Society & Culture

Churchgoers in Wales have threatened to boycott a church after it banned yoga from its building, claiming it’s “non Christian”. According to the Church’s administration, yoga was prohibited in the Church because the activity originated in ancient India and therefore “might be seen to be in conflict with Christian values and belief”.

Number of older adults living with an unmarried partner rose 75 percent from 2007 to 2016.

“1. The Johnson Amendment exclusively targets churches” CPost

Despite poor conditions and the threat of imprisonment, the number of Christian believers in North Korea is growing, Kim said, and their faith is strengthened through persecution. “The one thing that the North Korean regime fears the most, and is afraid of, is the spreading of the Gospel,” he said. “Because the Bible and the Gospel speaks the truth.

“As Comey came under the microscope of national attention, we learned that he had written his undergraduate thesis on [Reinhold] Niebuhr.” RNS

“Older Americans grew up at time when ideas about morality were more stable, he says. That’s no longer true for younger Americans.”

The Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) says its sole mission is to help North Korea’s future elite learn the skills to modernize the isolated country and engage with the outside world.

“Neither of them thought much of the other. After President Trump accused his predecessor in March of wiretapping him, James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, was flabbergasted. The president, Mr. Comey told associates, was ‘outside the realm of normal,’ even ‘crazy.’ For his part, Mr. Trump fumed when Mr. Comey publicly dismissed the sensational wiretapping claim.”