Despite threats, thousands join drive to end polio in Pakistan, a last bastion of the disease
Reuters From Thomson Reuters Foundation KARACHI/ISLAMABAD, Feb 15 (Reuters) – More than 100,000 health workers fanned out across Pakistan on Monday, stepping up a drive to eliminate the polio virus this year from one of its last bastions, despite continuing…
Houston, we have a religious freedom problem
By Rebekah Mintzer, From Corporate Counsel Some are calling it political correctness “gone mad”: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has prohibited a group of Christian employees from writing “Jesus” in a newsletter. Did NASA’s legal department make the right…
iNews Briefs & Community Events (From BIG FISH 95.5)
Grand Cayman: Roadworks commence Thu (4) Red Bay area Drivers and pedestrians may have noticed that some road work projects are underway, and the National Roads Authority (NRA) advises that these will continue for some time. Along the east-west arterial road…
CCLI appoints Malcolm Hawker as President and CEO
January 21, 2016, VANCOUVER, WA, USA – CCLI (Christian Copyright Licensing International, Inc.) announced the appointment of Malcolm Hawker, an executive of the company since 2006, as President/CEO effective January 1, 2016. Howard Rachinski remains an integral part of the…
Cayman Islands Adventist Church prioritises community needs
Legal advice, health screening, and aid to persons in hard times, including the often neglected elderly, are among plans hammered out at last week’s meeting of top administrators of Cayman’s Adventist Church as part of its four-year planning cycle. “We…
Cayman Keswick
Georgina Wilcox The annual Cayman Keswick started last Sunday (17) at The Church of God, Walkers Road, George Town, Grand Cayman. Cayman Keswick is one of the premier opportunities for Christians to unite with each other for worship, fellowship and…
Minn. woman killed in crash during mother-daughter trip to Caribbean
From Kare 11 SPRING LAKE PARK, Minn. — A bus accident killed a Minnesota mother of four and pastor’s wife who was on vacation in the Caribbean with her daughter. Crystal Glewwe, 32, of Ham Lake was on a special mother-daughter…
Mother Teresa’s physician applauds her expected canonization
One of the world’s top cardiac surgeons , Dr. Devi Shetty, is applauding the decision to clear the late Mother Teresa’s path to sainthood. Mother Teresa, widely admired around the world as a champion of the poor in the slums…
The CEO of a $300 million company says she only hires ‘missionaries’ — here are the questions she asks to find them
By Rachel Gillett From Business Insider Jessica Herrin wants to hire “missionaries, not mercenaries,” she tells The New York Times’ Adam Bryant. “Missionaries” are driven by passion for the mission, while “mercenaries” are more concerned about the material reward. To find missionaries,…
A rupture in Europe, but whose politics will prevail?
By Rachel Shabi From AlJazeer t’s a bleakly depressing map – an aptly illustrative closing curtain on a bleakly depressing year. Bad enough that the nightmarish war in Syria unleashed the biggest refugee crisis since World War II. Horrendous enough that…