French NATO reintegration dependent on enhanced EU defence capacity
Open Europe - 03/04/2008

EUROPE - There is much coverage of the opening of the NATO summit in Bucharest today, at which one of the big issues will be France's plans to rejoin the integrated military structure of the Alliance.

Lib-Dems make a third U-turn on referendum
Open Europe - 03/04/2008

LONDON - The Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords will reverse the party's position of abstaining on a referendum in the Commons, and will now vote with the Government against a referendum. A Lib Dem abstention on a referendum in the Upper House would have significantly boosted the chances of a referendum.

Scientists successfully create human-animal hybrid embryos
news.scotsman.com - 02/04/2008

UK - Scientists have created part-human, part-animal hybrid embryos for the first time in the UK. The breakthrough at Newcastle University comes as MPs get ready to debate the future of such research.

Olympics - "Security must take priority."
chinadaily.com.cn - 02/04/2008

SHANGHAI - The Chinese president, Hu Jintao, has ordered his nation's security forces to place a top priority on the Olympics in August, saying that the country's international reputation was at stake.

Oil Chiefs Say High Prices Not Our Fault
AP - 02/04/2008

WASHINGTON - Don't blame us, oil industry chiefs told a skeptical Congress. Top executives of the country's five biggest oil companies said Tuesday they know record fuel prices are hurting people, but they argued it's not their fault and their huge profits are in line with other industries.

Amnesty lays into China on rights before Olympics
reuters.com - 02/04/2008

BEIJING - The Olympics have so far failed to catalyze reform in China and pledges to improve human rights before the Games look disingenuous after a string of violations in Beijing and a crackdown in Tibet, Amnesty International said.

Final attempt for EU treaty poll in UK set to fail
euobserver.com - 02/04/2008

LONDON - A final attempt by the British opposition to get a referendum on the EU's Lisbon treaty is close to failing after the Liberal Democrat members of the country's upper house suggested they would vote against such a move.

Same-sex couples score victory on pension rights
Euobserver.com - 02/04/2008

LUXEMBOURG - The EU's top court has boosted the rights of same-sex couples, after ruling that a person is entitled to their dead partner's pension in all EU states that treat homosexual partnerships similarly to marriages.

Transfer of sovereignty?
The Times - 02/04/2008

LONDON - Former European Commissioner Lord Brittan argues that THE LISBON TREATY DOES NOT INVOLVE ANY TRANSFER OF SOVEREIGNTY.

EU Scrutiny Committee still has reservations on Treaty
Open Europe - 02/04/2008

LONDON - Labour MP Gisela Stuart said she fears the EU project will collapse if it does not have democratic legitimacy.

French Government plans "irreversible progress" on EU defence
Le Monde - 02/04/2008

PARIS - French Europe Minister Jean-Pierre Jouyet is interviewed in Le Monde. Asked about progress on EU defence, he says: "We will try to ensure that there is irreversible progress under our Presidency.

'Child Kills Bush, White House Becomes Mosque' on Hamas TV
Arutz Sheva - 02/04/2008

GAZA - A chilling children's show was screened this week on Hamas Television in Gaza which portrays THE DEPTH OF ANTI-WEST INCITEMENT AND HATRED AMONG MOSLEM CHILDREN, AS WELL AS THE MOSLEM DESIRE TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD.

IOC puts pressure on Beijing over Internet access
reuters.com - 01/04/2008

BEIJING - International Olympic Committee (IOC) inspectors have told Beijing organizers that the Internet must be open for the duration of the 2008 Olympics.

Ping Pong Diplomacy
BBC - 01/04/2008

CHINA - In 1971, a US team was invited to China to play ping-pong (table tennis). They were the first Americans to be officially invited to Beijing since the Communist Party came to power in 1949. Their ping-pong diplomacy opened the way for China to begin relations with the US and the West.

Hungry crowds spell trouble for world leaders
reuters.com - 01/04/2008

CAMEROON - "Is it not said 'A hungry man is an angry man'?" commented Simon Nkwenti, head of a teachers' union in Cameroon, after riots that killed dozens of people in the central African country.

“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)