Malgorzata Gersdorf showed up for work despite being barred by new rules giving the government more control of the judiciary. Hundreds of demonstrators cheered her on.
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Facebook gave certain companies special access to customer data
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What do Mail.ru, Nissan, Spotify, and Nike have in common? They were all afforded temporary extensions to access private Facebook data API.
UKR Embassy in CHE on Twitter: “It’s been 52 days since Oleg #Sentsov started a hunger strike. He demands the release of all 🇺🇦 political prisoners of the Kremlin. We call upon World ⚽️ community to back him up. Endorsing @FIFAWorldCup in #Russia = sponsoring wars, crime and terror. #FreeSentsov… https://t.co/t3iyrEakZP”
Via aleksey godin
It’s been 52 days since Oleg #Sentsov started a hunger strike. He demands the release of all
political prisoners of the Kremlin.
We call upon World
community to back him up.
Endorsing @FIFAWorldCup in #Russia = sponsoring wars, crime and terror.
Boy among two killed by Israeli fire in Gaza
Yasir Amjad Musa Abu al-Naja, 12, is second Palestinian child killed this week.
God and the gangs
In Cruz’s research, more than half of the Salvadoran gang members he surveyed identify as evangelicals and attend church services an average of 15 times a month. In contrast, just 17 percent of gang members identify as Catholic.
From the NPR report:
During the service, a pastor talks about the gangs, known in El Salvador as pandillas. He tells the congregation that in prison, God leaves one naked and opens the doors for new beginnings. He says God is always faithful, even when others aren’t. He prays for gang members to leave behind a life of violence and join the church.
“The God we preach is one of opportunity,” another pastor, the Rev. Nelson Moz, who has led Eben-ezer for 21 years, says after the service. “Our message is that [the gang members] should understand there is a life outside of the gang. That they can make it, with the help of God.”
It is this emphasis on personal transformation that makes El Salvador’s gang members embrace evangelicalism, says José Miguel Cruz, director of research at Florida International University’s Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, who has studied the relationship between the two.
In Cruz’s research, more than half of the Salvadoran gang members he surveyed identify as evangelicals and attend church services an average of 15 times a month. In contrast, just 17 percent of gang members identify as Catholic.
For a fuller description of religion and other social factors involved in gang membership, you should definitely read the research led by Cruz which resulted in a report titled The New Face of Street Gangs: The Gang Phenomenon in El Salvador.
Australian Valley Eyewear firm shoots ad at Jasenovac death camp
money, money, money, money – makes everything alright mate? NOT! Australian company Valley Eyewear has prompted outrage by publishing a sunglasses ad shot at Croatian World War II death camp Jasenovac. The firm told DW the photos were “taken completely out of context.”
Lawyers for Neo-Nazi to Defend Alex Jones in Sandy Hook Case
Media law experts say defamation cases brought by families of nine shooting victims put Mr. Jones and his online InfoWars empire at risk.
An ICE Raid Leaves an Iowa Town Divided Along Faith Lines
The detention of 32 workers at a concrete plant opened fissures among the town’s churches and secular leaders, and brought an abstract national issue painfully close to home.
China Warns Its Tourists: Beware Gun Violence in America
The notice was China’s latest effort to warn its citizens about visiting the U.S., where about as many people are killed by guns as in car accidents.
When Health Insurance Prices Rose Last Year, Around a Million Americans Dropped Coverage
People earning too much to qualify for subsidies are finding themselves priced out, according to a new government report.
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