Navy's 260 captains for just 19 warshipsComment

UK - There are now 40 admirals and 260 captains in the Royal Navy. However, as a result of defence cuts, there are only 19 active warships.

German Court Decision Looms as Next Potential Global Crisis

GERMANY - One crisis has been averted, but another looms. While the eyes of the world have been on Washington, investors have all but forgotten a threat in Europe: any minute now, Germany's constitutional court could rule against the European Central Bank's bond-buying program.

Radioactivity level spikes 6,500 times at Fukushima well

FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN - Radioactivity levels in a well near a storage tank at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan have risen immensely on Thursday, the plant’s operator has reported.

JP Morgan 'may pay record $13 billion fine'

USA - US banking giant JP Morgan is set for a record $13 billion (£8 billion) fine to settle investigations into its mortgage-backed securities, US media reports say.

Scientology's fraud conviction upheld in France

FRANCE - France's top appeals court has upheld a fraud conviction and fines totalling hundreds of thousands of euros against the Church of Scientology, for taking advantage of vulnerable followers. The Cour de Cassation rejected the organisation's request that a 2009 conviction for "organised fraud" be overturned on the grounds it violated religious freedoms.

Pope Plans to Visit Israel as Early as Next Year

VATICAN - Pope Francis plans to visit Israel as soon as next year, the Vatican said, in what could be a landmark visit for a pontiff who has already won plaudits from the Jewish community for his strong condemnation of anti-Semitism.

Children as young as 14 undergoing obesity surgery on NHS

UK - Since 2007, 45 teenagers have had gastric bands, bypasses or stomach staples in order to reduce the amount they can eat and help them lose weight. The youngest was 14.

Chinese rating agency downgrades USComment

CHINA - A Chinese ratings agency downgraded its US sovereign credit rating Thursday despite Washington's resolution of the debt ceiling deadlock, warning that fundamentals for a potential default remained "unchanged".

System Failure: US Democracy Is Nearing its Limits

USA - The United States has temporarily avoided federal default. As the Republicans lick their wounds, the Democrats are triumphant. But no one should be happy, because the debacle has exposed just how broken the American political system truly is.

Washington Truce Stretches Out Debt Crisis, Leaves Economy in Limbo

USA - Washington’s eleventh hour debt deal has averted an immediate crunch for US and the world, but the crisis now threatens to drag on through three successive deadlines until March.

Shutdown has damaged America's credibility

USA - President Barack Obama launched a ferocious political attack on hardline Tea Party Republicans yesterday, accusing them of betraying the ideals of America by forcing a 16-day government shutdown that cost the economy at least $24 billion (£15 billion).

Marine Le Pen: EU will collapse like the Soviet Union

FRANCE - The leader of France’s far-Right party has vowed that the European Union would “collapse like the Soviet Union” as she conspired to form what would be the most radical faction yet seen in the European parliament.

Israeli Strike Coming?

ISRAEL - Talks in Geneva on Iran’s nuclear program are triggering fears within US intelligence agencies that Israel is hardening its stance on Iran and could conduct a military attack to stave off what the Jewish state believes is a delaying tactic for Tehran to buy time to build nuclear weapons.

Europe’s debt crisis credibility hangs on thin Irish thread

IRELAND - Ireland has begun to say no. Its latest austerity budget - the seventh in six years - is a small act of defiance against the scorched earth policies of the EU-IMF Troika.

UK regulator launches currency-rigging probe

UK - The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) confirmed it was at the “early stage” of an inquiry into potential rigging of the $5.3 trillion (£3.3 trillion) daily global trade in currencies as part of an international probe into what could be the next scandal to hit the banking industry.

“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)