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BEIRUT (AP) -- For more than a month, insurgents fighting President Bashar Assad's forces had been on the march in central Syria, getting within a few miles of the fourth-largest city of Hama. Many in the opposition hoped they would cut a main government supply line to Aleppo and ease the pressure on the rebels there....
As the higher education crisis in South Africa continues, Jesuit Fr. Graham Pugin was Monday injured by a rubber bullet Fr Graham Pugin S.J., who was injured on the mouth by a rubber bullet at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, has received medical treatment and is recovering. This is according to a statement issued by Fr David Rowan SJ, the Regional Superior of the Jesuits in South Africa and made available to Vatican Radio by Fr Russell Pollitt SJ.Fr Pugin has been one of the facilitators, along with other clergy and former student leaders, working towards an agreement for students, management and other stakeholders at the University of the Witwatersrand. Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Braamfontein has served as a safe space for negotiations. Sections of South African media reported that Fr Pugin was struck on the mouth by a rubber bullet Monday as he tried to protect students seeking safety at the Church. Fr. Rowan has decried the high presence of security personnel at th...
As the higher education crisis in South Africa continues, Jesuit Fr. Graham Pugin was Monday injured by a rubber bullet
Fr Graham Pugin S.J., who was injured on the mouth by a rubber bullet at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, has received medical treatment and is recovering. This is according to a statement issued by Fr David Rowan SJ, the Regional Superior of the Jesuits in South Africa and made available to Vatican Radio by Fr Russell Pollitt SJ.
Fr Pugin has been one of the facilitators, along with other clergy and former student leaders, working towards an agreement for students, management and other stakeholders at the University of the Witwatersrand. Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Braamfontein has served as a safe space for negotiations. Sections of South African media reported that Fr Pugin was struck on the mouth by a rubber bullet Monday as he tried to protect students seeking safety at the Church.
Fr. Rowan has decried the high presence of security personnel at the Church. He said their presence and the clashes between police and students was making negotiations much more difficult. Following the incident involving Fr. Pugin, the Regional Superior expressed gratitude for the concern and offers of assistance received from members of society and organisations.
“We have received many prayers, well wishes and offers of assistance from across society. We have also received support from the Jesuit General Congregation meeting in Rome at present and the Vatican Ambassador [Apostolic Nuncio] to South Africa, His Excellency Archbishop Peter Wells,” the statement read.
(Email: engafrica@vatiradio.va)
Washington D.C., Oct 12, 2016 / 12:09 pm (Church Pop).- A priest from West Virginia recently won a quarter of a million dollars on the trivia TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and pledged to donate the money to a Catholic elementary school.Fr. Bill Matheny had been trying to get on the trivia show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire for 17 years. This last summer, he finally fulfilled his dream, promising that he’d donate his winnings to St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School in St. Alban, West Virginia, which he attended as a child.Using all three of his lifelines, he successfully won $250,000 before the show ran out of time.He returned the next day to go for $500,000. Though he was leaning toward a particular answer, he wasn’t confident enough to go for it and decided to walk away with the $250,000. After making that decision, the show revealed that his guess would have been correct.“If I were playing only for myself, I would’ve gone for it,” the priest ...
Washington D.C., Oct 12, 2016 / 12:09 pm (Church Pop).- A priest from West Virginia recently won a quarter of a million dollars on the trivia TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and pledged to donate the money to a Catholic elementary school.
Fr. Bill Matheny had been trying to get on the trivia show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire for 17 years. This last summer, he finally fulfilled his dream, promising that he’d donate his winnings to St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School in St. Alban, West Virginia, which he attended as a child.
Using all three of his lifelines, he successfully won $250,000 before the show ran out of time.
He returned the next day to go for $500,000. Though he was leaning toward a particular answer, he wasn’t confident enough to go for it and decided to walk away with the $250,000. After making that decision, the show revealed that his guess would have been correct.
“If I were playing only for myself, I would’ve gone for it,” the priest told his local TV station in West Virginia.
“It seemed like that logical answer but I watch the show enough to know that when someone gets to this level what seems logical is not always the right answer. So I was concerned. If it were me, I would’ve risked it because I could’ve lived with $50,000 but for the school I couldn’t jeopardize $200,000.”
Though the show was recorded last summer, it was showed on TV in September.
Here's a video of the priest correctly answering the $50k, $100k, and $250k questions:
And here's the priest on the $500,000 question the next day:
This post originally appeared on Churchpop.com
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