ebola (6)

Nigeria, through the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control and with approval from President Jonathan, will send nearly 600 volunteers to support Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa. The medical aides will join 1,000 health workers from across the African continent -- filling a critical shortage of medical workers who are willing to treat Ebola patients.

Nigeria's first set of 250 volunteers, who will meet the global health standards set forth by the World Health Organization (WHO), are set to

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AS the spectre of Ebola stalks the world, people everywhere are looking accusingly at the ECOWAS presidents. Like the commandants from whose prison a jailbreak of very dangerous prisoners has just happened, they had better have a damned good explanation of the event or face court martial, etc. The citizens of ECOWAS demand no less. How can these presidents allow such a thing to happen on their watch and disgrace all Africans?  Aspersions of all sorts are being cast on us as incompetent to manage

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Exactly What Makes A God A God?

“Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto Mount Carmel,

and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves

four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table. So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.

And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions?

if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him.

And the people answered him not a word. Then said Elijah unto the

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pastor-keion-henderson.pngI remember hearing about the Ebola virus as a child. We even made immature jokes about people coughing in class ongoing in some West African countries. “The epidemic began in Guinea in December 2013.” (Wikipedia) The virus then spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Senegal, United States and Spain. What was formally thought to be just a Public Health Emergency has transformed into an International Crisis.

In fact the famed online site Wikipedia suggest that this is “a Public Health Emergency

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A MESSAGE OUT OF THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES

FOR GOD’s PEOPLE AND FOR THE WORLD

 

“See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me:

I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal:

neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

Deuteronomy 32:39

 

“Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth,

and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me,

and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

Therefore, behold, I will proceed t

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Fears Rise, Communities Respond in West Africa Ebola Outbreak

BRAC and Jeffrey Wright's Taia Peace Foundation say additional funds are needed to mobilize health workers and stop spread of deadly disease

Amidst fears that an Ebola outbreak is spreading out of control in parts of West Africa, the anti-poverty organization BRAC is calling for additional resources to stop the spread of the deadly virus.

“People are now afraid,” said Tapan Karmakar, country representative of BRAC Sierra Leone, wh

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