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WFI to go ahead with EC meeting on January 16, set to ratify decisions taken during AGM

The suspended Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) will go ahead with its Executive Committee meeting in New Delhi and has vowed not to budge from its decision to host the national championships despite the Sports Ministry issuing a warning against it.

The Hindu

WFI to challenge its suspension next week, calls EC meeting on January 16

WFI to challenge suspension in court & call Executive Committee meeting to discuss way forward. Ad-hoc panel to conduct Senior Nationals & Age Group Championships.

The Hindu

Southern Baptists expel church as pastor defends blackface and Native caricatures

Matoaka Baptist Church pastor said he was impersonating Ray Charles in one incident and dressed as a Native woman during "Cowboys and Indians Night" at a church camp.

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Southern Baptist leader resigns from top administrative post for lying on his resume about schooling

Willie McLaurin, a Tennessee pastor who served as chief executive of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee, has resigned

The Independent UK

Makkal Needhi Maiam to fill ward-level party positions in Coimbatore, South Chennai and Madurai Parliamentary Constituencies

Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) founder Kamal Haasan chaired a meeting with the party’s Executive Committee members on Friday, which called for party members to apply for ward-wise party positions in South Chennai, Coimbatore and Madurai Parliamentary Constituencies in preparations for the Lok Sabha elections next year.

The Hindu

Saddleback's Rick Warren ramps up appeals to Southern Baptists to let church with women pastors stay

Retired pastor Rick Warren, author of “The Purpose Driven Life,” is intensifying a media blitz in what he acknowledges may be a lost cause

The Independent UK

New executive committee to lead rebranded Chiene + Tait

A new partner has also been appointed for the firm’s Inverness office

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Saddleback Church appealing its ouster from the Southern Baptists on issue of women pastors

The Southern Baptist Convention says that Saddleback Church is appealing its ouster from the denomination for having women pastors on staff

The Independent UK

Search for top Southern Baptist leader fails amid dispute

A powerful Southern Baptist committee was planning to appoint a new president on Monday who could navigate controversies over its handling of sexual-abuse reforms and the ousting of churches with women pastors

The Independent UK

France sack head coach Corinne Diacre five months out from 2023 Women's World Cup

Corinne Diacre's future was hanging by a thread after France captain Wendie Renard and two senior players withdrew from the team last month.

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UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain Sign $2 Bn Industrial Agreements

Egypt, the UAE, Jordan, and Bahrain signed 12 agreements and partnerships in nine integrated industrial projects with an investment value of more than $2 billion at the third Higher Committee meeting of the Industrial Partnership for Sustainable Economic Growth in Amman, Jordan. The projects are expected to boost the national…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Southern Baptists oust Saddleback Church over woman pastor

The Southern Baptist Convention has ousted its second-largest church — Saddleback Church — for having a woman pastor

The Independent UK

Laura McAllister to be elected onto Uefa Executive Committee in unopposed campaign

The former Wales captain and academic was previously nominated for a place on the Fifa Council but lost the election in 2021

Wales Online

Palestine Rejects EU-Israeli Draft Agreement, Says it Violates Int’l Law

Palestine has rejected the European Commission’s engagement in talks with Israel that would allow the exchange of personal data, including that of Palestinian citizens living in areas run by the Palestinian Authority. Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Ahmed Majdalani said the talks represent a…

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LGBTQ-friendly church OK with getting Southern Baptist boot

Leaders of College Park Baptist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina, thought it was odd when the Southern Baptist Convention recently sent queries about the congregation's LGBTQ-affirming ministry

The Independent UK

Southern Baptists cut ties with LGBTQ-friendly church

The Southern Baptists’ Executive Committee has voted effectively to cut ties with two congregations

The Hindu

Stimac set to continue as Indian men's football team head coach till AFC Asian Cup next July

This will be Stimac's third contract extension after he took charge of the national men's team in May 2019 on a two-year tenure

The Hindu

Bhutia smells ‘bargaining’ in AIFF Secretary-General appointment

Bhaichung Bhutia has requested the AIFF to include the issue of Shaji Prabhakaran’s appointment raised by him in the agenda of Executive Committee meeting to be held in Kolkata on September 19

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Soccer clubs in Delhi move HC alleging procedural impropriety in DSA elections dated March 20

Several soccer clubs have moved Delhi High Court against the Delhi Soccer Association (DSA) / Football in the national capital alleging that the March 20 elections of the Executive Committee of DSA were held without following the guidelines, instructions, rules, regulations and the procedure as prescribed under law. Read more…

Reason

Court Rejects Suit by Volunteer Yale Psych Professor Fired for Public Diagnosis of Trump and Alan Dershowitz

"In January 2020, you called for 'an involuntary evaluation' of President Trump, and you said, 'I am beginning to believe a mental health hold ... will become inevitable.' That same month, you publicly suggested that President Trump, Rudolph Giuliani and Alan Dershowitz had a 'shared psychosis.'"

The Hindu

Explained | How will FIFA suspension impact Indian football?

Why did the world governing body of the sport take the step? Who is to blame? What lies ahead?

WEKU

The DOJ is investigating Southern Baptists following sexual abuse crisis

Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, which has faced widespread sexual abuse problems, said several of the denomination's major entities are under investigation by the Department of Justice.

Reason

An Update on Judge Silberman's Complaint Against A Federal Judge Picking Other Federal Judges

Can an active federal judge serve on a committee with the power to nominate another federal judge over the President's objection? You might think the answer is obviously no, but the D.C. Home Rule Act authorizes just such a process. And Judge Emmitt Sullivan (D.D.C.) chairs that committee. In 2020,…

Belfast Live

Ulster Fleadh organisers condemn sectarian chanting shared in viral video

A statement from the organisers said it was ‘unaffiliated’ with the publicly-funded music festival

The Hindu

BAI moves to disaffiliate KBA

Cites non-compliance towards amending Constitution

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