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Pastor P.
Ravimdra Babu
& Holy Fire Ministry
Christian Messages from South India
Message 2
Dear Beloved Brother RUDY
Greetings in JESUS Name
Here in India, we will have our own problem and
hard ships and we are hereby forwarding our prayer request lists
pertaining to hardships. Hence, please kindly pray for all
the concerned.
1. Street children and abundant children are to
be saved.
2. The handicapped people should able to walk
freely.
3. Pray for Mentally retarded children in order
to get good memory power, sound health and be regarded as rightful
citizens in the society.
4. To have a rightful and reasonable change in
the attitude and behavior of the persons who are deeply addicted
to the alcohol.
5. To have a rightful and proper change in the
youth, these who are infested with HIV / AIDS.
6. To be healed and cured for persons affected
by AIDS at present.
7. The criminals who are struggling with the
court and as such for a favourable judgment for them.
8. To have a sound health and rightful memory
power for the mentally disturbed people.
9. To have a child for those who had no
children.
10. The separated husbands and wives to be re
united.
11. At present, the patients who are suffered
from different diseases in hospitals and their diseases are to be
cured.
12. To have affection and feeding for widows.
13. To have a rightful and strong change in the
attitude and tendency of the young stars, who are deeply addicted
to narcotic drugs.
14. The Gospel to be spread to, villages,
towns, cities, metropolitan cities and different countries in the
world.
15. To have a world peace.
16. To have a change in the way of thinking and
attitude of Naxalites and Terrorists.
17. Unemployment problem in India is to be
solved.
18. To have a good and sound health for old age
people.
19. The persons struggling with different
family problems and their family problems to be sorted out.
Myself, our family members, Ministry members,
church pastors and Glory to God Orphan Home Children are sending
their heartful good regards and best wishes to you, for your
Family, your Ministry members, your respective Board Members and
Other Fellow Ministry Members.
Anticipating for your further fruitful and
favorable response at an earliest in this regard with hopefully
and prayerfully.
Thanking you
Brother,
Yours Brother in
Christ,
Pastor P. Ravindra
Babu,
President/Founder
HOLY FIRE
MINISTRY’S,
SOUTH INDIA.
Contact:
mmerry_joseph_45@hotmail.com
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in
America
By Melissa V.
Harris-Perry
According to the
author, this society has historically exerted
considerable pressure on black females to fit into one
of a handful of stereotypes, primarily, the Mammy, the
Matriarch or the Jezebel. The selfless
Mammy’s behavior is marked by a slavish devotion to
white folks’ domestic concerns, often at the expense of
those of her own family’s needs. By contrast, the
relatively-hedonistic Jezebel is a sexually-insatiable
temptress. And the Matriarch is generally thought of as
an emasculating figure who denigrates black men, ala the
characters Sapphire and Aunt Esther on the television
shows Amos and Andy and Sanford and Son, respectively.
Professor Perry
points out how the propagation of these harmful myths
have served the mainstream culture well. For instance,
the Mammy suggests that it is almost second nature for
black females to feel a maternal instinct towards
Caucasian babies.
As for the source
of the Jezebel, black women had no control over their
own bodies during slavery given that they were being
auctioned off and bred to maximize profits. Nonetheless,
it was in the interest of plantation owners to propagate
the lie that sisters were sluts inclined to mate
indiscriminately.
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Salvage the Bones
A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
On one level, Salvage the Bones is a simple story about a poor black family that’s about to be trashed by one of the most deadly hurricanes in U.S. history. What makes the novel so powerful, though, is the way Ward winds private passions with that menace gathering force out in the Gulf of Mexico. Without a hint of pretension, in the simple lives of these poor people living among chickens and abandoned cars, she evokes the tenacious love and desperation of classical tragedy. The force that pushes back against Katrina’s inexorable winds is the voice of Ward’s narrator, a 14-year-old girl named Esch, the only daughter among four siblings. Precocious, passionate and sensitive, she speaks almost entirely in phrases soaked in her family’s raw land. Everything here is gritty, loamy and alive, as though the very soil were animated. Her brother’s “blood smells like wet hot earth after summer rain. . . . His scalp looks like fresh turned dirt.” Her father’s hands “are like gravel,” while her own hand “slides through his grip like a wet fish,” and a handsome boy’s “muscles jabbered like chickens.” Admittedly, Ward can push so hard on this simile-obsessed style that her paragraphs risk sounding like a compost heap, but this isn’t usually just metaphor for metaphor’s sake. She conveys something fundamental about Esch’s fluid state of mind: her figurative sense of the world in which all things correspond and connect. She and her brothers live in a ramshackle house steeped in grief since their mother died giving birth to her last child. . . . What remains, what’s salvaged, is something indomitable in these tough siblings, the strength of their love, the permanence of their devotion.— WashingtonPost
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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Ancient African Nations
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