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if Jesus was GOD why did He Pray?
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Tu vis dans un monde hyper-connecté, mais il n’a pas à prendre le contrôle sur toi. Comment savoir si tu es accro à ton portable ? Comment peux-tu reprendre le contrôle?
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Wir leben in einer digitalen Welt — aber sie muss dich nicht kontrollieren. Bist du von der Technik abhängig? Wie kannst du die Kontrolle zurückgewinnen?
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Cette décision met en évidence les effets bénéfiques des cours bibliques des Témoins proposés depuis 13 ans aux détenus de la prison de Bollate.
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Seit 13 Jahren engagieren sich Zeugen Jehovas als Gefängnisseelsorger in Bollate. Der positive Einfluss führte zu der Entscheidung der Gefängnisleitung.
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You live in a wired world, but technology does not have to control you. How can you tell if you are addicted to your device? If there’s a problem, how can you take back control.
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3 killed, 2 wounded in Mandaluyong shootings
Michael Desbaro, 39, was shot dead by at least four unidentified assailants along A. Bonifacio Street in Barangay Hatid Bato Libis, Mandaluyong City on Wednesday night.
Five persons were shot – three of them killed while the other two survived their wounds – by still unidentified assailants in separate incidents in Mandaluyong on Wednesday night, few days before Christmas Day.
All shooting incidents happened in neighboring villages in the city within a span of two hours, between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m.
Almost simultaneously, two men were shot dead by four gunmen in their houses located in the same compound on Block 34, Barangay Addition Hills past 9 p.m.
A man in his 50s, identified by witnesses as Jehovah’s Witness minister Bobot Sarbida, was killed inside his house, while his neighbor, a certain Jepoy Pinasbo, was also shot dead by four men.
Roger Emanil, a barangay officer, said Sarbida was shot on reaching his house after hearing mass in a nearby chapel.
Neighbors said the assailants first attacked Pinasbo before going after Sarbida.
At 10:30 p.m., cigarette vendor Michael Desbaro, 39, was shot dead in the middle of A. Bonifacio Street in Barangay Hagdan Bato Libis.
Witnesses said Desparo was also shot by four men, this time riding motorcycles.
In an interview with reporters at the crime scene, Desbaro’s wife May Anne, 37, denied the claims of their neighbors that Michael was a known drug user.
“Hindi po talaga siya adik. Pero kahit naman hindi ko sabihing adik siya, sasabihing adik siya eh,” May Anne said.
(“He’s not an addict. But even if I deny he’s an addict, they will say he’s an addict.”)
Asked what the attackers’ motive could be, May Anne said Michael’s stepfather, a Mandaluyong policeman who went absent without leave, has been threatening to kill his stepson.
The victim’s wife said it was not a far possibility that it was also members of the police who killed Michael.
Shortly before midnight, witnesses said at least 10 men in five motorcycles, all wearing bonnets and black jackets, chased 35-year-old woman identified as Annabel de la Cruz along Santo Rosario in Barangay Plainview.
Barangay officer Danilo Alabado told reporters that only two of the 10 men caught up with De la Cruz and shot her several times in the chest and lower limb.
De la Cruz was rushed to Sta. Ana Hospital in Manila, where she was in critical condition.
During the shooting, a 15-year-old girl sitting outside a store near the crime scene was hit by a stray bullet hit in her right leg.
Alabado said De la Cruz was a known “drug runner” in their area.
He added that Dela Cruz had previously surrendered to the police as part of Oplan Tokhang.
“Sumuko na rin siya noon pero hindi siya nagbago. Gano’n pa rin lakad niya,” he said.
(“She surrendered, but she didn’t change her ways. She still went on with what she had been doing.”)
According to Alabado, De la Cruz’s husband is currently detained at the Mandaluyong City Jail on a drug charge. /ATM
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The first Jehovah's Witnesses to be prosecuted under Article 5.26 appeared in court in Kaliningrad in October and November. S. Kozin, S. Furman, and I. Parmon, who were charged under Part 4, and Ts. Kus, a foreign citizen who was charged under Part 5, were involved in two separate incidents in August. All were acquitted.
Police detained Kus and Parmon on 11 August for having a conversation about the Bible with a man in the entrance to a block of flats, Jehovah's Witness spokesperson Ivan Belenko told Forum 18 on 30 November. The pair "shared the observation that, although a very ancient book, the Bible gives advice which is applicable to modern life". When the man asked what they were talking about, they explained that "they wanted to encourage him to read the Bible".
The same man later approached them accompanied by a police major, who said the man had complained that they were "promoting religious literature to him". More officers were called to take the Jehovah's Witnesses to the police station. There, Kus and Parmon gave a written statement explaining that they "were not engaged in missionary activity on behalf of any organisation", had not handed out any religious literature, and had talked about their beliefs as was their constitutional right.
Kus and Parmon were acquitted because Central District Court and Central District Magistrate's Court No. 4 noted that the Religion Law "does not prohibit the dissemination of personal religious experience or dialogue on religious topics", Belenko explained. "The actions of believers who simply wanted to exercise their right to disseminate their religious views do not show the attributes of ‘missionary activity' as established by law, and therefore cannot be regarded as missionary."
This case illustrates how even the briefest interaction and most casual, conversational sharing of beliefs may be open to misconstruction or overreaction from other people, who may decide to notify law enforcement. The judges' interpretation of the incident, however, suggests that individuals should be free to discuss their faith publicly as they wish.
Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia no longer engage in the previously widespread practice of standing in public places (usually in pairs) with trolleys of religious literature, Belenko also noted. He explained to Forum 18 on 16 December that this is because the community now has little literature to offer (millions of Bibles have been impounded by Russian customs, for instance – see F18News 14 December 2015 http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2133). Belenko also pointed to a March 2016 amendment to the Demonstrations Law which introduced a requirement to notify the authorities of a one-person picket if it made use of "prefabricated collapsible structures" (notification is usually not necessary for one-person pickets).
Jehovah's Witnesses have frequently been charged with "picketing" without notification when standing in the street in pairs. Under the March 2016 amendment they could also be prosecuted for doing so alone. -
Jehovah's Witnesses Public Talk Watchtower Study Meeting 18 December 2016
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The Court’s decision on conscientious objectors, if positive, will strengthen the right of freedom of conscience and religion for all South Korea’s citizens.
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It gets dark here very early this time of year in Staffordshire, England and where we stand with the cart doesn’t have much light. To help out our eight full time pioneers I modified one of our carts to help people see the literature without being too bright so they can’t easily see what’s on display. Photo shared by @us__spec http://ift.tt/2hkm8mc
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The apostle Paul visited Athens on his second missionary journey, in about 50 C.E. He also sought out a territory where he could reach Athens’ non-Jewish citizens-“in the marketplace,” or agora. (pictured here) (Acts 17:17) Located northwest of the Acropolis, Athens’ agora covered 12 acres [5 ha] or so. The marketplace was much more than a location for buying and selling; it was the city’s public square. Athenians delighted to convene there and engage in intellectual discussion. Paul became irritated at the many false gods of the city and so began to reason with the people. Paul’s speech to the learned men of Athens, as recorded at Acts 17:22-31, is a model of eloquence, tact, and discernment. By studying Paul’s example, we can learn much about how to establish common ground, helping our listeners to reason. (bt chap 18 p 140). Photo taken by @m_salina69 http://ift.tt/2gVxbkF
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A fatwa issued by the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) banning Muslims from donning paraphernalia related to other faiths has inspired the hard-line Islam Defenders Front (FPI) to take the law into its own hands and push shopping centers in Surabaya, East Java, to not ask its Muslim workers to wear Christmas-related gear.
Instead of stopping the FPI’s actions, police moved to secure the group’s visit to seven shopping centers on Sunday, arguing that their presence would prevent clashes between the group and shopping center managements.
The management of Toeng Market had no choice but to comply after around 50 FPI members, escorted by the police, paid a visit.
“We will deliver the demands to our superiors. We did not know about the fatwa. We will comply with it,” said Toeng Market operational division head Wahyu Kuncoro after FPI members thronged his office.
The MUI has issued similar calls ahead of Christmas, but not until this year has the FPI followed up by protesting at shopping centers.
An FPI leader in East Java, Ali Fahmi, said Toeng Market management had agreed to sign an agreement as a guarantee that it would comply with the MUI edict. “They already signed the agreement on a stamp,” Ali said.
Surabaya Police chief Sr. Comr. M. Iqbal said police escorted FPI members as they visited seven shopping centers in Surabaya to prevent clashes.
“The FPI members disseminated information about the edict. We guarded the process to ensure public safety,” Iqbal said.
Police deployed hundreds of personnel to “guard” the FPI’s shopping center visits.
The visits took place two days after members of an FPI branch in Bekasi, West Java, thronged a Honda dealership in the region after it was rumored that Muslims employees, including female staffers wearing hijab, had been forced to wear Santa hats.
Bekasi Police chief Sr. Comr. Umar Fana said police, together with several Islamic organizations, had met with the dealership’s management on Wednesday morning to discuss the matter.
Islamic organization Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), which has around 60 million members across the country, lambasted the FPI for acting like a law enforcement agency.
“The state must be present in this case to not let any mass organization exercise its own law on the streets. The Religious Affairs Ministry is taking this incident seriously. The ministry will not give room for radicalism to grow in Indonesia. The MUI has the duty to disseminate information about the edict, not a mass organization,” NU deputy secretary-general Imam Putudu said.
Rights watchdog Setara Institute, which campaigns for pluralism, said an MUI fatwa was not a legal and binding ruling that must be followed by shopping centers, adding that police should have prevented the FPI in the first place and not facilitated them in carrying out such intimidation on department store management.
“Such groups have grown confident following the mass rallies in Jakarta. The National Police should not support edicts that threaten religious diversity,” Setara researcher Ismail Hasani said.
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A M Grande, M Rinaldi, A M D'Armini, C Pellegrini, M ViganòJournal of Cardiovascular Surgery 2003, 44 (1): 131-4
Jehovah's Witnesses, patients who refuse blood transfusions, are generally not considered as candidates for lung transplantation owing to the frequent requirement for transfusions. A successful procedure in a Jehovah's Witness is presented and to our knowledge this is the 2(nd) reported case. The patient, a 38-year-old female, type I diabetes, affected by idiopatic pulmonary fibrosis underwent left lung transplantation. From the same pulmonary bloc a twinning procedure was obtained by means of right lung transplantation in a 58-year-old man affected by the same pathology. Surgical strategies employed in achieving a successful outcome, ethical and moral aspects are discussed.
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Le récit de Marc, le plus court des quatre Évangiles, fournit un aperçu de ce que fera Jésus en tant que Roi du Royaume de Dieu.
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