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  • FORMER SENIOR UNITED NATIONS OFFICIAL FACING PEDOPHILIA CHARGES IN NEPAL

    04/10/2018 8:18:59 PM PDT · by Beave Meister · 11 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 4/9/2018 | BRENDAN COLE
    One of the world’s leading experts on humanitarian work with street children and children affected by war has been arrested on pedophilia charges. Canadian humanitarian worker Peter Dalglish, who helped found the charity Street Kids International, was taken in by police in Nepal on Sunday (April 8), Xinhua news agency reported. The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police said they wanted to question Dalglish over claims he was involved in pedophile activities in Kavre district, around 50 kilometers north of the capital, Kathmandu. An initial investigation claims the 60-year-old had offered children foreign trips and better education before sexually...
  • A Church’s Challenge: Holding On to Its Young (Third of 3 about Pentecostals in NYC)

    01/17/2007 7:35:36 PM PST · by Mrs. Don-o · 12 replies · 362+ views
    The New York Times ^ | January 16, 2007 | DAVID GONZALEZ
    If music is the motor that drives Pentecostal worship, the band and choir at Ark of Salvation for the New Millennium, a little storefront church in west Harlem, could use a tuneup. Ragged and off-key at times, they are easily outclassed when they sit in with the seasoned musicians at other churches. Yet they grab attention for one simple reason: They are often the only teenagers in the room. As Pentecostalism advances across the world, winning converts faster than any other Christian denomination and siphoning believers from more established faiths, it is also suffering its own slow leak: young people...