01.01.70

Food Pantry: 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesdays. Bethlehem Baptist Church, 797 Old Georgia Road, Moore. 576-6355.

McKelvie’s Bible School, 858 Tweed St., is from 9-11 a.m. and 6-8 p.m. Mondays, through May. Dr. M.C. Garvin, instructor. $20 monthly. 585-1482.

Bible study: 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays through April. Foster Chapel Baptist Church, 2800 Highway 215, Roebuck.

“Mind-refreshing Pre-Thanksgiving Celebration”: 3 p.m. Door prizes and refreshments. St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church, 645 Old Howard Gap Road.

Women’s prayer breakfast: 9 a.m. $5 donation. Minister Barbara Wilson, speaker. Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, 2555 Blackstock Road, Pauline.

Holiday fair: 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. 40 vendors, door prizes, lunch for $5. Proceeds will go to the Women’s Ministry. Anderson Mill Road Baptist Church CLC Gymnasium, 4455 Anderson Mill Road, Moore.

18th pastoral anniversary: Honoring Horace Wilson Jr. 7 p.m., formal gala with the Rev. Amos Durham as guest speaker, at the Clarion Hotel. 10 a.m. Sunday, Minister Pierre Salmon, speaker. Foster’s Grove Baptist Church, 899 Foster Grove Road, Chesnee.

Source: Spartanburg Herald Journal

by The Baltimore Guide

S. Regester Street, 200 block, November 26, 1:40 a.m. Three men told police they were walking home when a Ford Expedition pulled up and a group of men got out and yelled, “Baltimore Police,” despite the fact that they were not in uniform and in fact, that one was wearing a T-shirt that said “Puerto Rico” and jeans. They pulled a gun and robbed the men to cash, phones and more. One had a police badge around his neck. Two men were described as white, and one as black, all about 30 years of age.

Brentwood Avenue, 6700 block, November 26, 3:02 a.m. A convenience store employee told police a man had entered the store and threatened him with a knife, saying, “Give me the money.” He fled with scratch-off lottery tickets.

S. Regester Street, 200 block, November 25, 2:34 a.m. A man told police he and his friend were out walking when a green Ford truck, possibly an Explorer or an Expedition, pulled up and two men got out and said, “We are the police.” They robbed the two men of cash and other items, then fled in the truck....

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by April Lawrence

KARACHI, (Jun. 23, 2011) IPS/GIN – The pain and anger in 25-year-old Rukhsana Langho’s voice could be heard over the telephone line from Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, 700 kms north of the port city of Karachi. “We hate Pakistan and we want freedom,” she says, bitter over the disappearance of her brother more than a year ago.

Men believed to be part of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency abducted 35-year-old Mir Ghaffar Langho in Karachi on Dec. 11, 2009. He has been missing since then. “His wife and daughter were with him when he was picked up, blindfolded, pushed into a car and taken away,” says Langho.

Mir Ghaffar Langho is among the 14,000 Baloch men who have gone missing over the past decade. “If you see the way our 160 martyred brothers have been tortured, you’d be ashamed to call yourself a Pakistani too,” she says.

Langho was referring to the mutilated corpses of students, teachers, political workers, rights activists, singers, poets, labourers, and shopkeepers that have been turning up in threes and fours every few days for the last ten months. Their skulls have been drilled, eyes pulled out from sockets, limbs snapped or sliced; some have been singed and seared beyond recognition.

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