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Courtesy: Julie Vanderlaan<br />
written by <a class="opt360-author-name" href="http://dearly.com/author/sara-vallone/">Sara Vallone</a> but added my story<br />
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Nickole Atkinson believes she was one of the last people to see Shanann Watts alive.<br />
Atkinson told <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/friend-colorado-woman-allegedly-killed-husband-shocked-arrest/story?id=57277333" target="_blank">ABC News</a> that around 2:00 a.m. on August 13, she dropped Shanann off at home after they flew back into town from a work trip.<br />
Atkinson
 said she watched Shanann walk into her home and close the door. The 
friends were supposed to meet up later that day, so when Atkinson hadn't
 heard from Shanann, she called her husband, Chris Watts, to see what 
was going on.<br />
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<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/friend-colorado-woman-allegedly-killed-husband-shocked-arrest/story?id=57277333" target="_blank">ABC News</a></div>
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During
 the call, Chris revealed that he and Shanann were separating. Atkinson 
told ABC News that she was not concerned with their marital problems at 
the time.<br />
She reported Shanann missing around 1:40 p.m.<br />
Eventually,
 Chris reportedly admitted to killing Shanann and their two daughters, 
four-year-old Bella and three-year-old Celeste. The girls' bodies were 
found in an oil tank, Shanann's was nearby in a shallow grave. A motive 
has not yet been revealed.<br />
Many of Chris and Shanann's family and friends found it hard to believe that something like this could happen.<br />
However, as one mom pointed out on Facebook, women in abusive relationships make sure you never see the ugly side of it.<br />
Julie VanderLaan was previously involved in an abusive relationship. As she explained on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/1379633769/posts/10216816447788398/" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, the story of Shanann Watts hit close to home for her.<br />
She wrote:<br />
<blockquote>
The
 news in Colorado... is heavy on my heart. A Man killed his pregnant 
Wife and two toddler daughters. What hurts... is that everything I've 
read... no one “knew”. Her social media boasts pictures of a happy 
family - their friends and family “had no idea” there were problems. He 
is a “great guy... a great Husband and Father” - how could he have done 
this!?</blockquote>
VanderLaan answered the question of “how could he have done this?”:<br />
<blockquote>
It's because he did it when no one was looking.</blockquote>
She explained that she posted on Facebook because she lived through the abuse, she survived:<br />
<blockquote>
I’m
 not posting this for attention, I have LIVED this. When I left, 
everybody was so surprised. They asked why I wouldn’t stay any longer, 
you can’t just give up on a marriage.<br />
Why did I leave? Because my daughters and my safety is worth it.</blockquote>
VanderLaan used her experience to speak to others:<br />
<blockquote>
This
 is going to sting... not just a little. But a lot. The man you love... 
Does he call you a b*tch? A c*nt? A wh*re? That's not love.<br />
Did he hock a loogie and spit in your face on Mother’s Day? That’s not love.<br />
Has
 he called you a fatass after you just gave BIRTH to his child and told 
you “good luck leaving, nobody would ever want you... look at you” 
THAT'S NOT LOVE.<br />
Has he shoved you so hard that you flew back, 
landed on the coffee table then reached for your cell phone and he took 
it along with all the house phones and hid them so you couldn’t call the
 cops on him while he sat there crying apologizing for what he had just 
done? HE'S NOT SORRY AND THAT'S NOT LOVE.<br />
Has he punched holes in 
your wall? In your bedroom door? In your bathroom door because all you 
were trying to do is take a bath but he wasn’t done arguing yet? That's 
not love.<br />
Has he purposely slammed your hand in the door so hard 
that you ended up having to go get X-rays to see if it was fractured and
 you were almost too embarrassed to tell the ER doctors what really 
happened? That’s not love.<br />
Has he locked you outside in the middle
 of a Michigan winter when all you were wearing is a T-shirt and laughed
 in your face before he shut the door and locked it? That’s not love.<br />
Have
 you went to bed at night, locked your bedroom door and still refused to
 sleep with your back facing the door incase somehow he broke in and you
 wouldn’t have enough time to react? That's not love.<br />
Does he do 
this behind closed doors... when no one else is around? Does everyone he
 knows... friends and family... love him because they have no idea who 
he truly is when no one is looking?<br />
He doesn't love you.<br />
If 
you have ever cried yourself to sleep. If you've ever prayed for God to 
change his heart. If you've ever prayed for strength to leave.<br />
Leave. Now.<br />
Leave
 before you are the one on the news. Leave before your family is 
questioning what/how/why it happened. Because “they didn't know.”<br />
He is strong... but you are stronger.<br />
Do I believe people are capable of change? Yes... I pray they do.<br />
There are GOOD men out there. Men who won't even raise their voice, let alone their hand. Find him. You'll then know love.</blockquote>
In the case of Shanann Watts, Atkinson said that looking back, there were some telling signs:<br />
<blockquote>
“He
 wasn't being the loving Chris that he normally was. He wasn't touching 
or hugging or doing stuff like that. He wasn't being as attentive to the
 girls as he normally is."</blockquote>
But she said: 
“Anyone in their right mind will start piecing things together and think
 something had happened, but you don’t want to go there. You want to 
believe the best in people.”<br />
Chris remains in custody and has been accused of first-degree murder and tampering with a body.</div>
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<p>SEYI MAKINDE FLAYS AJIMOBI OVER FRESH FM DEMOLITION... <br></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-vssQZ7T68zn47JfkAvJQ1qOyy3B60er_qsryecrYmcs8AwvxOoXPh2K13fFTxEqPLsbxEXLxgZFYWLrJAGgD1_WLAOvrQpaHLjTleuvyj-RcMNZtwlmgvM-Z77gfjFp_kE_Rbu5-TyM/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-vssQZ7T68zn47JfkAvJQ1qOyy3B60er_qsryecrYmcs8AwvxOoXPh2K13fFTxEqPLsbxEXLxgZFYWLrJAGgD1_WLAOvrQpaHLjTleuvyj-RcMNZtwlmgvM-Z77gfjFp_kE_Rbu5-TyM/" /></a><br></p><p>Here is my press statement, signed by my director of communications on the demolished Fresh Fm Ibadan this morning by the Oyo State Government.    </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUZATG9Dmjm2q4lIKc5RE8gzflSwb11fSN4TwNgFz4sd5b1wLqYmxN-TMb6cX7opXQAr9KZSkEil4vFFzeR3CTZLlizVXfIBph6dXgTHnixUga9bSNcscdJOAn4MXlSIU2TYhknVqLZ9c/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUZATG9Dmjm2q4lIKc5RE8gzflSwb11fSN4TwNgFz4sd5b1wLqYmxN-TMb6cX7opXQAr9KZSkEil4vFFzeR3CTZLlizVXfIBph6dXgTHnixUga9bSNcscdJOAn4MXlSIU2TYhknVqLZ9c/" /></a><br></p><p>The gubernatorial aspirant under the peoples Democratic Party in oyo state Engnr Seyi Makinde has paid a solidarity visit to the Fresh FM Station which was demolished early this morning by the oyo state government. </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5NZX5mBUvwUp_IEHmGDVauRozIEfe_FbU3pD_tZpM_qbvv7Z12WmTbaKOnzcgJzSlae7z2D3v3Lh502QrxUp3miqRq-QSgkgQZrBwwvx9lcnYGmVZI_hAVL-0n2jnVWy3ywJpNwzO1Uc/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5NZX5mBUvwUp_IEHmGDVauRozIEfe_FbU3pD_tZpM_qbvv7Z12WmTbaKOnzcgJzSlae7z2D3v3Lh502QrxUp3miqRq-QSgkgQZrBwwvx9lcnYGmVZI_hAVL-0n2jnVWy3ywJpNwzO1Uc/" /></a><br></p><p>In a statement issued by the Seyi Makinde organisation and signed by Prince Dotun Oyelade,  Makinde said he had to personally visit the station to confirm the incident because he believed that no government under civilian rule could contemplate not to talk of actually bulldozing a popular Radio station under flimsy excuse.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxMOzb8O3e3HLUU2gzHWTLiXFuRJcPuAUouhplkUZBbqfX5pNaJF2iUAu4DrP67e5eOckP-9vuXz2YT7CZtakS-nGURT8w_XewwCztGGWkPhi5rIhvfGWFUuXwqwQLVmrA6gbYDoGGROI/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxMOzb8O3e3HLUU2gzHWTLiXFuRJcPuAUouhplkUZBbqfX5pNaJF2iUAu4DrP67e5eOckP-9vuXz2YT7CZtakS-nGURT8w_XewwCztGGWkPhi5rIhvfGWFUuXwqwQLVmrA6gbYDoGGROI/" /></a><br></p><p>Engr Makinde who met the chairman of the radio station, Dr Yinka Ayefele said that his visit was beyond politics as the sad development endangers freedom of speech which is the rock upon which true Democracy is built.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFTPBGtwCd3lV-HESS7vJSFeMNIVFNTqfdrs59Jxa6Xfch9Nhne7PKWxRE7LHeWL1qiJBrt7OFLDCEGRS-IH9k1ku9UG6ADnMjAw0pf9xlsox0M7KTqpzXNRta0-PyMDlTlzz-ItZfb8I/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFTPBGtwCd3lV-HESS7vJSFeMNIVFNTqfdrs59Jxa6Xfch9Nhne7PKWxRE7LHeWL1qiJBrt7OFLDCEGRS-IH9k1ku9UG6ADnMjAw0pf9xlsox0M7KTqpzXNRta0-PyMDlTlzz-ItZfb8I/" /></a><br></p><p>Walking through the ruins of the station amidst wild jubilation from thousands of people who thronged the station in sympathy and disbelief, Makinde said that what the state government did was selective justice, sparing hundreds of structures to target the radio Station out of sheer vendetta. </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNmySoZVt9Y49NsKqjuhcvYi_0ZHAzgzGpyNj8O5we6YUHv24yziIk2SZe6H1fBuDhOw7UzmYbO50UkU-XCwYxtSO6JEE_RdO6l3mh4picY_MNrs4_0A9zAz_6SUNYTKNSF45RGOqE_bo/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNmySoZVt9Y49NsKqjuhcvYi_0ZHAzgzGpyNj8O5we6YUHv24yziIk2SZe6H1fBuDhOw7UzmYbO50UkU-XCwYxtSO6JEE_RdO6l3mh4picY_MNrs4_0A9zAz_6SUNYTKNSF45RGOqE_bo/" /></a><br></p><p>He encouraged the staff and management not to despair as better times will soon come. #FreshFm #PressFreedom #Seyimakinde2019  #Omituntun2019 #PDP #OyoState #Ibadan</p>

Driftxposa with Engr Oluseyi Makinde. The gubernatorial aspirant under the peoples Democratic Party in oyo state

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Due process was followed in the demolition of the Music House belonging to the popular musician, Yinka Ayefele.

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<div class="full-block body-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; width: 320px; margin: 12px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 10px; line-height: 1.2em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16.0016px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 1.1em; font-weight: bolder; font-family: OpenSansCondBold, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif;">Why we demolished musicians Music House - Oyo govt</h1><span class="timestate article-time" style="margin-top: 0.5em; display: block; font-size: 0.9em; color: rgb(119, 119, 119);">Pulse News Agency Local by NAN | 19:50 | 20.08.2018</span><h3 style="margin: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.2em; padding: 12px 0px 0px;">The Special Adviser to Gov Abiola  Ajimobi on Physical Planning and Development Control gave the reasons at a press conference in Ibadan.</h3><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUQPTFLjQ_oxZpfShXf0Ly4-Enw_3DKJt5c-twsaEhVxIy2bcPMe1uaPxNmx9jPWW6jsur4e9A9off3NNLXdR1nc8li6tLRM_7Hux5dp0rP6qhMRwTxubUi4p_uaAl-BYaWUMqJUleIts/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUQPTFLjQ_oxZpfShXf0Ly4-Enw_3DKJt5c-twsaEhVxIy2bcPMe1uaPxNmx9jPWW6jsur4e9A9off3NNLXdR1nc8li6tLRM_7Hux5dp0rP6qhMRwTxubUi4p_uaAl-BYaWUMqJUleIts/" /></a><span style="font-size: 1em;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 1em;">TheOyo State Government on Monday said that due process was followed in the demolition of the Music House belonging to the popular musician, Yinka Ayefele.</span><span style="font-size: 16.0016px;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16.0016px;">He also said that no court order restrained it from carrying out its statutory role in the public interest.</span><strong style="font-size: 16.0016px;"> </strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 16.0016px;">Mr </span><strong style="font-size: 16.0016px;">Waheed Gbadamosi, </strong><span style="font-size: 16.0016px;">the Special Adviser to</span><span style="font-size: 16.0016px;"> </span><strong style="font-size: 16.0016px;">Gov. Abiola  Ajimobi </strong><span style="font-size: 16.0016px;">on Physical Planning and Development Control, claimed at a press conference in Ibadan that government gave ample opportunity for Music House to regularise its building plan.</span><span style="font-size: 16.0016px;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16.0016px;">He further said the organisation was duly informed through several correspondences, adding that the action of the government to demolish the building was not politically motivated.</span><span style="font-size: 16.0016px;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16.0016px;">Gbadamosi said that it was established during a visit to the building that it encroached into the sight distance of the Y junction along Lagelu Estate, stressing that a canteen, toilets, store and powerhouse,  which were not in the plan submitted,  were attached to the wall fence.</span><span style="font-size: 16.0016px;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16.0016px;">He added that the mast erected and staircase on site were not included in the plan submitted, noting that the basement of the plan which was meant for car park had also been converted.</span><strong style="font-size: 16.0016px;"> </strong></p><p><strong style="font-size: 16.0016px;">4 things</strong><span style="font-size: 16.0016px;"><a href="https://amp.pulse.ng/entertainment/music/4-things-ayefele-said-about-demolition-notice-on-fresh-fm-id8742296.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 4px; text-shadow: none; border-radius: 5px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039) 1px 1px 3px; background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 0, 0% 100%, from(rgb(255, 255, 255)), to(rgb(250, 250, 250)));" target="_blank"> singer said about the demolition notice on 'Music House'</a></span><span style="font-size: 16.0016px;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16.0016px;">Gbadamosi said that a letter was sent to Music House on June  29,  2018,  to submit a fresh building plan application that will reflect the existing structures on site and regularise the anomalies.</span><span style="font-size: 16.0016px;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16.0016px;">He alleged that the radio house deliberately ignored the letter until the demolition notices were sent on Aug.  13, 2018,  based on the earlier request for the submission of AS-Built Plan for approval</span><span style="font-size: 16.0016px;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16.0016px;">Gbadamosi reiterated that government’s action was not based on sentiments or witch-hunting, saying contravention notices had been served to different organisations in the state since June 14, 2017.</span><span style="font-size: 16.0016px;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16.0016px;">He insisted that the building plan from Music House deviated from the approved plan, adding that</span><span style="font-size: 16.0016px;"> </span><em style="font-size: 16.0016px;">“ this  made the approval null and void because deceitful information was given to the approving authority.’’</em></p></div><div align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16.0016px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><amp-ad class="i-amphtml-layout-fixed i-amphtml-layout-size-defined i-amphtml-element i-amphtml-layout" data-slot="/53159133/PulseNG_mobile_Article_320x100_A1" height="100" i-amphtml-layout="fixed" json="{"targeting":{"PulseNG_URL":"/news/local/article"}}" type="doubleclick" width="320" data-amp-slot-index="0" data-a4a-upgrade-type="amp-ad-network-doubleclick-impl" style="display: inline-block; position: relative; overflow: hidden !important; direction: ltr; width: 320px; height: 100px;"></amp-ad></div>

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Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves got married during 'Dracula'

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<h1 class="pg-headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.86667rem; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.21429; padding: 5px 0px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);">Winona Ryder says she and Keanu Reeves got married during 'Dracula'<br></h1><div class="metadata " style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; color: rgb(115, 115, 115); background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><div class="metadata__info js-byline-images" data-bundle="byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="metadata " style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 0.8rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="metadata__info js-byline-images" data-bundle="byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;"><p class="metadata__show" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><p class="update-time" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 5px 10px 0px; float: left;">Updated 1514 GMT (2314 HKT) August 20, 2018</p><p class="update-time" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 5px 10px 0px; float: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDm4f395LO9LK88Ju6_T66Z-AZDtNwQZh_HMLzB2R9cs4wlUv3_XK2A9emqFnjWqAPO-MaPKVz7KJsXyqgSoQr5z47BbGc60UIeabXS_9KVaxkymDpshGFBGgxwXWn40yLcdOWn9AWDtM/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDm4f395LO9LK88Ju6_T66Z-AZDtNwQZh_HMLzB2R9cs4wlUv3_XK2A9emqFnjWqAPO-MaPKVz7KJsXyqgSoQr5z47BbGc60UIeabXS_9KVaxkymDpshGFBGgxwXWn40yLcdOWn9AWDtM/" /></a><br></p></div></div><p class="update-time" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 5px 10px 0px; float: left;"><span style="color: rgb(89, 89, 89); font-size: 0.8rem;">Winona Ryder says she and Keanu Reeves had a real wedding while filming "Dracula."</span></p></div></div><div class="pg-rail-tall__body" itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><section class="zn zn-body-text zn-body zn--idx-0 zn--ordinary zn-has-multiple-containers zn-has-14-containers" data-eq-pts="xsmall: 0, medium: 460, large: 780, full16x9: 1100" id="body-text" data-vr-zone="zone-1-0" data-zone-label="bodyText" data-containers="14" data-zn-id="body-text" data-eq-state="xsmall" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden;"><div class="l-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1100px; padding: 0px;"><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="zn-body__paragraph speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667;"><cite class="el-editorial-source" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">(CNN)</cite>But are they registered anywhere?</p></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">Winona Ryder says she and Keanu Reeves may have tied the knot for real in Romania while filming "Bram Stoker's Dracula" in 1992.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">"We actually got married in 'Dracula,'" <a href="https://ew.com/movies/2018/08/18/winona-ryder-keanu-reeves-married-dracula/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 101, 152); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;" target="_blank">she told Entertainment Weekly.</a> "No, I swear to god I think we're married in real life."</div></div></section></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);">The pair have reunited for a new film, the romantic comedy "Destination Wedding." The occasion caused Ryder to reflect on their past project, which included a wedding scene for their characters.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);">"In that scene, Francis [Ford Coppola] used a real Romanian priest," she said. "We shot the master and he did the whole thing. So I think we're married."</div><div class="zn-body__read-all" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">Like many husbands, Reeves' memory was a little fuzzier. He asked the "Stranger Things" star whether they had actually said yes during the ceremony.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">"Don't you remember that?" Ryder said to Reeves. "It was on Valentine's Day."</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">Reeves responded "Oh my gosh, we're married."</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">So ... congrats to the happy couple.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">"Destination Wedding" opens in theaters on August 31.</div></div>

Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves got married during 'Dracula'

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8,000 Churches Closed in Rwanda

August 08, 2018 Unknown 0

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background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 1.5; font-family: "Gotham A", "Gotham B", sans-serif; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); letter-spacing: 0.02em;">AUGUST 07, 2018 9:30 AM</p></div></div></div></div><p><img alt="Rwanda Restricts Fasting as 8,000 Churches Closed" class="spacer-top-5" src="https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/83011.jpg?w=400" srcset="https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/83011.jpg?w=800 2x" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 5px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;" title="Rwanda Restricts Fasting as 8,000 Churches Closed" width="400"></p><div class="image-credit" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 0.55rem; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Image: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/adam_jones/7689396056/in/album-72157630785425198/" style="text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Adam Jones, Ph.D. / Global Photo Archive / Flick</a></div><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="dropcap" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 6rem; line-height: 0.8; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(213, 27, 30); height: 80px; float: left; font-family: "Chronicle Display A", "Chronicle Display B", serif !important;">A</span>bout 8,000 official and unofficial churches, as well as 100 mosques, have been closed in Rwanda for <a class="" href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2018/may/rwanda-church-closures-weeding-church-plants.html" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(213, 27, 30);" target="_blank">failing to comply</a> with health, safety, and noise regulations. This includes 4 in 10 congregations belonging to a nationwide association of 3,300 Pentecostal churches.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And authorities indicate such shutting down of houses of worship in the East African nation will continue until congregations meet the strict requirements of a new law adopted by Rwanda’s parliament on July 27.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The latest requirement: Pastors must now have a degree in theological education from an accredited school. The law also prohibits church leaders from urging their followers to fast for lengthy periods—like Jesus’ 40 days in the wilderness—in order to better secure God’s blessing; authorities claim this is a form of starvation.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many churchgoers look at the new law as a form of harassment and restriction on freedom of worship. But many also <a class="" href="https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/coe/rwanda-six-pastors-arrested-following-shutdown-700-churches/" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(213, 27, 30);" target="_blank">fear to speak out</a>, saying it’s a directive from the government and Christians should not oppose authorities.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The law also requires churches and “prayer houses”—unofficial places where Christians gather to pray and worship—to explain their sources of funding, while donations received must be kept on a known bank account.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lawmakers even debated imposing limits on how much churchgoers could tithe to their church, given the numerous complaints about pastors who collect money from impoverished worshipers while living luxurious lives. The Council of Protestant Churches in Rwanda even “<a class="" href="http://ktpress.rw/2017/11/protestant-leader-declares-war-against-immoral-pastors/" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(213, 27, 30);" target="_blank">declared war</a>” on such “bad pastors” last year.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Robert Kayitare, a businessman who attends St. Peter’s Anglican church in Kigali’s Remera neighborhood, believes the law by the government will sort out such pastors. “The source of the money must be known and how the money collected from churchgoers spent should be known,” he told CT.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The government gets irritated when you start preaching the type of American prosperity gospel which many African preachers are learning from American television and YouTube,” Charles Mugisha, founder and chancellor of Africa College of Theology, recently <a class="" href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2018/may-web-only/rwanda-christian-church-shut-down.html" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(213, 27, 30);" target="_blank">told</a> CT’s Quick to Listen podcast. “The government becomes protective of its citizens if a church or preacher begins to manipulate it.”</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anastase Shyaka, head of the Rwanda Governance Board (RGB), the government body in charge of regulating faith-based organizations, <a class="" href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2018/may/rwanda-church-closures-weeding-church-plants.html" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(213, 27, 30);" target="_blank">previously told CT</a> the government is not targeting churches. He said the closures are only aimed at keeping Rwandans who visit these churches safe, since some buildings are in poor condition and life-threatening.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The closures do not infringe on the freedom to worship, but rather address the alarming proliferation of places of worship in dilapidated and unhygienic conditions,” the RGB stated on July 27, “as well as troubling behavior of unscrupulous individuals masquerading as religious leaders.”</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The RGB, which drafted the new religion law, accused Rwandan religious leaders of <a class="" href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/26/africa/radio-station-shutdown-rwanda-africa/index.html" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(213, 27, 30);" target="_blank">insulting women</a> and other religions, and of forcing followers to fast “to the point of death from starvation.”</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The right to religion is guaranteed in Rwanda’s constitution, written in 2003 and amended in 2015. But the latest RGB report on faith-based organizations stated the constitution’s relevant Article 37 has led to the founding of too many churches and the establishment of too many religious denominations: 1,000 as of 2017, reports <em style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.5; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">KT Press</em>, a pro-government newspaper.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We discovered that the number of churches were bigger than the number of villages in the country,” Shyaka recently <a class="" href="http://ktpress.rw/2018/07/new-law-on-religious-institutions-due-next-week/" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(213, 27, 30);" target="_blank">told</a><em style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.5; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Inspiration on Sunday</em>, a morning program on pro-government KT Radio. “The number itself is not a problem. But in some buildings, three or four different denominations would hold prayer services at the same time, resulting in unbearable levels of noise and unsafe environment for occupants.”</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The new law amends Article 37 and its regulations on churches, mosques, and other faith-based organizations. World Watch Monitor <a class="" href="https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2018/07/more-than-8000-rwandan-churches-closed-following-government-directive/" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(213, 27, 30);" target="_blank">listed many of the changes</a>, including where churches must locate their toilets and how roofs, walls, parking lots, and other infrastructure must be constructed. Churches in turn have complained about the high cost of such improvements, as well as the short turnaround time allotted: 15 days.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">Shyaka told </span><em style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Inspiration on Sunday</em><span style="font-size: 17.6px;"> that 14 percent of all churches closed nationwide had been allowed to reopen. For example, he said the Association of Pentecostal Churches of Rwanda had 1,381 of its 3,300 congregations closed. Pastor Charles Ndimubayo, leader of the association’s northern region, confirmed to CT that 300 have since reopened.</span><br></p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Some religious leaders agree with the new law, believing that government intervention is indeed necessary to preserve the health and safety of churchgoers.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pastor Jonas Matabaro, representative of the Restoration Church in Rwanda’s Northern Province, says the safety of churchgoers is important, and a degree in theology is necessary.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I support the government’s action to have all poor structures used as prayer houses be closed. We need also to have pastors who are trained in theology, so as to teach the right doctrine,” he said. “Churchgoers and pastors ought to know the government is doing all this in good faith.”</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Other Christian leaders protest the move, saying preaching is a calling and not something necessarily learned from school. Example No. 1: Jesus.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Jesus was a successful preacher, but he didn’t have a degree in theology as this government demands. Some of the disciples were simple fishermen,” the administrator of one of the <a class="" href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/december/pentecostalrwanda.html" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(213, 27, 30);" target="_blank">many Pentecostal churches</a> in Kigali, who declined to be named, told CT.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bishop Murekezi Masasu, leader of the Christian Churches’ Forum in the Rubavu district of Rwanda’s Western Province, said the government’s intervention was timely because many of the unofficial prayer houses were in disgraceful condition and needed to be closed.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I don’t agree with some pastors who say the action is a form of harassment,” he said. “You cannot turn your house into a church and expect the government not to act.”</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But churches will need help with compliance. Evalister Mugabo, bishop of the Lutheran Church in Rwanda, <a class="" href="https://religionnews.com/2018/07/11/after-shuttering-700-churches-rwanda-proposes-stricter-clergy-guidelines/" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(213, 27, 30);" target="_blank">told</a> Religion News Service that many denominations lack the higher education resources and accreditation to deliver on what the law requires.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Most of the pastors [only] have certificates from local Bible schools,” he said. “Global missions must look at this as an emergency.”</p>

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73rd anniversary of atomic bombing "Hiroshima observes"

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<p>As Hiroshima observes 73rd anniversary of atomic bombing, UN notes ‘stalled’ progress on nuclear disarmament</p><p>Courtesy : UN News</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSL8d-85srUDruB0aYUg0xNSj47aQrXQxLENb7emL8hNTIf81O9wGwEkD5vj2hWCiDQHlLu7kDzfeM-Ttlyt5e1a3l4dCvSmiBQ_Px-kdZOO69WNEUCBzkPTaiO-SsaP70AyBOQ4PZGzY/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSL8d-85srUDruB0aYUg0xNSj47aQrXQxLENb7emL8hNTIf81O9wGwEkD5vj2hWCiDQHlLu7kDzfeM-Ttlyt5e1a3l4dCvSmiBQ_Px-kdZOO69WNEUCBzkPTaiO-SsaP70AyBOQ4PZGzY/" /></a><br></p><p>UN Photo/Yoshito Matsushige</p><p>Injured civilians, having escaped the raging inferno, gathered on a pavement west of Miyuki-bashi in Hiroshima, Japan, about 11 a.m. on 6 August 1945</p><p>The world needs the continued moral leadership of the people of Hiroshima, the top United Nations disarmament official said on Monday, commemorating the 73rd anniversary of the atomic bombing that devastated the city while lamenting that after decades of momentum towards a nuclear-free world, “progress has stalled.”</p><p>“Tensions between nuclear-armed States are rising. Nuclear arsenals are being modernized and, in some cases, expanded,” said Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, speaking on behalf of Secretary-General António Guterres at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony.</p><p>The 6 August 1945 bombing of Hiroshima by the United States, killed tens of thousands of people, many of whom succumbed to their injuries in subsequent months. Those who survived the bombing there, and at Nagasaki a few days later, are referred to in Japan as hibakusha</p><p>“It is a privilege to pay tribute to the citizens of Hiroshima and all those who perished in the blinding flash of nuclear destruction, and in the weeks, months and years that followed, and to stand in solidarity with the Hibakusha and their families,” continued Ms. Nakamitsu, underscoring that what had occurred on that day in 1945 “cannot and must not ever happen again.”</p><p>“The future of our children and of our children’s children depends upon it,” she stressed.</p><p>According to the UN disarmament chief, the legacy of Hiroshima is one of resilience: “The city we see today, this bustling metropolis, is testament to that fact,” she elaborated.  “You, the people of Hiroshima, are not only brave survivors of the atomic bomb, but courageous activists for peace and reconciliation.</p><p>Ms. Nakamitsu offered her sincere thanks to the people of Hiroshima for their decades of educating the world about “the threat nuclear weapons pose to our global, national and human security.”<br></p><p>She pointed to last year’s adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as demonstrating international support for permanently ending the nuclear threat, as well as frustration at the slow pace of achieving this goal.</p><p>“World leaders must return to dialogue and diplomacy, to a common path towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons and a safer and more secure world for all,” she stated.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwJ3He4NzXu-ljYKmNKmRr7e20S3GJfrUEf8L8ED2putxVNkvehNNeMAC_s2RRHST2Ohoab0qa0F1kTAIbM9_MhbdVL6Lc9OGa4M5XlCVfOkPNPJjULYuyf8m0DxxG6aP73rdcvLF2SMI/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwJ3He4NzXu-ljYKmNKmRr7e20S3GJfrUEf8L8ED2putxVNkvehNNeMAC_s2RRHST2Ohoab0qa0F1kTAIbM9_MhbdVL6Lc9OGa4M5XlCVfOkPNPJjULYuyf8m0DxxG6aP73rdcvLF2SMI/" /></a><br></p><p>UN Photo/Yuichiro Sasaki</p><p>The remains of a wristwatch found in the ruins of Hiroshima, Japan, records the moment of the atomic bomb explosion at 8:15 a.m. on 6 August 1945.</p><p>The Secretary-General is leaving UN Headquarters in New York on Monday night, to take part in the 73rd Nagasaki Peace Ceremony on Thursday.</p><p>He is also due to meet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and with Foreign Minister Taro Kono during his visit, to honour the hibakusha, and deliver his message that leaders must return to dialogue and diplomacy.</p><p>NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT</p><p><br></p><br>

73rd anniversary of atomic bombing "Hiroshima observes"

As Hiroshima observes 73rd anniversary of atomic bombing, UN notes ‘stalled’ progress on nuclear disarmament Courtesy : UN News UN Photo/Yos...