News and Prophecy Staff

In 2012, the World Wildlife Federation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a report that studied the effects of powerful weather events on mental health. According to the report “When you have an environmental insult, the burden of mental health disease is far greater than the physical” (Live Science, February 3, 2014).

Anti-homosexuality laws in Uganda are drawing a backlash from world leaders and organizations (NGO’s). Uganda’s conservative leadership recently passed legislation that punishes overt homosexuality and pro-homosexual propaganda (BBC, February 28, 2014). U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called the action “atrocious,” and, “Both he and South African Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu compared the new laws to anti-Semitic laws in Nazi Germany or apartheid South Africa” (ibid.).

German Chancellor Merkel recently traveled to Israel with most of her cabinet ministers for their fifth “joint cabinet meeting” since 2008 (Deutsche Welle, February 25, 2014). “The two countries signed a series of new agreements… The first was Israel’s acceptance of Germany’s offer to provide consular services to Israeli travelers in countries where the Jewish state does not have a diplomatic presence. She [Mrs.

Scientists have recently discovered that “Bottle-fed babies could benefit from formula milk made according to a sex-specific recipe” (The Times, February 15, 2014).

Nearly two thousand years ago, Jesus foretold that one of the signs of the approaching end of this age would be “wars and rumors of wars” (Matthew 24:3-8).  This accurately describes what we are seeing today.  In the Middle Eastern nation of Syria, a civil war is tearing the country apart, and thousands of refugees attempt to get out of ruined cities.  In Eastern Europe, Ukraine is also being torn by rioting factions that want independence and closer connections with the West, while others want closer ties with Russia (