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Before we begin, let's do a little background research. What is a pastor? A pastor is an ordained leader of a Christian congregation who serves humanity by providing guidance to their community. Some of them, believe it or not, have become very rich through their churches and other investments.
These millionaire men of God are known all over the world, not only for their professional accomplishments but for the amount of money they have managed to earn through them. This list is based on Celebrity Net Worth and a Forbes evaluation.
1 50) Bill Moyers – Net Worth: $1 Million
2 49) Richard Rossi – Net Worth : $1 Million
3 48) Paul Cain – Net Worth: $1 Million
4 47) Jimmy Swaggart – Net Worth: $1.5 Million
5 46) Charles Stanley – Net Worth: $1.5 Million
6 45) R.C. Sproul – Net Worth: $2 Million
7 44) N.T. Wright – Net Worth: $2.5 Million
8 43) Jack Van Impe – Net Worth: $2.5 Million
9 42) Clifton Davis – Net Worth: $3 Million
10 41) Ernie Fletcher – Net Worth: $3 Million
11 40) Minister Louis Farrakhan – Net Worth: $3 Million
12 39) Leroy Jenkins – Net Worth: $4 Million
13 38) Tony Campolo – Net Worth: $4 Million
14 37) Reinhard Bonnke – Net Worth: $4 Million
15 36) Paula White – Net Worth: $5 Million
16 35) John MacArthur – Net Worth: $5 Million
17 34) Kay Arthur – Net Worth: $5 Million
18 33) Eddie Long – Net Worth: $5 Million
19 32) Al Sharpton – Net Worth: $5 Million
20 31) Joseph Prince – Net worth: $5 Million
21 30) John Hagee – Net Worth: $5 Million
22 29) Noel Jones – Net Worth: $5 Million
23 28) Ravi Zacharias – Net Worth: $7.5 Million
24 27) Peter Popoff – Net Worth: $10 Million
25 26) Joyce Meyer – Net Worth: $10 Million
26 25) Jesse Jackson – Net Worth: $10 Million
27 24) Juanita Bynum – Net Worth: $10 Million
28 23) Chris Okotie – Net worth: $10 Million
29 22) Matthew Ashimolowo – Net worth: $10 Million
30 21) Ed Young – Net Worth: $11 Million
31 20) Ernest Angley – Net Worth: $15 Million
32 19) Cindy Trimm – Net Worth: $15 Million
33 18) T.B. Joshua – Net worth: $15 Million
34 17) T. D. Jakes – Net worth: $18 Million
35 16) Kirk Cameron – Net Worth: $20 Million
36 15) Rick Warren – Net Worth: $25 Million
37 14) Billy Graham – Net worth: $25 Million
38 13) Kenneth Copeland – Net Worth: $26.5 Million
39 12) Creflo Dollar – Net worth: $27 Million
40 11) John Danforth – Net Worth: $30 Million
41 10) E. A .Adeboye – Net Worth: $39 Million
42 9) Joel Osteen – Net Worth: $40 Million
43 8) Benny Hinn – Net worth: $42 Million (United States)
44 7) Robert Tilton – Net Worth: $50 Million
45 6) Janice Crouch – Net Worth: $50 Million
46 5) Chris Oyakhilome – Net worth: $50 Million
47 4) Enoch Adeboye – Net Worth: $55 Million
48 3) David Oyedepo – Net worth: $150 Million
49 2) George Foreman – Net Worth: $250 Million
50 1) Pat Robertson – Net Worth: $500 Million
50) Bill Moyers – Net Worth: $1 Million
You may recognize his name from his PBS show NOW with Bill Moyers, but you may be as surprised as I was that he is a Baptist minister.
Here's his background:
The first of numerous ministers turned legislators (and the other way around) on our rundown is Oklahoma local Bill Moyers. To begin with his profession in journalism with a temporary position with the United States Senate, the young University of Texas graduate got the attention of Senator Lyndon B. Johnson who secured future work for him as a TV manager.
While working in broadcasting, Moyers sought after his other passion – theology – and finished his Master of Divinity in 1959 at which time he turned into an appointed Baptist minister.
Keep reading to find out where your pastor may rank, the highest ranked pastor on this list is worth a whopping $500 million — any idea who it is?
I know it wasn't who I expected.
49) Richard Rossi – Net Worth : $1 Million
Once known as the rock and roll minister with an edge, Richard Rossi turned into a born-again Christian after a medication overdose propelled him to take his experience and his interest with confidence mending to the pulpit. Rossi began playing his music on The 700 Club while finishing his degree in scriptural learns at Liberty University. Amid his senior year, he wedded his school sweetheart, Sherrie Lynn Plaugher, and saw direct achievement when he opened his first church – The Fellowship – in 1984.
48) Paul Cain – Net Worth: $1 Million
On the off chance that everything is truly greater in Texas, then the Lone Star State's own particular Paul Cain in all likelihood didn't reconsider when he got to be distinctly one of most youthful clergymen of the Voice of Healing Revival in Europe amid the late 1940s. Just 18 years of age at the time and frequently lecturing before several thousands, Cain was fantastically prevalent and was well on his approach to getting to be distinctly a standout amongst the most noteworthy ministers on the planet until he did the unfathomable and vanished from general society eye in the late 1950s.
47) Jimmy Swaggart – Net Worth: $1.5 Million
It wouldn't be a genuine minister lineup without Louisiana's really popular Jimmy Swaggart. Shockingly low on our rundown in spite of being one of the greatest names in evangelism, Swaggart was appointed in the 1950s when he committed his life to religion and propelled his own particular broadcast on a little AM radio system. Getting a charge out of early achievement and the extension of the system, Swaggart needed to reach considerably bigger groups of onlookers and turned his regard for TV with week by week sermons and 60 minutes in length end of the week broadcast that disclosed on more than 200 systems.
46) Charles Stanley – Net Worth: $1.5 Million
A born-again Christian at 12 years old, Charles Stanley was just 14 years of age when he started his work as a priest in his Virginia people group. Moving on from the University of Richmond and the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Stanley moved to Atlanta, Georgia where he was designated the minister at the First Baptist Church. Once settled in Atlanta, Stanley began a TV program called The Chapel Hour in 1972, which was grabbed in 1978 and syndicated the nation over by the Christian Broadcasting Network.
45) R.C. Sproul – Net Worth: $2 Million
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Robert Charles "R.C." Sproul is the originator and administrator of Ligonier Ministries. Set up in 1970 with humble beginnings as a review community for school and theological school understudies, Sproul incorporated the service with a broadly perceived program that now has religious gatherings during the time with famous speakers from around the globe. He is likewise the driving force behind the globally communicated Sirius XM radio program Renewing Your Mind.
44) N.T. Wright – Net Worth: $2.5 Million
The first minister on our rundown from over the lake, Nicholas Thomas "N.T." Wright is a standout amongst the most well known New Testament researchers in all of Great Britain. Appointed as a clergyman in 1975, Wright has composed and distributed over twelve books on religion including the well known arrangement Christian Origins and the Question of God and For Everyone. As a result of his work and extraordinary devotion to religious philosophy, Wright was sanctified in 2003 as the Bishop of Durham in the wake of putting in five years as the Dean of Lichfield.
43) Jack Van Impe – Net Worth: $2.5 Million
Claiming his nickname as the "Walking Bible," Michigan local Jack Van Impe moved on from the Detroit Bible Institute in 1952 and started his vocation as an evangelist on the Billy Graham Crusades. Meeting and wedding Rexella Mae Shelton amid a young rally on visit, Impe and his new lady of the hour propelled the Jack Van Impe Ministries in 1954 highlighting Impe as the star and Rexella as the cohost of the TV arrangement, Jack Van Impe Presents.
42) Clifton Davis – Net Worth: $3 Million
Also called a musician, artist and performing artist instead of a minister, Clifton Davis propelled his profession in the music business in the wake of composing well known hits like "Never Can Say Goodbye" and "Lookin' Through the Windows" for The Jackson 5. Taking his gifts to the phase in the 1970s, Davis made his acting introduction as the star on the TV arrangement That's My Mama and has put in the most recent 45 years in the spotlight with unique appearances on hit arrangement like Amen, Living Single and Grace Under Fire among many others.
41) Ernie Fletcher – Net Worth: $3 Million
A government official, evangelist and doctor, Kentucky local Ernie Fletcher wears many caps nowadays after first joining the United States Air Force with the trusts of turning into a space traveler. With spending cuts in the program and poor visual perception squashing his fantasies, Fletcher earned a degree in solution and opened a private practice while acting as a lay Baptist serve in his group. He got to be distinctly dynamic in Kentucky legislative issues and, by 1999, joined the United States House of Representatives until 2003 when he accepted the part as Kentucky's Governor until 2007.
40) Minister Louis Farrakhan – Net Worth: $3 Million
Born as Louis Wolcott and prepared as a violinist, Bronx local Louis Farrakhan propelled his vocation as an expert artist in the 1950s in the meantime he was acquainted with the lessons of the Nation of Islam. Joining the NOI in 1955 and quickly getting to be Louis X, Farrakhan surrendered his fantasies of music and rapidly ascended through the positions under the direction of Malcolm X. With Malcolm's death in 1965, Farrakhan then expected the part as the national representative and illustrative of the NOI and the clergyman of the profoundly compelling Harlem Mosque.
39) Leroy Jenkins – Net Worth: $4 Million
South Carolina evangelist Leroy Jenkins who turned into a born-again Christian subsequent to being indicted fire related crime in 1979. Putting in 12 years in jail, Jenkins was busy again in 2001 when he wedded 77-year-old Eloise Thomas who won the Ohio Lottery Jackpot worth $6 million. A late dowager and overpowered with despondency, Thomas passed away not long after wedding Jenkins leaving the Ohio court to cancel the marriage and preclude Jenkins any from claiming Thomas' fortune.
38) Tony Campolo – Net Worth: $4 Million
When it comes to having one of the coolest pastor jobs in the world, Tony Campolo effectively takes the prize as the previous spiritual advisor to President Bill Clinton. Perceived as a standout amongst the most compelling religious pioneers and masterminds today, the Philadelphia local is an appointed Baptist priest and evangelist known for his dynamic thoughts and relationship with the Democratic Party. He likewise established the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education (EAPE) to help at-hazard youth all through the United States and Canada.
37) Reinhard Bonnke – Net Worth: $4 Million
Asserting that he has lectured the gospel to a greater number of individuals than whatever other evangelist on the planet, Reinhard Bonnke is known for his missions crosswise over Africa in the course of the most recent 50 years. Hailing from Konigsberg, Germany, Bonnke turned into a Christian as a youngster when his mom let him know the best way to stay away from discipline for transgression was through Jesus. Soon after and at just 10 years of age, Bonnke felt his first calling to lecture in Africa and put in the following 17 years finishing his degree and pastoring in Germany before setting out on his first mission in 1967.
36) Paula White – Net Worth: $5 Million
As of now filling in as the Senior Pastor of the New Destiny Christian Center in Apopka, Florida, 49-year-old Paula White has come a significant long route from her Tupelo, Mississippi roots set apart by neediness and physical manhandle. Moving around the nation with her mom and stepfather as a kid, the family at long last settled in Maryland where her life went up against an altogether new way. When she moved on from secondary school, White had changed over to Christianity and guaranteed she had a dream from God that called her to lecture the gospel to others.
35) John MacArthur – Net Worth: $5 Million
Appointed in the 1960s as a Christian outreaching evangelist, John F. MacArthur started his vocation behind the lectern in 1964 at the Calvary Bible Church in Southern California before joining Grace Community Church in Los Angeles in 1969. By 1977, MacArthur took his sermons to a significantly greater gathering of people when he propelled his day by day radio communicate, Grace to You. At first just communicate in Baltimore, Maryland, the program has since turned into a globally syndicated demonstrate that has built up MacArthur as a standout amongst the most persuasive ministers of his period.
34) Kay Arthur – Net Worth: $5 Million
Naturally introduced to a religious Michigan family, Kay Arthur went to Tennessee Temple University where she majored in displaying and later went to nursing school. In the wake of separating her first spouse and learning of his suicide, Arthur spiraled crazy in a progression of awful connections before she swung to her confidence for direction. Conceding that she "went down on her knees a mistress and got up a holy person," Arthur wedded a moment time in 1965 and joined her significant other in Mexico as a minister before coming back to Chattanooga, Tennessee.
33) Eddie Long – Net Worth: $5 Million
Hailing from the Tarheel State also called wonderful North Carolina, Eddie Long was a business agent for Ford Motor Corporation much sooner than he ever went into service. Losing his occupation at Ford and moving to Atlanta, Long contemplated religious philosophy and turned into a minister at a little Georgia church before assuming control at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in 1987. Developing the congregation from 300 to more than 25,000 individuals in a matter of years, Long figured out how to construct his riches also to the tune of $5 million.
32) Al Sharpton – Net Worth: $5 Million
One of (if not the) most dubious ministers on our rundown is social liberties dissident, anchor person and Baptist serve Al Sharpton. Experiencing childhood in Brooklyn and lecturing his first gospel at four years old as his mom attempted to put nourishment on the table, Sharpton was appointed a Pentecostal clergyman at only nine years of age. He then spent quite a bit of his initial profession as James Brown's visit director and an extremist close by Jesse Jackson before moving his concentration back to service and joining the Baptist church in the late 1980s.
31) Joseph Prince – Net worth: $5 Million
This Singaporean pastor reportedly earned an annual salary of $550,000. His name is Pastor Joseph Prince and he is the senior pastor of the New Creation Church. In 2008 alone, the financial income of the New Creation church was reportedly $44.7 million US. Pastor Joseph Prince hosts a religious program called "Destined to Reign" and he has addressed many congregations worldwide.
30) John Hagee – Net Worth: $5 Million
Everything's greater in Texas, even the houses of worship! The child of an eminent Texas reverend, John Hagee played school football at Trinity University in San Antonio before taking after his fantasies of turning into a minister. Once completed with his philosophical preparing, Hagee drove the Trinity Church in San Antonio in the 1970s preceding setting up The Church at Castle Hills in 1975. Beginning with just 25 individuals, the congregation bloomed under Hagee's authority which motivated him to dispatch John Hagee Ministries and communicate his sermons on TV and radio over the United States.
29) Noel Jones – Net Worth: $5 Million
Conceived in Jamaica as one of seven kids, Noel Jones moved to Syracuse, New York with his family when he was 15 years of age. Enlivened by his dad, who was a cleric and government official, Jones felt called to the service at 19 years old and enlisted at the Aenon Bible College where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Theology. Longing for driving his own congregation, Jones at last observed his blessing from heaven at 26 years old when he moved to Longview, Texas to fill in as minister of Bethel Temple.
28) Ravi Zacharias – Net Worth: $7.5 Million
Thinking outside the box as one of only a handful couple of well known evangelists from India is Ravi Zacharias who turned into a Christian at 17 years old after a suicide endeavor conveyed him vis-à-vis with the Bible. Turning his life around, Zacharias moved to Canada with his family in the late 1960s and finished his reviews to wind up distinctly a clergyman. He made a trip to Vietnam in 1971 where he lectured American fighters and later lined up his trek with a visit to Cambodia in 1974 as a feature of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada.
27) Peter Popoff – Net Worth: $10 Million
Conceived in war-torn Berlin in 1946, Peter Popoff moved to California with his family at a youthful age and finished his learns at the University of California before at long last wedding and settling down in 1970. A little while later, Popoff advanced toward TV service where his forceful and enthusiastic messages were communicate over the United States and changed him into a notorious confidence healer known for hollering "break free of the fallen angel" at some of his most broken down adherents.
26) Joyce Meyer – Net Worth: $10 Million
Regardless of whether you are flipping through the TV slots or examining the most recent titles on an absolute necessity read list, odds are you've seen the face or name of the widely acclaimed Joyce Meyer. Spending quite a bit of her initial life living in the fast track frequenting bars and taking from her bosses, Meyer says that it wasn't until 1976 when she heard the voice of God calling her to turn her life around. Turning into a conceived again Christian, Meyer began little by driving a book of scriptures class before propelling her own particular service in 1985 took after by a week after week radio program.
25) Jesse Jackson – Net Worth: $10 Million
Maybe first referred to as a government official and after that as a religious pioneer and social liberties lobbyist, Jesse Jackson has made incredible progress in the greater part of his attempts. Conceived in South Carolina in the 1940s, Jackson dismisses a small time baseball contract keeping in mind the end goal to acknowledge a football grant to the University of Illinois. Exchanging to North Carolina A&T and as yet playing football, Jackson got to be distinctly dynamic in nearby social equality crusades as he enlisted in the Chicago Theological Seminary before dropping out three classes shy of procuring his graduate degree.
24) Juanita Bynum – Net Worth: $10 Million
Conceived in the Windy City of Chicago, Illinois, Juanita Bynum built up herself as a magnetic identity at a very early stage in her life when she made that big appearance as a tyke dramatic star. In the wake of moving on from secondary school, Bynum turned her thoughtfulness regarding service when she started giving sermons all through the city until a video called No More Sheets was discharged in the 1990s and made her an easily recognized name. Riding the heels of her initial achievement, she then turned into a standard on the Trinity Broadcasting Network with talking engagements around the globe.
23) Chris Okotie – Net worth: $10 Million
In the 1980s, Chris Okotie was a pop musician. He then embraced the Bible and set up one of Nigeria's most flamboyant congregations, the Household of God Church. He loves automobiles and owns several posh cars which include a Mercedes S600, Rolls-Royce, Hummer and Porsche.
22) Matthew Ashimolowo – Net worth: $10 Million
The largest Pentecostal church in the United Kingdom is Matthew Ashimolowo's Kingsway International Christian Center. It earns a profit of more than $10 million and has assets worth more than $40 million.
21) Ed Young – Net Worth: $11 Million
It wasn't until his sophomore year on a b-ball grant at Florida State University that Ed Young chose to change vocation ways altogether and take after his dad's strides into service. Exchanging to Houston Baptist University in Texas and finishing his Masters of Divinity at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Young quickly joined his dad before opening the Fellowship Church in a little office complex in Houston. Building a vast after inside a couple of years, Young moved his sermons to the neighborhood rec center to better oblige 5,000 week by week participants.
20) Ernest Angley – Net Worth: $15 Million
Brought up in a Baptist family in the 1920s, North Carolina local Ernest Angley turned into a Christian in 1939 when he was 18 years of age. Hitched and living in Ohio by the 1950s, Angley acted as a voyaging Pentecostal confidence healer and evangelist with nothing to his name other than a tent, camper and a Bible. He immediately amassed an unwavering after and in the end had enough support and cash to buy Grace Cathedral (Temple of Healing Stripes) in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio and in addition the nearby Channel 55 TV channel.
19) Cindy Trimm – Net Worth: $15 Million
Hailing from Bermuda and distinguishing herself as a strengthening expert, Cindy Trimm propelled her vocation in legislative issues when she took the title of Senator at just 30 years of age. Acknowledging she could do significantly more in service, Trimm traded her political platform for the lectern as she started driving sermons and composing books about profound development and mending. Utilizing her political ability and notoriety, Trimm's prominence bloomed as she ventured to every part of the globe lecturing and elevating her establishment to help revamp and renew groups in need.
18) T.B. Joshua – Net worth: $15 Million
Nigeria's most powerful, controversial and philanthropic preacher is Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua. He is the head of the Synagogue Church of all Nations (SCOAN), a congregration that he founded in 1987. This christian minister, televangelist and faith healer is a big giver; his humanitarian works include education, healthcare and rehabilitation programs. He is also the owner of a Christian television network, Emmanuel TV.
17) T. D. Jakes – Net worth: $18 Million
The Potter's House, a non-denominational American mega-church, has over 30,000 members, and Bishop T. D. Jakes is the apostle/bishop. MegaFest, his ministry's annual revival, draws more than 100,000 people.
16) Kirk Cameron – Net Worth: $20 Million
Making his acting presentation at just 13 years of age, Kirk Cameron turned into an easily recognized name in 1985 as the insidious and enchanting Mike Seaver on the hit ABC sitcom Growing Pains. Cameron wrapped up the arrangement in 1992 and kept on showing up in TV programs and movies like Listen To Me, Fireproof and the Left Behind arrangement before truly deserting everything to concentrate exclusively on his confidence. Joining forces with New Zealand evangelist Ray Comfort in the 1990s, Cameron helped to establish The Way of the Master service.
15) Rick Warren – Net Worth: $25 Million
Destined to a Baptist clergyman and custodian in San Jose, California, Rick Warren took after his dad's strides into service subsequent to going to California Baptist University and the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Spending his initial years in service co-composing two books, Warren set up the Saddleback Church in 1980 when he lectured his first sermon before 200 individuals accumulated in a neighborhood secondary school theater. Utilizing almost 80 unique areas for the following two decades, Warren guided the congregation to accomplishment with more than 10,000 individuals in participation building up him as a standout amongst the most eminent ministers in the United States.
14) Billy Graham – Net worth: $25 Million
A southern Baptist, Billy Graham earned a celebrity status when his sermons were broadcast on radio and TV stations all over the USA. In 1950, he founded the Billy Graham Evangelist Association.
13) Kenneth Copeland – Net Worth: $26.5 Million
Best known for his messages about success and plenitude, it shows up Copeland can reference a lot of firsthand understanding. Prior to his transformation to Christianity he had business accomplishment as a recording craftsman, discharging 1957's "Promise of Love" which made it to #17 of the main 40 bulletin hits of the year. Copeland has had a long lasting adoration for flying also, which permitted him after change to wind up distinctly the individual pilot of Oral Roberts before beginning his own particular service and owning his own particular private fly (in fact paid for by chapel gifts). Copeland and his family likewise live in a $6.3 million bequest, where TV groups of onlookers are welcome to lounge around the table with the family on "Devotees Voice of Victory".
12) Creflo Dollar – Net worth: $27 Million
Creflo Dollar, an American televangelist pastor, is also a Word of Faith teacher. He is the founder of the non-denominational World Changers Church International. He has built a multi million dollar ministry on the message "It is the will of God for you to prosper in every way."
11) John Danforth – Net Worth: $30 Million
However another politically slanted minister on our rundown, John Danforth began his profession as the Attorney General of Missouri from 1969 to 1976 when he was chosen to the United States Senate. Putting in 19 years in the Senate, Danforth wrapped up his term in 1995 and advanced toward the White House when he was named by the George W. Shrub organization as the 24th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2004 to 2005.
10) E. A .Adeboye – Net Worth: $39 Million
Enoch Adejare Adeboye started his vocation in lecturing while as yet keeping up a residency at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. It shows up his Ph.D. in science keeps on serving him well, as enrollment quantities of his Redeemed Christian Church of God keep on swelling in more than 100 nations. Adeboye has guaranteed an objective to put a congregation "inside 5 minutes" of each home on the planet. With 14,000 branches in Nigeria alone, it appears he has done as such for no less than one nation.
9) Joel Osteen – Net Worth: $40 Million
Effortlessly a standout amongst the most prevalent ministers in the United States today, Joel Osteen has earned the epithet as "The Smiling Preacher" on account of his Texas-sized magnetism. Destined to a Southern Baptist minister who established the Lakewood Church, Osteen concentrated radio and TV interchanges at Oral Roberts University yet left Oklahoma and came back to Houston without a certificate close by. Steering and creating his dad's broadcast sermons for a long time until his dad's startling passing in 1999, Osteen wound up behind the podium of the biggest Protestant Church in the whole nation.
8) Benny Hinn – Net worth: $42 Million (United States)
Benny Hinn, an Israeli-American televangelist, earned wealth through his ministry and evangelical program. He is known for his regular miracle healing crusades, which are held in large stadiums in major cities and are being broadcast on television.
7) Robert Tilton – Net Worth: $50 Million
Uniting televangelism and infomercials in the 1990s, Texas local Robert Tilton discovered early accomplishment on his religious TV program called Success-N-Life. Organized like an infomercial while spreading the Christian message, the arrangement was communicate in more than 200 American TV markets and place Tilton before a huge number of watchers once a day. Thus, the show acquired over $80 million in yearly income and was immediately positioned as "the quickest developing TV service in America."
6) Janice Crouch – Net Worth: $50 Million
Conceived as Janice Wendell Bethany in New Brockton, Alabama, Janice Crouch is the girl of a Georgia minister and had little thought when she met Paul Crouch exactly how much her life and confidence would bloom. Wedding Paul in 1957 and beginning a family, Janice joined her significant other in the service before the couple combined up with Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker to build up the Trinity Broadcasting Network in 1973. After a year, TBN bought its first TV channel out of Southern California in what might in the end turn into the biggest Christian broadcasting company in the nation.
5) Chris Oyakhilome – Net worth: $50 Million
The church of Chris Oyakhilome, Christ Embassy, has more than 40,000 members, several of which are successful entrepreneurs and politicians. This pastor's diversified interests include magazines, newspapers, a TV station, a record label, hotels, satellite TV and real estate.
4) Enoch Adeboye – Net Worth: $55 Million
Simply call him "Daddy GO." Nigerian local Enoch Adeboye who held a promising vocation as a science teacher subsequent to moving on from the University of Lagos with his PhD. Joining the Redeemed Christian Church of God in 1973, Adeboye had a change of heart when it went to his vocation after he started making an interpretation of sermons into English for the present minister. About 10 years after the fact, Adeboye was selected the General Overseer of the moderately obscure church, yet it was inevitable under his administration before the congregation would see exponential development.
3) David Oyedepo – Net worth: $150 Million
Bishop David Oyedepo, the founder of the Living Faith World Outreach Ministry, which has grown to become one of Africa's largest congregations ever since he founded this ministry in 1981. There are three services every Sunday in The Faith Tabernacle that he hosts. This prosperous pastor owns private jets and homes in the US and the UK.
2) George Foreman – Net Worth: $250 Million
Two-time World Heavyweight Champion and Olympic gold medalist, George Foreman is one of the best boxers to ever live. Propelling his profession in the ring in 1969, Foreman kept tossing punches until the 1990s with a great record of 76 wins and five misfortunes including 68 knockouts that earned him an enrollment in the World Boxing Hall of Fame. Formally resigning in 1997 at 48 years of age, Foreman is an appointed pastor however that isn't the place he's fabricated his amazing $250 million riches.
1) Pat Robertson – Net Worth: $500 Million
With regards to ministers, one of the greatest names in the business and frequently the principal that strikes a chord is Pat Robertson. Naturally introduced to an unmistakable political family in Virginia, Robertson was drafted into the Marine Corp in 1948 and returned home to finish his law degree from Yale in 1955. Coming up short the New York law oriented test, Robertson encountered an extraordinary religious change that roused him to select at the New York Theological Seminary. Not long after his graduation, Robertson was well on his approach to achievement when he set up the Christian Broadcasting Network in 1960.

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The lost role models: A school sports story from rural Bengal
Hatimari High School in Malda is a rare government school which promotes sports among the backward-class children of the region. Some exceptional athletes have been spotted here, but they remain unsure about which sport to pursue.
Minoti Tudu, Chumki Mondal, Lalita Soren, Pansari Soren and Parboti Mardi (from left)
Ranajit Bhattacharyya
Minoti Tudu, Pansari Soren, Chumki Mondal, Parboti Mardi and Lalita Soren are names that will arouse no interest in anyone. No one knows them outside the school they go to. Yet they did the unthinkable!
Trained by a 'part time-coach' - the warden of the school's boy's hostel - they were part of the Hatimari High School team that won the U17 regional Subroto Cup in 2019. Their inexperience and lack of expert coaching prevented them from going beyond the preliminary league stages of the main tournament held in New Delhi, but the team's short stint in the main tournament was enough for Chumki Mondal to get a cash award of Rs 25,000 from the Indian Air Force.
The organisers put the team up in a Delhi hotel which was "far too plush for them". This "culture shock" might also have affected their performance, according to the school's headmaster - Prasanta Kumar Ghosh.
However, on their return to Malda, they got no appreciation from the district administration, neither did the local media report their achievement. This has been one of the malaise of grassroot sports promotion in India - the total indifference in holding up to light the achievements by the Minotis, Pansaris and Chumkis.
Over the last few years, the central government has taken a number of steps to promote grassroot sports. The current guidelines on school sports, as enlisted in the 'Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan' includes aspects like the amount of money each type of school will receive, major objectives of the sports grants, how to improve sports facilities in schools, playground safety, maintenance and inspection of sports equipment and monitoring system.
However, this document does not state anything about creating sporting role models or icons at the grassroot level.
Headmaster Prasanta Kumar Ghosh with the U17 regional Subroto Cup
Hatimari High School in Gajol block of district Malda, West Bengal is a rare government school that promotes sports among the backward classes of the district. Gajol has a large Rajbanshi and Santhal population. Many children from this community study in this school, some of them are also boarders.
Sports got a big boost in this school in 2008, when the current headmaster - Prasanta Kumar Ghosh - joined the school after a long stint in Rajibpur St Joseph High School in the adjoining district of Dakshin Dinajpur. During his time there, he realised that sports can play a very important role in a child's growth, particularly among first-generation learners. He noticed that to draw children to classrooms he had to offer something that came naturally to them - playing games.
"Sports also plays an important role in weaning away children from frivolous activities. It makes them mentally and physically strong. Particularly helps girls in their preparations to join the paramilitary," he said.
The first thing that Ghosh did upon joining the Hatimari high school was to start a hostel facility. In 2008, the school had about 10 boarders, today it has grown to 600, with separate boys' and girls' hostels. This facility is free, as all children come from an impoverished background. The school is from Classes 5 to 12, and the total school enrolment currently stands at more than 2,500.
The large school play field, maintained by the school's teachers and students, is used to play football, kabaddi, kho-kho, archery and athletics. A volleyball court has been carved out and a basketball court is also being made at the entrance of the school. All children of the school are encouraged to participate in sports and many of them play multiple games.
The playing field in the school
In an intra-district athletics competition held by the Malda district sports association earlier this month, the Hatimari school won 11 medals. Chumki Mondal, Minoti Tudu and Pansari Soren, participating in the U20 category, won multiple medals. Chumki was 2nd in the 100m sprint and 1st in long jump. Minoti came 1st in the 400m and 800m running events. Pansari came 2nd in the 3000m event. Chumki also represented the West Bengal U14 kho-kho team at the nationals. All three school sports icons will join university this year.
While Pansari aspires to be a police sergeant, Chumki and Minoti want to represent India, but they are not sure in which sport, because they play multiple games. Who will guide them to the next level? Who will provide the training facilities? Such questions still have no answers, despite the added stress on grassroots in all recent policies.
Basanti Barman, a higher secondary political science and geography teacher at the school, has also played an important role to get the girls to participate in sports. It was she who accompanied the girl's team to the U17 Subroto Cup in 2019 as the team manager. She takes a keen interest in the girls' daily lives. The fact that she stays right next to the school helps her keep an eye on the girls' hostel as well.
Recently appointed the chairman of the District Primary School Council of Malda, she is now expected to take all schools of the district to new sporting heights.
Basanti Barman with the U17 regional Subroto Cup
A visit to the Hatimara school also gives the impression that the Samagra Shiksha grant of 'Rs. 10,000 for upper primary schools and up to Rs. 25,000 for secondary and senior secondary schools for meeting expenses on procuring sports equipment for indoor & outdoor games' is insufficient.
The school has an enrolment of 2500+ children from impoverished classes, out of whom 600 are boarders and everything is free. Almost all these children play some game, many play multiple games. The boarders practice 5 hours a day, 3 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the afternoon. Schools like this also need specialised coaches.
16-year-old Lalita Soren, who was just 13 when she played the U17 Subroto Cup in 2019 and scored 2 goals in one match, needs expert guidance. A Standard 10 student now, she has also represented the Bengal football team in the U14 nationals in 2017 and 2018.
Some of the girl footballers of the school from Std 5 to 12
Laxmi Modi and Arjentina Soren are among those waiting in the wings to exhibit their raw football skills. They eagerly await this year's regional Subroto Cup.
Minoti Tudu, Pansari Soren, Chumki Mondal, Parboti Mardi, Lalita Soren are inspirations to their school mates, particularly this younger lot.
But perhaps this is just one of million such stories. There are perhaps millions of Minotis, Pansaris, Chumkis, Parbotis and Lalitas across India, who need support and guidance, whose achievements need to be recognised at least at the local level and their stories need to be told to other youngsters to inspire them to participate in sports.
Grassroots Football


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Buhari, NASS leaders strike deal on 2018 budget
By Taiwo Adisa - Abuja On Mar 18, 2018
President Muhammady Buhari and Senate President Dr Bukola Saraki
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of the National Assembly appear to have struck a deal on the possible passage of the 2018 budget, sources close to the administration have said.
The Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker Yakubu Dogara, on Thursday, visited the Presidential Villa, to deliberate with the president on the thorny aspects of the budget.
But, sources close to the administration said on Friday night that the meeting between Buhari, and the Presiding officers including Saraki and Dogara, appeared to have doused the tension.
"The budget may be passed before the end of March," said a source.
Another source in the know about the discussions between the presiding officers and Buhari said that the meeting was cordial and that the president expressed surprise that many ministries and agencies were holding down the budget.
The source said: "President Muhammadu Buhari, was actually surprised when told that the problem with the budget is not that with the Assembly but that some ministers and agencies have not appeared before the National Assembly to defend their budgets.
"Some 70 per cent of the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) have not submitted their budgets to the National Assembly as we speak.
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"The meeting between the President and the National Assembly leaders was not only cordial, but it discussed the issue of 2018 budget extensively.
"The president actually apologised to the National Assembly leaders on hearing the true situation of things and he immediately directed the Secretary to the Government of the Federation to write all ministers and MDAs who are expected to sort out the budget issue within a week.
The budget, which was presented to the National Assembly on November 7, 2017, with the hope that the lawmakers would promptly pass the document and enable a January to December financial calendar.
But, the N8.6 trillion estimate has been stuck in the National Assembly since then, with lawmakers expressing doubts it would be passed before the end of the first quarter of the year.
On Tuesday, the Senate declared it was uncertain when the budget would be passed.
Members of the National Assembly have expressed doubts about the implementation of their constituency projects.
The percentage of implementation was at a time put at a meagre 11 per cent.
"We believe that once that is done, the coast will be clear for budget passage.
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Mahindra Racing, one of the 10 founding teams of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship, is the first team felicitated at the Lorenzo Bandini Trophy event, in Brisighella, Italy. This is the first time that a Formula E team was recognised as a part of the award ceremony which demonstrates the success of the championship through its four seasons since 2014. Now in its 26th year, the Lorenzo Bandini Trophy was awarded to an outstanding current Formula 1 driver who displays commendable skill, passion and performance in motorsport.
Mahindra Racing was recognised for their achievements in the ABB FIA Formula E Championship. Team Principal & CEO Dilbagh Gill collected the award on behalf of the entire team and Nick Heidfeld was felicitated by the Italian Senate. Nick will also drive the team's season four challenger, the M4Electro, for two laps of the town's 'figure-of-eight' circuit. Hailed as the surprise of season three, Mahindra Racing's race to the front in 2017, has earned them a place as an equal amongst some of the biggest automotive names. The team started out as a back-marker team in the first season though still finished eighth; they then moved up to fifth in season two.


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Qatar 2022: Eagles will cope well with pressure against Sharks — Musa
By Hassan Muaz November 15, 2021 No Comments3 Mins Read
Captain Ahmed Musa has assured that the Super Eagles are matured, professional and ambitious enough to deal with any pressure when taking on the Blue Sharks of Cape Verde in Tuesday's ultimate game of Group C of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifying African series.
The Super Eagles are to dwell with the Blue Sharks of Cape Verde at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos on Tuesday.
Musa told thenff.com just before the Super Eagles had their last training session at the Teslim Balogun Stadium on Monday evening: "There will always be all kinds of pressure when you are out there on the football field, as a professional sportsman or woman.
"You just must have strong fibre to cope with the pressure from everywhere, focus on getting the result and get the job done.
"Pressure is never an excuse not to put out your best; sometimes, it helps you to get beyond your level best."
At a pre-match press conference earlier in the day, the Nigeria record international caps' holder also said the big motivation to go all out in Tuesday's encounter is that a number of players in the squad are yet to feature at the FIFA World Cup finals.
He said: "The FIFA World Cup is the biggest stage for every professional football player.
"They all want to be there; you don't need any more motivation than that.
"We said after the match with Liberia in Tangier on Saturday that we will not be going for a draw against Cape Verde.
"Nothing has changed."
Musa also assured that the Eagles will not be underrating the Sharks but will go all out as from the first whistle of Algerian referee Mustapha Ghorbal.
Head Coach Gernot Rohr, who will be in charge of his 54th game for the Nigeria senior men's team on Tuesday, expressed confidence that the three-time African champions will collect all three points against the Sharks, just as they did when both teams met at the Estadio Municipal Adérito Sena on the island of Mindelo on September 7.
Rohr said: "We have a job on our hands and that is to win tomorrow.
"It is important to win so as to be sure of where you will be at the end of the day.
"We are top of the table now and a win keeps us there and sends us to the final knockout round.
"I really don't think we are under any pressure.
"We have 12 points, two more than the opponents.
"They are the ones with the big pressure to come out and look for a win.
"Our approach for tomorrow will be to win. The players are looking forward to doing that."
Forward Odion Jude Ighalo, who was unable to play any part in Saturday's encounter in Tangier because he arrived in Morocco only two days to the match as he was taking his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Riyadh, is likely to be involved against the Sharks at the Teslim Balogun Stadium.
It would be his first run-out with the squad since he announced his retirement from the international scene after the 2019 AFCON, where he was the tournament's top scorer.
Cape Verde's Blue Sharks, who lost 1-2 to the Eagles on their own soil two months ago, are staying at the Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja.
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Yesterday was another great day at Acting Manitou!
The second round of electives is in full swing and campers spent the morning working hard in their classes, as the final presentations draw nearer and nearer. Campers also had their usual day of rehearsal. The amount of progress that has been made on these shows in the past week and a half is absolutely astounding, and tech week is just around the corner!
Last night's evening activity was PROM! This session's theme was High Fashion, and the dining pavilion was transformed into a high class dance hall with punch, streamers, and great music! Campers danced the night away before heading back to their cabins to get a long nights sleep, knowing they could sleep in as the next day was lazy Sunday!


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Ghosting
Amanda Gaines
When he stopped breathing, the kitchen cabinets screamed. Silverware rattled. Drawers slammed. His mother rushed into the room where he slept to find him in his crib, on his stomach, face pressed into his baby blanket. I imagine her moving him gingerly, her heart in her throat. I imagine her lifting his forehead to her lips. A pale, quiet moon.
Years later, he would curl against her side and tell her about the kind girl who watched him around the house when she wasn't there. You must have a guardian angel, his mother shrugs. She couldn't explain it. Her son, my boyfriend, tells me there isn't anything to explain. I resist asking questions, staunchly scientific. But, I start. How can you be sure?
My boyfriend, a military child, has a ghost story for every home he's lived in. New Orleans. Alaska. Rotterdam. Charles Town. I, unlike my boyfriend, have lived in the same state my entire life. West Virginia is a minefield of folklore and hauntings that pull tourists to poor towns. Harper's Ferry and the hog-fed Dangerfield Newby. The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum and it's tortured patients. The young bride murdered in the Greenbrier who appeared to her mother with the name of her killer. I love the lore, the way storytelling revitalizes the forgotten, the way we humans make sense of death, loss, the inexplicable. The way we comfort ourselves in the face of fear.
But when my boyfriend tells me about seeing figures in graveyards, catching sinks turn on by themselves, hearing pans clatter in the restaurant he works in during closing, I find myself shutting down. I want him to admit that these sightings are a stand-in for unresolved trauma, manifestations of anxiety, self-defensive hyper-awareness in a revolving door of foreign spaces. I want him to admit that his experiences are just stories. I want him to tell me the truth, which is to say, I want him to lie.
On my eleventh birthday, I told my friends I'd seen a ghost in my childhood house. Elm trees lined the land like columns, the sound of the nearby creek, raining glitter. We'd moved from that house to the home we lived in now, a log cabin just less than a mile up the hill. Both homes were isolated: it takes thirty odd minutes of driving to reach any real landmark of civilization to this day. I didn't believe in ghosts even then, not really. But the family-owned graveyard (not ours) between both houses and adolescent party fever had left my friends wanting. I had little other choice but to give a modest tour.
We hiked down my hill to my family's old place, huffing in the still September air. We tiptoed onto the property but giggled loudly between ourselves. I pointed at the screened-in back porch. I used to play there. That's my old rocking horse. They clasped each other's hands and gasped, spooked by their own hope. The house's white paint clapboards were chipped. The foundation sunk into the ground. The halo of oak trees surrounding it creaked. Grasshoppers and robins whispered to each other quietly. I desperately wanted my friends to have a good time.
A branch snapped behind the abandoned barn adjacent to the gravel driveway and my friends bolted. They ran through the tall yellow grass that led back to our hill wailing at the tops of their lungs, their small heads dipping beneath a wave of cattails. They pumped their arms, stretched their vocal cords, trampled through recently dried mud. The sun, so bright. I followed suit, but not before looking back.
Once we reached the safety outside the dense forest we circled up, drenched in nervous sweat. My old rocking horse, I gulped. I saw it. Moving. My friends screeched, delighted with my finding.
I hadn't actually seen anything. But when I'd looked back, my friends ahead of me, light dipping behind my hills, I shivered. I felt a presence. It felt as if a girl watched me from behind the closed windows. That presence was one I'd longed for to be real, one that I claimed as real, believed as real for many years after the fact. But the fear I felt sliding its cold hand up my spine that day didn't come from the dead. So much life had filled that house, life that I'd lived. I couldn't believe something once loved so deeply could be left alone so long and still stand there. I wanted this place, this part of my history, to be sacred. So, I saw a ghost.
I loop my arm around my boyfriend while we stretch across a bed we laid on my living room floor. Candlelight dances across the dark walls. Birch trees whip at my back windows. He laughs at something on the television while I watch his face change. I didn't know love could feel like this: like discovery, like hope. In two months, I'll be halfway across the country at a new school in a new state. I'll be alone for the first time in my life. I am terrified. We plan on staying together, making it work long-distance. But, ever the realist, I anticipate floating between rooms in a quiet, empty house, his memory of me little more than static on a dead phone line. Already, I feel so close to disappearing.
I pinch the skin of his elbow. Pay attention to me, I whisper. I breathe on his neck, nestle the lobe of his ear with my nose. I make a silent wish to be rare. That he will, like me, find it difficult to move on. The hairs on his arms stand up as I watch myself pass through him.
Amanda Gaines is a PhD candidate in CNF in OSU's creative writing program. She is the nonfiction editor of Into the Void. Her poetry and nonfiction has been published in The Oyez Review, Gravel, Typehouse, Yemassee, and Redivider.


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Q: Scraper not returning any values with jquery using cheerio Trying to scrape the front page of a website (www.ozbargain.com) to return any content in the a tag that holds a reference to xbox but nothing is being returned to console. I believe the issue is with the if statement with :contains.
var fs = require('fs'),
    request = require('request'),
    cheerio = require('cheerio');

url = 'http://www.ozbargain.com.au';

request(url, function(error, response, html) {
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      console.log('hey');
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The html block I'm after. In particulare, I want the a tag;

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A: The Cheerio syntax for contains is slightly different than jQuery. Ommit the single quotes around the string you're searching for an it should work:
$("a:contains(Xbox)")

A: Assigned the selector to a variable then called the text method.
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Ancient water tank still stores fresh water
ZONGULDAK- Anadolu Agency
A cistern storing fresh water dating back to the medieval era was unearthed in the ancient city of Tieion located in northern Turkey.
"There is a very large cistern from the Middle Ages that had been used for many years and repaired several times," Şahin Yıldırım, head of the excavation, told Anadolu Agency.
The cistern, located in Filyos town in the Black Sea Zonguldak province, was excavated by a team of 25 archaeologists.
Yıldırım said a sample was analyzed in the provincial Agriculture Directorate, adding: "Its scale is 7.45 pH, which is quite good for such a source. We still find it to be a drinkable value nowadays."
The pH scale is used to measure the alkalinity or acidity of a solution. Pure water is neither acidic nor alkaline and is measured 7 on the pH scale.
Yıldırım went on to say that a tour route will be designated around the acropolis and various paths on Tieion, adding: "In this respect, one of the most important steps of this project is the medieval cistern."
Tieion was founded by the Miletus colony led by the priest named "Tios."
The city was demolished and looted by the Romans and later rebuilt as a trade and fishing area linked to the Roman provinces. The region was later turned into a fishing town.
Excavations in the ancient city which started in 2006 intend to shed light on the history of the Black Sea and Asia Minor.
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The fish was flopping around in the basket, (eventually) falling into the sea.' He said: 'Allah held back the flow of water until it was like a tunnel, and the fish could glide. They set off the remainder of the day and the night, and Musa's companion forgot to inform him (of the escape of the fish). When Musa arose in the morning, he said to his boy: Bring us our morning meal; truly we have suffered much fatigue in this, our journey (18:62).' He said: 'He had not gotten tired until he passed the place which Allah had ordered him to go. He said: Do you remember when we betook ourselves to the rock? I indeed forgot the fish, none but Shaytan made me forget to remember it. It took its course into the sea in a strange way (18:63).
[the Prophet (saws)] said: 'They retraced their tracks until they arrived at the rock to see a man covered in a garment. Musa greeted him, and he replied: Is there such a greeting in your land? He said: I am Musa. He said: Musa of the children of Isra'il? He said: Yes. He said: O Musa! Indeed you have some knowledge from Allah, which Allah taught you, which I have not been taught, and I have some knowledge from Allah, which Allah taught me, which you have not been taught.' So Musa said: May I follow you so that you may teach me something of the knowledge which you have been taught? (18:66) He said: Verily, you will not be able to have patience with me! And how can you have patience about a thing which you know not? He said: If Allah wills, you will find me patient, and I will not disobey you at all (18:67-69). Al-Khadir said to him: Then if you follow me, ask me not about anything until I myself mention it to you (18:70). Musa replied: Yes. So Musa and Al-Khadir set off walking along the shore of the sea.
A boat was passing by them, and they spoke to them (the crew) asking them to let them get on board. They recognized Al-Khadir so they let the two of them ride without charge. Al-Khadir took one of the planks (in the boat) and removed it, so Musa said to him: These people gave us a ride free of charge, yet you sabotaged their boat so that its people will drown. Indeed you have done a dreadful thing (18:71). He said: Did I not tell you that you would not be able to have patience with me? (18:72). He said call me not to account for what I forgot, and be not hard upon me for my affair (18:73). Then they exited the boat, and while they were walking upon the shore, they saw a boy playing with two other boys. So Al-Khadir took him by his head, pulling it off with his hands, and he killed him. So Musa said to him: Have you killed an innocent person who killed no one! Verily you have done a horrendous thing (18:74). He said: Did I not tell you that you would not be able to have patience with me? (18:75) – he (the narrator) said: – "This was more severe than the first one" – He said: If I ask you about anything after this, you have received an excuse from me. So they both proceeded until they came to the inhabitants of a town. They asked them for food but they refused to entertain them.
Imam Suyuti said in his tafsir, "So [there] they found one of Our servants, namely, al-Khidr, to whom We had given mercy from Us — according to one opinion this [mercy] was prophethood; according to another it was authority, and this [latter] is the opinion of the majority of scholars — and We had taught him knowledge from Us ('ilman is the second direct object), in other words, some knowledge of unseen things; al-Bukhari reports the [following] hadith: 'Moses was delivering a sermon among the Children of Israel and was asked, "Who is the most knowledgeable of people?", to which he [Moses] said, "Myself". Allah then reproached him for not having attributed [his] knowledge as [coming] from Him. Allah then revealed to him the following: "Truly, there is a servant of Mine at the juncture of the two seas; he is more knowledgeable than you".
18:61 And when they reached the point where the two met, they forgot their fish, and it took its way into the waters, being free. [The fish came back to life] 18:62 And when they had gone further, he said unto his servant: Bring us our breakfast. Verily we have found fatigue in this our journey.
18:63 He said: Didst thou see, when we took refuge on the rock, and I forgot the fish – and none but Satan caused me to forget to mention it – it took its way into the waters by a marvel.[some say this is the place of the waters of life al Khidr found, indicated by the fish coming back to life] 18:64 He said: This is that which we have been seeking. So they retraced their steps again.
18:66 Moses said unto him: May I follow thee, to the end that thou mayst teach me right conduct of that which thou hast been taught?
18:68 How canst thou bear with that whereof thou canst not compass any knowledge?
18:71 So they twain set out till, when they were in the ship, he made a hole therein. (Moses) said: Hast thou made a hole therein to drown the folk thereof? Thou verily hast done a dreadful thing.
18:72 He said: Did I not tell thee that thou couldst not bear with me?
18:74 So they twain journeyed on till, when they met a lad, he slew him. (Moses) said: What! Hast thou slain an innocent soul who hath slain no man? Verily thou hast done a horrid thing.
18:75 He said: Did I not tell thee that thou couldst not bear with me?
18:77 So they twain journeyed on till, when they came unto the folk of a certain town ship, they asked its folk for food, but they refused to make them guests. And they found therein a wall upon the point of falling into ruin, and he repaired it. (Moses) said: If thou hadst wished, thou couldst have taken payment for it.
18:82 And as for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys in the city, and there was be- neath it a treasure belonging to them, and their father had been righteous, and thy Lord intended that they should come to their full strength and should bring forth their treasure as a mercy from their Lord; and I did it not upon my own command. Such is the interpretation of that wherewith thou couldst not bear.


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National News In Brief
Police: Weapon was used in Hudson family slayings
Chicago police confirmed Friday that they found the gun used in the killings of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and nephew, as the family's South Side community prepared a public memorial to say goodbye.
The .45-caliber gun was discovered Wednesday in a vacant lot in the West Side neighborhood where the body of Hudson's 7-year-old nephew Julian King was found a few days earlier inside a sport-utility vehicle. The bodies of Hudson's 57-year-old mother Darnell Donerson and her 29-year-old brother Jason Hudson were discovered in the family's home Oct. 24.
Nobody has been charged in the killings, but 27-year-old William Balfour, the estranged husband of Hudson's sister, is in custody on a parole violation. Police have called Balfour, a felon, a "person of interest."
3 dead, others missing after jumping off boat
An aging, rusty boat carrying dozens of migrants ran aground early Friday east of downtown Miami, killing at least three people and sending three others to area hospitals, while an untold number still are missing.
The Coast Guard said it continued to search the waters Friday night, and had accounted for 30 people. As many as nine people still could be lost, and authorities weren't sure if some of the passengers had made it safely to land.
A bystander spotted the vessel in distress at about 7:20 a.m. and called officials.
Shortly after, several people on the boat jumped into the choppy water.
Federal and state officials refused to comment on whether it was a failed smuggling attempt.
New excuse for luggage delay: cheetah on plane
A Delta baggage worker in Atlanta got a bit of a fright before Halloween when she opened a jetliner's cargo door and found a cheetah running loose amid the luggage.
Two cheetahs were being flown in the cargo area of a Boeing 757 passenger flight from Portland, Ore., to Atlanta on Thursday when one escaped from its cage, Delta spokeswoman Betsy Talton said Friday.
"They told us a large animal had gotten out of a container in the cargo hold and they were having to send someone to tranquilize it," said one passenger, Lee Sentell of Montgomery, Ala.
The good news for passengers: The escaped cheetah didn't damage their luggage.
The airline summoned help from Zoo Atlanta, and experts rushed to a closed airport hangar and tranquilized the escaped animal and took both big cats to the zoo.
From Mercury News wire services
Hayward man gets six years for allegedly running over woman on purpose, killing her


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Bride Who Faked Terminal Cancer To Raise $11K For 'Dream Wedding' Gets 5 Months In Prison
Posted by Sama in News
Toni Standen collected money from her friends and community over fake news of cancer not only to support her dream wedding but also to fund her honeymoon trip to Turkey. On announcing her punishment, District Judge Nicholas Sanders told Toni Standen, that he is glad that the court does not have to give a verdict on such shameless cases.
It is unbelievably outrageous to think of things people do for money. This British bride raised $11,000 for her dream wedding. And how she raised the money? She faked terminal cancer.
Getting the taste of her own medicine, the woman is now serving 5 months of prison time.
"Every right-thinking member of society would be appalled by your behavior," District Judge Nicholas Sanders told Toni Standen, 29, as he sentenced her Tuesday in Chester Magistrates' Court, according to the Sun.
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The judge before announcing the punishment made it a point to tell the lady that they usually do not come across such shameless cases in court and they are grateful for that.
"Thankfully it's not often this court has to sentence someone who has shown such a degree of shamelessness, such greed, or such a betrayal of friendship as you did to your friends and the wider community," the judge told her.
She also got a handful for being greedy enough to keep on taking money over the course of several months.
"Such was your lack of shame that you kept taking money from them over many, many months," he told Standen, who was also ordered to pay back a local businessman almost $2,700 that he had donated.
It all started back in 2017 when Standen posted on social media about her suffering from a terminal disease.
"It's gone to my brain, my bones — it's everywhere."
The woman even went to the extent of shaving her head and gave such fine details to friends and community members that everyone believed her fake sob story. She even gave interviews to two newspapers, Liverpool Echo, one of the papers she tricked.
Standen's friends started a GoFundme page to help the couple fulfill their dream wedding goal. Through this platform, Standen collected $11,000 and collected money not for the wedding only for her honeymoon trip to Turkey too.
Standen's "unassuming" 52-year-old husband, James, was in fact one of the people who was duped too.
Things got suspicious for her friends when Standen went around Europe during the pandemic defying the SOPs of COVID and her vulnerable situation and then claimed she is positive for the virus.
The reports say that Standen was then confronted by two of her friends in a three-way call in which she admitted to all the lies.
"I am embarrassed and heartbroken and right now I am struggling," she texted the friends, according to the Echo.
"At the minute I don't know if Jim and I will be getting a divorce, I don't blame him if he does and I don't blame you both if this is the end," she said.
Her message confirmed that her husband was also duped by her cruel made-up stories. Though according to the Mirror her husband supported her when she appeared to the court and admitted her lies.


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Q: How to convert language of data which retrive from api in react-native I have used the react-native-i18n which convert the app language either mobile langage or multiselect langauge.
But how to convert data which fetched from api which language is English.
This is code which convert constant data. but in my app maximum data have come from api, and i want to convert that data as i change the constant data. Is there any mathod or library which direct translate all data in selected language.
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { Platform, StyleSheet, TouchableOpacity, Text, ScrollView, View } from 'react-native';
import I18n from 'react-native-i18n';

I18n.fallbacks = true;
I18n.translations = {
  'en': require('./translations/en'),
  'fr': require('./translations/fr'),
  'fr-CA': require('./translations/fr-CA'),
  'es': require('./translations/es'),
};

const language = [
      {lang: "English", code: "en"},
      {lang: "French", code: "fr"},
      {lang: "French Canada", code: "fr-CA"},
      {lang: "Spanish", code: "es"},
    ]

export default class extends Component {
  constructor() {
    super();
    this.state = {
      languages: [],
      value: false,
      langValue: "en",
      select: "Select Language",
    }
    this.onLanguage=this.onLanguage.bind(this);
  }

  onSelectLanguage() {
    return(
      language.map((data, i)=>{
        return (
          <View key={i} style={styles.dropDownView}>
            <TouchableOpacity onPress={()=>this.onSelectedLang(data)}>
              <Text style={styles.dropDownText}>{data.lang}</Text>
            </TouchableOpacity>
          </View>
        )
      })
    )
  }

  onSelectedLang(text) {
    this.setState({
      value: false,
      select: text.lang,
    }),
    I18n.locale = text.code;
  }
  onLanguage() {
    this.setState({
      value: true,
    })
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <Text style={styles.mainTitle}>React-native langauge translation</Text>
        <View style={styles.subContainer}>
          <View style={styles.block}>
            <Text style={styles.title}>Langauge Translation</Text>
            <Text style={styles.textStyle}>{I18n.t('hello world')}</Text>
            <Text style={styles.textStyle}>{I18n.t('thank you')}</Text>
            <Text style={styles.textStyle}>{I18n.t('Bye')}</Text>
          </View>
          <View>
            <TouchableOpacity onPress={this.onLanguage}>
              <View style={styles.buttonView}>
                <Text style={styles.buttontext}>{this.state.select}</Text>
              </View>
            </TouchableOpacity>
            <View>
            {(this.state.value) ? this.onSelectLanguage() : null}
            </View>
          </View>
        </View>
      </View>
    );
  }
}


We're sorry, Boston: After a year's reign as the nation's coziest city, you've been replaced. Did you forget to bring the blankets? The second-annual coziest city list from Honeywell Heaters has some familiar faces — Boston's been knocked down to fourth place and Providence rose in the rankings while Portland, OR dropped. A team of environmental scientists revamped the definition of "cozy" (a scientific panel we would love to participate in) to evaluate this year's contenders, looking at restaurants and coffee shops but also museums, florists, breweries, and bed-and-breakfasts. No word on whether the number of roaring fireplaces per capita was included.
We have to admit we're pleased by the new additions: Last year's omission of Portland, ME (its metro area is home to the coziest of cozy companies, LL Bean) was a downright shame, and it's about time Madison, WI got some credit for its thriving coffee scene, even in the chill of a Wisconsin winter. What do you think is missing? Or is this list — just like a winter's evening spent under a blanket, hot cocoa in hand, next to a fire — simply perfect?


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Food Club – Part 2
Posted on November 2, 2015 November 2, 2015 by suejdavis
That night, Erica didn't sleep well. There were a lot of elderly people in her area, and she lay awake for an hour or two worrying that some of them wouldn't have eaten properly that day. Then, when she finally did get to sleep, they turned up in her dreams – all lined up at the front door, expecting her to do something about it.
'Why me?' She asked them. 'Because you can and because you care,' they chorused, as if they'd been practising.
In meditation the following morning, her spirit guides took much the same view. 'But why me?' she asked. 'Because you can, and because you care,' they said, smiling. (She could hear the smile even if she couldn't see it). 'That's a bit trite, isn't it?' she said, not amused.
But it was true that she cared. And it was true that she was a good organiser. So when Mrs Bindle, Miss Pluck and Mr Phipps came for breakfast (porridge with stewed apple) she suggested the formation of a Food Club for the whole street.
Mr Phipps and the ladies thought it was a splendid idea, so Erica spent all morning knocking on doors in Little Bedlam Street (which was fortunately quite short) to see how people were doing, ask if they needed any help, and invite them to join the Food Club. If the answer was yes (and it usually was) she did a stock-take of their larders, fridges, freezers and gardens and booked them into one of four sittings for supper that evening.
After lunch with Mrs Bindle, Miss Pluck and Mr Phipps (bacon and onion quiche with Waldorf salad) Erica spent the afternoon drawing up a large and complicated spreadsheet itemising all the food they had in the street, how much of it there was, and where it was located.
Meanwhile, Mr Phipps got out his stock pot, borrowed Miss Pluck's preserving pan, and made huge quantities of vegetable and lentil soup. From six o'clock the neighbours descended on Erica's house in relays with their bowls and cutlery. To everyone's surprise and delight, a young man called Fred from what was generally known as 'the rowdy house' at the end of the street arrived with four large loaves of home-made bread, and became the hero of the hour. The soup and the bread were both delicious, though some people complained about the lack of butter, and Erica had to bite her lip.
Before returning home, Fred said he had a sack of flour and plenty of dried yeast, and offered to provide four loaves a day until it ran out.
'But what about your house-mates?' said Erica. 'Won't they be hungry, too?'
'Nah, they've all gone home to their parents. One of them had to walk thirty miles with a hangover,' he said with a grin.
'But you decided not to.'
'My parents are dead. Sorry, that came out a bit abrupt, didn't it? Yeah, it's just me. See you tomorrow for breakfast, okay?'
She and Mr Phipps thanked him again, then made black coffee and stayed up half the night planning meals.
Lily hadn't returned. Without public transport, she was obviously stuck on the other side of town. Every cloud has a silver lining, thought Erica.
On Monday morning there was a large vat of porridge for breakfast made with oats and water, and sweetened by the addition of some dried fruit which was rather ancient, but nevertheless plumped up beautifully.
For lunch there was Fred's bread with ham, guacamole, and salads.
For supper there was a mild vegetable curry and split-pea dahl, served with rice and some excellent home-made chutney. Several matriarchs issued dire warnings about the flatulent nature of dahl, but it didn't seem to stop them from tucking in. Afterwards there was indeed much breaking of wind, accompanied by blushing apologies and much hilarity, all of which helped to make the evening the roaring success that it was.
On Tuesday morning, in the middle of breakfast, people from neighbouring streets turned up at the door asking to join. Erica was alarmed. How could they possibly accommodate all these people? 'Find a way,' said her guides. She felt a surge of irritation. How big was this going to go? And why was it all her responsibility, anyway? 'Because you can and because you care,' they replied, which was just as annoying as it had been the first time.
But then it occurred to her to wonder why she always got so irritable when her guides asked her to do anything. If she was a Lightworker – and she believed that she was – she'd incarnated in order to help with the Shift. And if her particular mission was to organise food for the masses, what was wrong with that? It might not be glamorous, but it was necessary, and she had the skills to do it. So stop being such a stroppy individual, she told herself, and do the job before you with a bit more grace.
But how to go about it?
The idea of stocktaking the kitchens of hundreds of people was impractical – her spreadsheet was unwieldy enough as it was. Instead, maybe they could ask new members to bring all the food they had, and put it together in one place. At a new venue. Where they could cook and serve the food as well. But where? The Community Hall? No, it'd been vandalised. How about the hall of the Parish Church in the next street?
So off she went to see Mr Robertson in the vicarage next to St Peter's. He turned out to be a middle-aged man – kindly, but rather pompous. He'd heard about the Food Club and had been intending to visit Erica, so he was startled to see her turn up without warning before he could get round to it. But he pulled himself together and immediately took the credit for himself and God – himself for his prayers, and God for answering them. No credit for me, then, thought Erica sourly.
They sat down in the study and Mrs Robertson served cups of black tea, which made Erica wonder what was happening to all the milk. The cows were obviously still producing it, but none of it was getting to the public. Was it all being thrown away?
But Mr Robertson was speaking:
'… and of course, we've got a big kitchen – which is pretty well-equipped, actually – and a big hall with lots of tables and chairs. So I wondered how you would feel about moving your centre of operations over here? There's plenty of storage space and plenty of volunteers.'
Erica realised her mouth was hanging open with astonishment. How easy was this? She hadn't even had to ask him. And she sent up a prayer of thanks to the Universe, and an apology for being so crabby.
'That would be absolutely perfect, Mr Robertson,' she replied. 'Thank you very much.'
So they convened a meeting. In attendance were Mr and Mrs Robertson, Erica, Mr Phipps, Fred, and a team of volunteers.
Erica used a white board to brain-storm the logistics. It didn't take long to draw up a plan, and this was it:
Erica would continue to be organiser-in-chief; Mr Phipps would continue to be head chef, assisted by three young volunteers – Amy, Katie and Stew; Stew would collect food from Little Bedlam Street members as required; Fred would continue to bake bread, assisted by Mr Staines the verger; and Women's Institute members would serve food from the kitchen hatches.
There would be three meals a day, each served for two and a half hours. The only drink served would be filtered water, and plenty of it. The elderly and infirm would be served first, and everyone else could come when they liked and queue for as long as necessary.
'But what about security?' asked Fred. 'How do we prevent gatecrashers? And people turning up twice for the same meal?'
'How about numbered membership cards?' suggested a young volunteer called Aaron. 'I could do that on the computer this afternoon, if you like.'
'Good idea,' said Erica. 'But in that case we'd need someone to sit at the entrance and tick off the numbers on a daily list.'
'I could do that too,' offered Aaron.
'Excellent!' said Mr Robertson. 'Sorted!'
'But wait a minute,' said Erica. 'What if we get desperate people turning up at the door, who haven't eaten for days? Are we saying that we turn them away?'
'It wouldn't be very Christian, would it?' warned Mrs Robertson.
'That's true,' said Mr Robertson. 'But the food belongs to the members, doesn't it? We can't just give it away and then tell them, "Sorry about this, but there's no lunch for you today. These other people turned up and we decided their need was greater than yours, so we gave them all your food."'
'Okay, so how about this?' said Erica. 'Any non-members have to wait till the end of the two-and-a-half hours, and if there's anything left at that point, they can have it.'
There was much nodding of heads.
'And people can always start their own Food Clubs, can't they?' Katie pointed out.
'Yeah, but most people aren't good organisers. We're just lucky to have Erica,' said Fred.
Through her blushes Erica managed to say, 'I could write a little manual, if you like. "How to set up your own Food Club."'
'Excellent!' said Mr Robertson. 'And we can post it on the Church website.'
'What about people's fads and fancies?' said Mr Phipps. 'Do we have to cater for them?'
'You mean special dietary requirements?' asked Mrs Robertson.
'Yeah. Fads and fancies,' said Mr Phipps.
'I think we ought to do a vegetarian option, at least,' said Erica. 'And if you could make it gluten-free as well, that should cater for most people. And we should post a list of ingredients at the door for people to consult, in case of allergies.'
'I'm not making lists on top of everything else,' said Mr Phipps.
'I'll do it,' said Katie, so that was sorted too.
During lunch back at Erica's place, (Fred's bread with hummus and salad) she broke the news to the Little Bedlam Street members about the further expansion of the Food Club, and said that their supper would be served at St Peter's Church Hall that evening.
A team of Church volunteers went door-to-door through the neighbouring streets that afternoon, and by evening the membership of the Food Club was ten times as big as it had been in the morning. And food was pouring into the hall, in exchange for membership cards; some brought a little and some brought a lot, but all were welcome. The contributions included vast quantities of flour, to Fred's relief – his sack was going down fast.
On their way to the kitchen, the new members glanced enviously at the Little Bedlam Street ones, who were seated on plastic chairs at refectory tables eating their supper (fish fingers with baked beans and roasted vegetables followed by poached pears with tinned rice pudding) and chatting away merrily as if they were old hands at this Food Club lark, even though they'd only been members for two days.
But tomorrow, the new members would be joining them.
Meanwhile, Erica filled the fridges and stacked the shelves, and was so busy that she forgot about eating. But Fred remembered, and kept a serving hot for her in the oven.
Breakfast at St Peters the following morning (porridge, of course) was pretty chaotic, because everyone seemed to come at the same time and the queue stretched out of the door and down the street. But it was a very cheerful queue, buzzing with conversation and laughter. In the middle of it all a journalist arrived from the local paper, wanting to take photographs and interview Mr Robertson and the elderly members. To Erica's surprise, Mr Robertson insisted that she be interviewed too, which raised him a notch or two in her estimation.
During lunch (leek and potato soup with Fred's bread) a couple of chaps from the local radio station turned up to do a live broadcast.
And during supper, (beef or bean stew with polenta dumplings and cabbage, followed by apple crumble) there was a team from national TV. Erica was too tired to be nervous, so she just said what she thought.
After the hoards and volunteers had gone, Erica and Fred ate supper in the kitchen, then turned out the lights, locked up, and posted the keys through Mr Robertson's letter box.
They walked back to Erica's place in Little Bedlam Street and turned on the telly, to find the Food Club on National News!
'Well, it's just a question of organisation,' Erica was saying to the interviewer. 'It's not difficult. You just have to get on and do it, really.'
'The thing that strikes me most is that everyone seems to be having a whale of a time,' remarked the interviewer.
'They are, aren't they? And do you know what I think? We've all been living our lives cut off from each other. Then something like this happens and we're forced to pull together in order to deal with it, and when we do it feels fantastic. That's why everyone looks so happy.'
'You're re-discovering a sense of community.'
'Exactly. It's been missing from our lives for so long that we'd forgotten all about it. But it's easy to get it back. That's what's been so amazing about all this.'
'Good stuff, Erica,' said Fred.
'No sign of you, I notice. Where were you?'
'Hiding in the gents with Mr Phipps.'
'You weren't!'
'Yes, but don't tell Mr Robertson, or he'll get the wrong idea.'
Then Mrs Bindle and Miss Pluck came on-screen, flirting outrageously with the interviewer.
'Would you like to taste my crumble, young man? It's a little bit…'
'…tart, but crispy and juicy and really quite delectable.'
Fred and Erica laughed so much that they missed everything that Mr Robertson had to say afterwards.
Next there was a piece about food producers and retailers who'd decided it was better to give it away than let it rot. There was a small milk tanker in a village square dispensing free milk to a queue of smiling locals, a trestle table outside a Greengrocer's serving soup to all comers, and an independent supermarket delivering free fruit and vegetables.
'How strange,' said Erica. 'All positive news. No riots, arson, looting or murder.'
'The Cabal must've lost control of the media,' said Fred. 'Perhaps the financial crash was the last nail in their coffin.'
Erica stared at him.
He grinned at her. 'You know what I'm talking about, don't you?'
'Yes, I do. So what about the Mass Arrests? And Disclosure?'
'Watch this space,' he said, standing up and stretching. 'Anyway, I'd better go and crash. Up early tomorrow, eh?'
But Thursday morning arrived much sooner than either of them had expected, with a frantic Mr Robertson on the phone. The hall had been broken into during the night, and most of the food had gone.
Part 3 soon.
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