By: Miracle Nwankwo
Fernandez-Ruiz is a native of the Philippines who was born in 1985 and raised by a missionary mother who travelled around the country ministering and providing help to the needy.
By: Simone Paget There’s the popular saying that one cannot serve two masters at the same time. Materialism goes beyond buying clothes and shoes or the things we desire to have. It’s an attachment to material possessions, placing more value on the natural things (or man-made) than moral or spiritual values. Marriage, on the other hand, is a great entanglement. It is a bond that joins you and another person together and forever. Marriage takes your time and everything. In marriage you are committed to sharing your life with the other party. Both marriage and materialism are jealous lovers, and it has been said that where your treasure is there your heart will be. As a person cut in between materialism and marriage you will have to choose between the two concepts. It has been observed that the more materialistic a couple is, the less likely they are to have…
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong, 75, is an American novelist and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying
Varicose veins are veins that are swollen and are raised above the skin. They can be blue, red, or flesh-colored. They often look like cords and appear twisted and bulging. These veins are often found on the thighs, backs of the calves, or the inside of the leg and can also form around the vagina and on the buttocks of pregnant women. Spider veins on the other hand are smaller than the varicose vein and are closer to the surface of the skin. Often, they are either red or blue. They can look like tree branches or spider webs with their short, jagged lines. They can be found on the legs and face and can cover either a very small or very large area of skin. Varicose veins can be caused by weak or damaged valves in the veins. Since veins have valves that act as one-way flaps to prevent blood…
Joyce Banda formerly known as Joyce Hilda Ntilda was born on the 12th day of April 1950 in a little village called Malemia under Zomba district of Malawi. She was a mother of three children, once married to Mr Roy Kachale and they lived in Kenya. After her abusive marriage with Mr Roy ended in 1981, she fled with her children back to Malawi. There she met Mr Richard Banda who is a one-time Chief Justice of the Republic of Malawi. Their marriage is blessed with two children.
With the theme “empowering children enabling wellbeing”, the Buds of Christ; an Indian organization catering for orphan children and striving to make these children educated people who will contribute to the growth of their community has made significant impact in India. Orphan children are often perceived as a burden to society but with the activities of this charity organization, there is a ray of hope that orphan children in India will turn out to be more of a blessing than a curse to society. Buds of Christ charitable trust is an organization that believes in educating and protecting rural orphan girls until they become of age (21 years), such that the girl child will not be neglected and exploited physically or abused sexually. This action on the long run helps the girls to enjoy education like their peers, and make right choices while setting future goals.
By: Kelly Weill Five Maryland legislators could have ended a policy that forces women to share child custody with their rapists. Instead the five legislators, all men, buried the bill. Maryland is one of seven states without a law allowing women to terminate parental rights for their rapists, if their child was conceived as a result of sexual assault, according to reproductive rights organization NARAL. The state’s current policy forces survivors to negotiate child custody and adoption issues with their attacker. In a bid to update the draconian policy, Maryland Delegate Kathleen Dumais introduced legislation that would allow a woman to cut her rapist’s parental rights. But while the bill passed both Maryland’s House and Senate, the bill’s text varied between the two legislative bodies. On Monday, the last day of legislative session, a five-person negotiating group was set to decide on the bill’s final text, the Baltimore Sun reported.…
