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May 19, 2021 | 9:18 pm
THE GOVERNMENT should scrap its 40% foreign ownership limit in certain industries to encourage more investments particularly from Taiwan, according to its ambassador in the Philippines.
âPlease try your best to abolish the 40% restriction for foreigners in the Philippine Constitution,â Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in the Philippines (TECO) Representative Michael Peiyung Hsu told an online forum on Wednesday.
âItâs very painful for many because weâve lost a lot of money,â he said at the forum hosted by the University of Asia and the Pacific School of Law and Governance and
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A Taiwanese science and technology university had considered opening a branch in Batangas province, but would not do so because of the limit, he added.
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ELCA appoints a they to leadership position
Friday, May 14, 2021 |
Steve Jordahl (OneNewsNow.com)
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America has appointed its first transgender bishop – and at least one evangelical author and educator isn t surprised in the least.
Last Saturday, Evangelical Lutherans in California s Bay Area elected a man who goes by the name Megan Rohrer (
pictured) to oversee churches and pastors in Northern and Central California and parts of Nevada. Christian apologist Dr. Alex McFarland says he saw this one coming a mile away. When you deviate from scriptural fidelity, without fail you digress into leftist activism, says McFarland. It s because people will have some god or some cause or some ultimate thing to which they attach themselves.
A San Francisco pastor has become the first openly transgender bishop in the U.S.
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This April 2021 selfie photo shows the Rev. Megan Rohrer, at the Grace Lutheran Church in San Francisco. Rohrer was elected bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America s Sierra Pacific synod on Saturday, May 8, 2021, becoming the first transgender person to serve as bishop in the denomination or in any of the U.S. major Christian faiths. (Meghan Rohrer via AP)Meghan Rohrer / Associated Press
San Francisco pastor Megan Rohrer last weekend became the first openly transgender person to be elevated to the role of bishop in a major Christian denomination in the United States.