Author: LoveWorld UK

The increase in knife crime could be linked to cuts in youth service funding, with areas suffering the largest falls showing the biggest rises in violence involving knives. A study by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) suggested the average council had reduced spending on youth services – which funds things such as youth clubs and youth workers – by 40% between the years 2014-15 and 2017-18. Two local authorities, the City of Wolverhampton and the City of Westminster, saw cuts of 91% over the same three years. A direct comparison between geographical areas covered by police forces and local authority…

Pastor Chris exhorts on new creation realities and the higher life in Christ at Communion Service. Several hundreds of thousands of people from around the world welcomed the LoveWorld President unto the Global Communion Service screen with an excitement that truly reflected their hunger for the ministrations of the Spirit and the Word. Pastor Chris kicked off the service by showing inspiring video highlights from the just-concluded Int’l Easter Youth Camp, where delegates from 166 nations assembled for the largest gathering of young people (by country representation) in the world. Still fresh from the inspiration gleaned through the short clip,…

Relentless pursuit of economic growth twinned with the impact of climate change has put an “unprecedented” one million species at risk of extinction, the head of a scientific panel on the loss of biodiveristy said on Sunday, ahead of a landmark report on the damage done by modern civilisation to the natural world. Only a wide-ranging transformation of the global economic and financial system could pull ecosystems that are vital to the future of human communities worldwide back from the brink of collapse, concluded the report, which was produced by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)…

Some of India’s richest families, Bollywood stars and cricketers voted early in Mumbai as the fourth phase of a massive, staggered general election got underway. More than 127 million people are eligible to vote in this round of the seven-phase election held across 71 seats in nine states. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s coalition won more than 75 percent of the seats in the previous election in 2014. India’s financial capital, Mumbai, is home to the massive Hindi film industry and saw famous faces casting their ballots on Monday. Bollywood celebrities were among those seen at polling stations across the city…

The main beneficiary of the swing against the two main parties – which are in talks to try to break the impasse in the UK parliament over Brexit – was the pro-EU Liberal Democrats, who had won 343 councillors so far, and said they hoped to make further gains in European Parliament elections on May 23.   The Greens have gained 63 and “Others” that’s independent candidates are up 256 – thats 25% of the 69 wards where independent candidates are standing. Nearly three years since the United Kingdom voted 52 percent to 48 percent to leave the EU, there…

English voters frustrated with the deadlock over Brexit have punished Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservatives and the main opposition Labour Party in local elections, early results showed on Friday. The results of Thursday’s elections are another display of how Britain’s 2016 vote to leave the European Union has split voters beyond traditional party lines, but are also a first indication of the damage Brexit has done to the two big parties. With almost half of English local council vote results declared, the Conservative Party had lost 577 councillors and Labour had lost 77 councillors and UKIP have lost 62 according…

Assange has appeared in court in London as the U.S. pursues its extradition request, following his arrest at the Ecuadorian Embassy in April. The U.S. wants the publisher to answer for charges of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion in connection with a leak of classified documents. Hillgrove declined to comment on the U.S. extradition hearing but said Assange is a journalist who tells the truth at all costs. Assange was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail in London on Wednesday for breaching his bail by entering the Ecuadorian embassy seven years ago.

Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are due to welcome their first child any day now, just ahead of their first wedding anniversary on May 19. Speculation has long been rife on the baby’s gender, name and up until Wednesday (May 1) – birth month. Should the baby arrive on Thursday (May 2), the young royal would share a birthday with cousin Princess Charlotte, Prince William’s daughter. Harry and his former actress wife announced in October they were expecting their first child this spring. Meghan told well-wishers in January she was six months pregnant, adding the couple did not…

British Prime Minister Theresa May fired her defence secretary, Gavin Williamson, on Wednesday saying an investigation suggested he was to blame for leaking discussions about Chinese telecoms company Huawei from her National Security Council (NSC). Last week it emerged that Britain would allow Huawei a restricted role in building parts of its 5G network, seeking a middle way in a bitter dispute between the United States and China over the next generation of communications technology. May wrote to Williamson that an investigation into the leaks had provided “compelling evidence suggesting your responsibility for the unauthorised disclosure.” Williamson had repeatedly denied…

Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions. The 47-year-old was found guilty of breaching the Bail Act last month after his arrest at the Ecuadorian Embassy. He took refuge in the London embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations, which he has denied. In a letter read to the court, Assange said he had found himself “struggling with difficult circumstances” and he apologised to those who “consider I’ve disrespected them”, a packed Southwark Crown Court heard.