Two Parliamentary Parties Join Outcry against National Child Strategy

Two parliamentary parties have joined the public outcry against the proposed National Strategy for the Child 2019-2030. Volya and VMRO presented their objections on Wednesday following almost three months of protests by political parties, parent and family associations, and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Protesters have said that the draft strategy curtails parents' rights, downplays the role of the family and gives social services excessive powers. On Tuesday, Labour and Social Policy Minister Bisser Petkov said the strategy will be redrafted to make it acceptable to all stakeholders. Volya told a news briefing on Wednesday that the strategy should be urgently rewritten ...

Bulgarian PM Moments on State Abducting Children

Bulgarian PM Borissov, Ministers Say Rumors about State Abducting Children Are Monstrous Lie Sofia (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said the rumours that the State is to abduct children are a monstrous lie and appealed to the media to help clarify the issue. He was speaking at the beginning of Wednesday's regular meeting of the Council of Ministers. "I don't know whose conscience it can give birth to and how can you talk this way. How to speak and protest against a strategy for a child which does not exist? This was declared by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov at a regular ...

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Trew General Merchandise Store

Quaint local General Store on the back roads of Tennessee history added to the National Register of Historic Places in1976 (Building - #76002159). On approach to this nostalgic setting, one could almost envision arriving in yesteryear to this establishment. Folks coming in for sugar and flour. I can imagine that some bartering for eggs and such must have taken place. The clapboard siding gives this establishment the quaintness of a time gone by. This gem of an establishment is tucked away on the back roads of Tennessee in McMinn County and west of Delano, TN TREW'S STORE Transcribed by: Mary ...

10 Years of Chaplaincy on the High Seas

We began our literal journey of ministry on the high seas in 2009. After exploring the opportunity for several years’ prior and submitting applications to various chaplaincy organizations which dealt with such ministry, the doors finally opened for Cup and Cross. This search for a ministerial identity and its proper application in the real world coincided with the start of the Master’s in Chaplaincy Ministry Program which we designed for the Bulgarian Evangelical Theological Institute in Sofia around 2008-2009. The long standing relationships with professors, active military chaplains from various fields and countries, and the wisdom of several Generals in the ...

Ministry by Walking Around and the Network of Seven Churches of Revelation

Ministry by Walking Around and the Network of Seven Churches of Revelation Although the Book of Revelation has been vastly studied and interpreted throughout church history, usually the focus is on one major issue within the text, namely, the role and future of the church. The main reason for this has been the in-depth prophetic and pastoral messages to the Seven Churches. The value of the messages to the Seven Churches of Revelation is constituted by the fact that they are the last recorded Biblical messages to the Christian Church.[1] The letters to the Seven Churches obviously do not contain all of ...

40 False Beliefs of the Church Today

1. That Christianity is a religion and social status, rather than a personal life of holiness and relationship with God. 2. That Christians need standards and rules other than the Bible in order to live a Christian life. 3. That the divinely inspired text of the Bible needs human additions and alterations. 4. That the practices described by the Bible are not for today, as if the Bible is wrong. 5. That Christianity is religion for the weak. 6. That governments and countries are responsible for the growth and prosperity of the church. 7. That we must accept the world in order that the world accepts ...