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Christians in India increasingly under attack, study shows.

Where they are a minority take example in Kenya, and other Christian dominated nations these religions pretend to be friendlier and enjoying the Christians’ tolerance of other faiths !!!

INDIA…early this year a survey was conducted ….found

Country rises to 15 on list of places where those practising faith most likely to be persecuted, with North Korea at No 1 .  Just over 2% of the country’s population is Christian and nearly 80% is Hindu.

The persecution of Christians in India has risen over the past year, pushing it up a league table of countries where the practice of the faith is a high-risk activity, according to a monitoring organisation.

The world’s second most populous country has risen to No 15 on the 2017 World Watch List, up from 31 four years ago. The list, compiled by Open Doors, is headed by North Korea for the 16th year in a row.

Iraq and Syria slipped down the table, mainly because so many Christians have fled from Islamic State, the main source of persecution and violence. The Christian population of Aleppo has fallen from 400,000 before the Syrian civil war to fewer than 60,000 now, Open Doors estimated.

The Middle Eastern countries were overtaken by Somalia, Pakistan and Sudan. Afghanistan was third on the list, while levels of persecution rose most rapidly in Yemen.

India experienced an escalation of attacks on its Christian minority in 2016, usually led by Hindu nationalists acting largely with impunity. Just over 2% of the country’s population is Christian, and nearly 80% of Indians are Hindu.

There was also an increase in Christian persecution across the region “driven by extreme religious nationalism, which is often tacitly condoned – and sometimes actively encouraged – by local and national governments”, said Lisa Pearce, of Open Doors UK & Ireland.

The watchdog estimated that a church was burnt down or a cleric beaten on average 10 times a week in India in the year to 31 October 2016, a threefold increase on the previous year.

 “There is a clear pattern of rising religious intolerance across the Indian sub-continent, which affects many millions of Christians,” said Pearce.

“Religious nationalists attempt to forcibly convert people to the dominant faith of their nation, often turning to violence when community discrimination and non-violent oppression do not succeed in imposing their religious beliefs on minority Christians.

“These Christians are often from the lower castes, such as the Dalits in India who face huge socioeconomic problems. They are an easy target for extreme nationalists.”

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Elsewhere, Open Doors noted that the sabotage of homes, churches and villages was an increasingly common feature of persecution by extremists bent on eradicating Christians from a particular area. It had been widely seen in Nigeria, Syria and Iraq, where homes had been ransacked, churches destroyed and village water sources poisoned to make return all but impossible.

In the 25 years that Open Doors has been compiling its annual World Watch List, only three countries have led the table. North Korea has come top 16 times, Saudi Arabia seven times and Somalia twice.

NASA FREE TO DEMONSTRATE IN THE CDBs OF MOMBASA,KISUMU & NAIROBI COURT RULES.

Court momentarily stops Matiang’i from barring NASA demonstrators from CBD .

High Court judge John Mativo Tuesday deferred ban on anti-IEBC demos by National Super Alliance (NASA) supporters in Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu central business districts until case filed by Norman Magaya is determined.

This was after acting Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i said the government would charge NASA CEO Norman Magaya for calling the demos that turned bad on Wednesday, October 11. 

1 Essential Ingredient Missing in Most Leaders

Did you know that you get a dopamine rush when someone echoes what you already believe? It’s similar to the buzz we get when we eat chocolate or fall in love. Sounds like we should surround ourselves with people who agree with us, doesn’t it?

Sadly that’s what often happens to leaders, including church and ministry leaders. They are drawn to those who affirm them and tend to avoid, silence, or ignore those who might challenge them.

But as Noreena Hertz explains at the Harvard Business Review, “a vast body of research now points to the import of contemplating diverse, dissenting views. Not just in terms of making us more rounded individuals but in terms of making us smarter decision-makers. Dissent, it turns out, has a significant value.”

When group members are actively encouraged to openly express divergent opinions they not only share more information, they consider it more systematically and in a more balanced and less biased way. When people engage with those with different opinions and views from their own they become much more capable of properly interrogating critical assumptions and identifying creative alternatives.

Studies comparing the problem-solving abilities of groups in which dissenting views are voiced with groups in which they are not find that dissent tends to be a better precondition for reaching the right solution than consensus.

Honest Feedback

It’s extremely hard for a leader to get honest feedback due to the fact that most people’s tendency is to say what the leader wants to hear. Yet how many leaders actively seek out and encourage views alien and at odds to their own? Not many. And, as Hertz demonstrates, this has damaging consequences.

President Lyndon Johnson notoriously discouraged dissent, with many historians now believing that this played a significant role in the decision to escalate U.S. military operations in Vietnam. Excessive group-think is now recognized to have underpinned President Kennedy’s disastrous authorization of a CIA-backed landing at Cuba’s Bay of Pigs. Former employees of the now defunct Lehman Brothers have talked about how voicing dissent there was considered a career-breaker.

Yale economics professor Robert Shiller explained that when it came to warning about the bubbles he believed were developing in the stock and housing markets just before the financial crisis he did so only “quietly” because: “Deviating too far from consensus leaves one feeling potentially ostracized from the group with the risk that one may be terminated.”

Hertz urges leaders to actively signal that they want to hear views different and diverse and in opposition to their own and cites a number of encouraging examples....

Eric Schmidt, the Executive Chairman of Google, has talked about how he actively seeks out in meetings people with a dissenting opinion.

Abraham Lincoln’s renowned “team of rivals” was comprised of people whose intellect he respected and were confident enough to take issue with him when they disagreed with his point of view.

Stuart Roden, Co Fund Manager of Lansdowne Partners’ flagship fund, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, tells me he sees one of his primary roles as being the person who challenges his staff to consider how they could be wrong, and then assess how this might impact on their decision-making.

Of course, for Christian ministry, we’re not talking about encouraging people to challenge core biblical doctrines and practices. We’re speaking more of vision, direction, strategy, administration, problem-solving, management, etc.

Who is your Challenger in Chief? Who questions your choices? Who contradicts your positions?

And are you welcoming them, listening to them, or shutting them down?

Prof Anyang Nyong'o, the Kisumu Governor is Commendably Transforming the County Poised for Tremendous Growth .

Kisumu County is set to have its first dairy processing plant.  The county government says it has already identified land where the plant will be set up in the coming months, in a move aimed at boosting dairy farming in the lake side county.


 Busia could contemplate of fish and Rice factories to start with. Kakamega and Bungoma should have mega private sugar factories, Transnzoia should have maize flour mills so forth. The entire region will produce ordinary chicken for entire Kenyan consumption if they deliberately embarked on thinking outside the box. Devolution can work for us .

Agriculturally , the region boasts of fertile soils sometimes tilling doesn’t necessarily require fertilizers ,

The proposal of Kisumu dairy processing plant, is a case study of what can be achieved when you get forward thinking leaders. Prof Nyong’o is definitely going to transform  Kisumu County. 

RAILONZO INTELLECTUALLY OUTGUNNED UHURUTO EVEN IF THEY HIDE BEHIND MANY MEANINGLESS WORDS ..…Dr Miguna Miguna .

Miguna Miguna is stratum quality whose credible views highly needed in this country for anyone who has been keen at listening to the barrister expound on matters of legal concern in Kenya. He is wise, intelligent and a fearless intellectual  .

On IEBC he " the rotten @IEBCKenya must withdraw its illegal Gazette Notice on the fresh poll. It must be restructured and overhauled. Viva! " . He never predicts falsehood .

He seems to be blending healthily with NASA’s politics that respect the rule of law. The coalition should be keen in taking this revolutionary thinker as one of their advisers as a matter of urgency  . Dr. Miguna Miguna is sharp, and his grasp of law is admiringly sweet , try to keep him closer.

Kenyan political situation needs tyranny of top thinkers and not of defectors singing “yes” and “ Nah “ “ Mtu wetu wanyumbani “ empty rhetoric songs as long as some cramps , left overs and freebies to entice selfish stomachs are thrown around at the expense of a Nation’s proper governance . 

A Girl child is not Merely for Advertisements . “You educate a man, you educate a man, You educate a woman, you educate a generation.” Brigham Young.

It’s fascinating to see more girls among top-ranking students; more women having jobs, access to education, money and resources; more women holding positions of authority and making strides in all fields. But, what about all those girls and women who didn’t even get a chance to live?

Unfortunately daughters are still termed as liabilities in this era even if they are highly educated and developing at a fast pace, there is still a higher preference for a male child !

Gender preference and  socio-cultural factors and mistreatment in most cultures like dowry, wedding expenses, custom of gift-giving, inability of girls to take care of parents after marriage, domestic violence, ill treatment by husbands and in-laws, ill treatment on account of giving birth to a girl, and so on. This gender preference goes hand-in-hand with gender discrimination.

In cities, women employees face the glass ceiling effect and disparities in pay. Their non-inclusion in the decision-making processes at almost every level is also a widespread phenomenon.

Due to the wide prevalence of the patriarchal social system, a lot of women are still deprived of the right to own ancestral property, which is mostly given to the male child.

Universal   phenomenon

Gender inequality or gender discrimination exist  in many countries around the world , and women are fighting for the right to vote, to choose what they wish to wear and to own property, among others.

Horrific practices like Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and trafficking are highly prevalent in parts of Asia, Africa, Latin America, the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

Gender-based violence and honour killings are a global pandemic, and in some countries, women and girls fail to get even minimum protection against these horrific practices.

How do we speak about the ‘missing women’, bringing to light the practice of female infanticide and female foeticide, which doesn’t give the girl a chance to even be born.

So, how can we change this scenario, which doesn’t favor the female child?

Since change begins at home, parents are the best agents of change. We can begin by looking at the positives of having a girl in the family and her contribution to the society.

Women are -

Pillars of the future: Just as we say that the youth of today are the citizens of tomorrow, so is the same with our girls. They are the women of tomorrow. If we want to empower them, we must reduce inequality and gender gaps, and create strong women leaders. We have to let them live today and raise them to be those leaders of equality and development.

Change-makers: Brigham Young once said, “You educate a man, you educate a man. You educate a woman, you educate a generation.” Women are naturally more social and thus more inclined to help those around them. By bringing up their daughter with the right values and education, parents can kick-start the change and create a change-maker.

Multi-taskers: Women are much better at multi-tasking. They are taking up roles, which were previously the preserve of men, like CEOs, entrepreneurs, while handling the home and hearth with equal flair. In some cases, they are also the providers in the family.

Creators of inclusive spaces: Women possess qualities like perseverance, a nurturing spirit, empathy, sensitivity which, when combined with complementary traits like planning and organising, are conducive to creating more inclusive spaces for people.

With such strengths that women possess, why should they continue to be sidelined? The girls of today are proving themselves equal to boys in every respect. They are distinguishing themselves as achievers in every field, from academics to sport to profession. They are successfully playing multiple roles in every sphere of life. Their will to develop and help others develop alongside is what can take our society forward. They are meant to be 50% of the population, their voices matter in creating a more equitable community. Moreover, they make a ‘house’ feel like ‘home’. So, go ahead and welcome the girl child with a warm embrace!

Hundreds in Johannesburg protest against President Jacob Zuma.

Hundreds in Johannesburg protest against President Jacob Zuma. ANC should have looked for a competent President. Pres Zuma did a lot for the Nation's liberation, that didn't mean he must have bn the President.

Obnoxious for Shoppers to pay for packaging in Supermarkets as Cofek remain mute.

Why is Consumers Federation of Kenya (Cofek ) without response letting supermarkets taking advantage of Plastic Ban to extort innocent shoppers ? 

A spot check in large supermarket chains and retailers countrywide have shown they are charging for shopping bags to comply with the plastic bag ban that came into effect.

Chains such as Tuskys, Naivash ,  Nakumatt, Uchumi and Quickmart etc are no longer packaging goods on free biodegradable bags.

They are instead providing non-plastic bag carriers for packaging to shoppers at a fee while encouraging their customers to carry their own shopping bags.

The question, why are they passing the burden to consumers/shoppers when logically they should provide the packages as previously because they still had to spend to print branded plastic bags , others   huge than what they are selling and not even branded ?

Still some branded and rebranded goods like sugar, milk, bread, Crips/crunches are still packaged in unbiodegradable plastics. Which criteria is in place to ensure every company conforms to the ban when we still see these packaging in the shelves ?

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Kenya: Jubilee's Hypocritical Peace After the Court Annulled the Fraudulent Presidential Election Results announced by IEBC.

Those purporting Jubilee did not go to streets to destroy, bangle, course mayhem so forth when the Court annulled the presidential elections, are not aware of the Scripture below . In the said scripture , Jubilee is lucky having been granted opportunity to go for re-run without paying for their thievery and therefore they were not expected to shake even a tree leaf but lie lowest like envelope and make sure they were not punished for their adamant mistakes . Those guys are thanking their deities, servers were not verified might probably have given Hon Raila his snatched victory without waiting to take it in the re-run expected in two months as ordered by the kenya Supreme Court ,he is assured to take anyway . Therefore Jubilee's seemed maintained peace is just Hypocritical , and being done to cover shame .

Proverbs 6:30-31 Bible says :30 Men do not despise a thief if he steals To satisfy himself when he is hungry; 31 But when he is found, he must repay sevenfold; He must give all the substance of his house.

Raila won Elections.

THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD JUST DECLARE RAILA AS THE WINNER.  

In a Democracy majority should have their way , doesn't meant computers should generate them leaders. How comes authentic documentations did not have  :

 -Stamps

-Signatures

-Security features

-Seal

" We could've just used exercise books instead of wasting billions " Kenyans lamented vehemently especially those from NASA coalition . 

  They wondered how  the " Independent  " IEBC completely sabotaged a supreme Court order refusing registrar free access to server while  Jubilee Party  was cheering on as if IEBC was a branch of Jubilee Party .

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Pope Francis may change Clerical laws on Celibacy (Catholic Church).

Pope Francis said he is open to married men becoming priests to combat the Roman Catholic Church's shortage of clergy. Will this help curb the shortage ?

Question ; Why doesn't he use these immense powers accorded to him , allow Priests to Marry as well ?

Concerns whether celibacy is Bibical raises eyebrows.

Austere Conventional theologians question whether Pope Francis is truly Catholic

*Tradition in Action are claiming there has not been a true pontiff since the 1950s

Pope Francis' Catholicism has been questioned by a group of extremist theologians in their latest attack on his reforms.

Since his election in 2013, the pontiff has implemented a series of reforms, which have updated the Catholic Church’s official doctrine and practice.

Among his more outstanding changes are a laxer standpoint on homosexuality and allowing divorced people receiving Communion.

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Out of East Africa .....Excellent tunes . 

KENYANS SAY NO TO COMPUTER-GENERATED LEADERS - NASA PRESS RELEASE.

My fellow Kenyans,

For the third straight election in a row, the voice of the people has been stilled, and for the third time in a decade, the candidate who lost the election has been declared President.

This year, Kenyans excitedly voted in a peaceful election that even the most democratic nations in the world would have been proud of.

But this democratic promise abruptly evaporated when those who wield power clung to their old, no-holds-barred script of rejecting the people’s democratic will and holding on to their rule by whatever means.

Once the polls closed last Tuesday, the IEBC began streaming so-called provisional presidential results not backed by Form 34As as required by law.

Yesterday, IEBC CEO Ezra Chiloba finally made the stunning admission that the Commission was not able to supply all Form34As yet. This means that both the provisional and final results announced last week are null and void and that Uhuru Kenyatta was not lawfully declared winner.

From the start, the IEBC was illegally releasing unverified results to create the expectation of an Uhuru Kenyatta victory. This was the equivalent of guaranteeing violence if the final verified results indicated Uhuru had lost.

Then there was the bizarre phenomenon of Uhuru Kenyatta’s “lead” staying at around a consistent 11 percent throughout the release of the “results!” surprisingly, this same pattern also occurred in many gubernatorial races across the country.

Such a fixed margin has never been maintained throughout any democratic election anywhere in the world. But it happened here because an algorithm had been introduced to rig the outcome. It happened in full view of all our people and all the election observers.

Then finally, at midnight last Friday, we saw the IEBC announce that Uhuru Kenyatta had been elected president, even though the Commission continued to acknowledge that only about 29,000 of the 41,000 verified Forms 34As had been tallied!

Why was there this fanatical rush to judgment on the most vital matter that any democratic nation EVER faces, the election of its President for the next five years? And why did the IEBC refuse to address the set of questions about vote tallying that NASA had submitted?

IEBC might have declared Uhuru Kenyatta president, but a vast number of Kenyans have not accepted the legitimacy of the decision, and will not accept it until they have answers to profoundly disturbing questions that have been raised. Indeed, the Carter Centre, in its preliminary findings has questioned this rush and its overall impact on the outcome. The Centre says:
"Although election day voting and counting processes functioned smoothly, the electronic transmission of results from the polling stations to the 290 constituency centers, where official results are tallied, proved unreliable. Unofficial results were also transmitted to the national tally center, where they were posted on its website. Unfortunately, the early display of vote tallies at the national level was not accompanied by the scans of polling station results forms as planned, nor labeled unofficial, leading to some confusion regarding the status of official results."

No one should believe, and especially not those behind this election fraud, that Kenyans are sheep who will willingly go along with democracy’s slaughter. This country is now divided between those prepared to live under autocracy and the forces of freedom and democracy.
ost Kenyans do not agree that our democracy is a charade, a game, in which people campaign their hearts out for leaders they want, but are then given a winner pre-determined by the darkest forces in our society and beyond.

We also have the no less bizarre situation where some observers grossly violated their mandate and started calling upon NASA to concede – even before the IEBC officially announced the election’s outcome.

We Kenyans will not let such impunity continue any longer. We have the right, and indeed the high responsibility to defend the Constitution and the people’s will. Peaceful assembly is guaranteed by the Constitution, so is civil disobedience. So is the right for labour to strike.
And yet our people are being admonished not to protest an election they are convinced has been stolen. The State unleashed unprecedented violence against perceived NASA supporters in their homes and houses. The police have shot, bludgeoned, and cut short the lives of innocents like infant Baby Samantha Pendo at six months and Stephanie Moraa Nyarang’i a young girl of 9 years using crude weapons and live bullets.

Yet as Kenyans are butchered and their civil liberties trampled upon, they are being told not to protest against a leader they believe is being imposed on them through a computer-generated fraud.
The entire world knows that there were nationwide protests in the US after the last elections. We also know that to date, there are investigations going on by the Justice Department and Congress to establish whether the US elections were hacked by foreign agencies.

Fellow Kenyans,

We refuse to sit and watch the Jubilee turn our country into a banana republic and a playground.
accepting such a crime for the third election in a row would irredeemably entrench the triumph of anti-democratic impunity and the permanent death of democracy. Future elections would be a sham.Those observers and members of the international community who are genuine in their support for Kenya must support this overture. Asking NASA to concede and cover up is not love for Kenya. NASA shall not be party to it.

The Constitution gives us the incontrovertible right to protest injustice peacefully, and wage a peaceful campaign of civil disobedience. We will preach peace, and we have done so. But we will uphold our rights to assemble and protest. We shall hold vigils, moments of silence, beat drums and do everything else to peacefully draw attention to the gross electoral injustices being meted on our country and demand redress. Kenyans have no need to use violence to achieve justice.

We also emphasize that the struggle here is not just about this moment or this election or this nation. It is about Africa and it is about democracy.

If Kenya, one of Africa’s most vibrant democracies except at election time, can be so easily intimidated to surrender, then what hope is there for the rest of Africa?
It is in this regard that we call upon all African democrats to publicly show solidarity with Kenyans.

Fellow Kenyans,

The merchants of State violence expected NASA to walk Kenyans into death traps. They dispatched merchants of death to carefully selected parts of the country. The people are held now under a hostage siege. The intent is murder and mayhem. Wanton murder, rape and violence are being committed against the people to pacify them against seeking justice. This is why the government is violently demobilizing civil society organizations for daring authoritarianism and seeking justice.

We had said we will not go court. But with the raid on civil society and determination to silence all voices that could seek legal redress like AFRICOG and the Kenya Human Rights Commission, we have now decided to move to the Supreme Court and lay before the world the making of a computer-generated leadership.

By going to court, we are not legitimizing misplaced calls by some observers for us to concede but are seeking to give to those who braved the long lines in the morning chill and hot afternoon on Tuesday August 8th 2017; mothers with their children tied on their backs; the sick, people with disabilities, old and young a chance to be heard.

Furthermore, we act on behalf of those who have been blocked from seeking redress in courts such as the sustained clampdown on the civil society that have attempted to go to court. NASA wants to show the world what transpired in the fraud.

Even as we go to Court, we are cognizant of the fact that ever since Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto publicly warned the Judiciary, the IEBC has not lost a single case in court. We have decided to move to the Supreme Court despite the history and other recent circumstances. In similar circumstances in 2013, we moved to the Supreme Court to challenge the declaration by IEBC of Uhuru as President-elect. The manner in which the Court handled that petition was a travesty of justice. The Court decided all interim applications in favour of Kenyatta. The Court also allowed the counter petition filed in favour of Kenyatta but disallowed the two petitions against him. Uhuru won 100 per cent and we lost 100 per cent in court.
Our decision to go to court constitutes a second chance for the Supreme Court. The Court can use this chance to redeem itself, or, like in 2013, it can compound the problems we face as a country.
hey shamelessly cooked results from non-existent polling stations and fake un-gazetted Presiding and Returning officers. They gave figures from non-existent Forms 34A and 34B; they scrambled to manufacture such forms; switched vote numbers; and how they openly swindled to reach predetermined consistent vote numbers. They cooked numbers to the extent that vote tallies often surpassed registered voters in polling stations.

Kenya is always much larger than my individual ambition. But Kenya is definitely not too large for all of us to ensure that anyone who wins the people’s votes, and not the loser, is declared President. This is just the beginning. We will not accept and move on.

Do you think Africa should embrace a Two-Term Limit on Presidency ?

In Kenya , 

President holds office for a term beginning on the date on which the President was sworn in, and ending when the person next elected President in accordance with Article 136 (2) (a) is sworn in.

A person shall not hold office as President for more than two terms.

One time President Mugabe of Zimbabwe in his opening remarks at the African Union as chairperson questioned why African leaders should have term limits. He likened the two-term limit to a “rope around the neck” for African leaders, adding that European leaders do not face the same term limits, yet are considered full democracies.

Some dismiss his comments as the confused ramblings of a man out of touch with reality.

Are term limits truly not a “rope around the neck” of leaders whose people want them to continue serving?