Inspiring News
From the Good News Network
Sometimes the news can show the darker side of local and world events. But there is so much more! We found the Good News Network online and find their writing and focus to align well with our virtues and beliefs. We have included some excerpts below borrowed from their site. The link above with direct you to their site for further information and to subscribe directly.
3,400 y-o King Ramses II Statue Head Returned to Egypt After Theft
A statue fragment of the great pharaoh Ramses II has been recovered in a joint effort and repatriated to Egypt. Carved 3,400 years ago, it was stolen from the Temple of Ramses in the southern Egyptian site of Abydos over 30 years ago. Shaaban Abdel Gawad, who heads...
Man Reveals Heart-Warming Friendship With Young Fox That He Cured of Illness in the Wild
A wildlife fan has struck up an extraordinary friendship with a young fox after he noticed she was ill. Bob Dunlop realized the fox had developed mange on her tail after spying her lack of hair on wildlife cameras set up near his home in Littleport, Cambridgeshire....
Couple Who Met as ‘Miracle Babies’ in Hospital Were Meant to Be Together–Now Have a Child of Their Own
Jack and Bronwyn were both born prematurely in the same hospital at the same time. After he was born at 30 weeks, and she was delivered after just 26 weeks, their families forged a friendship during the many weeks spent waiting in the neonatal ward in 1994. After...
Archaeologists May Have Found the Villa Where the Roman Emperor Augustus Died
Excavations of a Roman villa dating to the start of the Imperial era show it may belong to the greatest of all the Roman emperors, Caesar Augustus. Called the Somma Vesuviana, the villa was partially destroyed and buried by the same eruption that buried the city of...
Florida Teen Wins Prestigious Carnegie Award and Full-Ride Scholarship After Daring Rescue
From Lantana, Florida comes the story of a courageous teenager who rescued a woman adrift in the fast current of a canal carrying rainwater out to the Atlantic. The rescue won the young man the Carnegie Hero Award, as well as a local, full-ride scholarship to the...
Masterpieces Saved from Notre Dame Fire Now Restored and Back on View: It’s ‘Miraculous’
A collection of great historical artworks, saved from the fires of Notre-Dame, are set to be exhibited as they haven’t been for over 160 years as the famous cathedral nears its reopening this December. Known as the Mays of Notre-Dame, they are 76 monumental religious...
‘Hello, Voyager!’ Celebrated Spacecraft Is Once Again Transmitting After Nasa Repair from 15 Billion Miles Away
Last November, one of NASA’s most famous craft, Voyager 1, stopped transmitting messages to the great anxiety of those responsible for receiving them. It wasn’t all stress though, because mission controllers could tell the spacecraft was still receiving their commands...
Dramatic Video Shows Strangers Desperately Fighting to Remove Man from Car Engulfed in Flames–and Succeeding
On I-94 in Minnesota, a team of good samaritans and highway rescue personnel bandied together to save a stranger trapped unconscious inside a burning car. Simply incredible dash camera footage shows 5 or 6 people pulling over and leaping out of their cars after an SUV...
At Just 19, Runner with Down’s Syndrome Makes History as the Youngest Impaired Person to Finish the London Marathon
19-year-old Lloyd Martin has become the youngest person ever to finish the London Marathon with Down Syndrome. Receiving a Guinness World Records plaque at the finishing line, Martin says it’s a dream come true, and celebrated the 26.4 miles with some pretty fly dance...
