RICHMOND, Va. †For the first time in its 196-year history, one of the nation’s oldest Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) seminaries will be led by a black pastor, a triumph for African-Americans who hope he’ll use his position to nurture the next generation of minority pastors. Brian Blount, head of Richmond’s Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education, is positioned
HIV/AIDS prevalence in the small central African nation of Burundi rose to 4.2 percent last year from 3.5 percent in 2002, health officials said Thursday.
Colin Bates puts his fingers to his temples, and frowns. "As I have just been gently sitting down and blending with the spirit world," he says, "I have a lady coming forward who was a great-grandmother." One or two people in the audience nod gravely. "She listened while 'Danny Boy' was played just now, and I know she would very much sing these old songs while she was still very much here."
We knew this year's Cannes would be heavyweight – but who knew it would be heavyweight like this? "Leaden" is perhaps too damning a word; let's settle for "earnest". There's been a steady flow of high-quality films in competition, but a heart-numbing lack of joy, levity or just plain surprise. Bizarrely, this year the critics are in polite agreement about just about everything; that perennial
The head of the Niger office of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has been bestowed with the West African nation's highest honour for her work in the fields of agriculture and assisting the rural population.
It’s appropriate that another conversation with Mickey Hart takes place during springtime, a time of renewal, a time of earthly rebirth. Hart’s music career moves in that type of cycle, gestating with possibilities and, suddenly, blossoming for public view.
BUJUMBURA (AFP) - HIV/AIDS prevalence in the small central African nation of Burundi rose to 4.2 percent last year from 3.5 percent in 2002, health officials said Thursday.
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