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US coronavirus death toll hits 300 as more states urge residents to stay home
More than 300 people in the United States have now died from coronavirus, as the illness tightens its grip on the country and prompts fears of widespread shortages of medical supplies.
As of Saturday night, a total of 323 people infected with the disease have died. Minnesota reported its first death while Washington had the highest number of deaths at 94, followed by 70 deaths in New York.
A number of private companies joined the government’s efforts to restock masks, ventilators and other supplies while the US Food and Drug Administration authorized the use of the first rapid diagnostic test that could detect the disease in approximately 45 minutes.
Millions of people in five states were spending their first full weekend at home as states ramped up restrictions in an attempt to curb the spread. The number of cases is now surpassing 25,000 nationwide.
As Californians adjusted to their new normal, Gov. Gavin Newson urged younger residents to avoid visiting beaches.
“Be a good neighbor, be a good citizen,” Newsom said. “It’s time to recognize it’s not only about the old folks, it’s about your impact in their lives. Don’t be selfish.”
A few hours earlier, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo had warned younger people of the risk after 54% of the more than 10,000 confirmed cases in the states were individuals between the ages of 18 and 49.
“You’re not Superman and you’re not Superwoman,” the governor said. “You can get this virus and you can transfer the virus and you can wind up hurting someone who you love.”
California and New York are among a handful of states that have urged nonessential workers to stay home in an effort to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, alleviate stress on the health-care system and preserve dwindling medical supplies.
The most recent state to enact such a measure was New Jersey, where Gov. Phil Murphy announced a statewide “stay at home” order, closing nonessential retail businesses and asking residents to stay home until further notice. The order, effective at 9 p.m. ET Saturday, also prohibits gatherings and asks individuals to practice social distancing.
“We know the virus spreads through person-to person contact,” the governor said in a news release, “and the best way to prevent further exposure is to limit our public interactions to only the most essential purposes.”
Similar measures have been announced in Illinois and Connecticut, directing nonessential workers to stay home, though each state provides for certain exceptions, such as visiting grocery stories, pharmacies or healthcare facilities, among others.
Those restrictions followed similar directives issued by state and local leaders urging residents to stay put and limiting bars and restaurants to take-out and delivery services.
“Every state will head this way,” CNN national security analyst Juliette Kayyem said Friday. “People need to prepare themselves that this gets harder before this gets easier.”
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‘Something Demonic in That’: The Real-Life Evil Driving Slaughter, Horror of Global Persecution
By all accounts, Christian persecution is worsening across the globe. Joel Veldkamp, head of international communications at Christian Solidarity International, is among those who know the full extent of the issue, often observing its evils firsthand.
And these diabolical infractions — from killings to land seizure to discrimination — have a rooting, Veldkamp believes, in the overarching spiritual battle between good and evil.
“I think the way the Bible speaks about how the powers and the principalities operate is very important, because, what drives the powers and the principalities of the air — you might say, the evil spiritual powers of the world — is a desire to unseat God and to be the most powerful, the most important thing in the universe,” he said. “And we see a lot of the temporal powers, so states, governments, terrorist groups, are driven by a similar desire — a desire for supremacy, a desire to remake the world the way they want to see it be remade.”
These individuals and groups will essentially “give themselves over to evil” to achieve their stated goals and aspirations. The result of these tragic quests can often be seen in the deadly persecution observed in various nations across the globe.
Among other examples, Veldkamp cited Nagorno-Karabakh, a small, landlocked region between Armenia and Azerbaijan that had long been steeped in Christian history and was populated by mostly Armenian Christians.
“This is a place where there’s 1,700 years of uninterrupted Christian history,” he said. “This is a place where some of the first translations of the Bible were made into languages outside of Greek. This is a place where just generations and generations of people have carried on the faith, and last year it was destroyed.”
Veldkamp decried “an ethnic cleansing campaign by the dictatorship of Azerbaijan,” which included a siege and military attack that eventually drove out the entire population.
“Again, I think there’s something demonic in that we had a nine-month lead time on this,” Veldkamp said. “Everyone could see it happening. We could see it coming down the pike. We knew how this was going to end. And no one in the world seemed to be able to muster the political will to do anything about it.”
The end result is the exile of these Armenian Christians and a loss of Christian history, with many lives upended in the process. Veldkamp said coping with so much suffering can be difficult.
“Sometimes [I] get messages from people who have family members who are being held hostage in Azerbaijan right now,” he said. “And I feel really helpless, and at a loss of what to say — to comfort them. It can be difficult.”
Yet Veldkamp finds solace in the Bible, where he sees people hundreds — and even thousands — of years ago facing the same pressures believers face today.
Veldkamp described Scripture as often telling the “story of the people of God under pressure.” And those pressures are still unfolding today in countries like North Korea, China, and Nigeria, among many others. And, tragically he said the problem is worsening.
“It’s getting worse for a few specific reasons,” he said. “But mostly having to do with the increased competition and even wars that we’re seeing between the superpowers now — between the U.S., Russia, and China, that are always competing for influence in different parts of the world.”
Veldkamp said the “illusion of an international order” that once persisted in the 1990s and beyond is “starting to come apart.”
“Dictators and terrorists feel fewer compunctions about carrying out their programs,” he said. “So, in places like South Asia and Southeast Asia, we’re seeing a lot of governments take steps to really restrict free practice of religion in ways they wouldn’t have before. In Africa, we see that jihad is spreading from country to country, really piggybacking off of the conflict between Russia, and the U.S., and China for influence in Africa.”
Unfortunately, the safeguards that once “restrained human evil” are no longer holding back the chaos, leading to a situation that gives little more than a “grim outlook,” according to Veldkamp.
Whether it’s addressing Azerbaijan’s horrors or deadly persecution in Nigeria, Veldkamp encouraged Christians and Americans more broadly to stand up and speak out.
“Often, U.S. policy towards these countries will just get set, and it’s very difficult to change the policy once it’s set,” he said. “But we’re in a moment now where we can have some influence because we have a new president … there will be new policies, new policies are being formulated, and now is the time to raise our voice.”
Veldkamp continued, “I would really encourage Christians, especially Christians who voted for President Trump to make their voices heard … tell [his team], ‘I care about Nigeria. I care about Armenia. I care about Christians in Syria. I care about this issue.’”
Sources:faithwire
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സീനിയർ പാസ്റ്റേഴ്സിനെ ആദരിച്ചു
ചിക്കാഗോ: കഴിഞ്ഞ അര നൂറ്റാണ്ടോളം ചിക്കാഗോയിൽ സഭാ പ്രവർത്തനരംഗത്ത് പ്രശംസനീയമായ നേതൃത്വം കൊടുത്ത നാല് സീനിയർ പാസ്റ്റർമാരെ ചിക്കാഗോ ഗോസ്പൽ മീഡിയ അസോസിയേഷന്റെ ആഭിമുഖ്യത്തിൽ നടത്തപ്പെട്ട സമ്മേളനത്തിൽ ആദരിച്ചു.
സീനിയർ പാസ്റ്റർമാരായ റവ പി വി കുരുവിള, റവ ജോസഫ് കെ ജോസഫ്, റവ പി സി മാമ്മൻ റവ ജോർജ് കെ സ്റ്റീഫൻസൻ എന്നിവരെയാണ് വിശ്വാസ സമൂഹം ആദരിച്ചത്. സിജിഎംഎ ജനറൽ സെക്രട്ടറി കുര്യൻ ഫിലിപ്പ് യോഗനടപടികൾക്ക് നേതൃത്വം നൽകി. രക്ഷാധികാരി കെ എം ഈപ്പൻ,പ്രസിഡന്റ് ഡോ അലക്സ് ടി കോശി, വൈസ് പ്രസിഡന്റ് ഡോ ടൈറ്റസ് ഈപ്പൻ, ജോയിൻ സെക്രട്ടറി ഡോ ബിജു ചെറിയാൻ, ട്രഷറർ ജോൺസൺ ഉമ്മൻ എന്നിവർ സംഘടനയുടെ പുരസ്കാരം പാസ്റ്റർമാർക്ക് നൽകി.
എഫ്പിസിസിയുടെ ഉപഹാരം കൺവീനർ ഡോ വില്ലി എബ്രഹാം സമ്മാനിച്ചു. ജെയിംസ് ജോസഫ്, ബ്യൂല ബെൻ എന്നിവർ എംസി മാരായിരുന്നു റെവ ജോർജ് മാത്യു പുതുപ്പള്ളി മുഖ്യാതിഥിയായിരുന്നു.
Sources:nerkazhcha
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അമേരിക്കയെ വീണ്ടും മഹത്തരമാക്കാൻ ദൈവം എന്നെ സംരക്ഷിച്ചു: ഡൊണാൾഡ് ട്രംപ്
“അമേരിക്കയെ വീണ്ടും മഹത്തരമാക്കാൻ ദൈവം എന്നെ സംരക്ഷിച്ചു” എന്നു പറഞ്ഞുകൊണ്ട് തനിക്കു നേരിട്ട രണ്ടു കൊലപാതകശ്രമങ്ങളെ അതിജീവിച്ചതിന് ഡൊണാൾഡ് ട്രംപ് ദൈവത്തിനു നന്ദി പറഞ്ഞു. ജനുവരി 20 ന് അമേരിക്കയുടെ നാല്പത്തിയേഴാമത് പ്രസിഡന്റായി അധികാരമേറ്റ ട്രംപ് തന്റെ ഉദ്ഘാടന പ്രസംഗത്തിലാണ് ഇപ്രകാരം അനുസ്മരിച്ചത്.
പ്രസിഡന്റ് ജോ ബൈഡന്റെ കഴിഞ്ഞ നാല് വർഷത്തെ അമേരിക്കൻ ‘വിമോചന ദിനം’ എന്ന് തന്റെ പ്രസംഗത്തിൽ വിശേഷിപ്പിച്ച ട്രംപ് ഇപ്പോൾ മുതൽ അമേരിക്കയുടെ സുവർണ്ണകാലം ആരംഭിക്കുന്നുവെന്നും ഇതിനുവേണ്ടിയാണ് എന്റെ ജീവൻ സംരക്ഷിക്കപ്പെട്ടതെന്നും പങ്കുവച്ചു. “ഇന്ന് മുതൽ, നമ്മുടെ രാജ്യം അഭിവൃദ്ധി പ്രാപിക്കുകയും ബഹുമാനിക്കപ്പെടുകയും ചെയ്യും. നമ്മെ മുതലെടുക്കാൻ ആരെയും അനുവദിക്കില്ല. എന്റെ ഭരണനാളുകളിൽ അമേരിക്കയെ ഞാൻ ഒന്നാമതെത്തിക്കും” അദ്ദേഹം ഉറപ്പുനൽകി.
നമ്മുടെ രാജ്യത്തെയും ഭരണഘടനയെയും ദൈവത്തെയും മറക്കുകയില്ല എന്നും അദ്ദേഹം തന്റെ ഉദ്ഘാടനപ്രസംഗത്തിൽ ഉറപ്പുനൽകി.
Sources:azchavattomonline.com
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