Gospel Songstress Unveils Album

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Gospel Songstress Unveils Album

Shakesphere said “if music be the food of love…”,
That seemed to be the best words to explain the nature of the crowd that gathered at the sensational album launch and unveiling of one of Nigeria’s best praise and worship ministers known by the name Monique,as fans came out in multitudes to honor her.

The event took place on Sunday, November 2, 2014 via a concert held in Ikeja, Lagos. The album titled “Power Flow” was released from the stables Spaghetti Records owned by renowned gospel artiste Mike Abdul of The Midnight Crew.

In attendance were Colleagues,friends,fans and various media practitioners.The Album which consists of 11 tracks is a combination of worship and praise tracks and showcases Monique as a power house when it comes to Nigerian Gospel music.

Apple Gears Up to Release SmartWatch

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Apple Gears Up to Release SmartWatch

Apple’s first smartwatch, the Apple Watch, which till now only featured an ‘Early 2015’ official launch date, might finally hit markets in spring.

Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Stores at Apple, Angela Ahrendts, purportedly revealed the spring time frame to company employees via a video message.

The alleged video message was then transcribed and leaked (via 9to5 Mac). The relevant part of the purported announcement read, “We’re going in to the holidays, we’ll go into Chinese New Year, and then we’ve got a new watch launch coming in the spring.”

The exact month or dates are yet to be known, with the US spring starting from around March and lasting until around June.

In September, another report had hinted the Apple Watch will be released on Valentine’s Day (February 14). However, this contradicts Ahrendts purported announcement that mentions a release after the Chinese New Year (February 19).

9to5Mac adds that sources close to Apple’s plans have revealed the Cupertino firm has already started planning the retail strategy of its first smartwatch. In a recent all-hands retail employee meeting, Tim Cook reportedly said that staff will be trained to help customers try the Apple Watch along with different sizes and bands.

Cook, while announcing new iOS and Mac products last month, also introduced the WatchKit software developer kit (SDK) for developers to build apps for the company’s upcoming Apple Watch. The WatchKit SDK will ship in November, and with it, Apple wants to make sure that there are enough apps for the platform before it finally releases the Apple Watch.

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Facebook Introduces App to Stalk Fellow Passengers Before Boarding Plane

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Facebook Introduces App to Stalk Fellow Passengers Before Boarding Plane

No one wants to be sitting next to an oddball for the duration of an 11-hour flight. But surely stalking your fellow passengers online is more than a little creepy.
A new app will allow passengers to pry on their fellow fliers’ social profiles before even setting foot on the plane.
Quicket, a travel app for smartphones and tablets, which facilitates ticket booking, flight tracking and provides detailed airport maps, has released its updated version this week.

The ‘social check-in’ option allows passengers to view others who have chosen seats on the plane by just clicking on their avatar linked to their social profiles.
Nosy fliers can even log in anonymously enabling them to view other passenger´s avatars, without providing any of their personal information.
But luckily, your fellow passengers won’t be able to spy on you without your consent. ‘Only users who approve the social feature will be presented on the flight,’ said a spokesman.


To be seen or to see fellow passengers, air travellers will have to check in themselves.
Fellow passengers will then be able to look at their profile, read information about them and study their photographs.
The app’s iOS and Android versions both include Facebook ‘social check-in’.
Other features of the app including the ability to book tickets for yourself and companions, choosing from all available options; review seat options and luggage rules; check-in directly and track flights.

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American Released from North Korea Says Detention Over Bible Worth It

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American Released from North Korea Says Detention Over Bible Worth It

Jeffrey Fowle, who became the center of an international incident when he left a Bible in North Korea, and who later served nearly six months in detention for doing so, knew exactly what he was doing.

He knew the risk and he knew the possible consequences. And he thinks it was all worth it.

He also now has a chore list about a mile long.

Fowle, a Miamisburg, Ohio, husband and father of three children, spoke publicly Friday for the first time since being released. He said that his visit to North Korea in April was motivated in part by a desire to visit the country, which few Westerners have seen in decades. But clearly this was a trip about faith —and proselytizing.

In the weeks before Fowle left Miamisburg for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, another American was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for spreading the word of God. So Fowle knew the risks.

“I did. I knew I was going against the laws of the DPRK,” Fowle said. “Having seen the plight of the people, I knew about the severe Christian persecution. I wanted to help them.”

So Fowle left a Korean/English Bible in a public bathroom in a restaurant/bar in Pyongyang. Clearly his tour group was being watched because the next day the tour guide asked if anybody had left anything behind. Fowle would not deny his actions, even though he knew it meant trouble. He raised his hand and said he left a Bible.

For two days nothing happened. Then, at the airport at Pyongyang, when he was preparing to leave the country, Fowle was detained.

He was held in his hotel room for nearly a month, and then a detention center for the next five months. Did he think God would protect him? “Yes, and I believe I was protected, I was never harmed physically,” Fowle said. “I was never in jeopardy of giving up faith.”

But that is not to say his time was easy. The beginning, especially, was arduous. Fowle did not know what his wife knew about his disappearance. He kept thinking of Tatyana waiting for him at an airport. He wondered about the fears of his children, Alex, 13, Chris, 11, and Stephanie, 9…Read More

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More Evangelicals Gain Access into Brazil’s Congress

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More Evangelicals Gain Access into Brazil’s Congress

By a very slim margin Brazilian voters have returned leftist President Dilma Roussef to office for another four years.

Roussef won the national election with the support of many evangelicals, who now account for over 30 percent of the population.

But evangelicals were divided.

“If you go to the churches, you will have more or less the same that happened in the last elections last Sunday here in Brazil,” the Bible Society’s Erni Siebert said. “Half of the people will be in support of the government.”

To gain the support of evangelicals, the president downplayed her party’s pro-abortion and pro-homosexual initiatives. But while voters returned Roussef to the presidency, they also sent more evangelicals to Congress, making it the most conservative legislature in years.

Siebert is hopeful.

“Really we hope that these leaders will affirm their positions on God’s Word,” he said.

He said that doing this would be a testimony to society and that they would “bring a good influence to the country so the country will have the fear of God in their hearts.”

The reason Christians are multiplying and the nation is changing, Siebert believes, is because of Brazilians’ growing interest in the Bible. The Brazilian Bible Society distributes around seven million Bibles a year.

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Nexus 6 and Nexus 9: Google’s New Phone and Tablet

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Nexus 6 and Nexus 9: Google’s New Phone and Tablet

In general, Google’s Nexus line of devices represents the epitome of how the company’s Android devices are supposed to look and feel. Google and a manufacturing partner collaborate on the gadgets; they run an unaltered version of Android, Google’s mobile operating system; and they receive updates as soon as they are available.

These devices usually give a glimpse into what Google is planning and what features will be coming to smartphones in the future.

Which brings us to the newest members of Google’s Nexus family, the Nexus 6 smartphone, Nexus 9 tablet, and Nexus Player set-top box. The three gadgets were unveiled earlier in October, and we finally got to try them out ourselves Wednesday at a press event in New York City.

Playing off the name of Google’s latest Android release, Android 5.0 Lollipop, the hands-on event was held in an art gallery that was transformed into an awesome candy-sodden diabetic nightmare — there was literally candy on the walls that you could, and I did, eat…Read More

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Photo: yahoo

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New Mac Editions of MicroSoft Office and Outlook

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New Mac Editions of MicroSoft Office and Outlook

Microsoft understands that Mac people have just as much work to get done as its Windows PC owners do. So, as it’s done for the past umpteen years, the company has announced that it will again bring its latest Office suite of programs for spreadsheets, word processing, email, and more to Apple’s line of computers.

But not until next year.

The company wrote in a blog post Friday about its plans to bring the successor to Office 2011 for Mac, which will include Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote, sometime in the second half of 2015. Its popular email software program, Outlook, is being released now, ahead of the pack, available for download by Office 365 subscribers.

Microsoft’s pay-by-the-month 365 program, starting at $6.99, allows subscribers to download and install the latest versions of Office software to PC and mobile devices, as well as access its tools online from any Web browser. The company also sells stand-alone software packages of Office for desktop the old fashioned way, with the full version starting at $219…Read More

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Megachurch Mars Hill Plans to Dissolve: Either Go Independent, Merge or Disband

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Megachurch Mars Hill Plans to Dissolve: Either Go Independent, Merge or Disband

The Seattle-based megachurch Mars Hill, once led by pastor Mark Driscoll, has begun the process of dissolving, and its 13 regional congregations have been asked to either go independent, merge with another church, or disband entirely, announced Dave Bruskas, the church’s teaching pastor while in transition, at noon on Friday.

Although Driscoll was not mentioned in the “Local Mission, Local Churches” blogpost on the church’s website released as a letter to Mars Hill by Bruskas, the normally outspoken pastor resigned on Oct. 14 from the multi-city megachurch he and his wife helped found 18 years ago after a series of calls were made for him to step down from ministry due to his admitted “divisive” leadership style.

In the letter, Bruskas writes that the elders recognize that the “reorganization plan is a significant and complex undertaking on many fronts; however, our goal is to have the process completed by January 1, 2015.”

He asks the regional churches to be in prayer for local elder teams as they contemplate in the next few weeks whether to become an independent, self-governed church, merge with an existing church to create one independent, self-governed church, or disband as a church and shepherd members to find other local church homes. He adds that the decision will be made by the local church’s lead pastor and elder team…Read More

Source and Original Content by Christian Post

Boy Sees Image Of Jesus On a Tree

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Boy Sees Image Of Jesus On a Tree

One resident of Rhode Island is convinced that an image of Jesus has appeared on a silver maple outside his home in North Providence.

Brian Quirk was returning from visiting his father’s grave on October 12 – the sixth anniversary of his death – when he spotted the image.

While others might walk past the 3-inch marking and give it no further thought, Quirk and his mother believe it resembles Jesus.

And while others might not agree, Quirk and his mother are happy to believe it.

They see it as particularly meaningful because the tree marks a special place for Quirk’s father prior to his death.

Quirk, who is recovering from open heart surgery, told The Valley Breeze: “Curiously, it is in the same area where my father would sit outside during his last few months before losing his battle with cancer.”

He described it as a “natural organic phenomenon to the faithful” and added that his devout Catholic mother “finds comfort knowing the image is there”.

“Its ability to evoke a spiritual sense of awe is immeasurable,” he said.

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UN Advised To Step In To Prevent Genocide of Christians

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UN Advised To Step In To Prevent Genocide of Christians

Pointing to “the grave violations and abuses” committed by ISIS militants in the Middle East, Archbishop Auza, the Vatican’s nuncio to the United Nations (UN), called on the necessary UN agencies to take action “to prevent possible new genocides and to assist the increasing number of refugees”.

The archbishop, who heads the Holy See’s Permanent Observer Mission to the UN, said the Vatican “appeals in particular for the protection of the ethnic and religious groups, including the Christian communities, who are specifically targeted and victimised because of their ethnic origins and religious beliefs.”

The right of such communities and all displaced people to return to their homes and to live in dignity and safety must be respected, he added.

Archbishop Auza, who made his comments in a statement to the UN Security Council during an open debate on the situation in the Middle East, said the escalation of terrorism around the globe should be a catalyst for all nations to realise they have a responsibility “to protect people from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity and all forms of unjust aggression.”

He said that every religious leader in the entire Middle East region and around the world must promote interreligious and intercultural dialogue, denounce “every use of religion to justify violence” and educate people about the need for mutual respect. The Middle East needs constant prayers but, more than that, the region “requires … an adequate response by the international community…Read More

Source and Original Content by Christian Herald

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