NOVUS ENTERTAINMENT BROADCAST CENTER https :// youtu.be / Z2iP1VYwErY Daily Reading for Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017 Reading 1, Exodus 34:29-35 29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, as he was coming down the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face was radiant because he had been talking to him. 30 And when Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin on his face was so radiant that they were afraid to go near him. 31 But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the community rejoined him, and Moses talked to them, 32 after which all the Israelites came closer, and he passed on to them all the orders that Yahweh had given to him on Mount Sinai. 33 Once Moses had finished speaking to them, he put a veil over his face. 34 ...
REFUGEES WELCOMED BY CANADA,BUT NOW STRUGGLES WITH BACKLOG. A wave of asylum seekers entering Canada this year has exacerbated a backlog of refugee claims that the government is struggling to manage, leaving tens of thousands of people stuck in bureaucratic limbo even as they try to build new lives. Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board says it has a backlog of 40,700 cases . More than 10,000 asylum seekers have crossed illegally into Quebec from the United States since July alone. But the board has the money and staff to process just 24,000 cases a year, meaning that many people will have to wait around 16 months for their case to be heard. “The strain on the organization to handle this many people’s hearings is enormous,” Shereen Benzvy Miller, the head of the board’s refugee protection division, told a parliamentary immigrations committee this month. “The math is clear,” she added. “Unless you put more resources to this problem, then it takes longer ti...
EGYPT-ISRAEL RELATIONS 'AT HIGHEST LEVEL' IN HISTORY As Egypt's Sisi and Israel's Netanyahu meet in public for the first time, analysts say relations have never been closer. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time in public on Tuesday. The meeting came ahead of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, in what Egypt said was part of an effort to revive the Palestinian-Israeli diplomatic talks. It has been almost four decades since former Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat extended a hand of peace to Israel. Although many Egyptians continue to regard Israel as a threat and sympathise with the Palestinian cause, the relationship between the two countries has become markedly explicit under Sisi. "Egyptian-Israeli relations are today at their highest level in history," Nathan Thrall, a Jerusalem-based senior analyst for the International Crisis Group (ICG)...
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