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  • Drought and Storm Ignites California Wildfire, Officials Say

    The wildfires in the recently devastated part of Northern California are believed to have been started by an abandoned campfire. Authorities are looking into this and investigations are underway. Weather experts, on the other hand, are zeroing in on the possibility that the lightning storms that hav…
  • Insulin & syringes

    Diabetes Complications More Severe Among Poor Californians, Study Shows

    Low income California residents who are affected by diabetes are 10 times more likely to undergo amputations than patients belonging to middle and upper class. This was the result of a study released researchers from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). Such result has “serious impl…
  • SpaceX

    SpaceX Blasts Commercial Satellite into Orbit

    Early Tuesday morning, SpaceX successfully launched yet another highly advanced commercial satellite into orbit aboard its Falcon 9 rocket. The rocket, carrying AsiaSat 8 telecommunications satellite, soared into space at 4:00 a.m. from SpaceX’s Florida launch pad, the Cape Canaveral Air Forces St…
  • Comfort women rally

    U.S. State Department Declares the Use of Comfort Women During WWII as "Serious Violation of Human Rights"

    On the 5th, Ok-sun Kim and Il-chul Kang who are victims to the Japanese military’s comfort woman or military prostitution program, were reported to have been invited for a conference at the White House, reports Munhwa Ilbo. Both the White House and the State Department expressed outrage at the inc…
  • Pope Francis

    Pope Francis Scheduled to Visit Sewol Victims and Families in Korea

    Pope Francis, the leader of the Catholic Church is scheduled to visit South Korea on the 15th of August to pay his respects to the 300 high school students who were lost in the sinking of the ferry Sewol earlier this year. Yonhap News reported that the Pope will personally meet with families of dece…
  • Betty and Pastor Jeong

    Restaurant and Church in Illinois Partner Together to Fundraise for Those Affected by Sewol Tragedy

    Last month, Reverend Jin O Jeong of the Korean Congregation at Zion Lutheran Church in Belleville, IL, and Betty, the owner of Bamboo Valley Buffet, agreed to start a fundraiser directed at supporting those affected by the tragedy of the S. Korean ferry. Bamboo Valley will donate 10% Zion and friend…

  • Hawaii Braces for Two Cyclones

    Hawaii is known for many things, but it definitely isn’t known as an area frequently visited by tropical cyclones. The past few days, however, residents were caught up in unexpected news as two cyclones, hurricane Iselle and storm Julio, are set for the group of Hawaiian Islands. Weather experts s…
  • ISAF

    U.S. General Killed by Afghan Attack on Coalition Troops

    A two-star U.S. general had been killed in an attack led by “an individual believed to be an Afghan soldier,” who “fired into a group of coalition troops at Marshal Fahim National Defense University in Kabul,” according to a statement from Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretar…
  • Emory University Hospital

    American Missionary Writebol Returns to the U.S. for Ebola Treatment at Emory

    Following Dr. Kent Brantly’s return, Nancy Writebol arrived in the U.S. early on Tuesday, and will also be treated at a special isolated unit in Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. In an MSNBC interview on Monday, Dr. Bruce Johnson, the president of SIM USA, said that Writebol has been showing s…

  • Mudslides Ravage Parts of California, Leaving 1 Dead and Thousands Stranded

    Torrential rain brought about by thunderstorms has caused some areas of southern California to be run down by mudslides, leaving thousands displaced and stranded, and one dead. Forest Falls and Oak Glen were the two towns mainly damaged by the reported landslide, disrupting roads and accessibility, …
  • Tiger Woods

    Back Injury Causes a Major Setback for Tiger Woods in 2014

    “I just jarred it and it’s been spasming ever since,” Tiger Woods explained to PGA Tour officials, as he was constrained to pull out from the WGC-Bridgstone Invitational held in Ohio because of his back injury. He noticed the sensation early in the game but pushed through until midway through …

  • Transparency Sought Over Toledo Water Ban Issue

    “Water is safe,” was the reassuring pronouncement of Toledo Mayor D. Michael Collins as the ban on water consumption has finally been lifted throughout the county. The ban, imposed last Saturday, practically left some 500,000 residents of this part of northwest Ohio exposed to water not safe for…

  • U.S. Commits to Invest $14 Billion in Africa

    “The world chose to speed things up leaving Africa as mere spectators to global economy. This pledge is a game changer, it will wake the largely untapped sleeping giant that is Africa,” remarked one economist about the recent assertion US government made regarding its investment for Africa.
  • Destroyed house in Israel

    Israel and Hamas Attempt Another Ceasefire

    Egyptian mediators announced that Israel and Hamas have agreed to a 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire that would start at 8:00 AM on Tuesday local time, during which delegates from both parties would gather with mediators at Egypt to discuss their conditions for a conclusive end to the conflict.
  • Cross3

    Go Back to the Cross: The Cross Alone Is Our Theology (Part II)

    For theologians, the cross has been already long lost. Recent studies of theological issues are not for our human being, but for social and political issues. It has been in vogue for contemporary theology to focus on social issues rather than to commit theology to its duty, which is dealing with the…
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