HIV chaplain says the Church has a responsibility on World AIDS Day

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HIV chaplain says the Church has a responsibility on World AIDS Day

The chaplain, Heather Leake-Date, is a Methodist minister and also a consultant pharmacist for HIV and sexual health at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust.

She called for churches to use the day to raise awareness about the condition.

“When the HIV pandemic first came to prominence there was quite a lot of misunderstanding, a lot of prejudice, stigma and discrimination and some of that came from the Church or people of faith,” she said in an interview with Premier.

She added: “There’s a lot of negative stuff around people being deemed to have brought things upon themselves and it being a judgement, which is not true and is not the official line of the churches, but that message still persists.”

Leake-Date said the main thing she would want people to know on World AIDS Day is that although those with the condition can have side effects from the medication, they mostly live normal lives.

She said: “We’re in a very much more hopeful situation than we were 20 years ago.

“The important thing is for people to be tested and to be diagnosed, then they can be treated.

“People can live a pretty much normal life.”

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‘Monster’ North Korean Missile Poses Threat to U.S.

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‘Monster’ North Korean Missile Poses Threat to U.S.


‘Monster’ North Korean Missile Poses Threat to U.S.


North Korea’s newly-tested intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) reportedly has the capacity to reach the U.S. mainland. This new missile is said to be larger and more dangerous than previous missiles, which means that the threat from North Korea continues.


Vipin Narang, an associate professor at MIT, even called the missile “a monster.” Other experts and scientists are still researching what the ICBM’s capabilities may be.


Although the details are still unclear, David Wright, a rocket expert at the Union of Concerned Scientists, believes the missile could reach U.S. soil. “I think at this point they could,” he stated, according to NPR.org.


North Korea reportedly tested the ICBM on Wednesday. It launched nearly 2,500 miles into the sky before plummeting into the Sea of Japan. The missile also was in the air for 53 minutes.


Making calculations based on this test run, Wright believes the missile would be able to reach the U.S. mainland.


Questions still remain as to how viable this North Korean threat truly is, but Narang says that the U.S. should be prepared and take precautions.


“We have to assume that this thing can park a warhead on the Eastern Seaboard,” he said.


 


Photo courtesy: Getty Images


Publication date: December 1, 2017

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Mom Says Teen Committed Suicide Because She Was Bullied for Her Faith .

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Erika Winkler was a beautiful girl who loved Jesus but tragically took her own life at age 17.

Her mother, Julie Winkler, told CBN News her daughter was an outspoken Christian who stood up for her beliefs and paid a heavy price.

“There was a day of silence at school in honor of the LGBTQ community. Erika wouldn’t participate, even though she has…

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giant Advent wreath unveiled in York Minster

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giant Advent wreath unveiled in York Minster

 

Measuring four metres across, it is the largest in the country and was created by more than 15 flower arrangers, according to York Minster.

 

School children from Minister School York in central York, gathered in the cathedral as some of the pupils helped placed one metre candles into the wreath.

 

It will be displayed until Epiphany on 6th January.

Around 2,000 candles will be used to illuminate the Nave on Sunday when the cathedral holds its much-loved Advent Procession.

The service will mark the start of the Advent season at the Minster, and is the first in a series of special services taking place during December.

The cathedral starts in darkness before a single flame is used to spread light throughout the congregation, with each person holding a candle and passing the flame to their neighbour, as York Minster’s clergy and choir process down the Nave from the Great West Doors.

Rev Canon Peter Moger,…

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The Guy in the Red Apron: How a Salvation Army Bell Ringer Brings Heart to the Job

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The Guy in the Red Apron: How a Salvation Army Bell Ringer Brings Heart to the Job


The Guy in the Red Apron: How a Salvation Army Bell Ringer Brings Heart to the Job


To hear Bruce Bachman tell it, he’s  just a guy with a bell, a red apron and a heart to serve who gives a little of his time during the holiday season.


He’s just one of the thousands of volunteer bell ringers who keep alive a 127-year tradition that the Salvation Army traces to Capt. Joseph McFee, who set out a large, iron kettle in 1891 to collect funds for a Christmas dinner in San Francisco.


From Thanksgiving to Christmas, the change, bills and occasional large checks and gold coins that Americans drop into about 25,000 kettles from coast to coast amount to roughly $150 million, said Lt. Col. Ron Busroe, the Salvation Army’s national community relations and development secretary.


Some bell ringers wish passers-by a heartfelt “Merry Christmas” and hope the kettle fills. But many others, like Bachman, have honed strategies and routines to make the most of the uncompensated work — for the Salvation Army and for all who come within earshot.


Just before 10 a.m. on a busy shopping day, the 61-year-old consulting engineer arrives at a Hobby Lobby arts and crafts store with a mailbox-sized stereo, a box of Christmas CDs and a plastic baggie full of hard candy.


“I bring the candy to suck on so I don’t have to drink as much water,” Bachman explains. He knows he won’t have time for meals or bathroom breaks, so he tries to be prepared…

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Why the Masterpiece Cake Case Matters to All Americans .

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Jury out on man accused of Christian school sex abuse

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Jury out on man accused of Christian school sex abuse

Andrew Soper, who worked as headmaster and senior priest at the fee-paying St Benedicts School in Ealing, denies 19 offences of indecent assault and buggery against boys during the 1970s and 1980s.

The 74 year old, who was also head of Ealing Abbey between 1991 and 2000, is accused of sexual touching and using a cane to beat youngsters.

 

Prosecutors claimed he meted out sadistic punishments for false reasons, such as failing to use double margins or using the incorrect staircase.

Soper, who was ordained as a priest in 1970, claimed the use of discipline had been interpreted in a “sexual way” amid a “tsunami of media attention as I am named fairly frequently”.

 

He was extradited to England over the allegations, after fleeing Rome for Kosovo during a police investigation in Britain in 2011.

Soper later blamed “stupidity and cowardice” for fleeing, and claimed the allegations had “ruined” his life.

The jury retired after the trial which has lasted slightly less than two months.

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Carl Lentz Says Old Testament Passage Forbidding Tattoos Does Not Apply Today

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Carl Lentz Says Old Testament Passage Forbidding Tattoos Does Not Apply Today

(Screen Shot: Instagram)Carl Lentz poses with a Kevin Durant while on vacation, July 9, 2014.

Hillsong New York City Pastor Carl Lentz recently addressed the criticism he often receives from Christians about his tattoos.

While speaking with World Religion News in a recent interview, the popular pastor responded to a question about “conflicting or potentially conflicting Biblical passages” and how he interprets them, specifically with regard to tattoos.

“Biblical interpretation is huge right. So with tattoos not being allowed you mean Leviticus. We play both sides of the coin I think that is healthy. Like this paradox of scripture, interpretation is actually is part of our faith, the tension of it. So, on one hand, we say that is the Old Testament scripture, there is no New Testament verification of that. That law that had to do with slaves, that identified you as part of a tribe we don’t believe that came through the cross,” Lentz said.

The scripture the minister was referring to is found in Leviticus 19:28: “Do not cut your bodies for the dead, and do not mark your skin with tattoos. I am the LORD.” However, Lentz says that that specific Old Testament scripture does not apply today because of what Jesus did on the cross.

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Stop Idolizing Your Families .

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Stop Idolizing Your Families .


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    Talk show host defends Christianity in feud with alleged sexual abuser Roy Moore

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    Talk show host defends Christianity in feud with alleged sexual abuser Roy Moore

    The accusation came after Kimmel sent a comedian to one of Moore’s rallies at a church in Alabama to be a “supportive” heckler.

    The comedian, Tony Barbieri, also known as Jake Byrd, sarcastically celebrated Moore as “a man’s man”.

    When he was being kicked out the rally, he yelled that he was Moore’s number one fan and continued: “Does that look like the face of someone who hits on teenage girls?”

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    Moore, who is a Christian, has been accused of sexual misconduct with young girls but denied the claims at the rally and deemed them a conspiracy from “lesbians, gays, bisexuals and socialists”.

    In response to the disruption at the rally, Moore criticised the Jimmy Kimmel Live host in a tweet and invited him to fight it out.

     

    Kimmel accepted the invitation for “a fight” and said: “There is no one I would love to fight more than you.

    “I will put my Christian values aside, just for you and for that fight.”

     

    Kimmel added: “It doesn’t fit your stereotype, but I happen to be a Christian too.

    “I made my first holy communion, I was confirmed, I pray, I support my…

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