Responding to claims that some of the charity’s workers hired prostitutes during a mission to the Caribbean country in 2011, Lord Leslie Griffiths said he repeatedly came across similar accusations during his 40 years’ experience in humanitarian work.
The House of Lords member – and Baptist minister – said: “I’m very, very angry and I just hope that the situation now unfolding would lead to a proper investigation, more transparency and a greater sense of moral leadership.”
“I think it’s the tip of the iceberg; I’ve been aware of such incidents for the 40 and more years that I’ve been working in these sorts of areas…”
Meanwhile, International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt said on Tuesday that a decision on whether to withdraw public funding from Oxfam over the aid worker sex scandal will not be taken “hastily”.
The charity has issued an “unreserved apology” to the Government, donors, supporters and the people of Haiti over its handling of the allegations.
Ms Mordaunt said she would take the issue “very seriously” but stressed she would be guided by a Charity Commission inquiry into Oxfam while deciding whether to pull funding.
The charity received £31.7 million from the Government in 2016/17, but the support has been put at risk by the scandal, which led to the resignation of its deputy chief executive Penny Lawrence.
My husband said this morning how thankful he is that we have dodged this terrible cold and flu season. Though we have had days where we felt like we were really fighting something, it never got us down. He said it has to be the juices and our clean diet.
If you are fighting a cold or the flu or you feel like it’s biting your heels or has taken you down, here’s what you can do for faster recovery:
Juice, juice, juice. Drink at least three 10-ounce glasses of veggie juice…
“Thankful that Vanessa & my children are safe and unharmed after the incredibly scary situation that occurred this morning. Truly disgusting that certain individuals choose to express their opposing views with such disturbing behavior.” This is how Donald Trump Jr. responded after his wife opened an envelope addressed to him that contained white powder, sending her to a Manhattan hospital yesterday.
In happier news, the most popular class at Yale University may surprise you. The course is titled “Psychology and the Good Life.” About 1,200 students, one-fourth of Yale undergraduates, enrolled in the course.
Their interest is understandable: a 2013 report by the Yale College Council found that more than half of undergraduates sought mental health care from the university during their time on campus. A freshman agreed: “In reality, a lot of us are anxious, stressed, unhappy, numb.”
In other news, this Time headline caught my eye: “Drugs, Alcohol and Suicide Are Causing Life Expectancy in America to Drop Dramatically.” Middle-age white Americans and those living in rural communities are especially susceptible.
How to “serve our principles”
Michael Gerson spoke last night at Dallas Baptist University for the Institute for Global Engagement Leadership Lecture Series. It was my privilege to introduce him and to lead a discussion with him after his brilliant address.
Mr. Gerson graduated from Wheaton College and worked as a writer for Bob Dole and Chuck Colson. In 1999, Karl Rove recruited him for George W. Bush’s presidential campaign. He served as President Bush’s chief speechwriter and senior policy adviser and as a member of the White House Iraq Group.
Today he is a nationally syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, a policy fellow with the ONE Campaign, a visiting fellow with the Center for Public Justice, and a former senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was named by Time as one of the “25 Most…
Ryan LeStrange says the Lord is about to respond to those who are thirsty for more of Him.
In a recent episode on It’s Supernatural! With Sid Roth, LeStrange says he had a vision of the lightnings of God that are about ready to come to those areas of the world that are dry and thirsty for more of God.
The attack was one of several deadly assaults last year on Egypt’s Christian minority, which account for ten per cent of the country’s population.
A spate of suicide bombings claimed by IS in the predominately Muslim nation has killed more than 100 people since December last year.
The court’s verdict can be appealed.
Egypt ranks number 17 on the Open Doors World Watch List of the most dangerous countries to be a Christian in.
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Scientists have invented a so-called electronic skin that can heal itself and allow amputees to feel touch and temperature on their prosthetic limbs.
According to Science Advances, scientists from University of Colorado Boulder created the electronic skin, or e-skin, a thin semi-transparent thermoset-based material that acts like a real skin that can sense temperature, pressuse, humidity and air flow.
The research should help advance the prosthetics industry. “By doping the dynamic covalent thermoset with conductive silver nanoparticles, we demonstrate a robust, yet rehealable, fully recyclable and malleable e-skin,” the abstract said.
The e-skin could be recycled at room temperature, a rare feat for e-skins. After rehealing and recycling, the e-skin should be able to regain its original mechanical and electrical properties.
Because it is malleable, the e-skin efficiently conforms to “complex, curved surfaces” without getting interfacial stresses.
“These properties of the e-skin yield an economical and eco-friendly technology that can find broad applications in robotics, prosthetics, health care, and human-computer interface,” the abstract added.
Boulder mechanical engineer Jianliang Xiao, who led the study, told Newsweek that the e-skin would have broad applications and would “enable sensation of otherwise passive systems.”
Its key feature is the ability to sense pressure, the highlight of improving prosthetic limbs. Xiao explained that this should help amputees know how much pressure to put on the objects they are holding, and not accidentally…
President Trump at the Israel Museum (U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv/Public Domain)
President Donald Trump made shocking international headlines in December when he announced that the United States would officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and ordered the U.S. Embassy be relocated there. And on his recent trip to the Holy Land in late January, Vice President Mike Pence announced that the embassy move was already under way and would open in 2019.
Jocelyn Morffi learned that her contract at St Peter and St Paul’s Catholic School in the US city of Miami was being terminated.
Writing on her Instagram page, Morffi said: “This weekend, I married the love of my life and, unfortunately, I was terminated from my job as a result.
“In their eyes, I’m not the right kind of Catholic for my choice in [sic] partner.”
She told the Miami Herald she was called into the principal’s office last Wednesday and fired when she refused a request that she resign.
Earlier that day, Morffi had returned to the school after marrying her partner of two years Natasha Hass during a service in the Florida Keys.
In a letter to parents seen by NBC 6, the school said: “Today, a difficult and necessary decision has been made regarding Ms Jocelyn Morffi, our first-grade teacher.
“She is no longer teaching at our school.”
The Archdiocese of Miami confirmed that she was fired because she broke the terms of her contract – but it did not specify exactly how Morffi had fallen foul of the rules.
Morffi, who also worked as a basketball coach, claims her seven-year career at the school was brought to an end because of her wedding.
Mary Ross Agosta from the Archdiocese told the Miami Herald: “As a teacher in a Catholic school their responsibility is partly for…
Listener questions are always fun to answer. Today we cover a wide-ranging group of topics and answer several pressing questions from listeners.
Some highlights from today’s episode include:
Do I see all denominations dying? No. But we are seeing more struggling.
When you study Scripture, it’s difficult to argue against a plurality of leadership.
Good financial stewardship should be a requirement for church leadership.
Co-vocational ministry is the future mainly because of its effectiveness.
The listener questions we answer are:
FROM PAM: On podcast 390 you mentioned the rise of networks. I would like some detail about various networks and how they are utilized for the strength and growth of the Church.
FROM DAN: I see in the Scriptures that the early church was led by a plurality of elders. There seemed to be no “senior pastors” in the early local churches. In your opinion, must a church have a senior pastor? If so, should that person have greater influence over other pastors/elders? What are the benefits and drawbacks of equally shared authority and influence shared among a plurality of elders in a local church?
FROM JEREMY: The treasurer at the church I pastor at recently told me that one of the members of our finance committee does not give financially to the church. What do you do in a situation like this? How do you avoid this from happening in the first place?
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