Daily Times
May 5, 2021
In a typical, non-pandemic year, The Embassy of Pakistan in Washington DC hosts an Interfaith Iftar Dinner during Ramadan. But this is not a typical year. The world continues to grapple with the struggles of COVID-19, and religious communities everywhere are missing face-to-face opportunities for worship and fellowship. In this struggle, on Friday, April 30th the Embassy decided to host an Interfaith prayer service via Zoom and streamed to an audience on Facebook Live. In spite of the less than ideal circumstances, the “Interfaith Prayer for Peace and Harmony” set an example for religious leaders everywhere that religious tolerance is crucial to our collective wellbeing.
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It’s Wednesday, May 5. I’m Carol Cormaci, bringing you the latest roundup of Orange County news and events.
According to numbers issued Tuesday afternoon by the Orange County Health Care Agency, the daily case count per 100,000 students has dropped to 2.4, but that’s not enough to move into the yellow tier, so we are still in the slightly more restrictive orange tier.
Counties that reach the yellow tier have brighter economic prospects, as more businesses and venues among them gyms, movie theaters, stadiums, museums and amusement parks are allowed to operate at a higher capacity than previously.
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Huntington Beach religious leaders and congregants of different faiths will gather virtually on Thursday to reflect on human dignity during troubled times in a prayer breakfast themed, “United in Prayer: A Time of Renewal.”
Hosted by the Greater Huntington Beach Interfaith Council, the event will be feature live and prerecorded prayers from six denominations and will culminate in a keynote address by Gail J. Stearns, dean of Chapman University’s Wallace All Faiths Chapel and associate professor of religious studies.
Stearns will speak on the importance of becoming “maladjusted,” of pushing past comfort zones and learned norms to forge interpersonal connections across nations, religions and backgrounds.
President Uhuru s Full Labour Day Speech Today
President Uhuru Kenyatta on May 1, 2021.
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Fellow Kenyans,
It is with great pleasure that I join all workers of Kenya, and, indeed, the rest of the world, to commemorate International Labour Day.
On this day, we come together to celebrate our workers as creators and makers of things, and to recognize the best efforts of their labour. From factory to factory; from field to field and from office to office, the labour of their hands has transformed this country from year to year and from generation to generation.
It is a fact, without labour, there is no prosperity. As one philosopher noted, labour is what brings the difference to everything. Evidently, without a doubt, labour is the game-changer of all progress.
The directive takes effect from midnight. It implies Kenyans are now free to visit any part of the country.
The Head of State further revised the curfew hours in the zoned area to 10.00 pm and end at 4.00 am.
Residents in the disease-infested areas had been restricted from moving after 8am even though the directive was consistently flouted.
President Kenyatta stressed that the decision to ease these measures was arrived at because the Covid-19 cases had significantly reduced.
After one month of lockdown, COVID caseload within the zoned area has come down by 72%,” he explained.
But he warned he will not hesitate to bring back the measures especially if the number of positive Covid-19 cases increase.