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Bible prophecies warn of curses to come on the Israelite-descended nations because of their outright rejection of God and His laws. One of God’s punishments for disobedience will be “your highways shall be desolate” (Leviticus 26:22). Recent events in the United States and Canada reveal how this prophecy might be fulfilled.
It has been only a few months since the “Definition of Marriage Bill” was introduced in the New Zealand Parliament, yet it has raced through the parliamentary process with blistering speed. The bill’s third reading, which passed emphatically with 77 votes to 44 on Wednesday evening, now means that men can legally marry men and women can marry women in New...
In a recent, unprecedented move, China publically released a military White Paper detailing its military structure and size (BBC, April 16, 2013). “The army has a total of 850,000 soldiers, while the navy and air force have a strength of 235,000 and 398,000,” for a total of more than 1.4 million soldiers (ibid.).
During Monday’s Boston Marathon, two bomb blasts near the finish line caused devastation, death and injury and brought an early end to the race (The Lookout, April 16, 2013). More than 170 people were reported injured, 17 were in critical condition, and three died at the scene. Several of the injured underwent amputations due to the severity of their injuries...
In February, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released two new studies aimed at providing “an in-depth look at the severe human and economic burden of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States.
This week, the EU Observer printed an interesting story on the beginnings of the euro (EU Observer, April 8, 2013).
The EU’s longest-serving Prime Minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, recently commented that Europe has been a war-torn continent for well over a millennium and, “The demons of nationalism are threatening a complacent Europe just as they did on the eve of the First World War” (The Times, March 12, 2013). Reacting to hostilities generated by the European economic...
In recent months, tension and attacks have escalated throughout the Middle East region, leading to increasing instability. A recent suicide attack in Afghanistan killed more than 44 people and showed the capabilities of an ever-tenacious Taliban. “Causing the biggest death toll in a single attack since 2011, the militants, strapped with explosives, stormed the...
President Obama has stated that the EU-U.S. Free Trade Agreement is his top foreign policy priority for his second term in office. Such an agreement would “constitute the largest bilateral economic partnership in the world” (Deutsche Welle, February 26, 2013).
Pope Francis, who is known for his ecumenical perspective, “reached out to Rome’s Jewish community at the very start of his pontificate, pledging to continue to strengthen the increasingly close ties between Catholics and Jews”—and his overtures were received with high hopes (Associated Press, March 16, 2013). As archbishop of Buenos Aires, then Cardinal...