Podcasts about Congo

“I just want the Bible. How much does it cost?” First, the young Druze woman tried to access and read her own religion's holy book. But she wasn't allowed to read it. Then she tried to find a Quran. Finally, she came to a church and asked to purchase a Bible, worried she wouldn't have enough money to pay for it. The pastor told her that God's Word is priceless, but that he would give it to her without cost. Shocked, she took the Bible and began to read, eventually giving her life to Jesus. Brother Michael, a gospel worker in the Middle East, will share more of this young woman's powerful story and the Christian persecution she faced from her family while standing firm in Christ. In spite of persecution, even locked in a room, she continued to share the gospel. Learn what it's like to live as a Christian in the Middle East, and what believers face after leaving Muslim or Druze backgrounds to follow Christ. As believers engage in conversations with family and friends, they carefully plant spiritual seeds while testing their listeners' hearts to see if they are ready to go deeper. Brother Michael also shares how he trains and leads discipleship through Discovery Bible Study groups, which are multiplying as new believers share their personal testimonies with family and friends. One group started with nine believers, but today has multiplied into more than twenty groups with 150 believers! Hear how you can pray specifically for Brother Michael and our persecuted Christian family in the Middle East. The International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians (IDOP) is next Sunday! The Voice of the Martyrs offers resources to help you and your church pray for persecuted Christians on November 2–and throughout the year. Be sure to watch the new short film telling the story of ongoing Christian persecution in Democratic Republic of Congo—and how God is bringing healing to Christians who've suffered attacks and trauma. Access all the IDOP resources here.

On this week's episode, I'm joined by Katey Rich and Christopher Rosen of The Ankler to preview the awards season and give you tips on what to check out (spoiler: Hamnet's gonna be a big one this year) and discuss the exquisite art of Oscar prognostication. (If you enjoy this episode, make sure to check out The Ankler's Prestige Junkie newsletter and show.) For the record, you can see my nomination guesses here at the Ankler Pundits site. One of the things we delve into is the weird position Oscar pundits find themselves in, as they are torn between portraying the world as it is and trying to subtly change things to reshape the world in their image, as the predictions themselves have been known to shape the outcome of races. And that's why I am staking a claim here: Delroy Lindo deserves a god-dang Oscar nomination for his work in Sinners.  Look, don't get me wrong: Lindo has deserved Oscar gold for some time. He absolutely deserved it for his work in Da Five Bloods, for instance. But I celebrate the man's entire body of work. I would give him a lifetime achievement award simply for his pronunciation of “sesame cake” in Congo. The man's a damn legend and it's about time the Academy gave him his due.  But he especially deserves it for the work he does in Sinners, a movie that seems lined up to snag a whole boatload of Oscar nominations, including best picture. Yes, yes: Michael B. Jordan's dual performance as Smoke and Stack is the showcase of the film. But Lindo's turn as Delta Slim embodies the soul of the movie; he is the embodiment of the life of a musician, of a black musician, in the American South at a time when simply being black could mark you for death. And he's just funny as hell in the role, delivering these slightly off-kilter line reads that no one else could have pulled off.  Give the man his Oscar gold already! At the very least, give him the nomination. The people demand it! Leave your favorite Lindo performance in the comments, if you would. I'd like to prove that this man deserves his plaudits. 

Did you ever play manhunt as a kid? And did it ever end up with you almost dying on some mudflats? Those are just two of the questions Luke and Pete tackle on today's episode, alongside Pete's experiences of Christian camp, why certain types of Christian music is actually pretty good (eg The Congos) and the lads' ability to pass a GCSE these days (English? Maybe. Maths? Hell no.)There's also three more attempts to enter a new cell into the Battery Daddy! Don't miss it!You can also get involved by emailing us: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com! You can also get in touch on X, Threads or Instagram if character-restricted messaging takes your fancy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is the United Nations one of the most corrupt organizations in the world? Former UN investigator Peter A. Gallo exposes shocking truths from inside the UN — from systemic sexual abuse, cover-ups, and moral hypocrisy, to its complicity in global conflicts. In this explosive Heretics interview, Peter reveals how peacekeepers exploited women and children, how UN staff helped terrorists like Hamas, and why the institution has lost all moral authority. SPONSORS: Go to https://TryFum.com/HERETICS  and use code HERETICS to get your free FÜM Topper when you order your Journey Pack today!  Use Code ANDREW FOR 25% OFF Plaud Note: https://bit.ly/4nJWt7j  Plaud Note Pro: https://bit.ly/423JiWv  Grab your free seat to the 2-Day AI Mastermind: https://link.outskill.com/ANDREWS2  Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month at https://mintmobile.com/heretics  Start your MyHeritage journey now with a 14-day free trial using my link: https://bit.ly/AndrewGoldMyHeritage We discuss the UN's dark underbelly, sexual exploitation scandals, the failure to protect victims, and the shocking corruption that runs from Congo to Gaza. Peter Gallo pulls no punches — accusing senior UN officials of turning a blind eye to atrocities and exposing how the UN has become a bureaucratic monster that profits from chaos. If you've ever believed the UN was a force for good, this conversation will make you think again. #UN #Corruption #Heretics  Join the 30k heretics on my mailing list: https://andrewgoldheretics.com  Check out my new documentary channel: https://youtube.com/@andrewgoldinvestigates  Andrew on X: https://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok   Insta: https://www.instagram.com/andrewgold_ok Heretics YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@andrewgoldheretics Chapters: 0:00 Peter A. Gallo Highlights 1:25 Peter A. Gallo's UN Role 4:25 Why the UN is a Fraud 6:25 The Truth About the Sex Crimes 8:25 Internal Sexual Harassment 10:55 The 60,000 Victims 14:25 Who Are These UN Perpetrators 16:25 The UN Did Nothing! 18:25 Making Peter Do An “Improvement Plan” 22:25 Who Are The Staff Members Doing This? 24:25 Congolese Peacekeepers! 26:45 Why They Don't Do DNA Tests on Victims 29:55 What They Say To Victims (Insane) 32:25 People No Longer Trust the UN (Israel) 33:55 Israel is an Embarrassment to the UN 36:25 Keeping Palestine Crisis to Embarrass UN 39:25 UN Responsible for Hamas Terrorism 42:25 UN Helping Terrorists 44:55 UN Supporting Honour Killings! 46:55 Hamas Tunnels From the UN 49:25 Hamas Insiders In the UN 52:25 Corrupt or Thick? 54:25 Should We Abolish the UN? 57:25 The UN Profits From Longer Wars 1:01:25 A Heretic Peter A. Gallo Admires Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Che Guevara – the man whose name became a global symbol of rebellion and justice. Born in Argentina, Ernesto “Che” Guevara transformed from a curious medical student into a fearless revolutionary who challenged empires. His deep compassion for the poor and oppressed pushed him to fight alongside Fidel Castro in Cuba's liberation, where his courage, strategy, and leadership changed history. From the jungles of Cuba to the mountains of Congo and Bolivia, Che's relentless spirit inspired millions to dream of freedom. He was not just a guerilla commander but also a thinker, writer, and a voice for the voiceless. Even after his death, his words and image ignite revolutions of thought across continents. Che's life is a story of ideals, sacrifice, and the belief that one determined soul can change the fate of nations. KiranPrabha narrates the interesting life journey of Che Guevara in this multi part series. This is Part -11. Events happened in 1965 (April to November) - Travel to Congo Via Tanzania - Fake news about his whereabouts - Mother's death in his absence - Futile exercises to motivate Congo fighters - Retreat with failure are covered in this episode. KiranPrabha Talk Shows List: https://koumudi.net/talkshows/index.htm Koumudi Web Magazine: https://koumudi.net/

​​Maud Kells was born in Northern Ireland and grew up on a farm. For her family, church was simply a tradition, but not a heartfelt commitment. After she received Christ, she shocked her parents when she told them she felt called to go to the mission field. When it came time for Maud's placement, she asked to go to one of the most dangerous and unstable countries in the world— the Democratic Republic of Congo. Despite setbacks, rebel attacks, robbers, and primitive conditions, Maud flourished in the Congo among the Congolese people she loved so much. Her story will inspire you.

The last ebola patient in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been released from a treatment centre in Kasai province. Can the country now be declared free of this latest outbreak?What is behind the escalating tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea over control of the Red Sea?And we hear from the Nigerian scientist, who has been recognised with a global award from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, on how her pioneering work is protecting yam and cassava crops and making them more resilient.Presenter: Nyasha Michelle Producers: Mark Wilberforce, Yvette Twagiramariya, Stefania Okereke and Alfonso Daniels Technical Producer: Chris Kouzaris Senior Producer: Patricia Whitehorne Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

The last ebola patient in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been released from a treatment centre in Kasai province. Can the country now be declared free of this latest outbreak?What is behind the escalating tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea over control of the Red Sea?And we hear from the Nigerian scientist, who has been recognised with a global award from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, on how her pioneering work is protecting yam and cassava crops and making them more resilient.Presenter: Nyasha Michelle Producers: Mark Wilberforce, Yvette Twagiramariya, Stefania Okereke and Alfonso Daniels Technical Producer: Chris Kouzaris Senior Producer: Patricia Whitehorne Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

Gaza: ‘Overwhelming' demand for food aid, as WFP urges more border access to prevent famineDRC: Women and girls endure escalating crisis as UNFPA warns of rising violence and failing health facilitiesSudan war: Over a million people have returned to Khartoum, in sign of resilience

Broadcasting live from the Shenandoah Valley, Ghost unpacks a wild week of global developments, from Alaska to Africa, in a fast-paced, signal-heavy episode of Geopolitics with Ghost. He kicks off with Kirill Dmitriev's viral posts about the proposed “Putin–Trump Tunnel” under the Bering Strait, linking Russia and America through Elon Musk's Boring Company. Ghost connects the project to JFK's “World Peace Bridge” vision, Trump's phone call with Putin, and the quiet alignment between Moscow and Washington that's already reshaping the global order. From there, he covers Hungary's nuclear partnership with the U.S., Trump's rare earth deal with Australia, and how Africa is becoming the new frontier of sovereignty, with Ethiopia, Nigeria, and the DRC leading the charge through nuclear development and anti-globalist movements. The show closes with deep dives into Lavrov's peace negotiations, Mike Tyson's symbolic visit to Congo, and Trump's fiery warning to Colombia's president over cartel ties. Sharp, funny, and fearless, this episode captures Ghost at his analytical best, decoding the clues, connecting the dots, and revealing how the world's new alliances are forming right before our eyes.

Join former MMA fighter Justin Wren on the MTNTOUGH Podcast as he shares his incredible journey from the fighting cage to humanitarian work in the Congo, hosted by Dustin Diefenderfer. Discover how Wren, known as the Albino Rhino, found purpose through service after battling depression and addiction, leading him to aid the Pygmy people with clean water wells and sustainable farms. Explore themes of mental toughness, overcoming fear, and the power of purpose in this inspiring episode filled with real-life adventures and life-changing visions. Learn about Fight for the Forgotten, Wren's nonprofit that's provided water to over 80,000 people and created lasting impact in remote African communities. Tune in for motivational stories on resilience, contribution, and transforming personal struggles into global good—perfect for fans of MMA, podcasts, and humanitarian tales.Join Dustin Diefenderfer, Founder of MTNTOUGH Fitness Lab and creator of the MTNTOUGH+ Fitness App in the top podcast for Mental Toughness and Mindset. (P.S.

How have young people in rural areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo invented new forms of radicalism in response to the impact of new flows of foreign investment and the inability of normal national and international politics to serve their needs and interests? Zachariah Mampilly explains how rural and urban spaces have seen a complex transit of peoples and funds that complicate politics, and emergent forms of radical activism have taken root and spread in many African countries. These forms display important re-imaginings of power sharing and revolutionary praxis.Zachariah Mampilly is the Marxe Endowed Chair of International Affairs at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, CUNY and a member of the doctoral faculty in the Department of Political Science at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the Co-Founder of the Program on African Social Research. Previously, he was Professor of Political Science and Director of the Africana Studies Program at Vassar College. In 2012/2013, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is the author of Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life during War  (Cornell U. Press 2011) and with Adam Branch, Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change (African Arguments, Zed Press 2015).  He is the co-editor of Rebel Governance in Civil Wars  (Cambridge U. Press 2015) with Ana Arjona and Nelson Kasfir; and Peacemaking: From Practice to Theory (Praeger 2011) with Andrea Bartoli and Susan Allen Nan. His writing has also appeared in Foreign Affairs, Jacobin, The Hindu, Africa's a Country, N+1, Dissent, Al Jazeera, Noema, The Washington Post and elsewhere. 

Churches in Algeria have been closed by the government. Pastors have been threatened. But ministry continues. Pastor Abraham and Sara are back on VOM Radio this week to continue our conversation about God's work in the Middle East and North Africa—and the Christian persecution that Christ's followers face. Listen for the story of one pastor who has repeatedly changed his phone number because of constant threats. Yet he remains in his country and continues to share the gospel with Muslims. They will also offer an update on the situation for Christians in Syria as we near the one-year anniversary of the fall of the Assad regime. Abraham and Sara will also share how Christians fleeing violence and danger in the region are going as missionaries to their new homelands—sometimes reaching their countrymen even in far-off lands! You'll be equipped to pray for Christians in Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Algeria and other nations as you listen this week. The International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians (IDOP) is only weeks away. The Voice of the Martyrs offers resources to help you and your church pray for persecuted Christians on November 2–and throughout the year. Be sure to watch the new short film telling the story of ongoing Christian persecution in Democratic Republic of Congo—and how God is bringing healing to Christians who've suffered attacks and trauma. Access all the IDOP resources here.

Kenya's opposition leader, and former prime minister, Raila Odinga, has died suddenly at the age of eighty. We explore his legacy in Kenya and the rest of Africa.The world's largest producer of cobalt is the Democratic Republic of Congo. It replaces the ban with quotas but what does that mean for the DRC economy and its local mining communities?And did you know that young women can get perimenopause. We ask what it is?Presenter: Nyasha Michelle Producers: Mark Wilberforce, Yvette Twagiramariya, Stefania Okereke Technical Producer: Craig Kingham Senior Producer: Sunita Nahar Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi.

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Lorsqu'on ressasse dans notre tête des événements passés ou futurs, et cela de manière répétitive, on parle de ruminations mentales. Elles peuvent être à l'origine d'une réelle souffrance psychique, mais pour certains individus, ressasser permet de faire aboutir et mûrir un cheminement intellectuel complexe, voire un processus créatif. Comment expliquer que certaines idées ou souvenirs tournent en boucle dans notre esprit ? Doit-on nécessairement chercher à s'en défaire ou ces ruminations peuvent-elles être bénéfiques ? Existe-t-il des méthodes pour parvenir à prendre du recul ? Dans quelle mesure les ruminations mentales peuvent constituer les symptômes d'une dépression, d'un trouble anxieux ou d'un stress post-traumatique ?  Yves-Alexandre Thalmann, professeur de Psychologie au Collège Saint-Michel et collaborateur scientifique à l'Université de Fribourg en Suisse. Auteur de l'ouvrage Éloge des ruminations mentales, aux éditions Odile Jacob.   Dr Bives Mutume Nzanzu, médecin psychiatre à Butembo, en République Démocratique du Congo.   Programmation musicale :  ► J Balvin, Rosalia – Brillo ► Trinix, Tayc, Khaid – Aje

Lorsqu'on ressasse dans notre tête des événements passés ou futurs, et cela de manière répétitive, on parle de ruminations mentales. Elles peuvent être à l'origine d'une réelle souffrance psychique, mais pour certains individus, ressasser permet de faire aboutir et mûrir un cheminement intellectuel complexe, voire un processus créatif. Comment expliquer que certaines idées ou souvenirs tournent en boucle dans notre esprit ? Doit-on nécessairement chercher à s'en défaire ou ces ruminations peuvent-elles être bénéfiques ? Existe-t-il des méthodes pour parvenir à prendre du recul ? Dans quelle mesure les ruminations mentales peuvent constituer les symptômes d'une dépression, d'un trouble anxieux ou d'un stress post-traumatique ?  Yves-Alexandre Thalmann, professeur de Psychologie au Collège Saint-Michel et collaborateur scientifique à l'Université de Fribourg en Suisse. Auteur de l'ouvrage Éloge des ruminations mentales, aux éditions Odile Jacob.   Dr Bives Mutume Nzanzu, médecin psychiatre à Butembo, en République Démocratique du Congo.   Programmation musicale :  ► J Balvin, Rosalia – Brillo ► Trinix, Tayc, Khaid – Aje

After Dark with Hosts Rob & Andrew – Trump has brokered a total of eight peace deals with warring countries, including India-Pakistan, Cambodia-Thailand, D.R. Congo and Rwanda, and Israel and the UAE, to name a few. While anything could send the current peace deal into a tailspin, what Trump has done is more than any other president has, and it should be recognized as such...

Che Guevara – the man whose name became a global symbol of rebellion and justice. Born in Argentina, Ernesto “Che” Guevara transformed from a curious medical student into a fearless revolutionary who challenged empires. His deep compassion for the poor and oppressed pushed him to fight alongside Fidel Castro in Cuba's liberation, where his courage, strategy, and leadership changed history. From the jungles of Cuba to the mountains of Congo and Bolivia, Che's relentless spirit inspired millions to dream of freedom. He was not just a guerilla commander but also a thinker, writer, and a voice for the voiceless. Even after his death, his words and image ignite revolutions of thought across continents. Che's life is a story of ideals, sacrifice, and the belief that one determined soul can change the fate of nations. KiranPrabha narrates the interesting life journey of Che Guevara in this multi part series. This is Part -9. Events happened in Early 1965 - Background of Africa Wars - Congo Situation - 3 Months trip to African Countries - Grand Exit from Cuba are covered in this episode. KiranPrabha Talk Shows List: https://koumudi.net/talkshows/index.htm Koumudi Web Magazine: https://koumudi.net/

If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually for $5 (BUY IT THROUGH A WEB BROWSER OR THE PATREON ANDROID APP, NOT VIA THE PATREON iOS APP. YOU'LL GET CHARGED EXTRA MONEY AND IT WILL TAKE LONGER TO PROCESS.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk movie night archives, and more!My guest this week is Portland, Oregon rapper and co-host of the Good Talk podcast, Milc. We spoke about Highest 2 Lowest, One Battle After Another, The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, the filmography of Will Smith, embracing rap and basketball from a young age, working as a rapper and podcaster, and the creative processes behind three of his projects: The Fish That Saved Portland, produced by Televangel, Affordable Luxuries, produced by Chuck Strangers under the duo name Bad Tofu, and Run for the Arts, produced by Spinitch. Come fuck with us.Run for the Arts is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from Three Dollar Pistol's Bandcamp page. Follow Milc on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok (@milcmane).  My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon.Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and fuck the system.Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green.  Follow Hearing Things at hearingthings.co or @hearingthingsco on all platforms    Support the show

In episode 218, host Galit Friedlander and guest Ben “BTEK” Chung (Kinjaz co-founder, Jabbawockeez, America's Best Dance Crew, and entrepreneur/consultant) dig into what happens when you refuse to take the conventional route. Ben shares how he went from production work at MTV to dancing full-time, creating his own lane instead of following someone else's path. We talk about best communication practices, navigating contracts with confidence, and redefining success as your career and even priorities change. Ben opens up about mindset, faith, and finding growth in life's detours, plus what it really takes to stay sharp and inspired over the long game. Follow Galit: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/gogalit Website - https://www.gogalit.com/ On-Demand Fitness Courses - https://galit-s-school-0397.thinkific.com/collections Follow Ben Chung: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/btek_benchung Werkflow - https://www.werkflow.us/

Most of us can only imagine the horrors of war,, but for many around the world, it is daily reality. Jolie Nabigondo, born and raised in Congo, has lived through what she calls not a war, but a genocide. Like the Holocaust of World War II, the ethnic cleansing in her homeland has taken countless innocent lives and left unimaginable trauma in its wake. In this week's episode, Jolie courageously shares the first part of her story abou twhat happened when she was captured by those who despised her for how she looked. For nearly a year, she was held in darkness, starved, stripped of dignity, and haunted by what she witnessed. Her story is one of pain, loss, and the struggle to trust God in the midst of deep suffering. Yet even in the darkest moments, God was not absent. This week, Jolie invites us into the raw reality of her captivity—and next week, she will share how God brought her into profound healing and freedom.   Links Mentioned: Jolie's mental health clinic: https://brand.site/HumuraCareCenter Friendly House: Http://friendlyhouse.org To inquire about counseling, email Louise at Louise@louisesedgwick.com.  

BIO:The Reverend Dr. Starlette Thomas is a poet, practical theologian, and itinerant prophet for a coming undivided “kin-dom.” She is the director of The Raceless Gospel Initiative, named for her work and witness and an associate editor at Good Faith Media. Starlette regularly writes on the sociopolitical construct of race and its longstanding membership in the North American church. Her writings have been featured in Sojourners, Red Letter Christians, Free Black Thought, Word & Way, Plough, Baptist News Global and Nurturing Faith Journal among others. She is a frequent guest on podcasts and has her own. The Raceless Gospel podcast takes her listeners to a virtual church service where she and her guests tackle that taboo trinity— race, religion, and politics. Starlette is also an activist who bears witness against police brutality and most recently the cultural erasure of the Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C. It was erected in memory of the 2020 protests that brought the world together through this shared declaration of somebodiness after the gruesome murder of George Perry Floyd, Jr. Her act of resistance caught the attention of the Associated Press. An image of her reclaiming the rubble went viral and in May, she was featured in a CNN article.Starlette has spoken before the World Council of Churches North America and the United Methodist Church's Council of Bishops on the color- coded caste system of race and its abolition. She has also authored and presented papers to the members of the Baptist World Alliance in Zurich, Switzerland and Nassau, Bahamas to this end. She has cast a vision for the future of religion at the National Museum of African American History and Culture's “Forward Conference: Religions Envisioning Change.” Her paper was titled “Press Forward: A Raceless Gospel for Ex- Colored People Who Have Lost Faith in White Supremacy.” She has lectured at The Queen's Foundation in Birmingham, U.K. on a baptismal pedagogy for antiracist theological education, leadership and ministries. Starlette's research interests have been supported by the Louisville Institute and the Lilly Foundation. Examining the work of the Reverend Dr. Clarence Jordan, whose farm turned “demonstration plot” in Americus, Georgia refused to agree to the social arrangements of segregation because of his Christian convictions, Starlette now takes this dirt to the church. Her thesis is titled, “Afraid of Koinonia: How life on this farm reveals the fear of Christian community.” A full circle moment, she was recently invited to write the introduction to Jordan's newest collection of writings, The Inconvenient Gospel: A Southern Prophet Tackles War, Wealth, Race and Religion.Starlette is a member of the Christian Community Development Association, the Peace & Justice Studies Association, and the Koinonia Advisory Council. A womanist in ministry, she has served as a pastor as well as a denominational leader. An unrepentant academician and bibliophile, Starlette holds degrees from Buffalo State College, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School and Wesley Theological Seminary. Last year, she was awarded an honorary doctorate in Sacred Theology for her work and witness as a public theologian from Wayland Baptist Theological Seminary. She is the author of "Take Me to the Water": The Raceless Gospel as Baptismal Pedagogy for a Desegregated Church and a contributing author of the book Faith Forward: A Dialogue on Children, Youth & a New Kind of Christianity.  JennyI was just saying that I've been thinking a lot about the distinction between Christianity and Christian supremacy and Christian nationalism, and I have been researching Christian nationalism for probably about five or six years now. And one of my introductions to the concept of it was a book that's based on a documentary that's based on a book called Constantine Sword. And it talked about how prior to Constantine, Christians had the image of fish and life and fertility, and that is what they lived by. And then Constantine supposedly had this vision of a cross and it said, with this sign, you shall reign. And he married the church and the state. And ever since then, there's been this snowball effect of Christian empire through the Crusades, through manifest destiny, through all of these things that we're seeing play out in the United States now that aren't new. But I think there's something new about how it's playing out right now.Danielle (02:15):I was thinking about the doctrine of discovery and how that was the creation of that legal framework and ideology to justify the seizure of indigenous lands and the subjugation of indigenous peoples. And just how part of that doctrine you have to necessarily make the quote, humans that exist there, you have to make them vacant. Or even though they're a body, you have to see them as internally maybe empty or lacking or less. And that really becomes this frame. Well, a repeated frame.Jenny (03:08):Yep. Yeah. Yeah. And it feels like that's so much source to that when that dehumanization is ordained by God. If God is saying these people who we're not even going to look at as people, we're going to look at as objects, how do we get out of that?Danielle (03:39):I don't know. Well, definitely still in it. You can hear folks like Charlie Kirk talk about it and unabashedly, unashamedly turning point USA talk about doctrine of discovery brings me currently to these fishing boats that have been jetting around Venezuela. And regardless of what they're doing, the idea that you could just kill them regardless of international law, regardless of the United States law, which supposedly we have the right to a process, the right to due process, the right to show up in a court and we're presumed innocent. But this doctrine applies to people manifest destiny, this doctrine of discovery. It applies to others that we don't see as human and therefore can snuff out life. And I think now they're saying on that first boat, I think they've blown up four boats total. And on the first boat, one of the ladies is speaking out, saying they were out fishing and the size of the boat. I think that's where you get into reality. The size of the boat doesn't indicate a large drug seizure anyway. It's outside reality. And again, what do you do if they're smuggling humans? Did you just destroy all that human life? Or maybe they're just fishing. So I guess that doctrine and that destiny, it covers all of these immoral acts, it kind of washes them clean. And I guess that talking about Constantine, it feels like the empire needed a way to do that, to absolve themselves.Danielle (05:40):I know it gives me both comfort and makes me feel depressed when I think about people in 300 ad being, they're freaking throwing people into the lion's den again and people are cheering. And I have to believe that there were humans at that time that saw the barbarism for what it was. And that gives me hope that there have always been a few people in a system of tyranny and oppression that are like, what the heck is going on? And it makes me feel like, ugh. When does that get to be more than just the few people in a society kind of society? Or what does a society need to not need such violence? Because I think it's so baked in now to these white and Christian supremacy, and I don't know, in my mind, I don't think I can separate white supremacy from Christian supremacy because even before White was used as a legal term to own people and be able to vote, the legal term was Christian. And then when enslaved folks started converting to Christianity, they pivoted and said, well, no, not all Christians. It has to be white Christians. And so I think white supremacy was birthed out of a long history of Christian supremacy.Danielle (07:21):Yeah, it's weird. I remember growing up, and maybe you had this experience too, I remember when Schindler's List hit the theaters and you were probably too young, but Schindler's listed the theaters, and I remember sitting in a living room and having to convince my parents of why I wanted to see it. And I think I was 16, I don't remember. I was young and it was rated R and of course that was against our values to see rated R movies. But I really wanted to see this movie. And I talked and talked and talked and got to see this movie if anybody's watched Schindler's List, it's a story of a man who is out to make money, sees this opportunity to get free labor basically as part of the Nazi regime. And so he starts making trades to access free labor, meanwhile, still has women, enjoys a fine life, goes to church, has a pseudo faith, and as time goes along, I'm shortening the story, but he gets this accountant who he discovers he loves because his accountant makes him rich. He makes him rich off the labor. But the accountant is thinking, how do I save more lives and get them into this business with Schindler? Well, eventually they get captured, they get found out. All these things happen, right, that we know. And it becomes clear to Schindler that they're exterminating, they're wiping out an entire population.(09:01):I guess I come to that and just think about, as a young child, I remember watching that thinking, there's no way this would ever happen again because there's film, there's documentation. At the time, there were people alive from the Great war, the greatest generation like my grandfather who fought in World War ii. There were other people, we had the live stories. But now just a decade, 12, 13 years removed, it hasn't actually been that long. And the memory of watching a movie like Schindler's List, the impact of seeing what it costs a soul to take the life of other souls like that, that feels so far removed now. And that's what the malaise of the doctrine of Discovery and manifest destiny, I think have been doing since Constantine and Christianity. They've been able to wipe the memory, the historical memory of the evil done with their blessing.(10:06):And I feel like even this huge thing like the Holocaust, the memories being wiped, you can almost feel it. And in fact, people are saying, I don't know if they actually did that. I don't know if they killed all these Jewish peoples. Now you hear more denial even of the Holocaust now that those storytellers aren't passed on to the next life. So I think we are watching in real time how Christianity and Constantine were able to just wipe use empire to wipe the memory of the people so they can continue to gain riches or continue to commit atrocities without impunity just at any level. I guess that's what comes to mind.Jenny (10:55):Yeah, it makes me think of, I saw this video yesterday and I can't remember what representative it was in a hearing and she had written down a long speech or something that she was going to give, and then she heard during the trial the case what was happening was someone shared that there have been children whose parents have been abducted and disappeared because the children were asked at school, are your parents undocumented? And she said, I can't share what I had prepared because I'm caught with that because my grandfather was killed in the Holocaust because his children were asked at school, are your parents Jewish?(11:53):And my aunt took that guilt with her to her grave. And the amount of intergenerational transgenerational trauma that is happening right now, that never again is now what we are doing to families, what we are doing to people, what we are doing to children, the atrocities that are taking place in our country. Yeah, it's here. And I think it's that malaise has come over not only the past, but even current. I think people don't even know how to sit with the reality of the horror of what's happening. And so they just dissociate and they just check out and they don't engage the substance of what's happening.Danielle (13:08):Yeah. I tell a friend sometimes when I talk to her, I just say, I need you to tap in. Can you just tap in? Can you just carry the conversation or can you just understand? And I don't mean understand, believe a story. I mean feel the story. It's one thing to say the words, but it's another thing to feel them. And I think Constantine is a brilliant guy. He took a peaceful religion. He took a peaceful faith practice, people that literally the prior guy was throwing to the lions for sport. He took a people that had been mocked, a religious group that had been mocked, and he elevated them and then reunified them with that sword that you're talking about. And so what did those Christians have to give up then to marry themselves to empire? I don't know, but it seems like they kind of effed us over for eternity, right?Jenny (14:12):Yeah. Well, and I think that that's part of it. I think part of the malaise is the infatuation with eternity and with heaven. And I know for myself, when I was a missionary for many years, I didn't care about my body because this body, this light and momentary suffering paled in comparison to what was awaiting me. And so no matter what happened, it was a means to an end to spend eternity with Jesus. And so I think of empathy as us being able to feel something of ourselves in someone else. If I don't have grief and joy and sorrow and value for this body, I'm certainly not going to have it for other bodies. And I think the disembodiment of white Christian supremacy is what enables bodies to just tolerate and not consider the brutality of what we're seeing in the United States. What we're seeing in Congo, what we're seeing in Palestine, what we're seeing everywhere is still this sense of, oh, the ends are going to justify the means we're all going to, at least I'll be in heaven and everyone else can kind of figure out what they're going to do.I don't know, man. Yeah, maybe. I guess when you think about Christian nationalism versus maybe a more authentic faith, what separates them for youAbiding by the example that Jesus gave or not. I mean, Jesus was killed by the state because he had some very unpopular things to say about the state and the way in which he lived was very much like, how do I see those who are most oppressed and align myself with them? Whereas Christian nationalism is how do I see those who have the most power and align myselves with them?(16:48):And I think it is a question of alignment and orientation. And at the end of the day, who am I going to stand with even knowing and probably knowing that that may be to the detriment of my own body, but I do that not out of a sense of martyrdom, but out of a sense of integrity. I refuse. I think I really believe Jesus' words when he said, what good is it for a man to gain the world and lose his soul? And at the end of the day, what I'm fighting for is my own soul, and I don't want to give that up.Danielle (17:31):Hey, starlet, we're on to not giving up our souls to power.The Reverend Dr.Rev. Dr. Starlette (17:47):I'm sorry I'm jumping from one call to the next. I do apologize for my tardiness now, where were we?Danielle (17:53):We got on the subject of Constantine and how he married the sword with Christianity when it had been fish and fertile ground and et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, that's where we started. Yeah, that's where we started.Starlette (18:12):I'm going to get in where I fit in. Y'all keep going.Danielle (18:14):You get in. Yeah, you get in. I guess Jenny, for me and for you, starlet, the deep erasure of any sort of resemblance of I have to look back and I have to be willing to interrogate, I think, which is what a lot of people don't want to do. I grew up in a really conservative evangelical family and a household, and I have to interrogate, well, one, why did my mom get into that? Because Mexican, and number two, I watched so slowly as there was a celebration. I think it was after Bill Clinton had this Monica Lewinsky thing and all of this stuff happened. My Latino relatives were like, wait a minute, we don't like that. We don't like that. That doesn't match our values. And I remember this celebration of maybe now they're going to become Christians. I remember thinking that as a child, because for them to be a Democrat in my household and for them to hold different values around social issues meant that they weren't necessarily saved in my house and my way because they hadn't fully bought into empire in the way I know Jenny muted herself.(19:31):They hadn't fully bought into empire. And I slowly watched those family members in California kind of give way to conservatism the things that beckoned it. And honestly, a lot of it was married to religion and to what is going on today and not standing up for justice, not standing up for civil rights. I watched the movement go over, and it feels like at the expense of the memory of my grandfather and my great-grandfather who despised religion in some ways, my grandfather did not like going to church because he thought people were fake. He didn't believe them, and he didn't see what church had to do with being saved anyway. And so I think about him a lot and I think, oh, I got to hold onto that a little bit in the face of empire. But yeah, my mind just went off on that rabbit trail.Starlette (20:38):Oh, it's quite all right. My grandfather had similar convictions. My grandmother took the children to church with her and he stayed back. And after a while, the children were to decide that they didn't want to go anymore. And I remember him saying, that's enough. That's enough. You've done enough. They've heard enough. Don't make them go. But I think he drew some of the same conclusions, and I hold those as well, but I didn't grow up in a household where politics was even discussed. Folks were rapture ready, as they say, because they were kingdom minded is what they say now. And so there was no discussion of what was going on on the ground. They were really out of touch with, I'm sending right now. They were out of touch with reality. I have on pants, I have on full makeup, I have on earrings. I'm not dressed modestly in any way, shape, fashion or form.(21:23):It was a very externalized, visible, able to be observed kind of spirituality. And so I enter the spaces back at home and it's like going into a different world. I had to step back a bit and oftentimes I just don't say anything. I just let the room have it because you can't, in my experience, you can't talk 'em out of it. They have this future orientation where they live with their feet off the ground because Jesus is just around the corner. He's right in that next cloud. He's coming, and so none of this matters. And so that affected their political participation and discussion. There was certainly very minor activism, so I wasn't prepared by family members to show up in the streets like I do now. I feel sincerely called. I feel like it's a work of the spirit that I know where to put my feet at all, but I certainly resonate with what you would call a rant that led you down to a rabbit hole because it led me to a story about my grandfather, so I thank you for that. They were both right by the way,Danielle (22:23):I think so he had it right. He would sit in the very back of church sometimes to please my grandmother and to please my family, and he didn't have a cell phone, but he would sit there and go to sleep. He would take a nap. And I have to think of that now as resistance. And as a kid I was like, why does he do that? But his body didn't want to take it in.Starlette (22:47):That's rest as resistance from the Nat Bishop, Trisha Hersey, rest as act of defiance, rest as reparations and taking back my time that you're stealing from me by having me sit in the service. I see that.Danielle (23:02):I mean, Jenny, it seems like Constantine, he knew what to do. He gets Christians on his side, they knew how to gather organically. He then gets this mass megaphone for whatever he wants, right?Jenny (23:21):Yeah. I think about Adrian Marie Brown talks a lot about fractals and how what happens on a smaller scale is going to be replicated on larger scales. And so even though there's some sense of disjoint with denominations, I think generally in the United States, there is some common threads of that manifest destiny that have still found its way into these places of congregating. And so you're having these training wheels really even within to break it down into the nuclear family that James Dobson wanted everyone to focus on was a very, very narrow white, patriarchal Christian family. And so if you rehearse this on these smaller scales, then you can rehearse it in your community, then you can rehearse it, and it just bubbles and bubbles and balloons out into what we're seeing happen, I think.Yeah, the nuclear family and then the youth movements, let us, give us your youth, give us your kids. Send us your kids and your youth to our camps.Jenny (24:46):Great. I grew up in Colorado and I was probably 10 or 11 when the Columbine shooting happened, and I remember that very viscerally. And the immediate conversation was not how do we protect kids in school? It was glorifying this one girl that maybe or maybe did not say yes when the shooters asked, do you still believe in God? And within a year her mom published a book about it. And that was the thing was let's use this to glorify martyrdom. And I think it is different. These were victims in school and I think any victim of the shooting is horrifying. And I think we're seeing a similar level of that martyrdom frenzy with Charlie Kirk right now. And what we're not talking about is how do we create a safer society? What we're talking about, I'm saying, but I dunno. What I'm hearing of the white Christian communities is how are we glorifying Charlie Kirk as a martyr and what power that wields when we have someone that we can call a martyr?Starlette (26:27):No, I just got triggered as soon as you said his name.(26:31):Just now. I think grieving a white supremacist is terrifying. Normalizing racist rhetoric is horrifying. And so I look online in disbelief. I unfollowed and blocked hundreds of people on social media based on their comments about what I didn't agree with. Everything he said, got a lot of that. I'm just not interested. I think they needed a martyr for the race war that they're amping for, and I would like to be delivered from the delusion that is white body supremacy. It is all exhausting. I don't want to be a part of the racial imagination that he represents. It is not a new narrative. We are not better for it. And he's not a better person because he's died. The great Biggie Smalls has a song that says you're nobody until somebody kills you. And I think it's appropriate. Most people did not know who he was. He was a podcaster. I'm also looking kind of cross-eyed at his wife because that's not, I served as a pastor for more than a decade. This is not an expression of grief. There's nothing like anything I've seen for someone who was assassinated, which I disagree with.(28:00):I've just not seen widows take the helm of organizations and given passion speeches and make veil threats to audiences days before the, as we would say in my community, before the body has cooled before there is a funeral that you'll go down and take pictures. That could be arguably photo ops. It's all very disturbing to me. This is a different measure of grief. I wrote about it. I don't know what, I've never heard of a sixth stage of grief that includes fighting. We're not fighting over anybody's dead body. We're not even supposed to do it with Jesus. And so I just find it all strange that before the man is buried, you've already concocted a story wherein opposing forces are at each other's throats. And it's all this intergalactic battle between good and bad and wrong, up and down, white and black. It's too much.(28:51):I think white body supremacy has gotten out of hand and it's incredibly theatrical. And for persons who have pulled back from who've decent whiteness, who've de racialize themselves, it's foolishness. Just nobody wants to be involved in this. It's a waste of time. White body supremacy and racism are wastes of time. Trying to prove that I'm a human being or you're looking right at is a waste of time. And people just want to do other things, which is why African-Americans have decided to go to sleep, to take a break. We're not getting ready to spin our wheels again, to defend our humanity, to march for rights that are innate, to demand a dignity that comes with being human. It's just asinine.(29:40):I think you would be giving more credence to the statements themselves by responding. And so I'd rather save my breath and do my makeup instead because trying to defend the fact that I'm a glorious human being made in the image of God is a waste of time. Look at me. My face is beat. It testifies for me. Who are you? Just tell me that I don't look good and that God didn't touch me. I'm with the finger of love as the people say, do you see this beat? Let me fall back. So you done got me started and I blame you. It's your fault for the question. So no, that's my response to things like that. African-American people have to insulate themselves with their senses of ness because he didn't have a kind word to say about African-American people, whether a African-American pilot who is racialized as black or an African-American woman calling us ignorance saying, we're incompetence. If there's no way we could have had these positions, when African-American women are the most agreed, we're the most educated, how dare you? And you think, I'm going to prove that I'm going to point to degrees. No, I'll just keep talking. It will make itself obvious and evident.(30:45):Is there a question in that? Just let's get out of that. It triggers me so bad. Like, oh, that he gets a holiday and it took, how many years did it take for Martin Luther King Junior to get a holiday? Oh, okay. So that's what I mean. The absurdity of it all. You're naming streets after him hasn't been dead a year. You have children coloring in sheets, doing reports on him. Hasn't been a few months yet. We couldn't do that for Martin Luther King. We couldn't do that for Rosa Parks. We couldn't do that for any other leader, this one in particular, and right now, find that to beI just think it just takes a whole lot of delusion and pride to keep puffing yourself up and saying, you're better than other people. Shut up, pipe down. Or to assume that everybody wants to look like you or wants to be racialized as white. No, I'm very cool in who I'm, I don't want to change as the people say in every lifetime, and they use these racialized terms, and so I'll use them and every lifetime I want to come back as black. I don't apologize for my existence. I love it here. I don't want to be racialized as white. I'm cool. That's the delusion for me that you think everyone wants to look like. You think I would trade.(32:13):You think I would trade for that, and it looks great on you. I love what it's doing for you. But as for me in my house, we believe in melanin and we keep it real cute over here. I just don't have time. I think African-Americans minoritized and otherwise, communities should invest their time in each other and in ourselves as opposed to wasting our breath, debating people. We can't debate white supremacists. Anyway, I think I've talked about that the arguments are not rooted in reason. It's rooted in your dehumanization and equating you with three fifths of a human being who's in charge of measurements, the demonizing of whiteness. It's deeply problematic for me because it puts them in a space of creator. How can you say how much of a human being that's someone? This stuff is absurd. And so I've refuse to waste my breath, waste my life arguing with somebody who doesn't have the power, the authority.(33:05):You don't have the eyesight to tell me if I'm human or not. This is stupid. We're going to do our work and part of our work is going to sleep. We're taking naps, we're taking breaks, we're putting our feet up. I'm going to take a nap after this conversation. We're giving ourselves a break. We're hitting the snooze button while staying woke. There's a play there. But I think it's important that people who are attacked by white body supremacy, not give it their energy. Don't feed into the madness. Don't feed into the machine because it'll eat you alive. And I didn't get dressed for that. I didn't get on this call. Look at how I look for that. So that's what that brings up. Okay. It brings up the violence of white body supremacy, the absurdity of supremacy at all. The delusion of the racial imagination, reading a 17th century creation onto a 21st century. It's just all absurd to me that anyone would continue to walk around and say, I'm better than you. I'm better than you. And I'll prove it by killing you, lynching you, raping your people, stealing your people, enslaving your people. Oh, aren't you great? That's pretty great,Jenny (34:30):I think. Yeah, I think it is. I had a therapist once tell me, it's like you've had the opposite of a psychotic break because when that is your world and that's all, it's so easy to justify and it makes sense. And then as soon as you step out of it, you're like, what the what? And then it makes it that much harder to understand. And this is my own, we talked about this last week, but processing what is my own path in this of liberation and how do I engage people who are still in that world, who are still related to me, who are, and in a way that isn't exhausting for I'm okay being exhausted if it's going to actually bear something, if it's just me spinning my wheels, I don't actually see value in that. And for me, what began to put cracks in that was people challenging my sense of superiority and my sense of knowing what they should do with their bodies. Because essentially, I think a lot of how I grew up was similar maybe and different from how you were sharing Danielle, where it was like always vote Republican because they're going to be against abortion and they're going to be against gay marriage. And those were the two in my world that were the things that I was supposed to vote for no matter what. And now just seeing how far that no matter what is willing to go is really terrifying.Danielle (36:25):Yeah, I agree. Jenny. I mean, again, I keep talking about him, but he's so important to me. The idea that my great grandfather to escape religious oppression would literally walk 1,950 miles and would leave an oppressive system just in an attempt to get away. That walk has to mean something to me today. You can't forget. All of my family has to remember that he did a walk like that. How many of us have walked that far? I mean, I haven't ever walked that far in just one instance to escape something. And he was poor because he couldn't even pay for his mom's burial at the Catholic church. So he said, let me get out of this. And then of course he landed with the Methodist and he was back in the fire again. But I come back to him, and that's what people will do to get out of religious oppression. They will give it an effort and when they can. And so I think it's important to remember those stories. I'm off on my tangent again now because it feels so important. It's a good one.Starlette (37:42):I think it's important to highlight the walking away from, to putting one foot in front of the other, praying with your feet(37:51):That it's its own. You answer your own prayer by getting away from it. It is to say that he was done with it, and if no one else was going to move, he was going to move himself that he didn't wait for the change in the institution. Let's just change directions and get away from it. And I hate to even imagine what he was faced with and that he had to make that decision. And what propelled him to walk that long with that kind of energy to keep momentum and to create that amount of distance. So for me, it's very telling. I ran away at 12. I had had it, so I get it. This is the last time you're going to hit me.Not going to beat me out of my sleep. I knew that at 12. This is no place for me. So I admire people who get up in the dead of night, get up without a warning, make it up in their mind and said, that's the last time, or This is not what I'm going to do. This is not the way that I want to be, and I'm leaving. I admire him. Sounds like a hero. I think we should have a holiday.Danielle (38:44):And then imagine telling that. Then you're going to tell me that people like my grandfather are just in it. This is where it leaves reality for me and leaves Christianity that he's just in it to steal someone's job. This man worked the lemon fields and then as a side job in his retired years, moved up to Sacramento, took in people off death row at Folsom Prison, took 'em to his home and nursed them until they passed. So this is the kind a person that will walk 1,950 miles. They'll do a lot of good in the world, and we're telling people that they can't come here. That's the kind of people that are walking here. That's the kind of people that are coming here. They're coming here to do whatever they can. And then they're nurturing families. They're actually living out in their families what supposed Christians are saying they want to be. Because people in these two parent households and these white families, they're actually raising the kind of people that will shoot Charlie Kirk. It's not people like my grandfather that walked almost 2000 miles to form a better life and take care of people out of prisons. Those aren't the people forming children that are, you'reStarlette (40:02):Going to email for that. The deacons will you in the parking lot for that one. You you're going to get a nasty tweet for that one. Somebody's going to jump off in the comments and straighten you out at,Danielle (40:17):I can't help it. It's true. That's the reality. Someone that will put their feet and their faith to that kind of practice is not traveling just so they can assault someone or rob someone. I mean, yes, there are people that have done that, but there's so much intentionality about moving so far. It does not carry the weight of, can you imagine? Let me walk 2000 miles to Rob my neighbor. That doesn't make any sense.Starlette (40:46):Sounds like it's own kind of pilgrimage.Jenny (40:59):I have so many thoughts, but I think whiteness has just done such a number on people. And I'm hearing each of you and I'm thinking, I don't know that I could tell one story from any of my grandparents. I think that that is part of whiteness. And it's not that I didn't know them, but it's that the ways in which Transgenerational family lines are passed down are executed for people in considered white bodies where it's like my grandmother, I guess I can't tell some stories, but she went to Polish school and in the States and was part of a Polish community. And then very quickly on polls were grafted into whiteness so that they could partake in the GI Bill. And so that Polish heritage was then lost. And that was not that long ago, but it was a severing that happened. And some of my ancestors from England, that severing happened a long time ago where it's like, we are not going to tell the stories of our ancestors because that would actually reveal that this whole white thing is made up. And we actually have so much more to us than that. And so I feel like the social privilege that has come from that, but also the visceral grief of how I would want to know those stories of my ancestors that aren't there. Because in part of the way that whiteness operates,Starlette (42:59):I'm glad you told that story. Diane de Prima, she tells about that, about her parents giving up their Italian ness, giving up their heritage and being Italian at home and being white in public. So not changing their name, shortening their name, losing their accent, or dropping the accent. I'm glad that you said that. I think that's important. But like you said though, if you tell those stories and it shakes up the power dynamic for whiteness, it's like, oh, but there are books how the Irish became White, the Making of Whiteness working for Whiteness, read all the books by David Broer on Whiteness Studies. But I'm glad that you told us. I think it's important, and I love that you named it as a severing. Why did you choose that word in particular?Jenny (43:55):I had the privilege a few years ago of going to Poland and doing an ancestry trip. And weeks before I went, an extended cousin in the States had gotten connected with our fifth cousin in Poland. We share the fifth grandparents. And this cousin of mine took us around to the church where my fifth great grandparents got married and these just very visceral places. And I had never felt the land that my ancestors know in my body. And there was something really, really powerful of that. And so I think of severing as I have been cut off from that lineage and that heritage because of whiteness. And I feel very, very grateful for the ways in which that is beginning to heal and beginning to mend. And we can tell truer stories of our ancestry and where we come from and the practices of our people. And I think it is important to acknowledge the cost and the privilege that has come from that severing in order to get a job that was not reserved for people that weren't white. My family decided, okay, well we'll just play the part. We will take on that role of whiteness because that will then give us that class privilege and that socioeconomic privilege that reveals how much of a construct whitenessStarlette (45:50):A racial contract is what Charles W. Mills calls it, that there's a deal made in a back room somewhere that you'll trade your sense of self for another. And so that it doesn't, it just unravels all the ways in which white supremacy, white body supremacy, pos itself, oh, that we're better. I think people don't say anything because it unravels those lies, those tongue twisters that persons have spun over the centuries, that it's really just an agreement that we've decided that we'll make ourselves the majority so that we can bully everybody else. And nobody wants to be called that. Nobody wants to be labeled greedy. I'm just trying to provide for my family, but at what expense? At who else's expense. But I like to live in this neighborhood and I don't want to be stopped by police. But you're willing to sacrifice other people. And I think that's why it becomes problematic and troublesome because persons have to look at themselves.(46:41):White body supremacy doesn't offer that reflection. If it did, persons would see how monstrous it is that under the belly of the beast, seeing the underside of that would be my community. We know what it costs for other people to feel really, really important because that's what whiteness demands. In order to look down your nose on somebody, you got to stand on somebody's back. Meanwhile, our communities are teaching each other to stand. We stand on the shoulders of giants. It's very communal. It's a shared identity and way of being. Whereas whiteness demands allegiance by way of violence, violent taking and grabbing it is quite the undoing. We have a lot of work to do. But I am proud of you for telling that story.Danielle (47:30):I wanted to read this quote by Gloria, I don't know if you know her. Do you know her? She writes, the struggle is inner Chicano, Indio, American Indian, Molo, Mexicano, immigrant, Latino, Anglo and power working class Anglo black, Asian. Our psyches resemble the border towns and are populated by the same people. The struggle has always been inner and has played out in outer terrains. Awareness of our situation must come before interchanges and which in turn come before changes in society. Nothing happens in the real world unless it first happens in the images in our heads.(48:16):So Jenny, when you're talking, you had some image in your head before you went to Poland, before it became reality. You had some, it didn't start with just knowing your cousin or whatever it happened before that. Or for me being confronted and having to confront things with my husband about ways we've been complicit or engaged in almost like the word comes gerrymandering our own future. That's kind of how it felt sometimes Luis and I and how to become aware of that and take away those scales off our own eyes and then just sit in the reality, oh no, we're really here and this is where we're really at. And so where are we going to go from here? And starlet, you've talked from your own position. That's just what comes to mind. It's something that happens inside. I mean, she talks about head, I think more in feelings in my chest. That's where it happens for me. But yeah, that's what comes to mind.Starlette (49:48):With. I feel like crying because of what we've done to our bodies and the bodies of other people. And we still can't see ourselves not as fully belonging to each other, not as beloved, not as holy.It's deeply saddening that for all the time that we have here together for all the time that we'll share with each other, we'll spend much of it not seeing each other at all.Danielle (50:57):My mind's going back to, I think I might've shared this right before you joined Starla, where it was like, I really believe the words of Jesus that says, what good is it for someone to gain the world and lose their soul? And that's what I hear. And what I feel is this soul loss. And I don't know how to convince other people. And I don't know if that's the point that their soul is worth it, but I think I've, not that I do it perfectly, but I think I've gotten to the place where I'm like, I believe my interiority is worth more than what it would be traded in for.(51:45):And I think that will be a lifelong journey of trying to figure out how to wrestle with a system. I will always be implicated in because I am talking to you on a device that was made from cobalt, from Congo and wearing clothes that were made in other countries. And there's no way I can make any decision other than to just off myself immediately. And I'm not saying I'm doing that, but I'm saying the part of the wrestle is that this is, everything is unresolved. And how do I, like what you said, Danielle, what did you say? Can you tune into this conversation?Jenny (52:45):Yeah. And how do I keep tapping in even when it means engaging my own implication in this violence? It's easier to be like, oh, those people over there that are doing those things. And it's like, wait, now how do I stay situated and how I'm continually perpetuating it as well, and how do I try to figure out how to untangle myself in that? And I think that will be always I,Danielle (53:29):He says, the US Mexican border as like an open wound where the third world grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds. Two worlds merging to form a third country, a border culture. Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe to distinguish us from them. A border is a dividing line, a narrow strip along a steep edge. A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary is it is in a constant state of transition. They're prohibited and forbidden arts inhabitants. And I think that as a Latina that really describes and mixed with who my father is and that side that I feel like I live like the border in me, it feels like it grates against me. So I hear you, Jenny, and I feel very like all the resonance, and I hear you star led, and I feel a lot of resonance there too. But to deny either thing would make me less human because I am human with both of those parts of me.(54:45):But also to engage them brings a lot of grief for both parts of me. And how does that mix together? It does feel like it's in a constant state of transition. And that's partly why Latinos, I think particularly Latino men bought into this lie of power and played along. And now they're getting shown that no, that part of you that's European, that part never counted at all. And so there is no way to buy into that racialized system. There's no way to put a down payment in and come out on the other side as human. As soon as we buy into it, we're less human. Yeah. Oh, Jenny has to go in a minute. Me too. But starlet, you're welcome to join us any Thursday. Okay.Speaker 1 (55:51):Afternoon. Bye. Thank you. Bye bye.Kitsap County & Washington State Crisis and Mental Health ResourcesIf you or someone else is in immediate danger, please call 911.This resource list provides crisis and mental health contacts for Kitsap County and across Washington State.Kitsap County / Local ResourcesResourceContact InfoWhat They OfferSalish Regional Crisis Line / Kitsap Mental Health 24/7 Crisis Call LinePhone: 1‑888‑910‑0416Website: https://www.kitsapmentalhealth.org/crisis-24-7-services/24/7 emotional support for suicide or mental health crises; mobile crisis outreach; connection to services.KMHS Youth Mobile Crisis Outreach TeamEmergencies via Salish Crisis Line: 1‑888‑910‑0416Website: https://sync.salishbehavioralhealth.org/youth-mobile-crisis-outreach-team/Crisis outreach for minors and youth experiencing behavioral health emergencies.Kitsap Mental Health Services (KMHS)Main: 360‑373‑5031; Toll‑free: 888‑816‑0488; TDD: 360‑478‑2715Website: https://www.kitsapmentalhealth.org/crisis-24-7-services/Outpatient, inpatient, crisis triage, substance use treatment, stabilization, behavioral health services.Kitsap County Suicide Prevention / “Need Help Now”Call the Salish Regional Crisis Line at 1‑888‑910‑0416Website: https://www.kitsap.gov/hs/Pages/Suicide-Prevention-Website.aspx24/7/365 emotional support; connects people to resources; suicide prevention assistance.Crisis Clinic of the PeninsulasPhone: 360‑479‑3033 or 1‑800‑843‑4793Website: https://www.bainbridgewa.gov/607/Mental-Health-ResourcesLocal crisis intervention services, referrals, and emotional support.NAMI Kitsap CountyWebsite: https://namikitsap.org/Peer support groups, education, and resources for individuals and families affected by mental illness.Statewide & National Crisis ResourcesResourceContact InfoWhat They Offer988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (WA‑988)Call or text 988; Website: https://wa988.org/Free, 24/7 support for suicidal thoughts, emotional distress, relationship problems, and substance concerns.Washington Recovery Help Line1‑866‑789‑1511Website: https://doh.wa.gov/you-and-your-family/injury-and-violence-prevention/suicide-prevention/hotline-text-and-chat-resourcesHelp for mental health, substance use, and problem gambling; 24/7 statewide support.WA Warm Line877‑500‑9276Website: https://www.crisisconnections.org/wa-warm-line/Peer-support line for emotional or mental health distress; support outside of crisis moments.Native & Strong Crisis LifelineDial 988 then press 4Website: https://doh.wa.gov/you-and-your-family/injury-and-violence-prevention/suicide-prevention/hotline-text-and-chat-resourcesCulturally relevant crisis counseling by Indigenous counselors.Additional Helpful Tools & Tips• Behavioral Health Services Access: Request assessments and access to outpatient, residential, or inpatient care through the Salish Behavioral Health Organization. Website: https://www.kitsap.gov/hs/Pages/SBHO-Get-Behaviroal-Health-Services.aspx• Deaf / Hard of Hearing: Use your preferred relay service (for example dial 711 then the appropriate number) to access crisis services.• Warning Signs & Risk Factors: If someone is talking about harming themselves, giving away possessions, expressing hopelessness, or showing extreme behavior changes, contact crisis resources immediately.Well, first I guess I would have to believe that there was or is an actual political dialogue taking place that I could potentially be a part of. And honestly, I'm not sure that I believe that. Well, first I guess I would have to believe that there was or is an actual political dialogue taking place that I could potentially be a part of. And honestly, I'm not sure that I believe that.

It's Monday, October 13th, A.D. 2025. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com.  I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Adam McManus Islamic terrorists in Congo killed 5 gold miners The Islamic Allied Democratic Forces continue to cause death and destruction in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, reports International Christian Concern. Last Tuesday morning, October 7th, they launched the deadly attack on Rizerie village, located in the predominantly Christian Lubero territory in North Kivu Province.  The Muslim attackers arrived while people were working in a gold mining site. They killed five civilians who were actively mining gold at the time.  A witness said, “The people who were killed were just trying to work so they could earn a living. They woke up early that morning, hoping to provide for their families. Then the rebels came out of nowhere and brutally ended their lives. It was horrifying — gunshots, screaming, and people running in every direction. Those men did not deserve to die like that.”  According to Open Doors, Congo is the 35th most dangerous country worldwide for Christians. Please pray for the safety of our brothers and sisters in Christ in Congo, Africa. Trump insists on paying soldiers in midst of gov't shutdown President Donald Trump is implementing a temporary solution to minimize the pain inflicted on American servicemen during the Democrat-induced government shutdown, reports TheBlaze. On Truth Social, the President wrote, "I am using my authority, as Commander-in-Chief, to direct our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th. We have identified funds to do this.” Democrats allowed government funding to lapse past the September 30 deadline, refusing to pass the Republican-led continuing resolution. Although spending fights have turned partisan in the past, Republicans simply proposed a clean 90-page Continuing Resolution that kept funding levels at the same rates that Democrats voted for in the past. Their bill had no partisan line items, with the only anomaly being a bipartisan boost in security funding for politicians following Charlie Kirk's assassination. On the other hand, Democrats proposed a $1.5 trillion funding bill that is chock-full of ideological provisions aimed at reversing the legislative accomplishments Republicans secured with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Democrats have also attempted to make the spending fight about re-negotiating Obama-era health care subsidies, although they do not expire until the end of the year. 16 killed in explosion at TN military explosives manufacturer A "devastating" blast at a Tennessee military explosives manufacturing plant at 7:48am on Friday is believed to have killed 16 people, reports ABC News. Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis spoke at a press conference on Saturday. DAVIS:  “We have notified all 16 families of those people that we feel were involved in this tragedy.” The explosion occurred at Accurate Energetic Systems in McEwen, located about 50 miles west of Nashville. DAVIS: “This is probably one of the most devastating sites I think I've been on in my career.” Help Voddie Baucham's widow and 9 children The Christian community continues to mourn the unexpected death on September 25th of Dr. Voddie Baucham, a towering figure in Evangelical circles. Known for his defense of Biblical truth, Baucham, a pastor, author, and theologian, left a legacy of family, faith, and opposing "woke" ideologies in the church. He wrote the book Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe. Listen to this sermon excerpt about the power of the Gospel. BAUCHAM: “We're justified, and we're adopted into the family of God. And we're sanctified, and as His children, we begin to bear the family resemblance. And we're further sanctified throughout this life by the very same Gospel that saves us, until one day when it's all said and done, we're not just saved from the penalty of sin. We're not just saved from the power of sin, but one day, we're glorified and saved from the very presence of sin. That's the Gospel that we preach. That's the Gospel that we need!” Romans 8:2 says, “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.” And here's a soundbite where the late Voddie Baucham shared his last two wishes. BAUCHAM: “I've come to a place in my life where there's just a few things that I asked God for, and one of them that I pray for regularly is that God would allow me to spend my last day on this Earth with my wife, so that I can look her in the face and tell her that I was faithful to her to the day they put me in the ground. “And another thing that I asked for is that I have raised my children in such a way that, after I'm done scratching and clawing and fighting for the cause of the Kingdom [of God], and after I have reached out as far as I could possibly go for the sake of Christ, that I will have raised my children in such a way that rather than pursue the things of this world, they would climb over me and pick up where I left off and go further and further and further than I could ever imagine, or that I could ever have gone in and of myself. “That's what I want. More than anything else in this world. That's what I want.” If you would like to help contribute toward the $2,000,000 goal to provide for his widow, Bridget, and their 9 children, 7 of whom are still under her roof, click on the special GiveSendGo link in our transcript today at www.TheWorldview.com.   So far, as of Saturday night, 5,349 people have contributed $824,650. Skeleton-wearing amulet may change history of Christianity And finally, an 1,800-year-old silver amulet discovered buried in a Frankfurt, Germany grave, still next to the chin of the man who wore it, has 18 lines of text written in Latin on just 1.37 inches of silver foil. That could be enough to rewrite the known history of Christianity in the Roman Empire, reports PopularMechanics.com. The amulet—and the inscription—are the oldest evidence of Christianity found north of the Alps. Every other link to reliable evidence of Christian life in the northern Alpine area of the Roman Empire is at least 50 years younger, all coming from the fourth century A.D. The amulet, found in a grave dating between 230 and 270 A.D., is now known as “The Frankfurt Inscription.” In a translated statement, Ina Hartwig, Frankfurt's head of culture and science, said, “This extraordinary find affects many areas of research and will keep science busy for a long time. This applies to archaeology as well as to religious studies, philology, and anthropology. Such a significant find here in Frankfurt is truly something extraordinary.” The mostly translated amulet says, “Holy, holy, holy! In the name of Jesus Christ, Son of God! The Lord of the World resists with [strength] This rescue device(?) protects the person who surrenders to the will of the Lord Jesus Christ, God's Son, since before Jesus Christ all knees bow: the heavenly ones, the earthly and the underground, and every tongue confess to Jesus Christ.” In Philippians 2:10-11, the Apostle Paul wrote, “At the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, in Heaven and on Earth and under the Earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Close And that's The Worldview on this Monday, October 13th, in the year of our Lord 2025. Follow us on X or subscribe for free by Spotify, Amazon Music, or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com.  I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.

Israeli military says the last 20 living hostages have been freed by Hamas and are now in Red Cross custody in the Gaza Strip. US President Donald Trump about to address Knesset. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and other world leaders attending "Summit for Peace" in Egypt. US President Donald Trump threatens to send Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine if Russia does not agree to end war soon. Hospitals in the Democratic Republic of Congo are facing severe medical supply shortages, amid clashes between Congolese forces and M23 rebels. Seniors in Montreal are learning French thanks to a special program that takes them outside the classroom.

Confectionnés maison ou achetés au coin de la rue, les beignets font partie du quotidien de nombreux Africains. On les consomme au petit déjeuner, au déjeuner, en encas, sucrés ou accompagnés d'un plat salé. Tout est possible avec le beignet. Si le nom diffère selon les pays, la recette reste plus ou moins la même. Une pâte à base de farine, levure, eau, sucre, et pincée de sel que l'on peut agrémenter selon ses goûts. Facile à réaliser, encore plus à déguster mais encore faut-il avoir le coup de main pour former de jolies boules rondes et les déposer dans l'huile de friture.   Cette émission est une rediffusion du 20 janvier 2025. Avec :  • Anto Cocagne, « Le Chef Anto », cheffe à domicile, autrice de Mon Afrique – Produits phares, savoir-faire, recettes (Mango éditions 2024) et fondatrice de Baraka by le Chef Anto, table et épicerie fine qui met en valeur le meilleur des saveurs africaines, située à Paris •  Bliss Rehna Bingoumou, dit Bliss la choupinette, bloggeuse culinaire au Gabon. Fondatrice de BuBwe, marque d'épices bio     En fin d'émission, la chronique Voisins connectés d'Estelle Ndjandjo, sur l'évolution des sociétés africaines mondialisées à travers les écrans, les réseaux sociaux et la technologie. Cette semaine, Estelle nous parle de vidéos virales des mines en République démocratique du Congo.  Programmation musicale : ► Oduduwa - Oluko Imo ► Stand By You – SPYRO.

Episode 76 Congo: When History Walks into Your Exam Room On this episode host Raj Sundar sits down with Jean Jacques, physician, community organizer to explore how the long and complex history of the Democratic Republic of Congo—including colonialism, resource-driven conflict, and trauma—shapes the healthcare experience of Congolese immigrants and refugees in the U.S. They talk through the diversity of Congolese identities, languages, and traditions, and examine how food, faith, and community form the backbone of cultural resilience, even as new challenges like diabetes, hypertension, and mental health stigma emerge after resettlement. Our conversation highlights practical advice for clinicians—from building trust and acknowledging trauma to asking about family and respecting cultural foodways—while also discussing the vital role of Congolese churches and grassroots organizations in healing and navigating the American healthcare system. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced from their homes and their countries amidst war and upheaval in the Middle East. Pastor Abraham and Sara are living as representatives of God's love to displaced people in the Middle East. The ministry can be messy and difficult, yet they persist in demonstrating love in practical ways. And they are seeing great fruit for their ministry. Abraham and Sara will share how one woman—the widow of an imam—had heard all kinds of negative things about Christians. But when she came to the church, she found something very different: people who loved her and helped her. Listen to hear the story of how God answered the woman's prayer within 24 hours, and how a dream led her to commit her life to Jesus. Leaving Islam behind to follow Jesus comes with a cost, though. Abraham and Sara will also share what Christian persecution looks like in the region, including pressure from families or tribes as well as Islamists or government authorities. “We are planting seeds,” Sara says, “we are the tools for His Kingdom.” Pray for Abraham & Sara's ministry as they serve lost and forgotten people in the Middle East and seek to reveal Christ's love for them. The International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians (IDOP) is only a few weeks away. The Voice of the Martyrs offers resources to help you and your church pray for persecuted Christians on November 2—and throughout the year. Be sure to watch the new short film telling the story of ongoing persecution in Democratic Republic of Congo—and how God is bringing healing to Christians who've suffered attacks and trauma. Access all the IDOP resources here.

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello chat about Jane Goodall's death and the Nobel prize in Physiology/Medicine for understanding immune system control before Dr. Griffin deep dives into recent statistics on the measles epidemic, RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, Johns Hopkins measles tracker, if 2 doses of the influenza vaccine are better for protection of first season children, if COVID-19 negatively impacts pregnancy and the unborn child, efficacy of long-acting monoclonal antibody against symptomatic COVID-19, where to find PEMGARDA, how to access and pay for Paxlovid, can you be retreated with Paxlovid, long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, long COVID in pediatrics, association of COVID-19 with new-onset vascular dementia and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research. 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Le président congolais Félix Tshisekedi a appelé jeudi son homologue rwandais Paul Kagame à avoir "le courage" de travailler avec lui pour faire "la paix des braves" dans l'est de la République démocratique du Congo, une invitation rejetée comme une "comédie politique ridicule" par Kigali.

Film director Raoul Peck grew up in Haiti and the Congo, and is no stranger to authoritarianism. So it was an easy “yes” when he was offered access to author George Orwell's entire body of work, from the original manuscript of “1984” to letters and journals. The result is “Orwell: 2+2=5,” a documentary about how a man named Eric Arthur Blair became the timeless face of truth. Peck talks to Audie about his take on Orwell's legacy and what it still has to teach us.   --  This episode was Produced by Madeleine Thompson and Lori Galarreta Senior Producer: Matt Martinez  Technical Director: Dan Dzula   Executive Producer:  Steve Lickteig  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Princess of Wales has made Early Years her signature work - and this week co-authored an essay about the dangers of screens causing an “epidemic of disconnection”.  Pod Save the King host Ann Gripper is joined by Mirror deputy royal editor Jennifer Newton to discuss Kate's latest contribution. And with Sophie's recent visit to Congo, the announcement of this year's Earthshot finalists, a new documentary about the King's nature work and Harry and Meghan's mental health work being recognised with an award, royal passion projects shone through this week's royal schedule.  Plus the team catch up on Meghan's Paris Fashion Week trip and Kate's joyful visit to RAF Coningsby and its Typhoon fighter jets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Urgence médicaments dans l'est de la République démocratique du Congo. Dans les provinces du Nord-Kivu et du Sud-Kivu, plus de 80% des centres de santé connaissent de graves ruptures de stocks de médicaments. Et ceux-ci sont souvent essentiels à la survie des patients. C'est le cri d'alarme que lance le CICR, le Comité International de la Croix-Rouge, dans un rapport publié hier. Explications de François Moreillon, qui est le chef de délégation du CICR en RDC et qui s'exprime aussi sur les discussions en cours entre les belligérants pour un échange de prisonniers. RFI : Vous dites que, dans près de 40 % des centres de santé, le personnel soignant a pris la fuite. Pourquoi cette débandade ? François Moreillon : Eh bien, écoutez d'abord, ces structures ont souvent été affectées, visitées, pillées, parfois ont reçu des éclats d'obus sur les structures même. Évidemment, le personnel de santé, qui se sent menacé par cette situation, la quitte. Par la suite, ce sont les manques de moyens qui affectent ces structures et qui expliquent aussi que certains du staff n'ont plus la motivation nécessaire pour rentrer, puisqu'ils n'ont plus les moyens d'agir. Donc je pense que la raison principale est le manque de respect pour le droit international humanitaire par les parties. Est-ce qu'il y a certains centres de santé où le personnel soignant est revenu ces dernières semaines ? Oui. Par exemple, le CICR soutient quatre de ces structures qui avaient vu une perte de leur personnel et, suite à notre intervention, nous avons vu un retour de certains de ces éléments. Donc, la partie n'est pas perdue. Il y a des mesures à prendre pour changer cette situation, mais à l'heure actuelle, la tendance est très négative. Alors, le sujet le plus grave dans votre rapport, c'est la rupture de stock de médicaments. Est-ce que c'est parce qu'ils ne sont plus disponibles ou parce qu'ils ne peuvent plus être acheminés jusqu'aux centres de santé ? D'abord, il y a des problèmes pour assurer le transfert fluide de ces médicaments. Ceux-ci étaient souvent transportés par avion. Les aéroports sont fermés. De plus, les lignes de front bloquent l'accès à des structures et à des stocks encore existants. Donc, c'est un concentré de plusieurs dimensions qui amène à cette situation. Et nous avons d'ailleurs offert nos services afin de faciliter le transfert de ces médicaments vers les structures de santé qui en ont le plus besoin, et ce, des deux côtés de la ligne de front. Et j'insiste sur ce point. Est-ce que vous, avec votre drapeau Croix-Rouge, vous pouvez aider les stocks de médicaments à franchir les barrages ? Oui, effectivement, nous le pouvons. Nous l'avons fait encore une fois par le passé, dans le Rutshuru, le Masisi notamment, et nous nous offrons pour acheminer ces médicaments. Quels efforts particuliers faites-vous, au niveau du CICR, pour limiter la gravité des faits depuis la bataille de Goma de janvier dernier ? Alors, nous soutenons de multiples structures de santé, des hôpitaux, avec nos équipes, notamment nos équipes de chirurgie de guerre. Nous avons mené de nombreuses interventions au bénéfice de déplacés récents, que ce soit en nourriture, en cash ou en biens essentiels de ménage, mais également au bénéfice des populations retournées, dont la nature des besoins peut être différente, en les appuyant également en semences et outils aratoires. Depuis sa création en 1864, il y a bientôt 200 ans, la Croix-Rouge s'occupe aussi des prisonniers de guerre et des détenus liés au conflit. Est-ce que, depuis la bataille de Goma de janvier dernier, vous avez pu rendre visite à certains de ces détenus ? Alors le CICR visite effectivement certains lieux de détention. Cependant, il y a beaucoup d'individus auxquels nous n'avons pas encore accès. Nous négocions ces accès. Nous espérons pouvoir visiter davantage de personnes arrêtées en lien avec le conflit, mais la situation reste encore très en deçà de nos attentes. Il y a actuellement des pourparlers à Doha, au Qatar, entre le gouvernement congolais et les rebelles du M23. Je crois d'ailleurs que vous même avez pu assister, il y a quelques jours, à l'une des séances de ces pourparlers sur place… Effectivement. Comme le disait ce mercredi sur RFI le vice-Premier ministre congolais Jacquemain Shabani, le CICR peut faciliter un éventuel échange de prisonniers. Pensez-vous qu'un tel échange peut avoir lieu bientôt ? Alors, le CICR a effectivement été mandaté dans le cadre de l'accord de principe de Doha afin de faciliter, en tant qu'intermédiaire neutre, l'échange de détenus entre les deux parties que sont l'AFC M23 et le gouvernement. Donc, dans ce cadre, nous avons effectivement participé aux discussions à Doha. Un accord sur le mécanisme a été obtenu, ce qui est une avancée importante. Le CICR, maintenant, travaille avec les parties pour mettre en œuvre ce mécanisme. C'est un processus complexe qui prend du temps, mais le CICR, encore une fois, n'a qu'un rôle de facilitateur. Ce n'est pas nous le maître des horloges, et nous sommes là pour faciliter ce à quoi les parties s'entendent. Oui, parce que dans le mécanisme, il y a des questions juridiques à régler, c'est ça ? C'est effectivement ce qui a été expliqué de ce que je comprends par le vice-Premier ministre sur votre antenne. Et donc ça prend du temps, c'est un marathon et non un sprint.

Che Guevara – the man whose name became a global symbol of rebellion and justice. Born in Argentina, Ernesto “Che” Guevara transformed from a curious medical student into a fearless revolutionary who challenged empires. His deep compassion for the poor and oppressed pushed him to fight alongside Fidel Castro in Cuba's liberation, where his courage, strategy, and leadership changed history. From the jungles of Cuba to the mountains of Congo and Bolivia, Che's relentless spirit inspired millions to dream of freedom. He was not just a guerilla commander but also a thinker, writer, and a voice for the voiceless. Even after his death, his words and image ignite revolutions of thought across continents. Che's life is a story of ideals, sacrifice, and the belief that one determined soul can change the fate of nations. KiranPrabha narrates the interesting life journey of Che Guevara in this multi part series. This is Part -9. Events happened in 1963 - 1964 - Support for international guerilla revolutions - His mother's arrest - Against Russia - Decision to leave Cuba are covered in this episode. KiranPrabha Talk Shows List: https://koumudi.net/talkshows/index.htm Koumudi Web Magazine: https://koumudi.net/

If you'd like to see full video of this and other episodes, join the Reel Notes Patreon at the Homie ($5/month) tier or higher. Each episode is also available to buy individually for $5 (BUY IT THROUGH A WEB BROWSER OR THE PATREON ANDROID APP, NOT VIA THE PATREON iOS APP. YOU'LL GET CHARGED EXTRA MONEY AND IT WILL TAKE LONGER TO PROCESS.) You also get early access to episodes, an invite to our Discord server, access to the Reel Talk movie night archives, and more!My guest this week is New Jersey-based playlist curator, Assistant Music Programmer for R&B and Lead Music Programmer for African & Caribbean music at Pandora, and co-creator and co-host of the Reasonable Dialogue podcast, Tatiana “Yan” Snead. We spoke about The Summer I Turned Pretty, the art of rewatching old movies, growing up in Jersey, her journey from aspiring singer to playlist curator to radio programmer, the music industry, and the creative process behind Reasonable Dialogue and her new solo podcast Raw Form. Come fuck with us.Reasonable Dialogue, featuring co-hosts DJ Miss Millan and Jazmine Kind, is available wherever you get your podcasts. Follow Reasonable Dialogue on Twitter (@RsnbleDialogue) and Instagram (@reasonabledialogue). Raw Form is available exclusively on Spotify.    My first book, Reel Notes: Culture Writing on the Margins of Music and Movies, is available now, via 4 PM Publishing. Order a digital copy on Amazon.Reel Notes stands in solidarity with American immigrants against ICE and the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti. Please consider donating to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund,  The Palestinian Youth Movement, The Zakat Foundation, HealAfrica, FreeTigray, and/or Hope For Haiti. Protest, fight back, and fuck the system.Follow me on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), TikTok (@cinemasai), Letterboxd (@CineMasai), and subscribe to my weekly Nu Musique Friday newsletter to stay tapped in to all things Dylan Green.  Follow Hearing Things at hearingthings.co or @hearingthingsco on all platforms    Support the show

Desfogan presa La Boca en NL, rebasó el 100 % de capacidadDetienen a “El Kisufur”, presunto líder de banda de robo de autos en CDMXBrote de ébola en Congo muestra contención, OMS mantiene alerta sanitariaMás información en nuestro Podcast

En RDC, des combats ont repris depuis quelques jours dans l'Est du pays, mais le gouvernement refuse de dramatiser. « Les indicateurs sur le retrait des troupes rwandaises de notre territoire ne sont pas encore visibles, mais nous sommes confiants qu'on va atteindre l'objectif de la paix », affirme le vice-Premier ministre congolais Jacquemain Shabani. De passage à Paris, Jacquemain Shabani, qui est aussi ministre de l'Intérieur, de la sécurité et de la décentralisation, s'exprime aussi sur ce qu'il appelle « le génocide perpétré dans l'Est du Congo depuis 30 ans ». Il répond aux questions de Patient Ligodi et Christophe Boisbouvier. RFI : Monsieur le vice-Premier ministre Jacquemin Shabani, le 27 juin dernier, le Congo et le Rwanda ont signé à Washington un accord de paix. Mais depuis une semaine, les combats reprennent au Nord et au Sud Kivu. Est-ce à dire que la guerre a recommencé ?   Jacquemin Shabani : Je ne pourrais pas dire que la guerre a recommencé, parce qu'effectivement, il y a eu cet accord de paix signé à Washington. Il y a eu aussi une déclaration de principe signée à Doha et des mesures de confiance qui vont être mises en exécution dans le prochain accord qui va être signé aussi là-bas. Je crois qu'il faut arriver à considérer que nous sommes dans un processus qui a pour objectif de mettre en place une paix dans un contexte de conflit assez difficile. Le plus important pour nous tous, c'est de retenir le fait qu'il y a un processus de paix enclenché avec des initiatives effectivement à Washington, comme vous l'avez souligné, mais aussi à Doha, qui sont en cours et qui vont nécessairement se finaliser par une paix durable. Parce que c'est ça, l'objectif.   Et la prise, il y a quelques jours, par les rebelles du M23 de la localité de Nzibira, au Sud Kivu. Quelle est votre réaction ?   Ça entre dans le cadre de ce que vous venez de souligner. Et il y a un mécanisme mis en place à Washington, et même à Doha, de surveillance de tous ces incidents. Et dans ce contexte-là, toutes ces questions vont trouver des règlements.  À lire aussiEst de la RDC: l'AFC/M23 en quête de gains territoriaux autour de Shabunda   Recrutement de policiers, recrutement de magistrats. Le M23 s'enracine dans les deux territoires du Nord-Kivu et du Sud-Kivu. Il commence même à délivrer des documents administratifs, ce qui, pour le ministre de l'Intérieur et de la sécurité que vous êtes, doit être difficile à supporter. Est-ce que ce n'est pas le signe que le M23 veut s'installer dans la durée ?   Le M23 est dans effectivement des initiatives que je pourrais qualifier de distraction. Mais je reviens encore à ce que je vous ai dit au début, nous sommes avec le M23 à Doha en discussion. Le M23, effectivement, s'invite à la mise en place d'une administration parallèle dans le cadre de sa rébellion. Mais tout ça est pris en charge aussi dans l'initiative de Doha. Et si vous lisez la déclaration de principe que le gouvernement a signée avec le M23, nous identifions des procédures de règlement de toutes ces situations malencontreuses mises en œuvre par le M23. Tout ça est pris en charge dans la déclaration de principe, avec une projection sur un accord de paix qui va nous permettre de rétablir l'État dans sa juste position. Et on identifie ça dans la restauration de l'autorité de l'État après la cessation du conflit.   Selon un communiqué conjoint que vous avez signé le 24 septembre avec le Rwanda, vos deux pays doivent mettre en œuvre, à partir de ce 1ᵉʳ octobre, des mesures de sécurité. Mais il y a quelques jours, aux Nations-Unies, le président Tshisekedi a accusé son homologue rwandais, Paul Kagamé, de manœuvres pour retarder la paix.   Oui, parce que les indicateurs sur le processus de retrait, malheureusement, ne sont pas encore visibles. Et pourtant, nous avons signé à Washington. Donc, je crois que le discours du chef de l'État, Félix Tshisekedi, est une pression de plus qui permette à ce que ces forces négatives se retirent du territoire congolais.   Donc en fait, ça n'avance pas ?  Si c'est votre conclusion, elle est la vôtre. Nous, nous sommes dans un processus et nous sommes engagés à le faire avancer. Et nous sommes confiants que la paix est un objectif que nous allons atteindre, et nous travaillons pour cela.   À la tribune de l'ONU, le 23 septembre, le président Tshisekedi a lancé un appel solennel pour la reconnaissance du génocide des Congolais dans l'Est de votre pays. Réponse du ministre rwandais des Affaires étrangères, Olivier Nduhungirehe : « Un génocide contre qui ? Contre des ethnies non Tutsies ? Contre toutes toutes celles qu'on chercherait à détruire en tant que telles ? Cette proposition est stupide ».  De quoi je me mêle ? Est-il ministre de la République démocratique du Congo ? Non. Qu'est-ce qui l'embête à nous voir, nous Congolais, parler de notre pays, réclamer justice sur les souffrances et les meurtres qu'ont subies les populations congolaises ? Se sent-il coupable ? Moi, je crois que ce sont les grandes préoccupations qu'il faut se poser. Lorsqu'un ministre d'un gouvernement étranger se préoccupe autant des droits que réclame un président élu légitimement par ses concitoyens, se sent-il coupable de ce génocide ? C'est la question majeure qu'il faut se poser. Et lorsqu'on trouvera ensemble tous la réponse, je crois qu'effectivement, tel que nous sommes en train de le réclamer, ce génocide sera reconnu universellement et on aura identifié le coupable réel du génocide congolais.   À lire aussiRDC: la question du retour des réfugiés au coeur des discussions de paix avec l'AFC/M23 et le Rwanda

“In the next 25 years, the world will need more copper than in all of human history.”Amendment - I said 3.2 billion kg of copper in opening question, I should have said 320 million kg. In this episode, journalist and author Vince Beiser returns to the podcast to discuss his book Power Metal, a sobering look at the metals that make modern civilization possible — and the extraordinary cost of extracting them.We cover the story of copper — the wire of empire. Beiser reveals why humanity will need more copper in the next 25 years than we've used in all of history, and how that quest is reshaping geopolitics, the environment, and our very ideas of progress. From Chile's drought-stricken Atacama mines to the e-waste yards of Lagos, Nigeria, we follow the real people and places behind our “clean-energy” future — and the dirty truths that power it.We also unpack the rise of deep-sea mining, the billionaires behind it, and the tensions between state power, corporate ambition, and the planet's limits. Along the way we meet Robert Friedland, Gerard Barron, Dan Gertler, and a cast of characters who prove that the world still runs on digging — and that the future will too.If you liked The World in a Grain or stories about how our material world shapes our moral one, this conversation will hit home.Topics: Resource wars, clean-tech paradox, deep-sea mining, copper shortage, China's industrial strategy, EV economics, and how to reduce demand without going backwards. Guest: Vince Beiser - author of Power Metal and The World in a Grain Subscribe to his newsletter Power Metal SubstackThe World In A Grain (Vince's First Appearance on The Curious Worldview in 2021) - https://open.spotify.com/episode/7rf8QskOPtzvp2g8tm3lMk?si=zxA1ycpKRViBFt5S3XTCLgTimestamps.00:00 – Intro: Vince Beiser & Power Metal 02:00 – Chile's Copper Boom & the Atacama Water Crisis 07:00 – Congo's Cobalt, U.S. Retreat, and Copper Geography 10:00 – The No-Free-Lunch of the Green Transition 12:30 – Lagos E-Waste Recyclers & the Hidden Cost of Recycling 19:10 – Deep-Sea Mining and the Billionaires Behind It 23:00 – The UN vs Trump: Who Owns the Ocean Floor? 33:00 – Robert Friedland, Steve Jobs & Congo's Mining Empire 41:00 – Corruption, Crony Capitalism & Dan Gertler 47:00 – Commodity Volatility and State Intervention 52:00 – China's Industrial Patience vs Western Myopia 55:00 – Rethinking Cars, Cities & Demand Reduction 58:00 – The Future of Resources — and Civilization Itself

Interview with Richard Osmond, CEO of Element 29 ResourcesOur previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/element-29-resources-tsxvecu-developing-the-next-major-copper-mine-in-peru-6293Recording date: 5th October 2025Element 29 Resources is advancing its Elida porphyry copper-molybdenum-silver project in Peru with about 14,000 meters of drilling completed and a maiden resource estimate published in 2022. The company aims to grow the initial 300 million tons resource to over 500 million tons through ongoing exploration. Recent magnetotelluric (MT) geophysical surveys have identified a hydrothermal alteration footprint exceeding six kilometers in strike length, which includes low resistivity anomalies at depth. These anomalies suggest the presence of a high-grade copper core that remains untested at around 1.5 kilometers below the surface.Element 29 has secured approximately $10 million in treasury, raised through $6.1 million in financing and $4 million from warrant exercises, to fund a 7,000-meter drill program. Drilling costs average $450-500 USD per meter. The project benefits from a five-year community access agreement and is expanding drill permits from 20 to 40 platforms ahead of Peru's 2026 election cycle. Peru's government has shown increased support for mining development after losing its position as the world's second-largest copper producer to the Democratic Republic of Congo.The Elida project displays favorable characteristics including a 4:1 strip ratio, an absence of a water table which reduces environmental liability, expectations of clean concentrate with no arsenic, and potential for transitioning from an open pit to underground mining. This transition could extend the mine life beyond the initial 15-year production timeline at 100,000 tons per day. The geological setting is defined by multiple mineralization phases within a porphyry intrusive complex, with late-stage sulfidation overprints upgrading the system and increasing grades at depth.The company's CEO, Richard Osmond, emphasizes the rarity of such discoveries today and the project's potential as a tier-one asset. The strategy focuses on resource expansion through systematic drilling and geophysical targeting, supported by Peru's improving regulatory environment and strong investment protections. Element 29 is positioning itself to deliver a de-risked copper asset that could satisfy major mining companies' requirements for large-scale, economically viable resources in world-class jurisdictions.Learn more: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/companies/element-29-resourcesSign up for Crux Investor: https://cruxinvestor.com

Les journalistes et experts de RFI répondent également à vos questions sur les déboires judiciaires du fils de Macky Sall, l'échec d'un accord économique entre la RDC et le Rwanda et l'ouverture des négociations en Egypte entre le Hamas et Israël. France : comment expliquer la démission surprise de Sébastien Lecornu  ?  Quatorze heures après l'annonce de la composition de son gouvernement, Sébastien Lecornu a remis sa démission au président Emmanuel Macron. «Les conditions n'étaient plus remplies pour rester Premier ministre», a-t-il expliqué. Pourquoi ce gouvernement posait-il problème à la classe politique française ? Avec Aurélien Devernoix, journaliste au service politique de RFI.      Sénégal : le fils de Macky Sall dans le viseur de la justice   Alors que plusieurs proches de l'ancien président Macky Sall font l'objet d'enquêtes judiciaires, c'est désormais son propre fils, Amadou, qui défraie la chronique. Que lui reproche la justice sénégalaise ? Alors qu'il ne vit plus au Sénégal depuis la victoire de Bassirou Diomaye Faye, pourquoi n'est-il pas visé par un mandat d'arrêt international ?     Avec Léa-Lisa Westerhoff, correspondante permanente de RFI à Dakar.       RDC/Rwanda : échec de la signature d'un accord économique   Prévue la semaine dernière à Washington, la signature d'un accord économique entre la République démocratique du Congo et le Rwanda a échoué ? Comment expliquer cet échec ? Les États-Unis, qui ont joué un rôle de médiateur, peuvent-ils exercer une pression significative pour débloquer la situation ?     Avec Patient Ligodi, journaliste au service Afrique de RFI.       Gaza : vers une libération des otages contre des prisonniers ?   Alors que le Hamas a accepté le plan de paix proposé par Donald Trump, une délégation israélienne et du mouvement palestinien sont en Égypte pour négocier, notamment la libération des otages. Comment leur libération pourrait-elle s'organiser alors que l'armée israélienne continue de bombarder Gaza ? Benyamin Netanyahu acceptera-t-il de relâcher plus de 1 900 prisonniers palestiniens sans mettre en péril la stabilité de sa coalition ?   Gaza : quel rôle pour les pays médiateurs ?   Les négociations indirectes entre Israël et le Hamas se tiennent depuis lundi soir en Égypte. Les médiateurs égyptiens et qatariens ont-ils suffisamment d'influence sur les deux camps pour garantir un accord durable ?   Avec Lyna Ouandjeli, chercheuse à l'Institut européen d'études sur le Moyen-Orient et l'Afrique du Nord (Eismena).

Si certains savent depuis leur plus jeune âge qu'ils souhaitent devenir médecin, d'autres découvrent leur vocation plus tard. Après avoir déjà entamé des études dans d'autres domaines, ils décident de tout arrêter pour se reconvertir. Comment se passe cette reconversion ? Comment s'organise-t-on au quotidien pour reprendre des études qui sont, par essence, parmi les plus longues ?   Camillia Bailly, étudiante en quatrième année de médecine. Créatrice du compte Instagram Maman fait médecine   Sonia Banou, interne de médecine générale et ancienne avocate Pr Samuel Mampunza, neuropsychiatre, ancien doyen de la Faculté de Médecine de Kinshasa, ancien doyen de la Faculté de Médecine de l'Université protestante au Congo, secrétaire général académique (vice-recteur) honoraire de l'Université Protestante au Congo (UPC). Président honoraire de la Société africaine de santé mentale (SASM) Dr Bamba Gaye, directeur exécutif et fondateur de l'Alliance pour la recherche médicale en Afrique. Professeur d'informatique biomédicale à la Faculté de médecine Emory d'Atlanta aux États-Unis. ► En fin d'émission, nous parlons de la baisse de prix annoncée du lenacapavir, un traitement de prophylaxie pré-exposition pour le VIH qui a un taux d'efficacité de 96% à 100%. Le traitement passe ainsi à 40 dollars par patient par an contre plus de 20 000 dollars auparavant. Interview de Nathalie Ernoult, directrice du Plaidoyer pour les enjeux d'accès aux médicaments chez Médecins Sans Frontières.  Programmation musicale : ► Say She She - Disco Life  ► Spyro, Tiwa Savage – Who is your guy ?

Si certains savent depuis leur plus jeune âge qu'ils souhaitent devenir médecin, d'autres découvrent leur vocation plus tard. Après avoir déjà entamé des études dans d'autres domaines, ils décident de tout arrêter pour se reconvertir. Comment se passe cette reconversion ? Comment s'organise-t-on au quotidien pour reprendre des études qui sont, par essence, parmi les plus longues ?   Camillia Bailly, étudiante en quatrième année de médecine. Créatrice du compte Instagram Maman fait médecine   Sonia Banou, interne de médecine générale et ancienne avocate Pr Samuel Mampunza, neuropsychiatre, ancien doyen de la Faculté de Médecine de Kinshasa, ancien doyen de la Faculté de Médecine de l'Université protestante au Congo, secrétaire général académique (vice-recteur) honoraire de l'Université Protestante au Congo (UPC). Président honoraire de la Société africaine de santé mentale (SASM) Dr Bamba Gaye, directeur exécutif et fondateur de l'Alliance pour la recherche médicale en Afrique. Professeur d'informatique biomédicale à la Faculté de médecine Emory d'Atlanta aux États-Unis. ► En fin d'émission, nous parlons de la baisse de prix annoncée du lenacapavir, un traitement de prophylaxie pré-exposition pour le VIH qui a un taux d'efficacité de 96% à 100%. Le traitement passe ainsi à 40 dollars par patient par an contre plus de 20 000 dollars auparavant. Interview de Nathalie Ernoult, directrice du Plaidoyer pour les enjeux d'accès aux médicaments chez Médecins Sans Frontières.  Programmation musicale : ► Say She She - Disco Life  ► Spyro, Tiwa Savage – Who is your guy ?

Hour 2 for 10/6/25 Ed Morrissey and Nick pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy (1:00). Then, David Trimble from Religious Freedom Institute covers persecution in Nigeria and the Congo (24:50) and what's happening at the Institute (43:55). Link: https://religiousfreedominstitute.org/

L'exploitation du caoutchouc au Congo belge représente une violence qui, si elle n'est peutêtre pas inédite dans l'histoire coloniale, se distingue par sa médiatisation. Les images de ces violences coloniales ont alimenté les protestations et les critiques portant sur le discours dominant jusque-là sur les bienfaits de la colonisation. Manuel Charpy, historien des cultures matérielles et visuelles et directeur du laboratoire In Visu, en retrace les enjeux.

La géographie du caoutchouc s'étend du Brésil à Londres, de Ceylan au Congo, en passant par l'Inde, la Malaisie et Clermont-Ferrand. En Indochine, un célèbre scientifique suisse, Alexandre Yersin, reconnu pour sa contribution au vaccin contre la peste, investit dans les plantations d'hévéa à la fin du XIXème siècle. Son entreprise connaît un tel succès que Michelin, le géant français du pneu basé à Clermont-Ferrand, lui passe commande, le caoutchouc trouvant alors un usage croissant dans les automobiles et les bicyclettes. Mais d'autres entrepreneurs suisses contribuent et profitent également de ce marché lucratif. L'Etat indépendant du Congo, propriété personnelle du roi Léopold II, illustre par ailleurs l'ampleur de cette exploitation, comme l'analyse Fabio Rossinelli, historien spécialiste des relations entre sociétés savantes suisses et empires coloniaux.

Prince William's candid comments in a travel show interview have ignited a royal firestorm. Speaking with Eugene Levy, William said he wants to avoid the mistakes of his parents—and openly questioned whether the monarchy, in its current form, is still “fit for purpose.”Royal expert Tom Sykes calls it the clearest sign yet of a deep rift between the Prince and his father, King Charles. Deep Crown weighs in on William's sudden ruthlessness, while Sky News explores how “change” has become William's quiet manifesto.Meanwhile, King Charles reacts to the tragic Yom Kippur attack in Manchester, Aunt Sophie shines a light on sexual violence in the Congo, and Thomas Markle says he's safe—and watching Charlie Chan movies—despite what Samantha Markle claimed. 

In Malaysia, every citizen carries an ID card that includes religion; every person is classified as either “Muslim” or “Non-Muslim.” The Malaysian constitution promises religious freedom and the right to choose one's religion. So what happens if a citizen changes their faith? “Brother Samuel” will answer that question this week on VOM Radio. Born into a Muslim family, he came to know that Jesus was the Son of God, then chose to leave Islam behind to follow Christ. At first, he kept his newfound faith quiet, knowing that being publicly identified as a follower of Jesus could bring all kinds of trouble. But as he grew in faith, he felt convicted about his silence. Jesus had died for him. How could he be unwilling even to acknowledge Christ? Learning of his conversion, Samuel's family encouraged him to dive more deeply into Islamic training and activities. Wanting to honor his father and his family, Samuel agreed to attend Islamic classes. But instead of bringing him back to Mohammed, the training forced him to become more rooted in Biblical truth and more capable at explaining and defending Christian doctrines. In 2018, Samuel began the process of applying for a new national ID card, changing his religion from “Muslim” to “non-Muslim.” Seven years later, his court case is still dragging on. While the most famous case of Christian persecution in Malaysia is the abduction of Pastor Raymond Koh, Samuel says there are hundreds of Christians right now in the same situation he's in: trying to get the government to issue them new ID cards that accurately reflect their faith. Please pray this week for Samuel and for other Christians in Malaysia. Next month is the International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians (IDOP). The Voice of the Martyrs has resources to help you and your church pray for persecuted Christians on November 2 and throughout the year, including a new film telling the story of ongoing persecution in Democratic Republic of Congo. Access all VOM's IDOP resources here.

This weeks show starts off with classics from The Congos, Steel Pulse, Junior Ross, Henry Simms, Bobby Ellis, Third World, Peter Tosh, Culture & Errol Scorcher, Justin Hinds, The African Brothers, Larry Marshall, Tony Tuff, The Mighty Diamonds with U-Roy, Burning Spear, Sylford Walker, Al Campbell with Sly & Robbie, Frankie Paul, Bunny Rugs, Keith Rowe & The Upsetters, Toots & The Maytals with Willie Nelson, and Bob Dylan with Sly & Robbie. New music this week comes from Eek A Mouse & Roots Radics, Micah Shemaiah, Young Kulcha with Naram, Ras Teo, Soothsayers, Jalen Ngonda, The Co-Operators, Rastahari, Vibronics & Tann I Browne, I- Straw Berry, Inna Vision with Ini Kamoze, Elastica Dub & Gabriele Blue, and Etana.  Enjoy!  The Congos - Fisherman - Heart Of The Congos - Blood & Fire Steel Pulse - Prodigal Son - Handsworth Revolution - Island Records Junior Ross & The Spear - So Jah Jah Say - Prince Alla & Junior Ross: I Can Hear The Children Singing 1975-1978 - Blood & Fire Henry Simms - Live In Love/Live In Love Dub - TRS Records Bobby Ellis - Stormy Weather 12” Mix - Different Fashion: The High Note Dancehall Collection - Doctor Bird  Third World - Cool Meditation - Journey To Addis - Island Records Peter Tosh - Mystic Man - Mystic Man - Rolling Stones Records Culture - Stop The Fighting - Children Of Zion: The High Note Singles Collection - Doctor Bird Errol Scorcher - Peace Truce - Different Fashion: The High Note Dancehall Collection - Doctor Bird  Justin Hinds & The Dominoes - Fire (Is The Desire) - Jack Ruby Presents: The Black Foundation - Heartbeat  Records The African Brothers - Lead Us Father - Ital 7” Tony Tuff - Ease Up Oppressors - Niagraa  Larry Marshall - Dread In A Rome - Amanda 7” The Mighty Diamonds - Right Time - Reggae Anthology: Pass The Knowledge - VP Records U-Roy - Full Time - The Lost Album: Right Time Rockers - Nocturne/Ras Records Burning Spear - Nyah Keith - Chant Down Babylon: The Island Anthology - Island Records Burning Spear - Irie Niya Keith - Original Living Dub Vol. 1 - Burning Music Productions Donovan Adams & The Techniques All Stars - Don't Mock Jah/Don't Mock Jah Version - Roots Techniques - Pressure Sounds Sylford Walker - Cleanliness Is Godliness - Lamb's Bread International - Blood & Fire Glen Brown & King Tubby - Assack Lawn No. 1 - Glen Brown & King Tubby: Termination Dub 1973-1979 - Blood & Fire Al Campbell & Sly & Robbie - Declaration Of Rights/Declaration Of Rights Dub - VP Records Lewis Bennet w/ Eek A Mouse & Roots Radics - Greedy Man - Burning Bug Records Exco Levi - One Shirt - Country Man - Penthouse Records Micah Shemaiah with Irie Ites & The Ligerians - Hell A Go Pop - Hell A Go Pop Riddim - Irie Ites Records King Kong - Repatriation - Repatriation - Irie Ites Records Young Kulcha w/ Irie Ites & Naram - Come Pick Me Up/Come Dub Me Up - Repatriation Riddim - Irie Ites Records Bunny Rugs - Rumors Remix - Taxi Red 10”  Indra - The Little Things - Reality Shock Records Irie Souljah - I Know Dem - World Citizen - Ineffable Records Ras Teo - Defend I - Deh Pon Dem - Forward Bound Records Akae Beka & Kabaka Pyramid - Glory/Glory Dub - Glory - Zion High Productions Frankie Paul - Live And Love - Live And Love - VP Records Frankie Paul - Missing Your Love - Tomorrow - VP Records Soothsayers - Love Will Find A Way - Wah Wah 45s Jalen Ngonda - All About Me - Daptone Records The Far East - I'm In Love - Names You Can Trust 7” Keith Rowe & The Upsetters - Groovy Situation/Groovy Dub - Arkology - Island Records Toots & The Maytals feat. Willie Nelson - Still Is Still Moving To Me - True Love - V2 Bob Dylan w/ Sly & Robbie - I & I (Reggae Mix) - Is It Rolling Bob - Ras Records Joe Yorke & The Co-Operators - Last Nights Tune - A Distant Beat - Waggle Dance Records The Co-Operators feat. Joe Yorke - Last Nights Dub - Dub Over Yonder - Waggle Dance Records King Tubby - A Noisy Place - Adventures In Dub: Essential Bassline Business - Metro Doubles Prince Jammy & Bunny Lee - Enter Into Dub Part 1 (Paolo Baldini Dubfiles Remix) - Dubbing In The Front Yard & Conflict Dub - Pressure Sounds Shorty The President - Rebel Dub Skank - DJ Jamaica Inna Fine Dub Style - Jamaican Recordings Horace Andy - Do You Love My Music/Music Dub - In The Light/In The Light Dub - Blood & Fire The Lions - Lankershim Dub - Jungle Struttin' - Ubiquity Black Uhuru - Dread In The Mountain - Brutal - Ras Records Black Uhuru - Dub In The Mountain - Brutal Dub - Ras Records Dub Syndicate - Dubbing Is A Must -  Fear Of A Green Planet - Shanachie Bush Chemists feat. King General & Culture Freeman - Zion/Zion Dub 1 - Bush Chemists Singles - Conscious Sounds Rastahari - Dubbin' On Empty - Dub Is My Superpower - HBomb Productions Vibronics & Tann I Browne - A Cold World/Cold Dub - Scoops Records I Strawberry - Everything Get Less - Silver Diamond Productions Inna Vision feat. Ini Kamoze - Keep Distance - Reggae Lives Elastica Dub & Gabriele Blue - People Will Pray/People Dub - Dubophonic Records Micah Shemaiah & The Autos - Immorality - Easy Star Records Etana - Grateful - Nectar Of The Gods - Freemind Music Etana - Grateful Dub - Dubclaat - Freemind Music Luciano & Mikey General - Redemption - Answer Riddim 2021 - Dub Stuy Johnny GoFigure - A Different Answer - Answer Riddim 2021 - Dub Study DJ Madd - Answer 2021 Version - Answer Riddim 2021 - Dub Stuy

The former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo is sentenced to death in absentia for crimes against humanity, treason and backing the Rwandan-supported M23 rebels in eastern Congo. The court has ordered his arrest, but his whereabouts remain unknown We look at the man and his life.Also in the programme: Officials in Namibia have deployed hundreds of soldiers to battle a fire that has ravaged a third of the key nature reserve, Etosha National Park.And we speak to a woman who suffered a heart attack, and we find how such attacks can be prevented.Presenter Nyasha Michelle Producers: Yvette Twagiramariya, Mark Filberforce and Ayub Ilia Senior Producer: Sunita Nahar Technical Producer: Philip Bull Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi