By Caesar Vallejos, EBC Correspondent (Excerpts from incmedia.org) Reconnection happens in various spheres of life – physical, emotional, psychological, technological and spiritual. Thus, the INC Reconnect project, the Worldwide Intensive Propagation missionary work of the Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC), resonates very well to both INC members and non-members alike. Here are some of the stories of connecting people and how they reconnected with God from the #INCReconnect event at the Philippine Arena: High school classmates Augusto […]
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Memorial Day 2016: National World War II Memorial – Eliza Manglicmot reports
Trump says he would exit global climate accord, slash US oil regulation
QUEZON City, Philippines – Presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump said that he will pull the United States of America from the Paris Climate Agreement out because it gives the foreign bureaucrats control on US energy consumption within US soil. He also said that he will slash oil regulations and that he will make American energy dominance as a strategic and foreign policy goal. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing and […]
Students of South Asian ancestry claims co-championship in US spelling bee
QUEZON City, Philippines – A student from Texas and a student from New York were declared co-champions in the United States National Spelling Bee after a deadlock that lasted 25 rounds in the final round. Both students are of South Asian descent. The tie is the third in the row in the bee, which has been a national institution since 1925. Both students will receive a $40, 000 cash price. (Eagle News Service Described by […]
Passengers evacuate plane in Japan after engine smoke
QUEZON City, Philippines – In Japan, Korean Airlines evacuated 319 passengers and crew from one of its planes. The plane was preparing to launch in Japan’s Haneda Airport. No injuries were reported. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing and Uploaded by Vince Alvin Villarin)
Memorial Day 2016: National World War II Memorial
QUEZON City, Philippines – In the US, the Memorial Day is celebrated during the last Monday of May and commemorates all of the men and women who gave up their lives in military service to the United States of America. In Washington D.C., the National World War II Memorial is one of the best place to celebrate Memorial Day. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing and Uploaded by Vince Alvin Villarin)
Italian Navy shows migrant boat as it sinks
QUEZON City, Philippines – In Italy, the Italian Navy released a dramatic video of a large wooden boat overloaded with migrants capsizing just off the coast of Libya. Rescue operations were able to aid 562 people while five were recorded dead. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing and Uploaded by Vince Alvin Villarin)
Iglesia Ni Cristo members in Western Canada show unity in Reconnect
QUEZON City, Philippines – Members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo in the District of Western Canada solidified their unity by participating in the INC Reconnect, wherein 27 sites were able to witness the Iglesia Ni Cristo Executive Minister Bro. Eduardo V. Manalo preach the word of God worldwide. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing and Uploaded by Vince Alvin Villarin)
Iglesia Ni Cristo members honor fire fighters in New York
QUEZON City, Philippines – The members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo showed their appreciation to the Fire Department of the New York by holding an FDNY Appreciation Day wherein the INC members gave personal care products after reading personal letters for the firemen as well as a plaque of appreciation. In response, the firefighters conducted demonstrations for the members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing and […]
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders challenged Trump to a debate
QUEZON City, Philippines – In the US, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said to his supporters in California that he challenged Donald Trump in a debate and added that Trump accepted it and that Sanders hoped that Trump will stay with it. Sanders and Trump plans to stage a debate that will sideline Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing and Uploaded by Vince Alvin Villarin)
Hiroshima survivors recall A-bomb as Obama visits
(AFP) President Barack Obama is making history as the first sitting US leader to visit Hiroshima where an American plane dropped an atomic bomb seven decades ago. Survivors of the world’s first nuclear attack share their stories with AFP. Quentin Tyberghien / AFP
Obama visits Hiroshima to ponder ‘terrible force unleashed’
(Reuters) Barack Obama became the first incumbent U.S. president to visit Hiroshima on Friday, laying a wreath at the site of the world’s first atomic bombing in a gesture Tokyo and Washington hope will showcase their alliance and invigorate efforts to end nuclear arms. Even before it occurred, though, the visit stirred debate, with critics accusing both sides of having selective memories and pointing to paradoxes in policies relying on nuclear deterrence while calling […]