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This project seeks to select 100 choristers from all Presbyterian choirs to record(audio-visual) some selected Presbyterian Hymns.
Please don’t forget to follow us and like the album. Our hymns, our heritage.
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This is a beautiful reflection of the depth, dignity and humility embedded in Gonja tradition. It is more than a gesture of respect; it is a powerful expression of filial devotion, reverence for elders, and the preservation of cultural identity.
The image of a son humbling himself before his father, the Yagbonwura, speaks volumes about the values passed down from one generation to another.
Such traditions remind us that true greatness is not only about the position one occupies, but also about the humility with which one honours those who came before us.
The beauty of Gonja heritage lies in these traditions, and they deserve to be preserved, celebrated and passed on to future generations. ❤
#ActaNonVerba
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“There’s been a pattern upon pattern of FIFA favoring Ronaldo, but Ronaldo fans always go like: ‘No, FIFA favors Messi.’”
Joe Opio exposes how Ronaldo had two matches of his red-card suspension canceled and how FIFA extended the 2013 Ballon d’Or voting after his hat-trick against Sweden, leaving Trevor Noah stunned!
Joe Opio: “FIFA… yes, FIFA favors Ronaldo.”
Trevor Noah: “It sounds crazy, but FIFA… Wow.”
Joe Opio: “So let’s talk about the red card, right? The red card was contentious. Was it, was it not? But coming to the World Cup, there was one player who had a red card. Ronaldo got a red card in one of their last qualifiers.”
Trevor Noah: “Oh yeah, you’re right.”
Joe Opio: “Elbowing, yes.”
Trevor Noah: “An Ireland player. Oh yeah, you’re right.”
Joe Opio: “He was supposed to serve an automatic three-match ban. But what did FIFA do? What did Infantino do? Infantino went like, ‘We can’t miss Ronaldo for the World Cup.’”
Trevor Noah: “I forgot about that.”
Joe Opio: “So they gave him one match and then suspended the other two. That’s the first time…”
Trevor Noah: “Yeah, you’re right, actually.”
Joe Opio: “We have never had a suspended sentence in football. That’s never happened before. Cristiano Ronaldo is the first recipient of a suspended sentence.
And then guess what? The one game he missed was against what team? Armenia.
And so he came because FIFA went like, ‘We can’t lose Ronaldo for the first two games.’”
Trevor Noah: “You are not wrong, actually. Oh, that’s a good… that’s a good argument.”
Joe Opio: “Imagine if Messi had received that preferential treatment.
I’ll go back to another… I’ll take you years back, 2013. The Ballon d’Or, because sometimes supporters go like: ‘Oh, Messi is favored for the Ballon d’Or.’
The Ballon d’Or voting was supposed to be closed November 15th. Ronaldo scores a hat-trick against Sweden, November 19th. FIFA extends the Ballon d’Or for the first and last time to November 29th and goes like, ‘You can change your results to reflect recent performances.’
There’s been a pattern upon pattern of FIFA favoring Ronaldo, but Ronaldo fans always go like, ‘No, FIFA favors Messi.’”
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It is the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male & female.
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#WontumiSportsBuffet : “Lionel Messi has crossed every standard and answered every question asked of him by Ronaldo fans so it shouldn’t be difficult for them to accept he’s the greatest” - Sir Scandy.
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>Be Cardinal Robert Sarah
>Born in a remote village in Guinea, raised by his devout catholic his parents and local missionaries
>Becomes an Archbishop at just 34 years old in the middle of a brutal Marxist dictatorship
>The dictator, Touré, literally puts him on a death list; Sarah doesn't run, and keeps preaching the Gospel
>Touré died unexpectedly of a heart attack in March 1984, just weeks before the planned executions
>Becomes one of the sharpest, most fearless defenders of traditional Catholic faith in the modern era and is made a Cardinal
>Looks at secularized West and warns us: "If Christianity disappears in Europe, the whole world is threatened."
>Writes absolute masterpieces like The Power of Silence
>Delivers banger quotes like: "The West has denied its Christian roots, a tree without root dies"
>"As a bishop, it is my duty to warn the West! The barbarians are already inside the city."
>Keeps telling europeans to have more babies
Unfathomably based
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Ethiopians are not keeping quiet about Jesus Christ as over a million of Christians stormed the streets
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The indomitable girl who captured him was waiting for him thirty years later
On September 21, 1965, a 17-year-old Vietnamese girl named Nguyễn Thị Kim Lai was photographed escorting an enormous American airman through the countryside. His hands were tied behind his back. His head was bowed. She was carrying a rifle.
His name was William Andrew Robinson. He was 22, a helicopter mechanic and flight engineer in the US Air Force. The previous day his helicopter had been shot down during a mission to rescue another American airman.
Kim Lai was tiny. She weighed 37 kilograms. She had only finished seventh grade before joining the local militia. Her home province, Hà Tĩnh, was being bombed relentlessly by American aircraft.
According to her recollection, she discovered Robinson hiding among the rocks in a forest. Frightened by his enormous size, she fired three warning shots. He surrendered. Other militia members arrived and tied his hands.
A photographer named Phan Thoan captured the extraordinary contrast between the two.
The photograph became famous throughout Vietnam. It appeared on postage stamps. A celebrated Vietnamese poet wrote a poem about it. The image travelled around the world, becoming a symbol of a small country resisting a superpower.
Robinson was taken to prison.
He spent 2,703 days in captivity. Seven years, four months and twenty-three days. Much of it in isolation, enduring brutal conditions and torture. He was finally released on February 12, 1973.
Kim Lai became a nurse. She married, had three children and eventually became a grandmother.
Thirty years after their first encounter, in September 1995, she was playing with her grandchildren at a neighbour's house when someone came to tell her that foreigners were looking for her.
She returned home.
Standing there was William Andrew Robinson.
He had come back to Vietnam with a Japanese documentary crew. He had apparently wanted to find her for years but had never been able to afford the journey.
She recognised him immediately.
According to her recollection, he approached and embraced her before she could greet him.
They talked about their lives. Their families. Everything that had happened since those few minutes in a Vietnamese forest.
They even returned to the place where he had been captured.
Robinson reportedly expressed the hope that there would never be another photograph like theirs.
There is another photograph of them, taken during that reunion.
She is looking up at him. Smiling. He is standing beside her, still towering over her. No handcuffs. No rifle.
With no US government throwing away the youth of its own citizens to forcefully decide the future of Vietnam both can stand tall side by side.
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This morning I want to celebrate the die in the wool dependable defender inthep person of Stephen Tetteh formerly of @HeartsOfOakGH, simple but well composed.
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Listening to Bach’s Air on the G String feels like letting your mind slowly settle, your worries gently fade, and everything fall into harmony with the music’s peaceful flow.
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They sentenced her to 14 years in prison using Islamic jurisprudence, even though they knew she was a Christian and she had only advised an adult about her faith, yet the world is silent about it.
Please repost; let the world know.
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2026 Men’s World Cup 🇪🇸🏆
2026 Men’s U-15 World Cup 🇪🇸🏆
2026 U-20 Women’s World Cup 🇪🇸🏆
2026 Women’s U-19 Euros 🇪🇸🏆
2026 Men’s U-19 Euros 🇪🇸🏆
2025 Women’s Nations League 🇪🇸🏆
Paris 2024 Men’s Olympic gold ⚽️🇪🇸🥇
2024 Men’s Euros 🇪🇸🏆
2023 Women’s World Cup 🇪🇸🏆
SPAIN ARE A FOOTBALL FACTORY 🏭🤯
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Colombian commandos painted a civilian helicopter white, wore Che Guevara T-shirts, and posed as an international humanitarian NGO with fake television cameras—convincing guerrilla commanders to bind their own hostages and load them aboard before arresting the guards in mid-air without firing a single bullet.
The reason might surprise you.
For over six years, former Colombian presidential candidate Íngrid Betancourt and three American defense contractors, Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes, and Keith Stansell, were marched through dense Amazonian jungles in heavy chains.
They were the crown jewels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), held under armed guard by the 1st Front under commander Gerardo Aguilar Ramírez ("César") as political bargaining chips to force prisoner swaps.
Conventional military rescues were deemed suicidal: FARC sentries had standing orders to execute the hostages at the first sound of approaching rotor blades.
Colombian military intelligence turned instead to a game of psychological deception codenamed Operation Jaque (Checkmate):
The Digital Infiltration: Intelligence operatives intercepted and cloned the FARC's high-frequency radio communications networks, perfectly imitating the voice signatures, regional slang, and encryption codes of the guerrilla high command.
The Puppet Order: Under the guise of supreme commander Alfonso Cano, military intelligence radioed Commander César with direct instructions: gather the dispersed high-value captives into a single jungle clearing in Guaviare.
The Cover Story: César was told that a fictitious international humanitarian mission, supposedly backed by foreign NGOs, would fly in by helicopter to transfer the hostages to another rebel camp to meet Cano for peace talks.
On July 2, 2008, an unarmed, white-and-red painted civilian Mil Mi-17 helicopter touched down in the jungle clearing:
Aboard were eleven Colombian military intelligence operators deep undercover:
one posed as an Australian doctor, another wore a Che Guevara T-shirt pretending to be a radical foreign activist, and others carried television cameras as a pseudo-press crew.
A perimeter of sixty heavily armed FARC guerrillas watched tensely from the tree line with assault rifles.
Playing their roles with ice-cold discipline, the undercover team treated the hostages coldly to maintain cover, ordering them to step forward with their wrists bound in plastic zip-ties.
The team convinced commander César and his senior lieutenant, "Gafas," to board the aircraft alongside the fifteen hostages to supervise the flight.
As the Mi-17 lifted off and cleared the jungle canopy, climbing to a safe altitude:
A commando signaled the team. In a coordinated move, four operators tackled César and Gafas to the floor, disarming them and securing them in handcuffs in less than ten seconds.
The mission commander then turned around to face the fifteen bewildered hostages sitting in chains on the cargo benches.
He shouted the words that broke six years of captivity: "We are the Colombian Army. You are free!"
Shouts of joy erupted inside the cabin, echoing over the radio to the defense ministry in Bogotá, where President Álvaro Uribe and defense officials listened in live.
The helicopter landed at Tolemaida Air Base with all fifteen hostages completely unharmed, alongside the two captured FARC commanders.
The operation delivered an existential psychological blow to the FARC, shattering their internal trust in their own communications and accelerating the disintegration of Latin America's oldest insurgency.
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30 LAWS OF MILITARY CAREER THAT CAN EQUALLY HELP YOU IN LIFE.
1.) Your rifle and your ammo are more important than your life. Better be dead than lose them.
2.) You can never be the winner in any argument with your superior. Even when you have won.
3.) Every commander needs your advice but not in public.
4.) If there is a competition, don't come first, and don't come last.
5.) Your soldiers are the backbone of your work. Treat them well.
6.) If you offend a higher authority, carry your cross.
7.) If your soldier offends a higher authority, carry his cross.
8.) Remember that the smartest and most intelligent officers often do not get to the top. Only the most loyal ones do.
9.) Don't be deceived. Many commanders do not like eye service.
10.) Never "contest" a woman with your superior. It is the fastest way to die and many have gone that way.
11.) The wife of your superior is either a goldmine or a landmine. If you are not sure of which she is, avoid her.
12.) Be brave. Even if you are a coward.
13.) If your superior admires your girlfriend, surrender her. If he admires your wife, stand by her. A girlfriend is an accolade. An accolade can be lost without dire consequences. Your wife is your crown. You are nothing without her.
14.) Don't ever beg for mercy. It is the foremost manifestation of weakness and the military environment has no respect for weaklings.
15.) Don't ever solicit for "welfare". If you are "issued", be very thankful.
16.) Don't look for your seniors. Let them look for you. If they look for you, don't keep them waiting.
17.) If you don't like a colleague, let him know you don't like him. If he takes steps to warm up to you, don't embrace him. Accommodate him.
18.) A lie is an abomination - and a critical part of initiative.
19.) If you are lucky to have stumbled on "mega" money, maintain your old lifestyle. If you can't maintain your old lifestyle, maintain a low profile. Camouflage and concealment are not only for the warfront. "Shine" is one reason things are seen.
20.) Remember that drinking, smoking and womanizing are prominent features of the job yet, no medals are allocated for them.
21.) Don't look too smart before your superiors. Instead, look stupid before them. People are generally comfortable with stupid people whom they can easily control.
22.) Wait for your time.
23.) Know that the enemy's degree of training is dependent on yours. If he is well trained, then, you are poorly trained. If he is poorly trained, you are well trained.
24.) You are a soldier. Not a priest.
25.) If you are tired of the job, resign.
26.) Never reject a gift from a superior except in protest of a salient point. It is the greatest indirect show of disloyalty.
27.) Be everywhere. Every time.
28.) History never remembers soldiers but Kings, Queens and Politicians.
29.) Remember wars are won by soldiers, but credit go to the generals.
30.) Respect Humanity but don't over trust humans.
Now you know!
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Your parents are getting older. Your children are growing up. And you're still waiting for life to begin.
We spend our entire lives trying to afford a life we never have time to live.
At 20, we want money. At 30, we want security. At 40, we're terrified of losing everything we've built.
And somehow, it's never enough.
Schopenhauer understood this. Every satisfied desire makes room for another. We spend our lives chasing things that promise peace, only to discover another reason to worry.
So we work harder.
A father misses his children's childhood trying to give them a better one. A son promises to visit his parents when things settle down. They grow older while he waits.
The bills don't stop. Neither does the anxiety.
Some people make millions and still wake up afraid. Others work until their bodies give out and never make enough.
We call it building a future.
Meanwhile, birthdays come and go. Friends become strangers. Parents become photographs. The children who once waited for us at the door grow up and leave.
Perhaps the cruelest part is that most of us know exactly what's happening.
We just can't afford to stop.
