Giêsu ơi,
Em là ai trong số những người được Giêsu chúc phúc trong Bài giảng trên núi?
Người nghèo khó về tâm linh?
Người than khóc, người khiêm nhu…?
Em là ai trong số tám loại người đó? Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 54 – Prayer 54
Giêsu ơi,
Em là ai trong số những người được Giêsu chúc phúc trong Bài giảng trên núi?
Người nghèo khó về tâm linh?
Người than khóc, người khiêm nhu…?
Em là ai trong số tám loại người đó? Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 54 – Prayer 54
COMMENTARY
December 8, 2006
© Vu-Duc Vuong
In this season of celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, who counts upward of two billion followers around the world today, it may be sobering to look at religions from a more humanist perspective: it is humans who create gods out of the necessity to believe in something higher, more lasting and more powerful than their short lifespan.
ASIA PACIFIC – JAN. 17, 2017
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Dasho Karma Ura, shown in Thimphu in September, has for more than two decades developed and fine-tuned Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness indicator. Credit Adam Dean for The New York Times
THIMPHU, Bhutan — As a downpour settled into a thick fog outside, Dasho Karma Ura let his eyes flicker at the ceiling of a wood-paneled conference room and began expounding on the nature of happiness.
Jesus,
As a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies,
it produces many seeds,
let my old person dies
and my new person be born again
in you.
Thank you, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH
“Development” underway in Phu Quoc’s northwest. Photo by VnExpress/Calvin Godfrey
By Dien Luong December 26, 2016 | 02:00 am GMT+7
Critics warn the casinos could prove a risky gambit.
e.vnexpress.net_Phu Quoc Island’s long pursuit of a casino may finally pay off.
Since at least 2007, shifting rumors about the casino’s location and investors cast a pall of uncertainty over whether and where the Mekong Delta’s most popular tourist destination would have a casino.
Boston Globe – JULY 30, 2012

Lieutenant Colonel Jenns Robertson’s project is aiding efforts to spot unexploded bombs that still endanger civilians. MEG MCKINNEY FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE
By Bryan Bender GLOBE STAFF
MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. — Six years ago it seemed a zany idea when Lieutenant Colonel Jenns Robertson, 45, a bespectacled Minnesota native with an outsized gee-whiz quality even by military standards, began a rather unusual hobby: documenting a century of US air power — bomb by bomb.
Jesus,
Please take the plank out of my own eye.
I want to see my brothers and sisters clearly.
Thank you, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH

The president-elect’s unpredictable rise is forcing historians and social scientists to rethink their most basic assumptions about how the world works.
Jesus,
You are the farmer.
We are your seeds.
You have been going out to sow your seeds. Continue reading Prayer 51

A picture of communist China’s late founder, Mao Zedong, is seen on top of car as people gather to celebrate the 123rd anniversary of his birth on Dec. 26 in Shaoshan, China. | REUTERS
by Gerry Shih Jan 15, 2017
BEIJING – Writer Lu Yong had merely wanted to show support for a professor who had taken flak online for criticizing Mao Zedong, the founder of the communist state who died more than four decades ago.

Date:January 13, 2017
Source:University of California – Davis
sciencedaily_Summary:The sequencing of the genome of Coffea arabica, the species responsible for more than 70 percent of global coffee production, has now been announced by researchers.
The first public genome sequence for Coffea arabica, the species responsible for more than 70 percent of global coffee production, was released today by researchers at the University of California, Davis.
Jesus,
Freely we have been receiving,
help us freely give.
Thank you, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH

ASIA PACIFIC/POLITICS JAPAN TIMES
by Jesse Johnson Staff Writer, Jan 15, 2017
Former United Nations chief and presumptive South Korean presidential candidate Ban Ki-moon has backed the deployment later this year of a U.S. anti-missile system to the country amid North Korea’s progress in its nuclear and missile programs.
Jesus,
As you pray for us,
we would pray for each other.
Help us do it daily.
Thank you, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH