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Egypt faces a long and difficult battle with militants, the country's president has said, in his first remarks since a deadly attack in the Sinai region.

The daughter of late American singer Whitney Houston has been found unresponsive in a bathtub in a home in Georgia, US police say. Bobbi Kristina Brown, 21, was found by her husband and a friend, police said. They immediately started resuscitating her until police and medics arrived. She was taken to a hospital in Roswell where she was said to be breathing. Whitney Houston was found dead in February 2012, aged 48, in a bath in a hotel in Los Angeles. A post-mortem examination later concluded she died of accidental drowning due to the effects of cocaine use and heart disease. 'Thoughts and prayers' Ms Brown was found in the bathtub on Saturday morning, Roswell police spokeswoman Lisa Holland said. She added that Ms Brown was now at North Fulton Hospital in Roswell, Georgia. "They called 911, started CPR on her, and police arrived first," Ms Holland told CNN. "We took over the lifesaving measures until the fire/rescue and an ambulance arrived." "Please ke...

Donations to a disabled pensioner who was mugged outside his home have topped £160,000. Alan Barnes, 67, was left too afraid to return to his home in Low Fell, Gateshead after the attack on Sunday.

The prime minister has said Britain needs to be "more confident" about its Christian faith David Cameron risks causing "alienation" in society by saying Britain is a "Christian country", a group of public figures has warned. Author Sir Terry Prachett was among those who signed a letter to the Daily Telegraph.making the claim. The UK should be "more confident about our status as a Christian country", Mr Cameron has said.

An Irish priest who surprised wedding guests with his version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah says he is flabbergasted that it has received more than 28 million views online. Fr Ray Kelly has sung the song with new, marriage-themed lyrics at weddings for four years, but his performance earlier this month travelled around the world. "This morning,

Frazier Glenn Cross is led to a police car after his arrest on Sunday The FBI and local police say they will pursue hate crime charges against the suspect in Sunday's deadly shootings at Jewish community sites in Kansas. Frazier Glenn Cross, 73, has been charged with murder in the deaths of three in a suburb of Kansas City.

Yoshitaka Shindo is a regular visitor to the shrine China and South Korea have expressed annoyance after Japan's internal affairs minister visited a shrine to dead soldiers, including war criminals. Yoshitaka Shindo said he visited the Yasukuni Shrine to pray for peace.

Rev. Fr. Van der Lugt arrived in Syria in 1966 and considered it to be his home A Dutch priest well known for refusing to leave the besieged Syrian city of Homs has been shot dead by a gunman. Frans van der Lugt, who was in his 70s, had become a renowned figure in the rebel-held area that has been blockaded by government forces for nearly two years.

Dr. Olukoya tagged the year the passover year with reference to Exodus 12 vs 21, wherein promises would be fulfilled, he also drew a nexus between the number 14 and the passover, going to the prophecies, he said. 1. This year is going to be one of great revival 2. It is going to be a year of many questions but very few answers 3. There is going to be deliverance this year from afflictions and bondages 4. A year of monumental failure for those who trust in the occult

General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor E.A Adeboye, has made his predictions for what is in store in 2014. GENERAL/ INDIVIDUAL: 1. God says a divine promise of more than a decade ago will begin to find fulfillment. 2. Someone can expect a prominent divine visitation that will radically alter the course of his or her life 3. Someone will have the first taste. There will be quite a few narrow escapes of tragedies.

Walking on water is not easy. Not too many people have the ability. Let's see, there's Jesus, and well, that's about it. Unfortunately for one pastor on the West Coast of Africa, his attempt to become the second man to make this impossible feat a reality cost him his life. Pastor Franck Kabele, 35, told his congregation that he was capable of reenacting the very miracles of Jesus Christ. He decided to make it clear through way of demonstration on Gabon's beach in the capital city of Libreville. Referencing Matthew 14:22-33, Kabele said that he received a revelation which told him that with enough faith he could achieve what Jesus was able to.

The state’s government’s plan to build a church somehow weakens the argument by critics of Governor Rauf Aregbesola that he was islamising the state. The Osun State government has acquired parcels of farmlands in Atakumosa West local council of the state for the construction of a church. The interdenominational worship centre, to be named ‘Open Heaven Worship Centre,’ would be sited at both Odo Iju and Ibodi communities. The state government’s plan to build a church somehow weakens the argument by critics of Governor Rauf Aregbesola that he was islamising the state.

Cardinal Onaiyekan administered the confirmation of 140 Catholics. The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, has called on Nigerians to love and tolerate one another for the nation’s stability and economic development. Cardinal Onaiyekan made the call in Abuja during Tuesday’s midnight mass when he confirmed 140 candidates at the St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nyanya, near Abuja.

Organisation says religious studies would check moral decadence. The National Council of Muslim Youth Organisations, NACOMYO, at the weekend urged the Federal Government to make religious studies a core subject in the school system, pointing out that it would address moral decadence in the society.

It would remain closed until security situation improves. The Executive Security, Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), John-Kennedy Opara, said on Monday that Sinai would remain closed to Nigerian pilgrims until security around the area improved. Mr. Opara told the News Agency of Nigeria in Tel-Aviv that the restriction in the Sinai area was in the interest of all prospective pilgrims and that he was in Israel to meet with the relevant authorities on the matter.

The Vatican has suspended a senior German Church leader dubbed the "bishop of bling" by the media over his alleged lavish spending. Bishop of Limburg Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst is accused of spending more than 31m euros (£26m; $42m) on renovating his official residence. The Vatican said it deemed "appropriate... a period of leave from the diocese" for the bishop. The suspension comes two days after he met the Pope to discuss the matter. "A situation has been created in which the bishop can no longer exercise his episcopal duties", a Vatican statement said. It said a Church commission would rule on the matter, but did not say where Bishop Tebartz-van Elst, 53, would go or what he would do while the inquiry was held. The head of Germany's main lay Catholic group, the Central Committee of German Catholics, Alois Glueck, welcomed the Vatican's decision. Analysis When Bishop Tebartz-van Elst flew into Rome last week it was reportedly on a Ryanai...

Gross proportions of evils, extreme in most turpitudinous complexion have been committed in the name of God. There is no scintilla of wavering argument or doubt that most evils from the devil’s lair itself especially in the 21st century have been motivated and spawned by God. Blasphemy? Maybe. This claim is premised on the fact that “God pleasing” men discharge their egregious, feculent and toxic secretions on hapless victims by way of killing, butchering, maiming, extorting, exploiting, coaxing, befuddling, and brainwashing them using Him-God as a fulcrum. He is therefore responsible for the deaths and erosion of the minds of the unthinking and malleable many who have come under the physical and psychological guillotine of His men since He has not in any way exerted himself to rescue them- victims of “in the name of God” decimation and evils - from his loyal, praying marauders. It is not tendentious to contend that in some religious texts God is shown to have dark, human propensitie...

Three people, including a girl aged eight, died when gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on a wedding party outside a Coptic Christian church in Cairo. LaNUBlog.com latestarticlesbyiykemandela.blogspot.com At least nine others were wounded in the attack in Giza, officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Egypt's Coptic Christian community has been targeted by some Islamists who accuse the Church of backing the army's overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi in July. The unidentified attackers fired indiscriminately as people left the church. Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church *.6-11 million members in Egypt *.About 1 million members outside the country *.Copts believe their Church dates back to about 50 AD *.Led by the Pope of Alexandria, Tawadros II *.Services take place partly in ancient Coptic language (based on language used at the time of the Pharaohs) BBC Religion: Coptic Orthodox Church A man and a girl were killed outside the church and a ...

Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian appeals court on Monday upheld a government ban against the use of the word "Allah" to refer to God in non-Muslim faiths, overruling claims by Christians in this Muslim-majority nation that the restriction violates their religious rights. "Allah" is the Arabic word for God and is commonly used in the Malay language to refer to God. But the Malaysian government insists that "Allah" should be exclusively reserved for Muslims because of concerns its use by others would confuse Muslims and could be used to convert them. Malaysia's Christian, Buddhist and Hindu minorities have often complained that the government infringes in their constitutional right to practice religion freely, accusations the government denies. Monday's judgment in the Court of Appeals overturns a decision by a lower court nearly four years ago that ruled against the government ban. Anger over that ruling sparked a string of arson attacks and vandalism ...

For you to succeed in life you need God's presence in this turbulent world if you don't want to be rejected, oppressed, defeated and wasted by your enemy. The presence of God in your life makes you to prosper, win and succeed on matter the condition or economic situation and makes you to be celebrated. Wherever God is, there an curb that is unmistakably evident, which is called the glory of His Presence. The truth remains that the presence of God wields the same power as the personality of God because where God's presence is, God Himself is there. Several things are possible with His presence, one of which is that idols and the powers behind them not only any but surrender to the God of gods: An example of this is documented in the Bible in 1 Samuel 5:1-5. The nation of Israel fought the Philistines and God gave them to the hands of their enemies because of their disobedience. The Ark of the Covenant was captured and taken into the house of Dagon - the national deity of t...