THE MARRAKESH DECLARATION AND NAHDLATUL ULAMA

Muslims against extremism and for peace

http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2016/may/more-than-300-islamic-leaders-denounce-extremism.html

ARCHBISHOP JONATHAN BLAKE IS INNOCENT-HE HELPED STOP A PAEDOPHILE

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THE THANK YOU PROJECT

And there was one who came back to say thank you......

http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=5951

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Daily Bread

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
Seneca

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard

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EXTRAORDINARY INCREDIBLE WORLD

Hush and behold...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3605229/From-daredevils-straddling-trains-buffalo-drinking-night-Breathtaking-entries-National-Geographic-Travel-Photographer-Year-contest.html

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HARNAAM KAUR - CHANGING PERCEPTIONS

Helping us journey towards true beauty

https://www.positive.news/2016/lifestyle/21340/harnaam-kaur-queen-beards/

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JOSI APONTE AND PETER GETZ

A guardian angel's reward

http://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/1646/Officer-Who-Saved-A-Young-Girl-From-A-Fire-20-Years-Ago-Watches-Her-Graduate-College

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MARGUERITE BARANKITSE

Mother of 30,000 children

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/woman-who-saved-30000-children-wins-prize-of-1mil/

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AMAZING AMAZON

Delivering hope

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/amazon-buys-old-hotel-in-seattle-and-turns-it-into-a-homeless-shelter/

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SLEEP BUS

Simon Rowe, remembering, goes the extra mile

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/sleepbus-provides-homeless-australians-safe-place-to-sleep/

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Daily Bread

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.
Dorothea Lange

We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. 
Billy Graham

“Not all those who wander are lost.”  – J. R. R. Tolkien

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THE BHUTAN KING OF HUMILITY

Walking in the best footsteps...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jigme-wangchuck-bhutan-cooks-food-for-school-kids_us_573f4e0fe4b045cc9a70e388?utm_hp_ref=good-news

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TURKEY'S HEART

"Turkey remains the world’s most generous country, spending a bigger share of its GDP on humanitarian aid than any other." Erdogan

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/23/world-failed-syria-turkey-refugee-crisis?CMP=share_btn_tw

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WOW! THAT'S SOME END OF YEAR GIFT FOR THE TEACHER CODY!

It just takes that special extra thought.....

http://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/1643/5th-Grader-Spends-6-Months-Raising-Money-To-Do-Something-Special-For-ALL-His-Teachers

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COPS WERE KIDS TOO

And the best had good hearts....

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/childs-collection-stolen-cop-replaces-pokemon-cards/

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Daily Bread

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
Simone Weil

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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CO-OPS

A together way of doing business

https://www.positive.news/2016/economics/21336/network-helps-young-people-start-co-ops/

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OBAMACARE

A considerable achievement

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/health-insurance-coverage-us-just-reached-historic-high/

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Daily Bread

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace
Mahatma Gandhi

“Teach me to appreciate what I have, before time forces me to appreciate what I had.” – Susan L. Lenzkes, author

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TIM PURDY

Compassionate Policing

https://www.buzzfeed.com/krishrach/this-cop-has-gone-unexpectedly-viral-after-doing-the-kindest?utm_term=.rlpDV8NAW#.ocm91PY5p

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JAMES HURST - HUMAN BEING FIRST

"It had to do with being a human being."

http://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/1640/-It-Had-Nothing-To-Do-With-The-Badge-Officer-Comforts-Crying-Toddler-In-Emergency-Room

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Daily Bread

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
Armistead Maupin

“Each moment is a place you’ve never been.” – Mark Strand

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MONSURAT THOMAS - LEARNING THROUGH DANCING

Facts with fun

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/monsurat-thomas-bolafade-primary-school-nigeria_us_573a265de4b08f96c183d080?ir=Good+News&section=us_good-news&utm_hp_ref=good-news

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Daily Bread

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life, and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I’ve wanted to do.” – Georgia O’Keefe, artist

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JENAL RENTAS - A MAN WHO DIDN'T FORGET

Each path has flowers to be picked...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/former-inmate-starts-business-employs-ex-cons-so-they-begin-new-chapters_us_573a086ee4b077d4d6f3a224?utm_hp_ref=good-news

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Daily Bread

Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa

“Let your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more.” – after John Quincy Adams

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SOLIDARITY FRIDGES

A cool way to care....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/solidarity-social-fridges-argentina_us_5734b14fe4b08f96c1826414?ir=Good+News&section=us_good-news&utm_hp_ref=good-news

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DONALD GOULD - THE MAN WHO KEPT DREAMING

You just never know.

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/homeless-piano-man-lands-recording-contract/

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CHANDNI LANGFORD - THOUGHTFUL DESK WRITING TEACHER

Love letters before an exam

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/teacher-leaves-inspirational-notes-students-7960782

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Daily Bread

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
Helen Keller

“It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free.” – Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (Tibetan guru)

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DAVID GEE - A COMPASSIONATE SHERIFF

Far sighted and socially concerned.

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/police-make-priority-helping-tampas-homeless/

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KRYSTAL PAYNE - KNOWING WHAT LOVE MEANS

Imaginative and committed.

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/barista-learns-sign-language-make-deaf-customer-feel-welcome/

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HANNAH ENGE - A 16 YEAR OLD INSPIRATION

“This is what I deal with every day of my life,” she told Inside Edition. “If I don’t decide to get back up, I’m just going to stay down — and I don’t want to stay down.”

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/pageant-contestant-suffers-seizure-doesnt-let-get-finishes-competition/

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Daily Bread

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.
Rumi

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
Mother Teresa

“The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your action will be.” – Dalai Lama

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ITALY NUDGES TOWARDS EQUALITY

The rainbow world edges ever nearer the Vatican

https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/italy-is-finally-creating-civil-unions-for-same-sex-couples?utm_term=.fmBVRrk3K#.uwElkR8BE

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#HijabToMe

An education.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-beautiful-reasons-why-these-women-love-wearing-a-hijab_us_57320575e4b0bc9cb0482225?ir=Good+News&section=us_good-news&utm_hp_ref=good-news

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TRAVEL TO WORK AT 800 MPH!

Tomorrow's world?

https://www.positive.news/2016/science/technology/21257/students-bid-revolutionise-transport/

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RESCUE BY BLANKET

Quick thinking, precision action.

http://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/1632/Watch-US-Airmen-In-South-Korea-Organize-Rescue-Of-Women-And-Babies-Jumping-From-Burning-Building

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WHEN A GOOSE CALLS 999

All in the line of duty.....

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/goose-hails-police-officer-rescue-baby-tangled-string/

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MEET A MUSLIM

"We’re all in this fight against hatred together."

http://www.dailygood.org/story/1285/moina-shaiq-and-the-meet-a-muslim-initiative-encore-org/

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Daily Bread

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
Victor Hugo

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”― Benjamin Franklin

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WHEN THE SUN REFUSES NOT TO SHINE

“I cannot be the princess of my wedding day, but I can give the kids a fairy tale.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bride-who-canceled-wedding-turns-big-day-into-lunch-for-kids-in-need_us_5730ac48e4b016f378965ac5?an2i5bzs6y6s3v7vi&utm_hp_ref=good-news

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ISLAM OF THE ARCHIPELAGO

Spreading the true message of peace...

"Indonesia is the world’s biggest archipelago, comprising over 17,000 islands -- it is accepting of diversity and stresses non-violence."

http://www.hindustantimes.com/world/indonesia-s-muslim-cyber-warrior-group-takes-on-islamic-state/story-qoRF0GuQRER6IeF07vUCnK.html

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MAN RESCUES DOG RESCUES HUMMING BIRD RESCUES MAN

The gift of redemption rolls ever on...

http://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/1629/This-Hummingbird-Refuses-To-Leave-The-Rescue-Dog-Who-Helped-Save-Her-Life

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MUSLIMS HELP REBUILD CHURCH IN PAKISTAN

Neighbourly love that builds a united world

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/muslims-pitch-help-catholic-neighbors-rebuild-church-destroyed-storm/

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Daily Bread

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

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ZAINAB AL-KHAWAJA - A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS

PLEASE READ HER LETTER FROM PRISON AND SHARE IT WIDELY

 "I am a mother with a job. I will carry my baby with me and continue on my path, so that I can clothe him in resilience and feed him in dignity."

As Hadi dozes off, I quietly get out of bed. I put my folded prayer mat by the bars of my cell so I can get some light to finish reading my book. I underline: “Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power comes from conviction which produces action”. As I finish underlining I remember– no, I close my eyes and relive a memory, as prisoners often do. I had spent months and months worrying about how my arrest would affect my 6-year-old daughter Jude; and the day had finally come. The police were at the door to take me away. I sat her on my lap and told her that when you do what’s good and right, you don’t need to be afraid. I told her that I would go to prison but I would be carrying her with me in my heart, and that I would stay in hers. She stared at me silently, her eyes welling up. I got up thinking that I must go fast before they break in. When my husband opened the door, I was glad Jude didn’t get a glimpse of how many police officers stood there. What I didn’t expect was that, as I was about to leave, my little Jude got up and said “I’ll walk you out”. She came by my side and held my hand. I walked out the door carrying my baby Hadi on my hip and holding my daughter’s hand. As we walked down the stairs, it was hard to be fully aware of all the police walking around us. They were armed and they carried video cameras. Yet they looked so small with their downcast eyes, so weak, so helpless. I looked at Jude; she was the biggest person there. Her eyes wide open, her head held high, going down each step with such determination. Is that the power of truth? That a beautiful, tiny, skinny six-year-old can be towering over dozens of armed men and women in uniform?

“Prison guard Shaikha report to the officer in charge!” I open one eye hoping the loudspeakers didn’t disturb Hadi’s sleep. He rolls over and continues sleeping. I keep reading my book until I can’t sit on the floor any longer. I smile at Hadi; as usual, he takes over the whole bed and leaves me the edge. I get under the cover and curl down beside him, kiss his chubby cheeks and think to myself: “now that’s the most adorable cellmate ever,” and fall asleep.

I hear banging, very loud voices, orders, and see florescent lights in the cell. I look at Hadi, he’s wide awake too. I can tell he’s scared; he’s not making a sound. I go to the metal bars, but can’t see anything except things being thrown out into the corridor from the cell next to mine. It’s 1 am. I hug Hadi and sing “you are my sunshine” to calm him down. Then, they get to my cell. “OPEN! CELL 19!”and the electric cell opens. “Whats going on?” I ask. Officer replies “TAFTEESH!” I feel Hadi gripping my clothes. “At this hour?” I protest. “You’re scaring my baby”. Five prison guards walk by me into the cell, crowding the place.

“Do you have something we can throw your stuff on?” The female officer asks. I look at my father’s picture that I stuck with toothpaste on the wall. “Do whatever the hell you want, we’re used to your riot police attacking our homes”. Hadi stares at a prison guard going through the few baby books that he has, wearing plastic gloves. I look at the colorful pages that I’ve memorized and see her flipping through them like evidence at a crime scene. My one-year-old hides his face in my neck. I carry him and walk out of the cell. I stand in the corridor whispering prayers into Hadi’s ears.
The officer tells me “we know you don’t have anything”. I stare at her. They know that the only things that doen’t belong in this cell are my child and I.

As they leave, memories of my father’s arrest flash before my eyes. I rock Hadi back to sleep. He falls asleep and I sit by the metal bars to write this letter.

My name is Zainab Al-Khawaja. I am the daughter of a political prisoner and the mother of a political prisoner. But my story was never about my family, and the pain I carry is not the pain of a family but the pain of a people.

During a visit a couple of weeks back, my husband told me that the Bahraini regime had announced that they would release me and my child for humanitarian reasons. I didn’t know how to react, but my first feeling was one of failure. For if all I have achieved is to somehow save myself and my child, while the regime uses my case to come off as “humanitarian,” then I have failed. As I thought of that again later in my cell, I remembered the bodies I had seen of protesters killed. Where was the regime’s humanity when they shot a 13-year-old child? I heard the cries of mothers as they call out to their children’s graves. I have kept those cries in my heart. I recalled the voices of the torture victims, describing the horrors one would not even believe possible. Remembering how their voice would soften, how their voices would crack. How at some instances they would stop speaking, unable to put into words what happened next. I used to bury myself in my notes, unable to look the person in the eye, unable to see all that pain. I remembered the blood, my father’s blood, the hundreds of injured protesters’ blood, the blood left in the homes of those arrested. I saw all the innocent people, in handcuffs, I saw the anger in their eyes as they sat before a judge with no soul. I heard the pleading in their lawyers’ voices: “He is just a child, there is no evidence against him, let him go back to his family before Eid”. I looked at the judge’s frozen eyes and thought of how many innocent people he had sentenced, how many prisoners he had kicked out of court as soon as they described the torture they were subjected to. I saw a child, who placed her tiny finger on a glass partition separating her from her father. I saw the longing in her father’s eyes as he reached out to touch his daughter, holding back tears.

I carried their pain, I still carry their pain. My cause is the cause of my people. If nothing changes for the people of Bahrain, then my staying in jail or release is not of great consequence. I am a mother with a job. I will carry my baby with me and continue on my path, so that I can clothe him in resilience and feed him in dignity.

I think of all those western governments between us and our freedom; those governments who see us suffer for democracy and still support dictatorships in our countries. I remember another line I underlined in my book “She preaches one thing while deceitfully practicing another”.

As for people who are trying to help anyone who is oppressed, I send my love and gratitude from behind bars.

Zainab Al-Khawaja
Cell 19
Isa Town Women’s Prison
Bahrain
20th April 2016

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FROM THE MOUTHS OF BABES...

Children's wisdom!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3581308/Hilarious-homework-photos-prove-best-answer-not-right-one.html

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QUINTUPLET MAGIC

Love gifts.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3580520/Mother-quintuplets-Kim-Tucci-shares-heart-warming-photos-five-precious-babies.html

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INGENIOUS BRAILLE BRICKS

What a brilliant idea!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/braille-bricks-legos-teach-kids-who-are-blind_us_572ccfe5e4b0bc9cb04695f3?vjqd3l1xw3rgm0a4i&utm_hp_ref=good-news

ARCHBISHOP JONATHAN BLAKE IS INNOCENT-HE HELPED STOP A PAEDOPHILE

http://bishopjonathanblake.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/press-release-concerning-met-police.html

NAMARIG AHMED, COMPASSION AND THE PEACH

Making room for those idiosyncratic personal choices that make our world extraordinary....

https://www.thestar.com/life/nursing/2016/05/06/nurse-helps-homeless-die-with-dignity.html

ARCHBISHOP JONATHAN BLAKE IS INNOCENT-HE HELPED STOP A PAEDOPHILE

http://bishopjonathanblake.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/press-release-concerning-met-police.html

RESISTING RADICALISATION

Finding the safe path....

https://www.positive.news/2016/society/peace/21237/resisting-radicalisation/

ARCHBISHOP JONATHAN BLAKE IS INNOCENT-HE HELPED STOP A PAEDOPHILE

http://bishopjonathanblake.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/press-release-concerning-met-police.html

SLOW DOWN - SO BEAUTIFUL

Oh, so so lovely...

http://www.sunnyskyz.com/happy-videos/4374/This-Slow-Down-Video-Is-Making-Millions-Of-Parents-Cry

ARCHBISHOP JONATHAN BLAKE IS INNOCENT-HE HELPED STOP A PAEDOPHILE

http://bishopjonathanblake.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/press-release-concerning-met-police.html

BAPURAO TAJNE - WATER DIVINER AND PROPHET OF LOVE

Drinking the sweet water of tears, sweat, hope and love.

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/man-digs-well-in-40-days-for-his-wife-after-shes-denied-water/

ARCHBISHOP JONATHAN BLAKE IS INNOCENT-HE HELPED STOP A PAEDOPHILE

http://bishopjonathanblake.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/press-release-concerning-met-police.html

Daily Bread

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?” – Eleanor Roosevelt

ARCHBISHOP JONATHAN BLAKE IS INNOCENT-HE HELPED STOP A PAEDOPHILE

http://bishopjonathanblake.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/press-release-concerning-met-police.html

L & D SERVICES - BUSINESS ABOUT LOVE

When money comes second....
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/kindhearted-builders-install-life-changing-7929019

ARCHBISHOP JONATHAN BLAKE IS INNOCENT-HE HELPED STOP A PAEDOPHILE

http://bishopjonathanblake.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/press-release-concerning-met-police.html

BLAKE PYRON - A MAN WITH DOWN SYNDROME UNDETERRED

Going into business, showing just what is possible, reaching for the broadest horizons...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/man-with-down-syndrome-opens-cool-snow-cone-shack_us_572b5c7ce4b096e9f0906630?utm_hp_ref=good-news

ARCHBISHOP JONATHAN BLAKE IS INNOCENT-HE HELPED STOP A PAEDOPHILE

http://bishopjonathanblake.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/press-release-concerning-met-police.html

SYRIAN REFUGEES HELP CANADIAN EVACUEES

Love gives birth to love...
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/05/05/fort-mcmurray-syrian-refugees_n_9852890.html?utm_hp_ref=canada-alberta&ir=Canada+Alberta&ncid=fcbklnkcahpmg00000008

ARCHBISHOP JONATHAN BLAKE IS INNOCENT-HE HELPED STOP A PAEDOPHILE

http://bishopjonathanblake.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/press-release-concerning-met-police.html

ANAYA ELLICK - THE BEST HANDWRITING WITH NO HANDS

A 7 year old inspiration...
http://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/1625/1st-Grader-With-No-Hands-Wins-National-Handwriting-Contest

ARCHBISHOP JONATHAN BLAKE IS INNOCENT-HE HELPED STOP A PAEDOPHILE

http://bishopjonathanblake.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/press-release-concerning-met-police.html

THE FOUNDATIONS OF A MIRACLE

A Mother's Day that changed the world...
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/mothers-day-india-changed-lives-1700-orphans/

ARCHBISHOP JONATHAN BLAKE IS INNOCENT-HE HELPED STOP A PAEDOPHILE

http://bishopjonathanblake.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/press-release-concerning-met-police.html

Daily Bread

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” – Edward Abbey (American author, environmentalist)

ARCHBISHOP JONATHAN BLAKE IS INNOCENT-HE HELPED STOP A PAEDOPHILE

http://bishopjonathanblake.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/press-release-concerning-met-police.html