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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Time 'Person of the Year'
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New York: US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris were named Time magazine's 2020 "Person of the Year" on Thursday for their election victory over Donald Trump.
"For changing the American story, for showing that the forces of empathy are greater than the furies of division, for sharing a vision of healing in a grieving world," Time said, explaining its choice.
The Democratic pair were chosen ahead of three other finalists: frontline health care workers and Anthony Fauci, the racial justice movement and President Trump.
Time's magazine cover boasts portraits of Biden, 78, and Harris, 56, with the subtitle "Changing America's story."
"Together, they offered restoration and renewal in a single ticket. And America bought what they were selling," the publication said.
Biden beat Trump by 306 electoral college votes to Trump's 232 to end the real estate tycoon-turned-politician's presidency after one term.
Biden received roughly seven million more votes than his Republican adversary, who is yet to concede, claiming widespread fraud of which there is no evidence.
Time praised the Democratic ticket for ousting an incumbent president for the just the 10th time in US history.
"Biden and Harris had to revive the party's fading strength with white voters without college degrees; energize its emerging base of diverse, urban young voters; and motivate the hordes of angry suburbanites, particularly college graduates and women, who had fled the Trump-era GOP," it wrote.
Time magazine's award — handed out annually since 1927 — honors the person or people who most impacted the news, for better or worse, during the calendar year.
When asked by Time what he would like people to say about him after four years in the White House, Biden replied: "That America was better off and average Americans are better off the day we left than the day we arrived. That's my objective."
Harris is the first Vice President-elect to be named Person of the Year.
She said in an interview with Time that Biden's administration would have to tackle a host of issues from the White House, including the pandemic, an "economic crisis" and a "long overdue reckoning on racial justice."
"We have to be able to multitask, just like any parent or any human being does," Harris said.
Essential workers on the frontline against the coronavirus pandemic, including doctors, nurses and grocery store employees, had topped a readers' poll of who should be named Person of the Year.
Earlier Thursday, Time named basketball superstar LeBron James Athlete of the Year for his achievements on and off the court.
The 35-year-old Los Angeles Lakers player was honored for battling voter suppression among Black citizens in a year when he won his fourth NBA title.
K-Pop sensation BTS was named Entertainer of the Year.
Teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg was Time's Person of the Year last year, while Trump won in 2016.
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750 killed at Ethiopian Orthodox church said to contain Ark of the Covenant: report
Around 750 people were killed in an attack on an Orthodox church, which is said to contain the Ark of the Covenant described in the Book of Exodus in the Bible, in northern Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region — home to thousands of churches and monasteries — according to reports.
Hundreds of people hiding in Maryam Tsiyon Church in Aksum amid an armed conflict were brought out and shot to death, and local residents believe the aim was to take the Ark of Covenant to Addis Ababa, the Belgium-based nonprofit European External Programme with Africa reported in this month's situational report, released on Jan. 9.
"The number of people killed is reported as 750," it said. The church, the most ancient and sacred of Ethiopian Christianity and also known as the Church of St. Mary of Zion, belongs to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.
"I've not heard more than rumours about the looting of the Arc from Maryam Tsion, but if it's true that up to 750 died defending it, it is conceivable that the attackers didn't stop there," said Michael Gervers, a professor of history at the University of Toronto, according to The Telegraph.
"The government and the Eritreans want to wipe out the Tigrayan culture. They think they're better than rest of the people in the country. The looting is about destroying and removing the cultural presence of Tigray," Gervers explained.
Former BBC World Service Africa editor and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Martin Plaut, said that those who escaped the Aksum massacre had reported that the attack began after Ethiopian federal troops and Amhara militia approached the church, the U.K.'s Church Times reported.
"People were worried about the safety of the Ark, and when they heard troops were approaching feared they had come to steal it. All those inside the cathedral were forced out into the square," Plaut was quoted as saying.
About 1,000 people were believed to be in the church complex at the time of the attack. The EEPA said the massacre was carried out by Ethiopian federal troops and allied Amhara militia that are fighting the Tigray People's Liberation Front.
The church and and the Ark have likely not been damaged, Plaut added.
The fighting began in Tigray since Nov. 4 when the region's ruling political party Tigray People's Liberation Front captured the Northern Command army base in the regional capital Mekelle as part of an uprising, after which Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered a military offensive. Abiy claimed on Nov. 28 that the Ethiopian National Defense Force had regained "full command" of Mekelle.
Sources:Christian Post
Charges dropped against deacon arrested for singing hymns outdoors
A court has dismissed all charges against a church deacon who was one of the three arrested last September for singing while not wearing a mask at a "psalm sing" outdoor worship service held in Moscow City, Idaho.
The Idaho District Court dropped charges against Gabriel Rench in the case State of Idaho v. Gabriel Rench. The deacon was arrested at an event hosted by Christ Church and held outside City Hall in response to the extension of a COVID-19-prompted mask mandate imposed by Moscow's mayor at the time, the law firm Thomas More Society, which represented the church, said.
"We had done the Psalm sing in the past under the same [mask] resolution and we weren't arrested, we weren't warned … we were just taking our constitutional liberties to do what we're allowed to do under the Constitution — worship," Rench said, referring to the event that was attended by about 200 people.
The city of Moscow, "appears to have been so anxious to make an example of Christ Church's opposition to their desired COVID restrictions that they failed to follow the mandatory exemptions articulated in their own laws," Thomas More Society Special Counsel Michael Jacques noted.
"The Moscow City Code allows the Mayor to issue public health emergency orders, but exempts '[a]ny and all expressive and associative activity that is protected by the United States and Idaho Constitutions, including speech, press, assembly, and/or religious activity,'" Jacques explained. "Mr. Rench and the other worshipers who were arrested had their constitutionally protected liberties violated and their lives disrupted — not only by the inappropriate actions of law enforcement officers, but also by city officials who did not immediately act to correct this unlawful arrest."
After Rench and others were arrested in September, the church wrote on its Facebook page: "Yesterday Christ Church sponsored a flash psalm sing at city hall. We were going to appear there at quarter to [5 p.m.], sing three psalms or hymns, then the doxology, and then out. The songs were Psalm 20, Psalm 124, and 'Amazing Grace.' When we arrived, the police were waiting for us. One of them informed me that people either had to social distance or wear a mask or otherwise face a citation."
Douglas Wilson, who wrote the post, added: "I told him that I would inform everyone of that, which I did. I said a brief prayer, and we began to sing. Over the following 15 minutes of singing, three of our people were arrested, and two others were cited."
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