Fox News Correspondent Conor Powell's Coverage of Israel is Not Fair and Balanced

USA - Fox News reporter Conor Powell demonstrates a pattern of bias and editorializing in his coverage of events in Israel. His intermingling of opinion with reporting is a disservice to the Fox News audience and tarnishes the reputation of the news network generally recognized for its fair and balanced treatment of Israel and the conflict with the Palestinians.

Hamas Terror Tunnels Reach Deep Into Israel, Gaza Official Warns

MIDDLE EAST - A senior Hamas official warned Wednesday that the Palestinian terrorist group’s efforts to rebuild the Gaza Strip’s terror tunnel grid are advancing rapidly, and that some tunnels dug under the border already run deep into Israeli territory. “Israeli technology will not be able to stop the resistance as long as Hamas exists,” Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar told Oman-based Alwatan News. “Even if Israel is able to uncover a tunnel, or two, or 10, they [the tunnels] run deep under Israel, beyond Gaza, into 1948 territory.” He added that regardless of the tunnel grid, Hamas had “other advanced measures” with which it could fight Israel. The Israeli military had destroyed Hamas’s terror tunnel network during Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014.

 
Children's TV show Play School to feature 'two dad' family for first time

AUSTRALIA - Play school will feature a 'two-dad family' for the first time in the Australian show's 50 year history, it's been confirmed. The hit ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) programme has put out a casting call for a child with two dads, an adopted family, an extended family and a blended family for its ‘through the windows' segment. It's aim is to ensure the series explores all the different types of 'families, structures and backgrounds' in Australian society.

 
FDA Claims New GM Potatoes are Safe: But Would You Eat Them?

USA - The Food and Drug Administration has recently given a green light to a genetically modified potato engineered to resist a pathogen that is responsible for causing the Irish Potato Famine. No different than with their approval of GM salmon, the FDA seems oblivious to risk assessment and consumer concerns that deem a GM potato undesirable, claiming that the GM potato is indeed safe for consumption.

David Cameron: we won't be sucked into European superstate

UK - The PM said: "As we approach this choice, let me be clear about two things. First, I'm not arguing and I will never argue that Britain couldn't survive outside the European Union. We are the fifth-largest economy in the world, the biggest defence player in Europe with one of the most extensive and influential diplomatic networks on the planet."

Cameron’s EU deal

UK - David Cameron is claiming that his draft EU deal delivers the “substantial change” he wanted to see in Britain’s relationship with Europe. That claim will come under intense scrutiny in the days and weeks ahead.

UKIP responds to Cameron's renegotiation attempt

UK - UKIP leader Nigel Farage said: "Hardly worth waiting for. It is truly pathetic. No treaty change, no repatriation of powers, no ability to control our own laws, our money or our borders. Now let's get on with the referendum."

Stop refugees or we'll stop aid, Germany tells Afghans

GERMANY - Germany's Interior Minister told Afghanistan on Tuesday that Germany’s security support to the country would only continue if the influx of Afghan refugees to Germany stopped. “We’re staying here as long as it’s necessary. But we also expect that that the Afghan population stays here,” Thomas de Maizière said on a visit to Afghan capital Kabul, according to N-tv. Many Germans ask themselves how it can be that Afghans come to seek asylum in their country when Germany is providing security assistance in Afghanistan, the interior minister claimed. “We want the influx of refugees to be stopped,” he added.

 
North Korea, Defying Warnings, Prepares to Launch Long-Range Rocket

NORTH KOREA - In a new dare to the United States and its allies, North Korea has notified the United Nations agency responsible for navigation safety that it is planning to launch a long-range rocket this month to put a satellite into orbit.

Japan orders SDF to shoot down North Korean missile

JAPAN - Japan on Wednesday condemned Pyongyang’s plan to launch a space rocket, calling it a thinly disguised test of a long-distance ballistic missile. The government ordered Aegis ballistic missile defense warships of the Maritime Self-Defense Force and land-based Patriot PAC-3 rocket units to respond should projections show components falling in Japanese territory. “This will effectively mean the firing of a ballistic missile. It would be a clear violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions and a grave, provocative act against the security of our country,” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a Lower House session Wednesday. A missile of this type can fly more than 10,000 km if the warhead weighs less than a ton, the Defense Ministry said.

 
Ecumenism /Ecumenical Dialogue In The Church

VATICAN - In 1961, the World Council of Churches emerged as an integration of three ecumenical movements; via the Faith and Order, Life and Work and the International Missionary Council. The 1961 World Council Assembly at New Delhi, India adopted what remains the most adequate and comprehensive description of “the Unity we seek”.

NBC Comedy Suggests Jesus Was Gay - Would They Dare Say It About Muhammad?

USA - Wow. NBC went there. The freshman comedy Superstore went out of its way to offend Christians by having characters opine on Jesus’ beliefs about gays – including suggesting that Jesus Himself was gay!

White House rallies public, private efforts to prepare for devastating earthquakes

USA - Spurred by renewed fears of the fabled “Big One” shattering the West Coast, the Obama administration on Tuesday promoted stronger earthquake-preparedness efforts as part of a first-of-its-kind White House summit. Private foundation grants will fund new research at universities in California and Washington state, the Forest Service will streamline the placement of seismic monitoring stations and a presidential order will tighten standards for new federal buildings. “While no one can predict earthquakes, the study of natural hazards and their causes and impacts has put us on the path to creating more effective tools to prevent these hazards from becoming disasters,” Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said.

 
Babies With Genes From 3 People Could Be Ethical, Panel Says

USA - Would it be ethical for scientists to try to create babies that have genetic material from three different people? An influential panel of experts has concluded the answer could be yes. "The committee concludes that it is ethically permissible" to conduct such experiments, the report says, but then goes on to detail a long list of conditions that would have to be met first.

Why Bill Gates is being blamed for the Zika virus

BRAZIL - The latest revelation regarding the Zika virus involves a genetically-altered mosquito project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – an experiment which some suspect may have caused the rapid spread of a once-rare disease that is now expected to circulate around the globe.

“Just what is an APOSTLE?”
Just what is an Apostle?

Today we find the Church of God in a “wilderness of religious confusion!”

The confusion is not merely around the Church – within the religions of the world outside – but WITHIN the very heart of The True Church itself!

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Listen to Me, You who know righteousness, You people in whose heart is My Law: …I have put My words in your mouth, I have covered you with the shadow of My hand, That I may plant the heavens, Lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, “you are My people” (Isaiah 51:7,16)