and cancel pending uploads.”
For Google Wallet, the Google Play services 6.5 brings a new ‘Donate with Google’ button to make donations easier, alongside the existing ‘Buy with Google’ button.
For the recently launched Google Fit SDK, the company has made it easier for developers to add activity segments (predefined time periods of running, walking, cycling, etc) when inserting sessions, which makes it easier to pause or track multiple activity types. Google also promised to add new samples to guide developers on Google Fit integration for their apps.
Meanwhile, Google has updated its Play Music app for all Android users. The version 5.7.1717Q (in India) rolled out to Google Play on Monday.
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Rick Warren Speaks on Biblical Marriage at Pope’s Conference
Popular author and pastor Rick Warren is to speak today on the ‘Biblical meaning of marriage’ at the Pope’s Humanum conference in Rome.
The conference is titled ‘An International Interreligious Colloquium on The Complementarity of Man and Woman’. It is expected to clarify the Vatican’s stance on some of the issues that came out of the recent Synod on the Family, and will seek to find “new and creative language to speak to people where they are,” according to one of the organisers.
Helen Alvaré, communications liaison for the conference, told Catholic News Agency that it hopes to offer “a greater understanding” of the relationship between man and woman within marriage. It also aims to provide support for those “who hope for marriage, but sometimes despair, and for people who are struggling with it if they have it,” she added.
Warren, who wrote bestselling The Purpose Driven Life and pastors Saddleback church in California, has in the past repeatedly affirmed the traditional Christian teaching on marriage, and is expected do so today. He asked for prayer as he speaks…Read More
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