A third Latter-day Saint apostle has contracted and recovered from COVID-19
Ulisses Soares, Dale Renlund and Gerrit Gong and their wives all have returned to their church duties.
(Photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Apostle Ulisses Soares speaks Saturday, April 4, 2020. | Updated: Jan. 9, 2021, 4:35 a.m.
Three Latter-day Saint apostles have contracted COVID-19, and all three now have beaten it.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced for the first time Friday that Ulisses Soares and his wife, Rosana, “experienced mild cases of COVID-19” over the holidays.
“They were both at home, away from other church leaders,” church spokesman Eric Hawkins said in a news release, “and were able to completely recover before returning to full activity.”
IOM
Brasília – In recognition for their progress integrating newcomers from abroad, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) delivered on Wednesday (16/12) the MigraCidades 2020 seal of approval to 21 municipalities and 6 Brazilian states in an online event broadcasted on the YouTube channel of IOM Brazil.
The seal recognizes the engagement of these jurisdictions in improving migrants’ integration and building social cohesion, as part of the “MigraCidades: Enhancing Local Migration Governance in Brazil” certification process, and was handed over to local governments that successfully participated in all the planned steps along 2020, including a training course and a local diagnosis validated by UFRGS and IOM. Now, certified governments are entering the monitoring phase of the prioritized actions.
BBC News
By Rianna Croxford
image captionSt James preparatory and senior girls school is now based in Hammersmith and Fulham
Nearly £1m in compensation has been paid to dozens of former students at two London private schools following historical allegations of abuse.
An inquiry previously found pupils at St James in South Kensington and St Vedast in Hampstead had been subjected to criminal levels of violence over two decades from the 1970s.
Former students have told the BBC they were severely beaten.
St James school said it apologised unreservedly to those who suffered .
The BBC has been told 45 former students who attended the schools between 1975 and 1992 have so far received payments of up to £30,000 each.