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The Happiest Countries In The World 2021
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April 21, 2020
INTRODUCTION
Frigid temperatures, dark winter days, a breathtakingly high cost of living: who would ever want to live in a place like that? As it turns out, that is precisely where one can find the happiest people on planet Earth. Finland conquered the United Nation s World Happiness Report s top spot for the fourth year in a row, and not because there is something in the icy waters of this nation of just 5.5 million people. Finland is not the richest nation either among the 149 countries surveyed by Gallup World Poll: more than one dozen other nations beat the country s GDP per capita.
On Eve of Summit, Americans Still View Japan Positively
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga are scheduled to meet Friday in Washington, D.C., for what will be the first in-person visit by a foreign leader since Biden took office. Americans generally hold this key U.S. ally in high esteem; 84% had a very or mostly favorable view of the country in February, Gallup s most recent reading. Since 1996, majorities of Americans have viewed Japan favorably.
Line graph. Americans views of Japan. 84% of Americans hold a very or mostly favorable view of Japan, little changed over the past 20 years.
A British think tank ranks Estonia’s prosperity 21st highest in the world
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The Legatum Institute, a British think tank, ranks Estonia’s prosperity 21st in the world among 167 ranked countries.
According to the think tank, Estonia performs highly in the natural environment and the economic quality categories of the index, but is the weakest in the health category. However, the institute says the biggest improvement compared with a decade ago came in the health category.
The institute also notes that since 2010, Estonia has moved up in the rankings by three places.
The Legatum Prosperity Index is based on over a hundred different variables analysed across 67 nations around the world. Source data includes the Gallup World Poll, the World Development Indicators, the International Telecommunication Union, the Fragile States Index, the Worldwide Governance Indicators, Freedom House, the World Health Organisation, the World Values Survey, Amnesty International and
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Good morning, friends!
An
excellent new summary of what’s going on with “faith” in the NT by Nijay Gupta:
Mark Twain once said, wryly, “Faith is believin’ what you know ain’t so.” Many Christians, including myself, would have much to disagree with in Twain’s description, but one thing he got right about virtually all modern readers of the English Bible they assume that “faith” is about “beliefs.” Now, there must be
some connection between “faith” and “belief” hence the historical Christians creeds begin with
credo, “I believe in.” But is there more to faith than belief?