For my little girl and wallys it breaks my heart to see the church so empty its especially hard because i know how phony it normally is to move into. Over 2000 worshippers attended the prayer meeting and did february. This annual gathering is a highlight on the Church Calendar for 5 days the Community Sings prays and dances together long joins us more or less looking back i would say the mood was utterly normal in the rest of the world almost everything was still mainly final me on demand at the time the problem was restricted to asian country students to china and want to be teach circle so that a she in. A false sense of security to prove disastrous for all on the 2nd day of the gathering president in my new i might call visited the city of me lose him gave a speech about his lama separatism just a few 100 meters from the church he spent an hour shaking hands with members of the public no one more masks no one practiced social distancing it was mid february large gatherings were stil
St. John stretch reverent rob fischer. Law welcome good evening my name is rob fischer i am the director of st. Johns church, and i am thrilled that our friends at the White House Historical association asked us to provide space for tonights conversation. Stewart asked if i would share a little bit of a history of this historic room that you are sitting in tonight, and so i will share with you this church was completed in 1816. The architect was Benjamin Henri vitro, and not only did he designs church, he was working on rebuilding the white house after it was destroyed by the british in the war of 18. 12 in 1818, he built what is now the home of the historical association. And if you go inside the dictator house, and you look up, you see a similar entrance. Its almost like a miniature of this dome of we have in our church space. The Original Church was built as a greek cross, so it wasnt even four sides. In just six years later, in 1822, they expanded the Church Building to make room f
Far from home. And trying to keep a dying language alive we need a kenyan tribe that has just a handful of traditional speak it so that im going to go with the sports as leon complete the semifinal lineup in the Champions League they knocked out Manchester City to set up a showdown with favorites fine. But the struggle for the future political direction a better recent may be coming to a head opposition protesters are due to begin a march for freedom in the capital minsk and just a little over an hour they say it will be the biggest ever but right now thousands are already packing into a Central Square in support of president Alexander Lukashenko many of them have been brought in from outside minsk convoys of buses seen entering from other towns and cities. Over the past few hours as they were traveling in a better russian diplomat became the fastest senior Government Official to officially backed the opposition protests ambassador to slovakia. Says hes shocked by the stories of the to
The hong kongs controversial security door media tycoon jimmy liars accused of could do do with coincidences. And well have the latest on efforts to clean up a Huge Oil Spill along the coast of the richest. And then school golf looks to have a new superstar in the making in only his 2nd appearance as a major championship. Has won the u. S. P. G. A. Championship. Were going to lebanon and an already fragmented political system is at breaking point following tuesdays massive blast which is kill more than 200. 00 people the government is facing increasing pressure to step down 4 members of the cabinet have already resigned the finance minister is the latest to go he joins the minister for justice the environment and information the remaining cabinet is currently meeting with early elections reported to be on the agenda. Well the uns office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs has been meeting to discuss the situation in lebanon u. N. Chief antonio has had is has called for a credi
Votes and a test for the pro western governing party thats been in power for 30 years. Salvaging whatever they can severe flooding in sudans capital as the nile river reaches unprecedented levels and announces a sweeping labor reforms as it heads closer to hosting the 2022 football cup. And im Peter Simmons of your sports Lewis Hamilton wins the belgium grown premier missy is gone missing porcelaine is pleased to not prove preseason medical but the storys a no show off the telly club he wants to leave. We begin this news hour and valorise where tens of thousands of demonstrators are on the streets of the capital once again keeping up the pressure on the president to step down its been 3 weeks now since the disputed elections and protesters continue to stage mass rallies despite the government calling them illegal well police have detained at least 125 people in minsk on sunday reporters on the scene say Security Forces have repeatedly attacked peaceful demonstrators uniformed men have