Now news of the 'miracle' has reached the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City which is investigating the incident. Catholics believe the wafer, also referred to as the host or sacramental bread becomes the body of Jesus Christ in the Catholic communion ceremony. It is consumed with wine which is transformed into his blood.

The so-called miracle began after a young parishioner returned his host to the priest at St Francis Xavier Church during communion, who then placed it in a glass of water, Fox 13 reported. Once consecrated a host is sacred and therefore Catholics believe a leftover or unwanted wafer must not be simply thrown away but should be dissolved in water until it no longer has the appearance of bread. It can then be poured down a special sink which drains onto the ground rather than a sewer.

However, on this occasion, the priest claims that not only did the thin wafer stay intact, it began to turn blood red. News quickly spread and believers from across the community began flocking to the church to see the 'miracle' on display. The Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City has now seized the host and is investigating the incident. There are no current plans to return the wafer to public display.

The EEC in the 1960s and 1970s was in no position to regenerate anyone’s economy. It spent most of its meagre resources on agriculture and fisheries and had no means or policies to generate economic growth. When growth did happen, it did not come from the EU. From Ludwig Erhard's supply-side reforms in West Germany in 1948 to Thatcher's privatisation of nationalised industry in the Eighties, European growth came from reforms introduced by individual countries which were were copied elsewhere. EU policy has always been either irrelevant or positively detrimental (as was the case with the euro).

In 1973, when we entered the EEC, our annual national growth rate in real terms was a record 7.4 per cent. The present Chancellor would die for such figures. So the economic basket-case argument doesn’t work. What about geopolitics? What argument in the cold light of hindsight could have been so compelling as to make us kick our Second-World-War Commonwealth allies in the teeth to join a combination of Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Germany and Italy?

Four of these countries held no international weight whatsoever. Germany was occupied and divided. France, meanwhile, had lost one colonial war in Vietnam and another in Algeria. De Gaulle had come to power to save the country from civil war. Most realists must surely have regarded these states as a bunch of losers. The answer is that Harold Macmillan and his closest advisers were part of an intellectual tradition that saw the salvation of the world in some form of world government based on regional federations. He was also a close acquaintance of Jean Monnet, who believed the same. It was therefore Macmillan who became the representative of the European federalist movement in the British cabinet.

According to Monnet’s chief aide and biographer, Francois Duchene, both the Labour and Liberal Parties later did the same. Meanwhile the Earl of Gosford, one of Macmillan’s foreign policy ministers in the House of Lords, actually informed the House that the aim of the government’s foreign policy was world government. Monnet’s Action Committee was also given financial backing by the CIA and the US State Department. The Anglo-American establishment was now committed to the creation of a federal United States of Europe.

Today, this is still the case. Powerful international lobbies are already at work attempting to prove that any return to democratic self-government on the part of Britain will spell doom. American officials have already been primed to state that such a Britain would be excluded from any free trade deal with the USA and that the world needs the TTIP trade treaty which is predicated on the survival of the EU.

The international coalition behind Macmillan and Heath will find things a lot more difficult this time round — especially given the obvious difficulties of the Eurozone, the failure of EU migration policy and the lack of any coherent EU security policy. Most importantly, having been fooled once, the British public will be much more difficult to fool again.

The Prince of Wales is desperate to become Head of the Commonwealth when he becomes king, but the post is not hereditary and many leaders want an elected head to make the organisation more democratic. He is accompanying his mother on a visit to Malta for the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, where he will try to strengthen his hand by meeting as many leaders as possible in person.

It is only the fourth time he has attended one of the summits, but he will stand in for the Queen at the next two gatherings as they will be too far away for her to make the trip. In a speech to declare the summit open, the Queen said she could not “wish to have been better supported and represented in the Commonwealth than by The Prince of Wales who continues to give so much to it with great distinction”.

It comes as Eurocrats try to bolster the EU’s position as a global player amid criticisms that the Paris terror attacks and the migrant crisis prove that the open borders is a failing concept. It also emerged that Europeans face having their fingerprints checked every time they travel to Britain under new security proposals confirmed by the Home Office.

The MEPs’ vote, prompted by Finn Paavo Väyrynen, was met with incredulity last night. David Campbell Bannerman MEP, co-chairman of the influential Eurosceptic Conservatives for Britain group, said: “This is an outrageous and dangerous powergrab from the EU. Britain has already been forced to relinquish its seat at the World Trade Organisation by the EU, which means we have lost our ability to negotiate international trade deals. The EU is always trespassing in nation state areas. This is proof of a determined push towards ever-closer union and creation of an EU superstate.

“It would spell the end of Britain being at the heart of international defence and security at a time when the world faces an unprecedented terrorist threat.” Conservative Gerald Howarth MP said: “It’s an absurdity. Europe is not a nation state and it is preposterous impertinence to suggest they should supplant two leading nation states which are both nuclear powers.”

Ukip leader Nigel Farage added: “I warned last year that Brussels wanted a European army and a seat on the UN Security Council. Nick Clegg called me a liar and said I was talking a dangerous fantasy. There are no sensitivities towards any British interests in the European Parliament. They are hell-bent on building a United States of Europe.”

In the most drastic step so far, the Kremlin revealed that Vladimir Putin has twice refused to take calls from Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president, until he apologises that a Turkish warplane shot down a Russian military jet on Tuesday. Yuri Ushakov, an aide to Mr Putin, told reporters in Moscow that the president had twice refused to take phone calls from Mr Erdogan since the aircraft was shot down. "We see Turkey's unwillingness to simply apologise for the incident with the plane," Yuri Ushakov said.

Mr Erdogan sounded a conciliatory note on Friday, saying he "attached a lot of importance to our relations with Russia" and that he wanted to meet Mr Putin on Monday during the climate summit in Paris next week. But he also warned Mr Putin was “playing with fire” following Russian authorities’ arrest of 39 Turkish businessmen for visa violations on Thursday. "It is playing with fire to go as far as mistreating our citizens who have gone to Russia," Mr Erdogan told supporters during a speech in Bayburt, in north-east Turkey.

Since the incident, the war of words between the two countries and their leaders increased with Mr Erdogan accusing the Russian president of slander. Mr Putin suggested Turkey bought oil from Isil and was an "accomplice" of terrorists. Mr Putin said on Tuesday that Isil was "protected by the military of an entire nation", alluding to Turkey as he said Ankara had "stabbed Russia in the back". “Isil has big money, hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars, from selling oil. In addition they are protected by the military of an entire nation. One can understand why they are acting so boldly and blatantly.”

They are offering the huge country £2 billion in cash, visa-free travel for its citizens and speeded up membership talks if it clamps down on people trafficking and migration across its borders. The deal was expected to be signed off by political leaders at a summit in Brussels last night, European Council president Donald Tusk said. The plan, spearheaded by German chancellor Angela Merkel, will make Muslim-dominated Turkey the EU’s 29th member state.

The deal has provoked anger and prompted fears that Europe’s doors will be left wide open to Islamic extremists. Ukip leader Nigel Farage said: “This isn’t just a deal to deal with migration across the Mediterranean. What Merkel is proposing is that we fast track Turkey as members of the EU. What that will mean is 75 million people who will have freedom of movement to come to the rest of Europe and to this country.”

Speaking to Dermot Murnaghan on Sky News yesterday Mr Farage added: “A recent reputable poll showed that eight per cent of the Turkish population are Islamic State sympathisers. We must be literally mad.”

At the heart of the EU’s proposed deal are Turkey’s promises to tighten border controls in return for £2.1 billion plus other benefits including speeding up work on its bid to join the EU and a push to help win visa-free access for Turks. In exchange, Turkey, which has more than two million Syrian refugees, would increase patrols in the Aegean and at land borders, as well as cracking down on people-trafficking gangs.

He claims to be fighting ISIS, and yet an endless parade of trucks carrying oil that ISIS has stolen goes back and forth over the Turkish border with his full knowledge and approval. Barack Obama is very much aware that Turkey is buying oil from ISIS and he refuses to do anything about it. If the Republicans are looking for a scandal which could completely wreck Obama’s presidency and essentially secure the 2016 election for them, this is it.

Do you want to know why the Turkish government ordered the shooting down of a Russian Su-24 bomber on Tuesday? It is because the Russians have been bombing the trucks that transport oil from ISIS into Turkey. The Turks claim that the Russian aircraft violated their airspace for approximately 17 seconds. But as Paul Craig Roberts has pointed out, in order for the SU-24 to fly only 1.15 miles in 17 seconds would mean that it was flying at stall speed the entire time, which is ridiculous. Clearly there is something very fishy with the official story, and the Russians say that they never violated Turkey’s airspace at any time.

The government of Turkey desperately wants to see the Assad regime toppled, and so they are training ISIS militants, funneling weapons to them, buying their oil, and tending to their wounded in Turkish hospitals. This is being done with the full knowledge and complicity of the Obama administration, and it is a betrayal on a level that is almost unspeakable.

Hundreds of thousands of migrants - many fleeing war and persecution from North Africa and the Middle East - have poured into the continent this year, creating the worst refugee crisis since World War II. Speaking today at an EU-Turkey summit, Mr Tusk said he hopes to have reached an agreement on how to ease the chaotic situation.

Leaders of the EU are aiming to sign an agreement with Turkey that offers Ankara cash and closer ties with the bloc, in return for Turkish help in slowing the amount of migrants entering Europe. Confirming that the main goal of the meeting was to tackle to refugee crisis, Mr Tusk: “We have reached an agreement which I hope will be accepted. This summit is about wider dimensions, namely re-energising our relations with Turkey including the accession process.”

But Mr Tusk added that any deal with Turkey would not be enough to deal with the migrant dilemma if the EU does not firmly control its external borders. He said: “Approximately 1.5 million people have illegally entered the EU in 2015. “Most have come through Turkey. Some seek shelter from war and persecution, others seek a better life and the few think to destroy our values.”

Ahead of the summit, more than 175 countries have tabled pledges (known as intended nationally determined contributions, or INDCs) to cut their carbon emissions which, if enacted, would be enough to limit global warming to 2.7C. But the United Nations has pledged to limit climate change to 2C – and would much prefer it to be 1.5C.

This means there is much work to be done in Paris. Although nobody is expecting an agreement that will guarantee to limit global warming to 2C, the UN climate chief Christiana Figueres is determined to enshrine a process that paves the way for the world to be able to meet that target further down the line.

The plaintiff, the Counsel on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has 30 days to appeal the ruling. Hallinan went viral earlier this year when he declared his Inverness, Florida, store a "Muslim-free zone" in the wake of the shooting of four servicemen in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by a Muslim extremist.

"I have a moral and legal responsibility to ensure the safety of all patriots in my community and so, effective immediately, I’m declaring Florida Gun Supply as a Muslim-free zone," Hallinan said. "I will not arm and train those who wish to do harm to my fellow patriots."

“The toy-sized robots can coordinate with each other on the battlefield,” said the report, following their unveiling at the 2015 World Robot Conference in Beijing. The first model is known as a “reconnaissance” robot, which scouts for poisonous gases, dangerous chemicals and explosives before transmitting its findings back to base.

If this initial investigation detects a simple bomb is the source of danger, the second robot model - a small explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) machine - would be sent in to diffuse it. But with other, more complicated threats, an attacker robot would start its mission, armed with “minor-caliber weapons, recoilless rifles and grenade launchers”. “With a sighting telescope, a trigger and a safe installed, the attacker can hit its target from a long distance,” Xinhua said.

In his masterpiece How Long Will SA Survive? Oxford don RW Johnson explains ANC thinking was based on a view that 30% of the country’s arable land needed to be urgently redistributed to dispossessed communities and small African farmers. He writes: “This target took no cognisance of the fact that farming is nowadays a very specialised activity… sophisticated operations with computer-operated grain silos, extremely complex irrigation equipment, requiring a keen knowledge of movements in futures markets and so forth.

There is no easy way a subsistence African farmer or farm worker can take over and run a commercial farm (or even wants to).” The result: over 90% of redistributed farms have failed at a huge cost to SA’s food security. Add politically inspired termination of old privileges for farmers, more demanding labour laws, tougher water restrictions and effectively ignoring growing farm attacks and “the result has been the dispersal of commercial farmers to all points of the compass.”

By 2007, Johnson writes, their number had halved from the 61,000 of 1996 and is predicted to be just 8,000 by 2030. The consequences seem obvious to all except the cocooned policy makers – SA’s traditionally huge agricultural exports have been eroded to the point where it is becoming a net importer. Overlay the collapse of the Rand and a drought, and the ANC could hardly have better nurtured the spark that ignited Arab Spring. As you sow, so shall you reap.

So what is in store for us, according to Pastor Salazar?

• Towards the end of the year, or in early 2016: Europe will close its borders to refugees, followed by other countries, including the US, where martial law will begin.

• February 2016: China will attack Japan.

• May 15-17 2016: At 2.20 am local time Puerto Rico time off the coast, a 5.6 mile asteroid will impact. It will cause earthquakes across the world and tsunamis with initially 1.2 billion deaths before the figure rises.

• Shortly after: Volcanoes across the globe, including Yellowstone, in the USA, will erupt, sending up ash that will block out the sun and cause a year-long ice age and a large chunk of California to disappear.

• June 16 2016: World war III breaks out when Russia and China attack a heavily weakened US.

• October 25 2016: The Russia/China alliance wins WWIII.

• March 2017: The Chinese Yen becomes the new global currency.

• Late 2018/early 2019: Russia attacks Israel.

• 2020: The Antichrist arrives on Earth and rules over us all.

• 2023:The Second Coming of Christ and salvation.

So quite a specific chain of events, but should we be worried? Well, not really, since Pastor Salazar's visions follow a long line of doom prophecies from those who have tried calling the end of days and so far not one of them has got it right. Scientists and commentators have called for calm and pointed out how many false 'end of world predictions' have been made historically that have never materialized.

Earlier this year he predicted that on July 22 a 10.2 magnitude earthquake would sweep across the US and Japan and that on August 22 a meteorite shower would burn down a third of the world's forests. He then predicted global panic after an asteroid exploded above Earth on October 8 or 9. None of these happened, so let's just hope he is as off with the rest of the predictions.

All the above are real people, gargoyles gaily cartwheeling down our kingdom’s corridors of influence. These and their ilk are the leaders of our society. They, supposedly, are our elite, totems of the best that our society can manage. Is it any wonder that Islamist maniacs think Western civilisation is there for the taking? Across public life, nakedly awful pocket-stuffers and favour-mongers and back-scratchers and truth-trimmers prosper. Crooks and creeps and exaggerated oddities are fawned over as celebrity trumps common sense. And therein, I fear, lies our civilisation’s terrible weakness which is being exploited by Islamist terrorists.

In this regard, the Church of England has practically disappeared as a force for disapproval. Bishops have become cultural quislings, declining to challenge the fashionable consensus of secularism. Last weekend, the Archbishop of Canterbury wrung his hands and said he had a moment of doubt in God when Paris was attacked. Might I respectfully beseech him to keep his doubts to himself? Show some leadership, sir! Since the Sixties, the Church of England has dismantled the high aesthetics of liturgy because they wanted to suck up to transient fashion and were more interested in egalitarianism than in worshipping God.

This, tragically, is what British life has to offer. F-words are spattered all over our state-subsidised stages. Some composers of classical music regard harmony as pointless. In Premier League football, foul-mouthed cheats are paid millions. Architecture prizes go to designers of the most anti-social eyesores. Big business makes little effort to pay tax.

Recently, the Mail brought news of pay and expenses rackets by public-service managers in the police, health service and universities. Until recently, there would be an acceptance of the word of a Prime Minister, a judge, a bank chairman. Today, such figures are scorned. The most common phrase you hear from the public is ‘they’re all at it’.

The families, who have children in years seven and eight, argued Mrs Morgan had taken a “skewed” approach to Religious Studies. Mr Justice Warby ruled there has been a “breach of duty” in reflecting the religions and non-religions practiced in the UK after the education secretary claimed the subject would cover the state's legal duty to provide religious education.

The families argued schools would intepret this to mean they would not have to include non-religious views, including humanism, in teaching. Humanists are usually atheists or agnostics who do not conform to any religion. Since changes were made to the subject in February religious leaders raised concerns about the GCSE giving different priority to different religions.

The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, urged the Government to include humanism in the subject.