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...Ghana has separate ministries for transport, railways development, roads and highways, and aviation, for example. The ministries of information and communications are separate entities....
...And that really comes from his father’s example, a minister in the Church of Scotland....
...By any account of what it means to be a practising Christian — going to church, believing in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, et cetera — the majority of Brits haven’t been “Christian” for some time....
...a minority faith....
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..., all locations where Francis will deliver a rare message of hope....
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...One beacon of hope, says Lee Taylor, a priest at St Michael & All Angels church in Manor Park, is that the pandemic has “galvanised” local networks....
...Opened in 2015, it is a great improvement on parliament’s old home in the former trade ministry....
...He hopes to look for office work but also develop his skills as a music producer and composer....
...But the reason why the Christian faith can speak of hope meaningfully is precisely because it recognises that the desolation of Good Friday is not an end but a beginning....
...But drama can get under the skin of that story. Alexander Zeldin’s Faith, Hope and Charity (at the National’s Dorfman Theatre) does precisely that....
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...Signing cheques to plant millions of trees or fund a worldwide charity concert was easy when companies consistently beat their earnings estimates....
...Leaps of financial faith fit into Osteen’s view that God will always underwrite true believers....
...The instructor said that if hostages were not religious, this was the wrong time to seek faith, because of the fragile balance of hope and disappointment. My group protested....
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