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Church of the Holy Spirit in Lake Forest holds Palm Sunday procession to begin Easter week
2025-04-29 13:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
The Church of the Holy Spirit in Lake Forest invited the community to begin their journey through Holy Week on Sunday morning, with a celebration of the Sunday of the Passion, or Palm Sunday.Congregants gathered at the neighborhood Starbucks on Western Avenue at 8:30 a.m., before congregating in Market Square, for a brief outdoor service and singing, and to take part in a Palm Sunday procession from Market Square to the Church of the Holy Spirit, at 400 East Westminster in Lake Forest.The procession starts on a high note, marking the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, which then moves from triumph to tragedy during Easter week, Rev. Luke Back, rector of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Lake Forest said.According to Reverend Back, the Market Square celebration is characterized by music, performed by the Cherub choir (children under 5-years-old) and the Childrens Choir, with participation also from the Adult Choir.We use the procession as a stepping off point, both literally a...
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Trump says U.S. to sign rare earths minerals deal with Ukraine next week
2025-04-29 13:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
President Trump greets Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni outside the West Wing of the White House on Thursday. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Win McNamee/Getty Images President Trump on Thursday said the U.S. would sign a rare earths minerals deal with Ukraine next week. The deal was first floated in February, ahead of a meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office that grew contentious. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the deal would be signed around April 26. "It's substantially what we agreed on previously when the president was here," Bessant said. "We had a memorandum of understanding. We went straight to the big deal and an 80-page agreement and that's what we'll be signing." At the Oval Office meeting in February, Trump accused Zelenskyy of "not acting at all thankful" for U.S. support for Ukraine's effort in its war against Russia. The tense exchange delayed a potential deal between the two countries that wo...
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Palestinian medic missing since deadly IDF attack on convoy is being detained by Israel, Red Cross says
2025-04-29 13:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
A Palestinian medic who has been missing for almost three weeks since a deadly attack by Israeli troops on a convoy of emergency vehiclesin the Gaza Strip is being detained by Israel, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Wednesday. The ICRC received information that Assad al-Nassasra was being held in an Israeli place of detention, chief spokesperson Christian Cardon said in a statement Wednesday. He added that the organization had informed Nassasra's family along with his employer, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).The PRCS said Monday in a post on X that until it was informed by the ICRC that Nassasra was alive, his fate had remained unknown since he was targeted along with other PRCS medics in Rafah.The Israel Defense Forces would not confirm if Nassasra was in its custody when asked about his whereabouts by NBC News.The Israeli military has been widely criticized after it walked back its account of the incident March 23, which saw 15 Palestinian paramedic...
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George Clooney and Nate Silver reveal their picks for future of Democratic party
2025-04-29 13:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Actor George Clooney and statistician Nate Silver have revealed who they believe will be the Democratic nominee in 2028. Clooney said during an interview with CNN Wednesday that he backs Maryland Governor Wes Moore, who he hailed as a proper leader for his handling of the Baltimore Key Bridge collapse last year. Silver, meanwhile, predicts that progressive New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be the Democratic pick, citing her high polling numbers.Silver shared his thoughts as part of his Silver Bulletin newsletter on Wednesday alongside former FiveThirtyEight podcast host Galen Druke, who currently hosts the GD Politics podcast. Druke also chose the New York progressive as his top pick. I think theres a lot of points in her favor at this very moment, Druke noted. In a Yale poll just out this week, AOC has the highest net favorability rating of any of the Democrats that they asked about.Druke went on to say that Ocasio-Cortez has broad appeal across the Democratic Party...
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Aid groups describe dire conditions in Gaza as Israel says there is no shortage of aid
2025-04-29 13:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Children crowding around a charity kitchen holding empty pots and pans clamoring for food to take to their families. Hours spent in search of clean water and scouring piles of garbage looking for trash to burn for a fire to cook or keep warm. These scenes, which NBC News crew in the Gaza Strip captured over the past week, come as humanitarian agencies sound the alarm over a dire and worsening situation in in the Palestinian enclave as Israel enforces a blockade on food, water, fuel, medical supplies and other aid and goods. Israeli officials maintain there is "no shortage" of aid in Gaza and accuse Hamas of withholding supplies. Israel says its blockade is crucial to its goal of weakening the militant group's control over the population. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the World Food Programme (WFP) told NBC News they had seen "no evidence" of a diversion of aid in Gaza. Both warned that supplies in the enclave were running out.'Scrapi...
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