Author: LoveWorld UK

A BRITISH man has been detained in Singapore and faces up to six months in jail after a video on Facebook showed him riding a train without a mask. Benjamin Glynn, 39, refused to wear a mask on a Singapore train on May 7 because he doesn’t believe they “protect you from Covid”. Unbeknown to Mr Glynn, a commuter secretly filmed him and uploaded the clip to Facebook, prompting police to arrest him hours later. Mr Glynn, from Helmsley North Yorkshire, spent 28 hours in a cell and was charged with a public nuisance offence. If found guilty, he faces…

A BRITISH Airways plane suffered a “nose collapse” at Heathrow Airport, as the jet was seen crumpling to the tarmac. The Boeing 787-8 (reg. G-ZBJB) was carrying out flight #BA881 from Moscow on June 16, when the incident took place. Aerohub News Tweeted: “An unidentified (at present) British Airways Boeing 787 has suffered a nose gear collapse at London Heathrow Airport this morning. “Extent of the damage is currently unknown. “Further details will be reported once available.” It comes after the airline company faced a turbulant year due to the Covid pandemic. BA started to bring people back ahead of the…

Perhaps this wasn’t the game for making proper judgments. Belgium were in the desperately awkward position of being the other team in the face of a great outpouring of Danish emotion, and for half the game they struggled in that role. But the introduction of Kevin De Bruyne, back after surgery on the facial injury he sustained in the Champions League final, changed everything. But beyond talk of the difficult emotion of the occasion or of De Bruyne’s brilliance, there are other issues for Belgium. Going forward after half-time, they looked like the side that had scored 40 goals in qualifying.…

A federal judge in Louisiana has blocked President Joe Biden’s suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal land and water, delivering a setback to the administration’s efforts to transition away from fossil fuels. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty’s ruling (pdf), filed on June 15, grants a preliminary injunction in a 13-state lawsuit led by Louisiana Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry (pdf). “This is a victory not only for the rule of law, but also for the thousands of workers who produce affordable energy for Americans,” Landry said in a statement following the ruling. Technically, the injunction amounts to a halt of the Biden…

Rafael Benítez is hoping to receive a formal offer to become Everton’s new manager after holding positive talks with the club. The Spaniard has emerged as a candidate for the post, which has been vacant ever since Carlo Ancelotti’s shock return to Real Madrid at the start of the month. Everton’s board, led by majority shareholder, Farhad Moshiri, have mulled over a number of candidates and looked set to hire the former Wolves manager Nuno Espírito Santo. But subsequent reservations within the club’s hierarchy regarding the suitability of the Portuguese has led to Benítez becoming the frontrunner. The 61-year-old would be a…

Special conference to be held post ‘COVID-19 Debacle’, attesting to the triumph of the Church. 2021, International Cell Leaders Conference with the man of God, Reverend (Dr.) Chris Oyakhilome commences from Thursday, June 17th to Sunday, June 20th. Delegates from different parts of the world are expected to converge at the LoveWorld Crusade Grounds along Lagos Ibadan Expressway, Southwest, Nigeria for the special conference. It is an exclusive time of inspiration, impartation, empowerment, and celebration of frontline soldiers in God’s army who are utterly committed to soul winning. The annual conference that was last held in 2019 due to the…

“It’s a month in which we pray, not discussing prayer” — Pastor Chris Oyakhilome. The just-concluded June Global Communion Service with Pastor Chris, rounded off with rapturous shouts of joy as the President of LoveWorld Inc. Reverend (Dr.) Chris Oyakhilome declared June to be ‘the Month of Prayer’. “It is a month in which we pray,” he remarked, emphasizing that the essence of the month is not to discuss prayer but to engage fervently in it. Stressing the urgency of prayer, Pastor Chris recounted Haman’s plot to eliminate all Jews, as recorded in Esther 3, and Mordecai’s counter-response, uniting the…

Auditors from the Department of Health and Human Services’ inspector general’s office are probing whether National Institutes for Health (NIH) officials properly managed research grants that ended up partially funding controversial “gain-of-function” research at China’s Wuhan lab. “The OIG has previously identified NIH’s oversight of grants to foreign applicants as a potential risk to [HHS] meeting program goals and the appropriate use of federal funds,” the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) said June 15 in an update of its workplan. “NIH must manage and administer federal awards to ensure that federal funding is expended and associated programs are implemented in full…

Academics are sounding the alarm about the hundreds of thousands of EU citizens in the UK who face falling into legal limbo on 1 July with their right to rent a home, work or continue in retirement at risk. With just 13 days to go before the government’s deadline for EU and EEA nationals and their children to apply for settled or pre-settled status, a report from UK in a Changing Europe warns of the dangers ahead for those who do not apply by 30 June. The academic campaign group is concerned that some who have applied but are still awaiting a…

Manchester City will start the defence of their Premier League title away to Tottenham after the fixtures for the 2021-22 season were unveiled. City are among the sides who want to sign the Spurs striker Harry Kane, throwing up the tantalising possibility that the England captain could line up against the north London club on the opening weekend. Pep Guardiola’s side won the division by 12 points ahead of Manchester United, who open against their old foes Leeds at Old Trafford. Elsewhere on the weekend of 14 August, Brentford begin life back in the top flight for the first time in 75 years…