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It will require the collective effort of all Ghanaians to pull the country back to moral sanity. The President of the Presbyterian University College, Ghana (PUCG), Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Adow Obeng, who made the point, said: “Educational, media, traditional, religious, political and opinion leaders have to acknowledge the reality of the problem and begin to take concrete and selfless measures to add
Tennessee's latest anti-protest bill is an assault on our freedom to pray | Opinion Fifty-eight Tennessee pastors sign on to a letter calling on state lawmakers to reject a bill that would increase penalties for street protestors. 58 clergy men and women from across Tennessee View Comments The 58 clergy men and women represent congregations in East, Middle and West Tennessee. Scroll down to read their names. (Editor's note: On Tuesday, the Tennessee State Senate sent this legislation to summer study, but it still could be considered during the 2022 legislative session). An open letter to Lt....
Ancient Coins Depict First Fruits for Shavout Shavout, also called Pentecost, begins the evening of Sunday, May 16. In ancient times Shavout was one of the three pilgrimage festivals, in Hebrew called “shalosh regalim” (three [using one’s] legs [days]). These were the principal occasions when Jewish people from around the ancient world came to Jerusalem to “Offer a sacrifice to Me three times each year…” ( Exodus 23:14). The three holidays are Passover, Tabernacles) and Shavout. Shavout is celebrated 50 days after the first Passover seder, thus based upon the Greek word for 50...
Published April 27, 2021, 12:12 AM REFLECTIONS TODAY The Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah) celebrates the victory of the Maccabee brothers over the Greco-Syrian king, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who forced the Jews to worship the Greek gods, to abandon the Law of Moses, and prohibited the reading of the Torah. Even the altar of the Jerusalem Temple was desecrated and so the Temple sacrifice was stopped. With the success of the Maccabean revolt, the altar was rededicated and the Temple reconsecrated so that the disgrace of the Gentiles was removed. Judas and his brothers and the entire congregation o...
Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day) and Yom Haatzmaut (Independence Day) is highly unusual. The U.S. has five weeks between them (last Monday in May + July 4); France four months (July 14 + Nov. 11)! Then why does Israel have the latter follow immediately after the former? The answer in a word: the Jewish approach to always link joy with sadness. For anyone residing in Israel for the first time on the 4 th and 5 th of Iyar (this year, next Wednesday and Thursday), the dual holiday is extremely jarring. On the first day ( Yom Hazikaron), somber gatherings at cemeteries and other remembrance venues...