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Two killed in post-election violence Monday February 22 2021 Two people have been confirmed dead in the post-election violence in Ngora District. Locals say the deaths happened at two scenes after the Electoral Commission (EC) headquarters in Kampala declared Juliet Achayo Lodou as winner for Ngora County election against the earlier declaration of Mr David Abala by the returning officer, Mr Peter Toddu. One of the deceased has been identified as Patrick Ojakol, a resident of Opege Village in O...

In the 1965 film, “A Thousand Clowns,” Jason Robards plays Murray Burns, an eccentric comedy writer whose unemployed status threatens his legal custody of his 12-year-old nephew. In one of the key lines from the film about his hopes for his nephew’s independence in a conforming society, he concludes: “I want him to know the subtle, sneaky, important reason why he was born a human being and not a chair.”   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thousand_Clowns If this seems an odd way to ba...

Photo by Fr. Barry Braum on Unsplash Journey with America’s editors as they reflect on Scripture, prayer, fasting and almsgiving both in written form and on “The Word” podcast. Subscribe to The Word in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or your favorite podcast player and never miss a reflection.  A reading from the Gospel of Matthew When Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples, They replied, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, still othe...

REFLECTIONS TODAY Simon Peter’s confession is used as Gospel reading for the feast of the Chair of St. Peter. While Peter is at times presented as sitting on a chair, while holding a key, the feast is not about a material chair (although a statue called Cathedra Petri is located in the apse of St.

Kristi Cain Contributing Writer 2021 17 Feb Let’s face it: choosing joy is a lot easier said than done. We live in a world that is constantly clamoring for our attention, our energy, and our sense of security, leaving us drained of joy or any kind of positive outlook all too often. But if we could just remember to turn to our one true source of inspiration in life, we would realize how very abundant God’s joy re...

Rethinking the desktop with reference to Apples early UI guidelines Tim Anderson Fri 12 Feb 2021 // 10:29 UTC Share Copy Updated A pre-alpha project to make a new FreeBSD-based desktop operating system has adopted a minimalist design intended to appeal to Mac defectors. FreeBSD is a Unix-like operating system first released in 1993 based on the Berkeley Software Distribution. The core of Apples macOS, called Darwin, uses some code from FreeBSD. Despite its high quality, ...

Daily Monitor Wednesday February 10 2021 Advertisement Former presidential candidate Patrick Oboi Amuriat has expressed concern over the bad precedence set by church leaders who are allegedly living adulterous lives. Mr Amuriat attacked retired Archbishop Stanley Ntagali for not living by the doctrines and teachings of the church and the Bible. “Imagine the whole person of the archbishop to tiptoe for the wife of reverend, that is so sad,” he said. Mr Amuriat wondered how the church would c...

By Editor | February 10, 2021 By MARK EVANS mevans@stegenherald.com When Farrar “Moses” Riney died in St. Mary (then spelled St. Mary’s) on Fen. 16, 1921, he left an amazing legacy for that time and place. Born a slave, he had fought in the Union army to help abolish slavery, then had owned his own home in St. Mary. A respected member of Immaculate Conception Church, he was buried in the cemetery in town and was referred to in his obituary as being respected by both blacks and whites. O...

The Electoral Commission (EC) list of newly-elected legislators of the 11th Parliament has caused uproar in Ngora District

The Lord of time and the doomsday clock JavaScript in your web browser. Please The Lord of time and the doomsday clock The Lord of time and the doomsday clock Wallace Henley, former Senior Associate Pastor of 2nd Baptist Church in Houston, Texas. | Photo by Scott Belin The keepers of the “Doomsday Clock” met virtually this year due to the pandemic. Not so the Lord of time and history and His team when they literally met at the Mount of Olives (“Olivet”) two thousand years ago. There an...