I wonder if this has been mentioned : A few days ago, David Moreau, the head of the WTS Dominican branch, was assassinated on the street. At the end of the day, he was going outside for a walk with his wife Marylène. They came across two guys who asked them for money. As he said that he hadn't any, one of the guys shot him down. The thug wanted to finish him off, Marylène implored him to spare him. He was taken to hospital but, being badly injured in the kidneys, he died shortly after.
David was the former head of the french guyanese branch and was appointed to D.R after the closure of Cayenne bethel. Before being part of the permanent staff of the Guyanese bethel he had belonged to Martinique bethel and would travel to Cayenne as the circuit overseer for the whole country. They were both nice people, apparently very sincere and dedicated to their cause. He certainly didn't deserve such a ghastly end. My thought go out to Marylène.
It is considered in France that she marks the beginning of the sense of belonging to a nation, although in her time the English and French people were very much intermingled, with about the same languages spoken in royal courts and rulers being parts of the same families. The two countries could easily have been united, thence no Yorktown, no Waterloo nor Mer el Kebir.
French historians care little about whether her "voices" were real or not, they just consider the character who mobilized French energies around the Dauphin, whom she got crowned at Reims, at one of the lowest points ever in the history of the country.
over a decade of witnessing abuse and neglect at the missionaries of charity.. http://sallywarner.blogspot.com/2010/12/over-decade-of-witnessing-abuse-and.html.
The late Christopher Hitchens wrote something about that, seems that many eyebrows are being raised as the Pope is rushing to sanctify "Mother" Theresa.
this weekend serious sources told me that in the netherlands the society is closing down all non-native congregations.
because of the mixed population of this country, there are >100 non-native congregations like english, france, dutch-caribian, arab, chinese, italian, russian, spanish etc.. my source was backing the dissision of the society because "these non-native congregations are islands on their own, with group-thinking and not allways listening to the society..." and concluded "these non-natives has to learn dutch instead of we are learning their language".. strange: some years ago many jw's learned a foreign language (like arab or chinese!
earthquakes continued unrelentingly in christchurch on saturday, including one measuring 5.l at 6.37am (0437 aedt), as residents of the city prepared for a christmas overshadowed by an ongoing natural disaster.. quakes measuring 5.8 and 6.0 on friday left dozens of people with minor injuries, while damage echoed previous quakes that had rattled the city since september last year.. saturday's morning quake was located 10km east of akaroa at a depth of 9km, gns science said.. there were also two magnitude 4.2 quakes and two magnitude 4.3 quakes overnight and many other smaller shakes.. there are still about 400 residents without power on the eastern side of the city and aftershocks have cut water supply to the suburbs of sumner, redcliffs, moncks bay, balmoral hill, richmond hill, clifton and scarborough, parts of st andrews hill and mt pleasant.. the palms shopping mall, which serves the eastern suburbs, is not opening on saturday.. however, public transport is operating and a carols by candlelight concert is going ahead at hagley park north on saturday night.. "liquefaction, rockfalls and water supply are the main areas of concern following yesterday's cluster of aftershocks in christchurch," the ministry of civil defence and emergency management said on saturday.. on friday belongings fell from shelves in homes, others were swamped by liquefaction, windows smashed and once again stock was destroyed in stores where business as usual had only just resumed for the pre-christmas rush.. malls were evacuated, as was christchurch airport, disrupting travel for holidaymakers and those heading home for the festive season.. power was knocked out to 26,000 customers and phone lines became jammed, but key infrastructure, including water and sewerage, were largely unaffected.. some quake-weary residents once again left their homes.. denise and max ferris, who live in the eastern hill suburb of mt pleasant, packed up their young daughter, her new kitten and their car and headed to leeston, 40 minutes drive southwest of christchurch, for a reprieve.. their home was too damaged again to stay in overnight.. "we would be lucky if there are six people left in our street," mrs ferris said.. the family plan to return home for christmas day but expect to have a picnic outdoors, not trusting it will be safe indoors.. "like most people, we have to try and make it as normal as possible under very trying conditions," she told nz newswire.. deputy mayor ngaire button was adamant the quakes would not set back the city's recovery.. "we believe that this event will pass quickly and that we'll all be able to enjoy christmas on sunday.".
geonet project director ken gledhill told aap the quakes are part of a pattern that has been seen repeatedly since september 2010, with aftershocks petering off ahead of quakes last boxing day, and in february and june.. .
