Sep 6, 2020 02:20 AM
Western Architecture’s Islamic Roots
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/09/western...mic-roots/
BLURB: From Notre Dame to St. Mark's Basilica and even Westminster Abbey, many of the icons of Western architecture owe greatly to Islamic influence - a reality that has been denied for centuries... (MORE - details, images)
A Growing Number of Catholic Schools Are Shutting Down Forever
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/us/ca...sings.html
EXCERPT: As schools around the country debate how to reopen safely, a growing number of Catholic schools - already facing declining enrollments and donations from before the pandemic - are shutting down for good. About 150 Catholic schools have closed, said Kathy Mears, the director of the National Catholic Educational Association, equal to about 2 percent of the 6,183 schools that were up and running last year. The number of closures is at least 50 percent higher this year than in previous years, Ms. Mears said... (MORE - details)
Former North Korean Christian escapee says nation's facing 'economic meltdown and famine'
https://premierchristian.news/en/news/ar...and-famine
EXCERPT: Timothy Cho fled North Korea in his twenties when he was denied entry to the army, but was sent back and went to prison and was tortured. He later tried again and was put in prison in Shanghai, where he became a Christian. He was then extradited and now lives in the UK, where he graduated and works with Christian charity Open Doors.
Cho told Premier that the coroanvirus has hit the country badly: "People are dying so easily once they have shown the symptoms because their bodies are so weak to defend, with an ongoing lack of food and nutrition and malnutrition and starvation, and they die all of a sudden, and so quickly. North Korea was already presenting with existing issues of ongoing starvation and malnutrition and economic crisis. What's been happening since this virus lockdown [is] they had closed the borders with China. So, it has radically decreased the amount of imported food and medicine, this is the reason why a lot of items' prices have gone up to more than four times and some of these imported food and foodstuff are difficult to find in the market."
With the blackmarket collapsing, and stalls closing down, more people are struggling to surivie as it can cost two months' salary to buy a kilo of rice... (MORE - details)
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/09/western...mic-roots/
BLURB: From Notre Dame to St. Mark's Basilica and even Westminster Abbey, many of the icons of Western architecture owe greatly to Islamic influence - a reality that has been denied for centuries... (MORE - details, images)
A Growing Number of Catholic Schools Are Shutting Down Forever
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/us/ca...sings.html
EXCERPT: As schools around the country debate how to reopen safely, a growing number of Catholic schools - already facing declining enrollments and donations from before the pandemic - are shutting down for good. About 150 Catholic schools have closed, said Kathy Mears, the director of the National Catholic Educational Association, equal to about 2 percent of the 6,183 schools that were up and running last year. The number of closures is at least 50 percent higher this year than in previous years, Ms. Mears said... (MORE - details)
Former North Korean Christian escapee says nation's facing 'economic meltdown and famine'
https://premierchristian.news/en/news/ar...and-famine
EXCERPT: Timothy Cho fled North Korea in his twenties when he was denied entry to the army, but was sent back and went to prison and was tortured. He later tried again and was put in prison in Shanghai, where he became a Christian. He was then extradited and now lives in the UK, where he graduated and works with Christian charity Open Doors.
Cho told Premier that the coroanvirus has hit the country badly: "People are dying so easily once they have shown the symptoms because their bodies are so weak to defend, with an ongoing lack of food and nutrition and malnutrition and starvation, and they die all of a sudden, and so quickly. North Korea was already presenting with existing issues of ongoing starvation and malnutrition and economic crisis. What's been happening since this virus lockdown [is] they had closed the borders with China. So, it has radically decreased the amount of imported food and medicine, this is the reason why a lot of items' prices have gone up to more than four times and some of these imported food and foodstuff are difficult to find in the market."
With the blackmarket collapsing, and stalls closing down, more people are struggling to surivie as it can cost two months' salary to buy a kilo of rice... (MORE - details)