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A dramatic video clip, which has since gone viral on social media, showed the Jakarta Islamic Centre Grand Mosque's dome collapsing amid a plume of smoke and dust. The Jakarta Islamic Centre Grand Mosque in Indonesia was destroyed Wednesday after its huge dome collapsed following a giant fire. A dramatic video clip, which has gone viral on social media, shows the dome of the mosque collapsing amid a plume of smoke and dust. Prior to the collapse, footage shows flames coming out of the grey dome and firefighters trying to bring the fire under control. The giant dome of the...

Come Holy Spirit, fill us with the balm of your healing love. Amen. The pattern for many leaders is to be exalted in life and forgotten after death. The pattern for all who serve God – famous or obscure, respected or ignored – is that death is the door to glory. Her Late Majesty famously declared on a 21st birthday broadcast that her whole life would be dedicated to serving the Nation and Commonwealth. Rarely has such a promise been so well kept! Few leaders receive the outpouring of love that we have seen. Jesus – who in our reading...

President Joe Biden reacted to the death of actress Betty White on Friday, who died at the age of 99. “That’s a shame. She was a lovely lady,” Biden said to reporters after going out to lunch in Wilmington, Delaware with first lady Jill Biden.

A couple of months ago, Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren’s husband was arrested on gun and drug charges, but the mayor herself had repeatedly denied any involvement or awareness of her spouse’s alleged lawbreaking. Despite those pleas of ignorance, a grand jury has now returned several indictments against the mayor herself. Warren’s facing a felony charge of criminal possession of a firearm, as well as two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and failure to lock/secure firearms in a dwelling. This is now the second felony charge for Warren, who was also indicted on campaign finance fraud last year,...

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren and her husband, Timothy Granison, are facing new charges after an indictment was unsealed Friday afternoon, to an unsealed indictment, officials from the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office announced. They are each charged with criminal possession of a firearm, a Class E felony, along with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, a Class A misdemeanor and two counts of failure to lock/secure firearms in a dwelling — a misdemeanor in violation of the Rochester City Code. Mayor Warren was previously indicted on campaign finance violations while Granison was recently arrested drugs and weapon...

One too many scandals hit incumbent Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren to survive this time around. The embattled Democratic mayor took a shellacking in the polls Tuesday night to primary challenger, fellow Democrat Malik Evans. Warren, who was first elected in 2013, will not run on another party line, essentially assuring city councilman Evans will become mayor of Rochester. Evans handily took the race, snagging 66% of the vote. Warren sparked national headlines last year for her handling of the Daniel Prude case. In September, the entire Rochester Police Department (RPD) command staff, including then-Police Chief La’Ron Singletary, resigned over the...

Instrumental, with the hymns; Jesus Loves Me, Till We Meet Again, with sing along lyrics. This video was arranged with our pets, my wife & scenic animation.

In an interview with Wolf Blitzer, Herman Cain said a new accuser would be coming forward to accuse him of having a 13-year affair with him. No links yet as the story is currently breaking and details are still being released. Apparentally a Georgia TV station has the exclusive.

This animated fish and butterfly, is accompanied with a voice message of LOVE. Video’s instrumental is the hymn, Jesus Loves Me. Fishes voice is grandson, Elijah at age of 4 years!

This animated butterfly, fish and scenic autumn views video come with a voice message of LOVE. Video’s instrumental is the hymn, Jesus Loves Me. Fishes voice is grandson, Elijah at age of 4 years!

This cat animation is created to encourage good, lovely, admirable, thoughts and thinking!

This short 38-second video of a little kitten and dove that is accompanied with the voice of my young grandson.

The song of this cat friends video is, Something Got A Hold On Me, sung by the Five Blind Boys of Alabama.

The song of this cat friends video is, Something Got A Hold On Me, sung by the Five Blind Boys of Alabama.

It was one of the most frustrating challenges that I have faced in years; I just wanted an American flag to fly in front of my home. As so many of you may know, Old Glory is missing from the shelves these days. I set out two days after the attack; back when there was still hope of finding survivors in the rubble, to the neighborhood store where I had always seen stacks of Stars and Stripes, carefully arranged, on a shelf next to the Automotive Department with a slight measure of dust covering the plastic bag which housed them. ...

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Hello to one and all. My wife and I are accountants in San Diego, CA and she's been offered a position with a company in Memphis, TN. We've done some initial research on probable places to live and we really like the Germantown area - the homes in our desired price range (250k-310k) seem lovely, the published statistics for the town seem right-on, and the public schools are highly-rated. Our question is: What's the political climate of the town? Thanks in advance.

Eugene, Oregon, Aug. 06 (LifesiteNews.com/CWN) - A lesbian couple has sued a Catholic school and its parish after a daughter was refused admittance. After describing her irregular domestic arrangement to school principal Dianne Bert last year, Lee Inkmann was told her daughter would not be allowed to attend O'Hara Catholic School, because the lesbian relationship conflicted with Church doctrine, and could be confusing to other pupils. Inkmann and partner Trish Wilson are suing for $550,000 in damages, naming the school principal, as well as Father Mark Bachmeier, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church, in their claim. Portland Archdiocese spokesman Bud...

More cases of Malaria, West Nile found in South Florida Sun-Sentinel Posted August 23 2003, 4:56 PM EDT FORT LAUDERDALE -- Health officials have confirmed a third case of West Nile virus this year in Broward County and a fourth case of malaria in Palm Beach County. A 51-year-old woman was confirmed Friday to be infected with West Nile. She was hospitalized with serious symptoms, including partial paralysis, but was recovering, Broward health officials said. The woman, whose name and residence were not released, contracted the mosquito-borne disease in the first week of August, officials said. The health department said...