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Mission trip to France, better than Chanel perfume! OM Transform

Transform mission conference one year, outreach team in France the following year, the sisters from Mexico are eager to share the love of Christ, realising the audience was different from what they expected.




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1,000 Muslim background missionaries

Algeria could transform missions in the Middle East, with a new ministry seeking to send 1,000 Algerian missionaries by 2025.




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The Great Commission applies to families

Bahia Blanca, Argentina :: A missionary couple teaches church members about serving God as a family.




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Blog from Bolivia: Moving ministries and the best birthday

Santa Cruz, Bolivia :: God surprises a Logos Hope crewmember with birthday treats and new perspectives as she serves with a team on shore.




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Penn State DuBois, York to offer remote Assisted Living Administrator training

Penn State DuBois is teaming up with Penn State York to offer a remote learning opportunity for those seeking the Assisted Living Administrator, 15-hour training. This training prepares those who are planning on taking the licensing test, or qualifies as the required 15 hours of Continuing Medical Education for those completing training to maintain their current license.




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How to manage fear during the pandemic, according to a Penn State expert

James Dillard, distinguished professor of communication arts and sciences at Penn State, describes strategies to help regulate emotions during the stress and uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic.




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Penn State’s nominees for Truman Scholarship exemplify service

Erin Brown and William McCarter were Penn State’s 2020 nominees for the Truman Scholarship, which rewards students for commitments to public service.




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Clara Miller selected as women's, gender, and sexuality studies marshal

As part of Penn State’s 2020 spring commencement activities, Clara Miller will represent the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the College of the Liberal Arts as its student marshal.




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RTI Commission

The International Reading Association has established a RTI Commission to address issues and concerns raised by members related to the response-to-intervention approach to reading instruction. RTI is being implemented across the country as a way of improving instruction for all students, as well as




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Update: Middle School Readers Need More Precise RTI Screenings, Study Finds

Assessment for reading interventions in response-to-intervention models may be too narrow to identify students struggling in different aspects of reading.




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Feds Invest $10 Million Into Research for Severe Learning Disabilities

The funding will establish a center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. that will focus on instructional strategies in reading and math for students with persistent learning struggles.




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Mission school begins

Fourteen students from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru participate in an intensive mission training to gain insight and skill for cross-cultural work.




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Taking sports ministry to the next level

Three hundred people interested in sports ministry gathered in Ecuador in April for a forum organised by the Coalición Internacional del Deporte.




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St. Damien of Moloka'i

The Catholic Church remembers St. Damien of Molokai on May 10. The Belgian priest sacrificed his life and health to become a spiritual father to the victims of leprosy quarantined on a Hawaiian island.Joseph de Veuser, who later took the name Damien in religious life, was born into a farming family in the Belgian town of Tremlo in 1840. During his youth he felt a calling to become a Catholic missionary, an urge that prompted him to join the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.Damien's final vows to the congregation involved a dramatic ceremony in which his superiors draped him in the cloth that would be used to cover his coffin after death. The custom was meant to symbolize the young man's solemn commitment, and his identification with Christ's own death. For Damien, the event would become more significant, as he would go on to lay down his life for the lepers of Molokai.His superiors originally intended to send Damien's brother, a member of the same congregation, to Hawaii. But he became sick, and Damien arranged to take his place. Damien arrived in Honolulu in 1864, less than a century after Europeans had begun to establish a presence in Hawaii. He was ordained a priest the same year.During his ninth year of the priesthood, Father Damien responded to his bishop's call for priests to serve on the leper colony of Molokai. A lack of previous exposure to leprosy, which had no treatment at the time, made the Hawaiian natives especially susceptible to the infection. Molokai became a quarantine center for the victims, who became disfigured and debilitated as the disease progressed.The island had become a wasteland in human terms, despite its natural beauty. The leprosy victims of Molokai faced hopeless conditions and extreme deprivation, sometimes lacking not only basic palliative care but even the means of survival.Inwardly, Fr. Damien was terrified by the prospect of contracting leprosy himself. However, he knew that he would have to set aside this fear in order to convey God's love to the lepers in the most authentic way. Other missionaries had kept the lepers at arms' length, but Fr. Damien chose to immerse himself in their common life and leave the outcome to God.The inhabitants of Molokai saw the difference in the new priest's approach, and embraced his efforts to improve their living conditions. A strong man, accustomed to physical labor, he performed the Church's traditional works of mercy – such as feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, and giving proper burial to the dead – in the face of suffering that others could hardly even bear to see.Fr. Damien's work helped to raise the lepers up from their physical sufferings, while also making them aware of their worth as beloved children of God. Although he could not take away the constant presence of death in the leper colony, he could change its meaning and inspire hope. The death-sentence of leprosy could, and often did, become a painful yet redemptive path toward eternal life.The priest's devotion to his people, and his activism on their behalf, sometimes alienated him from officials of the Hawaiian kingdom and from his religious superiors in Europe. His mission was not only fateful, but also lonely. He drew strength from Eucharistic adoration and the celebration of the Mass, but longed for another priest to arrive so that he could receive the sacrament of confession regularly.In December of 1884, Fr. Damien discovered that he had lost all feeling in his feet. It was an early, but unmistakable sign that he had contracted leprosy. The priest knew that his time was short. He undertook to finish whatever accomplishments he could, on behalf of his fellow colony residents, before the diseased robbed him of his eyesight, speech and mobility.Fr. Damien suffered humiliations and personal trials during his final years. An American Protestant minister accused him of scandalous behavior, based on the contemporary belief that leprosy was a sexually transmitted disease. He ran into disagreements with his religious superiors, and felt psychologically tormented by the notion that his work had been a failure.In the end, priests of his congregation arrived to administer the last sacraments to the dying priest. During the Spring of 1889, Fr. Damien told his friends that he believed it was God's will for him to spend the upcoming Easter not on Molokai, but in heaven. He died of leprosy during Holy Week, on April 15, 1889.St. Damien of Molokai was beatified in 1995. Pope Benedict XVI canonized him in 2009.



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Website & social media lead to ministry

Milena found mission opportunities on OM Germany’s website, which led her to share the love of God in Belgium.




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Combining personal passion with ministry

Ride2Transform allows teams on two wheels to pedal far and wide, praying and sharing the love of Christ in least reached areas in Europe and Africa.




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Mission trip to France, better than Chanel perfume! OM Transform

Transform mission conference one year, outreach team in France the following year, the sisters from Mexico are eager to share the love of Christ, realising the audience was different from what they expected.




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1,000 Muslim background missionaries

Algeria could transform missions in the Middle East, with a new ministry seeking to send 1,000 Algerian missionaries by 2025.




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The Great Commission applies to families

Bahia Blanca, Argentina :: A missionary couple teaches church members about serving God as a family.




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Blog from Bolivia: Moving ministries and the best birthday

Santa Cruz, Bolivia :: God surprises a Logos Hope crewmember with birthday treats and new perspectives as she serves with a team on shore.




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Mission trip to France, better than Chanel perfume! OM Transform

Transform mission conference one year, outreach team in France the following year, the sisters from Mexico are eager to share the love of Christ, realising the audience was different from what they expected.




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1,000 Muslim background missionaries

Algeria could transform missions in the Middle East, with a new ministry seeking to send 1,000 Algerian missionaries by 2025.




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The Great Commission applies to families

Bahia Blanca, Argentina :: A missionary couple teaches church members about serving God as a family.




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Blog from Bolivia: Moving ministries and the best birthday

Santa Cruz, Bolivia :: God surprises a Logos Hope crewmember with birthday treats and new perspectives as she serves with a team on shore.




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On Mother's Day, Shilpa Shetty Shares A Glimpse Of Daughter Samisha

"Happy Mother's Day to me and to all those amazing mothers out there," wrote Shilpa Shetty




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Coronavirus: Lewis Hamilton Grateful For Grand Prix "Sabbatical"

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AC Milan First Team Players Test Negative For Coronavirus

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KKR And People Of Kolkata Have A "Fond Place In My Heart": Pat Cummins

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Jamming the Marketing Hall of Femme

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DMN: A Change is Coming

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Worldwide Coronavirus Cases Surpass 4 Million: Report

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On Mother's Day, Shilpa Shetty Shares A Glimpse Of Daughter Samisha

"Happy Mother's Day to me and to all those amazing mothers out there," wrote Shilpa Shetty




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3 Migrant Workers On Way To UP Die On Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh Border

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Not Testing Samples Of Girl Who Died Of COVID-19 A Mistake: Himanta Sarma

Doctors at the government-run ESIC Hospital committed a "mistake" by not testing samples of a 16-year-old girl, who later died of Covid-19, Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Saturday.




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Missing Liquor Case: Cops Seize Rs 97 Lakh Cash, Pistol, SUV In Haryana

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Government Should Allow Private Vehicles To Ferry Migrants: Sanjay Raut

Senior Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday said the Maharashtra government should give permission to private vehicles for ferrying migrant labourers to their native places during the lockdown.




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Amid Lockdown, Madhya Pradesh Government Reshuffles 50 IAS Officers

In a major administrative reshuffle amid the lockdown, the Madhya Pradesh government has transferred 50 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, including some additional chief secretaries,...




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Elon Musk Threatens Removing Tesla From California Amid COVID-19 Lockdown

Tesla chief Elon Musk on Saturday threatened to pull his electric car headquarters and plant out of California after local authorities kept him from resuming production due to the coronavirus...




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Opinion: For Migrant Workers, BJP Has Neither Heart Nor Conscience

Earlier this week, all of us woke up to a nightmare - to the horrific news of 17, at last count, migrant workers being run over by a goods train in Aurangabad. They were walking home, hundreds of...




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Centre Preps "Image Correction" Exercise To Blunt Criticism Over Migrants

The centre will launch an "image correction" exercise to counter what is seen as not doing enough to help stranded and hungry migrant workers amid the lockdown necessitated by the coronavirus...




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Rajinikanth's Sharp Attack On Tamil Nadu Government Over Liquor Sale

Superstar Rajinikanth this morning launched a scathing attack on the AIADMK government in Tamil Nadu, a day after the state moved the Supreme Court seeking an urgent stay on Madras High Court's order...




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"75% Virus Patients In Delhi Have No Or Mild Symptoms": Arvind Kejriwal

Nearly 75 per cent coronavirus patients in Delhi are either asymptomatic or have mild symptoms, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said today as he reminded that the city has to "learn to live with...




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Coronavirus Pandemic: Hyundai Eyeing Steady Approach Before Starting Full Scale Car Production

Hyundai Motor India has restarted the production at its Chennai-based plant by ensuring 100 per cent compliance to social distancing and adhering to all the guidelines issued by the State and Central...




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Coronavirus Pandemic: MapmyIndia Introduces New Tools To Alert About Coronavirus Impacted Localities

The app will generate real-time location-based alerts helping all employees and consumer base in being aware of the relevant localised corona safety information.




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Mazda Motor Seeks $2.8 Billion In Loans To Ride Out Pandemic

Mazda Motor Corp has sought loans totalling about 300 billion yen ($2.8 billion) from Japan's three megabanks and other lenders to ride out the coronavirus epidemic, a source with direct knowledge of...




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Mazda Motor Seeks $2.8 Billion In Loans To Ride Out Pandemic

Mazda Motor Corp has sought loans totalling about 300 billion yen ($2.8 billion) from Japan's three megabanks and other lenders to ride out the coronavirus epidemic, a source with direct knowledge of...




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Mazda Motor Seeks $2.8 Billion In Loans To Ride Out Pandemic

Mazda Motor Corp has sought loans totalling about 300 billion yen ($2.8 billion) from Japan's three megabanks and other lenders to ride out the coronavirus epidemic, a source with direct knowledge of...




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Mi 10 5G vs Samsung Galaxy S20: What's Different?

Mi 10 5G by Xiaomi has finally made its debut in India. The Xiaomi Mi 10 5G comes in two storage models and is offered in two colour options. Additionally, the phone packs the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865...




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ROAD A AND MALL ROAD COMING FROM FASHION CENTER, RIGHT MERGE LANE CLOSED UNTIL MAY 11




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SEPTA WILMINGTON/NEWARK LINE WILL OPERATE AN ESSENTIAL SERVICE SCHEDULE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. THE SPECIAL SCHEDULE WILL OPERATE DAILY WITH NO SERVICE TO CHURCHMANS CROSSING.



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