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Headline: Israel launched Syria strikes to prevent Hezbollah from obtaining weapons – Netanyahu
Israel has launched dozens of strikes in Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced. It marks the first time that the leader has acknowledged such attacks against arms transfers to Lebanon’s Hezbollah. “We act when we need to act, including here across the border, with dozens of strikes meant to prevent Hezbollah from obtaining game-changing weaponry,” Netanyahu said while on a visit to the occupied Golan Heights on Monday, as quoted by Reuters. The prime minister failed to specify what kind of strikes Israel had conducted in Syria. Although Israel welcomed a cessation of hostilities in Syria in February, it has indicated that it could still launch attacks there if it sees a threat from the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, whose fighters have been allied with Syrian President Bashar Assad.
April 11, 2016
https://www.rt.com/news/339237-israel-hezbollah-syria-strikes/
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.713873?date=1460386247377
Headline: Erdogan: No deal if Israel doesn’t drop Gaza blockade
Headline: Erdogan raises price tag for normal ties with Israel: Cairo amity first
While the Turkish Foreign Ministry last Friday vowed that a rapprochement deal would be signed with Israel in the next meeting, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin said Monday that Ankara won’t drop its demand to end the naval blockade on Gaza. “What happens in Gaza is unacceptable, the occupation by Israel must end,” stated Kalin in a press conference, adding that no final text on a normalization deal has been reached yet, and the talks will continue in the coming weeks. Kalin added that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is to visit Turkey this week, while Saudi Arabia’s King Salman is also to be in Turkey starting from Monday. In return Erdogan will visit Turkey and Saudi Arabia next week. Kalin’s statement on Gaza would seem to indicate that an agreement remains distant, despite the Turkish Foreign Ministry statement last Friday that came a day after a meeting in London. Israeli diplomatic officials told Arutz Sheva that no significant progress was made in the meeting, countering the Turkish Foreign Ministry claim.
***SEE ALSO EGYPT BELOW
April 11, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/210697
Headline: Abbas forms first constitutional court
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has established the body’s first constitutional court, a move seen as an attempt to strengthen his rule and marginalize Hamas opposition. Abbas issued the presidential decree last week and has since appointed nine judges to the court, the last of whom will be sworn in on Monday, according to Reuters. While Abbas’s Fatah party is presenting the move as a step toward creating a functioning state, critics say Abbas has only appointed Fatah jurists to the court and is trying to consolidate his 13-year hold on power. “Neither the president, nor any of the leaders [of Fatah], has a private agenda regarding this issue,” said Osama al-Qawasmi, the spokesman for Fatah in the West Bank, according to Reuters. “The prime task of the constitutional court is to monitor laws. By the law, it is a completely independent body and we have full confidence in it.” PA officials say the court will have supremacy over all the lower courts, cabinet decisions, parliament resolutions and presidential decrees, according to Palestinian media. But rival Palestinian faction Hamas rejected the establishment of the court and said it will not recognize its authority.
April 11, 2016
http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-bid-to-buttress-rule-abbas-forms-first-constitutional-court/
Headline: Palestinian Authority’s Abbas suspends funds to PLO terror group
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has decided to cut off PLO funds to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group, a leader of the PFLP said on Monday. The Marxist PFLP is the second largest group in the PLO after Abbas’s ruling Fatah faction. Like other PLO factions, the PFLP has been receiving monthly funds from the PLO’s Palestinian National Fund. Abbas’s decision came in response to the PFLP’s recent criticism of Abbas’s policies, especially with regards to security coordination with Israel, Palestinian sources in Ramallah said. A senior PFLP leader recently called on Abbas to resign or face being fired by the PLO leadership. The PFLP has also strongly condemned Abbas’s decision to dispatch a delegation to offer condolences over the death of Brig.-General Munir Amar, the head of the Civil Administration in the West Bank, who was killed in a plane crash in the Galilee last month.
April 11, 2016
“Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! 2 For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. 4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83)
Saudi Arabia
Headline: Airstrikes, fighting reported as Yemen truce comes into force
Hours into a UN-brokered truce on Monday, heavy artillery fire, gun battles and airstrikes were reported in several parts of Yemen, Reuters said. The ceasefire is meant to allow the start of peace talks in the country, and the capital Sanaa spent a rare night without airstrikes. However, air assaults by a Saudi-led coalition of Gulf Arab countries continued in at least three other parts of the country, according to residents. “There’s continuous shelling in the downtown and the suburbs and we can hear explosions across the city,” said Jameel Abdo Ahmed, a civil servant in the battered frontline city of Taiz. Another resident said that “nothing’s changed.”
April 11, 2016
Egypt
Headline: ‘Egypt-Saudi maritime border deal requires change to peace treaty with Israel’
Headline: Saudis Recognize Egypt-Israel Treaty as Part of Deal for Red Sea Islands
Headline: Saudis will not discuss Red Sea islands with Israel, respects intl accords
Egypt and Israel have recently held talks about Egypt’s demarcation of its maritime border in the Gulf of Aqaba with Saudi Arabia that was concluded over the weekend during Saudi King Salman’s historic visit to Cairo, Egyptian daily Al-Ahram reported. According to the report, the Egyptian government informed Israel of the developments regarding the redrawing of the maritime border, which included Egypt’s ceding of sovereignty over the Red Sea islands of Sanafir and Tiran to the Saudis, and the influence it may have on Egypt and Israel’s 1979 peace treaty. Further, the report states, Egypt updated Israel on new understandings reached between the Saudi defense minister and Egyptian prime minister who signed an agreement which, if approved by Egypt’s parliament, will obligate Riyadh to honor all of Egypt’s commitments in its peace treaty with Israel, including the presence of the international peacekeeping force on the islands of Sanafir and Tiran, and freedom of maritime movement in the Gulf of Aqaba.
April 11, 2016
http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/1.713870
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: IS retakes northern town of al-Rai from rebels
Islamic State (IS) militants have retaken a strategically important town in northern Syria from rebel forces, activists and the jihadist group say. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that al-Rai was overrun early on Monday after intense fighting. Al-Rai is close to the border with Turkey and is a key supply route into IS-held territory in Aleppo province. IS had lost the town last week in an assault by rebels fighting under the banner of the Free Syrian Army (FSA). But four days later, IS was able to regain control of al-Rai and six villages to the west, according to the Syrian Observatory (SOHR), a UK-based monitoring group, and the Local Co-ordination Committees (LCC), an opposition activist network. IS also issued a statement confirming it had driven rebels out of al-Rai. “The fact that the rebels could not hold on to al-Rai shows that it is impossible to maintain an advance against IS without adequate air cover,” the Syrian Observatory’s director, Rami Abdul Rahman, told the AFP news agency.
***See also Turkey below
April 11, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36014027
Syria Headline: Militants push offensives
Syria Headline: Syrian army sends reinforcements to Aleppo
Syria Headline: Syrian Islamist rebels capture key town western Hama
Syria’s al-Qaeda affiliate and allied rebels pushed offensives around northern, central and coastal Syria on Monday, triggering a spike in violence that could threaten a truce ahead of peace talks, a monitoring group said. The Russian military General Staff said on Monday that al-Nusra militants are massing around the Syrian city of Aleppo and are planning a large-scale offensive. Sergei Rudskoy, head of the General Staff’s main operations command, said the militants were planning to cut off the road between Aleppo and the Syrian capital of Damascus. “Al-Nusra and allied rebel groups are waging three synchronized offensives” on front lines in Aleppo, Hama and Latakia provinces, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP. So far, they have seized a hilltop in Latakia province, the heartland of President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite sect, the group said. “This is the offensive that al-Nusra warned it would carry out several weeks ago,” Abdel Rahman said.
April 11, 2016
http://aranews.net/2016/04/syrian-islamist-rebels-captures-key-town-western-hama/
Syria Headline: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe http://syriahr.com/en/category/news
http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/
Iraq Headline: ISIS repels Shiite militia offensive, 100 killed and wounded
More than 100 Shiite militiamen have been killed and wounded in an effort to reclaim the village of Bashir south of Kirkuk from Islamic State (ISIS) militants said a local official. Around “fifteen [Shiite militia] Hashd al-Shaabi members have been killed, 90 wounded and another 20 missing,” in Monday’s failed offensive into Bashir Nazm Kahiya, a provincial official in Kirkuk, told Rudaw. When the assault began, Kahiya claimed, Hashd al-Shaabi militants made advances into the village “but later they were defeated after being ambushed by ISIS militants.” “The Hashd al-Shaabai militants have retreated from Bashir to the surrounding areas from where they launched an assault to recapture the village in the first place,” he explained.
April 11, 2016
http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/110420162
Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above).
Gog is the leader of the invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Turkey.
Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.
Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Gomer is Eastern Turkey.
Beth Togarmah is Armenia.
Turkey
Headline: Turkish cabinet meets in strife-torn southeast as fighting rages
Fighting raged on Monday between Turkish security forces and Kurdish militants in southeast Turkey as the cabinet held an unprecedented meeting on the edge of the restive region to discuss ways of rebuilding its shattered economy. The Turkish army said 39 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) had been killed in clashes in four towns across the region over the weekend, adding to a death toll that has risen sharply since the collapse of a ceasefire last July. Gunfire rang out overnight and smoke rose from neighborhoods in Yuksekova in Hakkari province, which neighbors Iran, security sources said. The army said 20 PKK militants had been killed on Saturday and 19 more on Sunday in the towns of Nusaybin, Sirnak, Silopi and Yuksekova. It did not say whether any members of the military or security forces had also been killed.
April 11, 2016
http://newsdaily.com/2016/04/turkish-cabinet-meets-in-strife-torn-southeast-as-fighting-rages/
Headline: Turkey strikes ISIS positions in Syria: report
Turkey’s army has launched artillery strikes on positions of ISIS in Syria after extremists seized control of an area near the Turkish border, local media reported Monday. Turkish artillery fired shells from howitzers positioned on its border region of Kilis against ISIS targets, the private NTV television reported. The shelling comes after ISIS extremists took back control of the town of Al-Rai near Turkey, which rival rebels had captured last week, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
April 11, 2016
Iran
Headline: Iran to US: Missile program ‘not open to negotiation’
Headline: Iran says Russia delivers first part of S-300 defense system
Iran’s foreign minister said Sunday the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missile program is “not open to negotiation” with the United States, seemingly spurning an overture from Secretary of State John Kerry. Kerry said Thursday during a visit to Bahrain that the U.S. and its regional allies were “prepared to work on a new arrangement to find a peaceful solution” to the dispute over recent Iranian ballistic missile tests. The missile tests are not covered by the U.S.-Iranian nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, agreed to this summer; however, the U.S. and its allies contend the launches go against a U.N. Security Council Resolution. Iran denies the launches violate the U.N. resolution. Some Western experts fear the missiles could one day be used to deliver nuclear payloads. But Foreign Minister Javad Zarif rejected Tehran making any concessions to the international community on the missile topic.
April 11, 2016
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-iran-arms-idUSKCN0X80MM
Afghanistan
Headline: Bus bombings kill at least 14 in Afghanistan: officials
A Taliban suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed at least 12 army recruits on a bus in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said, hours after a similar attack killed two people in the capital Kabul. The latest blast hit a bus in the Sorkh Rud district of Nangarhar province, which borders Pakistan. Twelve bodies and at least 38 wounded had been taken to the main hospital in Jalalabad, the principal city in eastern Afghanistan, hospital chief Ihsanullah Shinwari told Reuters. The number of casualties was expected to rise, several officials said. “The suicide bomber was on a three-wheel motorcycle and targeted new army recruits who were heading to Kabul for training,” said a police official, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to discuss matters concerning the Afghan army. Defense Ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri confirmed one of the ministry’s buses carrying army recruits had been attacked but put the number of wounded at 26. “It was a crowded area and it is hard to say now how many of them were from the defense ministry,” Waziri said.
Hours earlier, a bomb hit a mini-bus carrying Education Ministry workers in eastern Kabul, killing two people and wounding seven, the ministry said. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the Islamist group had carried out the attack outside Jalalabad. However, no group had claimed responsibility for the Kabul attack.
April 11, 2016
http://newsdaily.com/2016/04/bomb-kills-two-education-ministry-workers-in-afghan-capital/
Libya
Headline: Four Libya oilfields close, workers strike in a fifth
Four Libyan oilfields have closed and employees in a fifth are striking over fears of attacks from ISIS, a military source and media said Monday.
“Four oilfields were evacuated in the oil basin in Merada”, 800 kilometres (500 miles) southeast of the capital Tripoli, the military source said.
The Bayda, Tibisti, Samah and Waha oilfields were evacuated on Saturday, according to the LANA news agency close to the internationally recognised parliament in the country’s east. The evacuation came after “the collapse of security and low daily production rate due to difficult security conditions”, said the source, who is part of a brigade protecting the oilfields that is loyal to the recognized parliament.
April 11, 2016
Armenia
Headline: ‘Suicide drone’ reportedly used during skirmishes between Azerbaijan and Armenia
The first known use of a “suicide drone” was reportedly believed to have taken place during the recent skirmishes between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The Washington Post reported Tuesday that Azerbaijani forces might have deployed an Israeli-made drone that was loaded with explosives and crashed into its desired target in lieu of using a missile. The Armenian defense ministry said that alleged “suicide drone” slammed into a bus carrying Armenian soldiers, killing seven people. The drone, known as a Harop, destroys its target by ramming into it. The device can be remotely piloted or it can find targets based on radar or radio wave emissions, according to its website. The drone can be fired from the back of a vehicle and can fly up to 600 miles before hitting the target. The Telegraph reported that a video from a pro-Azerbaijan group showed the drone in the air before diving to its intended target. The device is shown flying behind a ride, but didn’t show hitting its target.
April 9, 2016
Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak of nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom in the end times. Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Luke 21:9: wars & commotions; the Greek word here is Akatastasia, meaning instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion (revolutions) Matthew 24:7: the Greek word for nation is Ethnos & refers to various ethnic groups fighting among themselves, where the next sentence in the verse refers to kingdoms (basileiva) fighting one another (not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom)
Headline: ‘Three suicide bombers’ attack police station in south Russia
Three suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a police station in southern Russia on Monday as they tried to storm the building, police said, but no other casualties were reported. “We were holding a meeting in the morning when five explosions went off,” Sergei Karamyshev, a senior police officer in the village of Novoselitskoye in the southern Stavropol region (the frontline between Russia & North Caucasus), told AFP. “Three people blew themselves up after an officer on duty at the entrance blocked the door to the building,” Karamyshev said. He said that in all there were five explosions: the three suicide bombers and one grenade, but that the cause of the fifth blast was not immediately known. A spokeswoman for police in the Stavropol region said one of the attackers had died by detonating an explosive device, while two others were killed by “return fire.”
April 11, 2016
Headline: Philippines: 18 soldiers dead in clashes with Abu Sayyaf militants
The Philippines military says 18 soldiers have been killed in fierce fighting with Islamist militants in the south of the country. It says more than 50 other soldiers were wounded on Saturday during the clashes with members of the Abu Sayyaf group on Basilan island. Five militants including a Moroccan national were killed, the army said. The army was reportedly targeting an Abu Sayyaf commander who has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. The US government has offered a reward of up to $5m (£3.5m) for information leading to the capture of Isnilon Hapilon. At least four of the soldiers were beheaded in the clashes with about 100 Abu Sayyaf militants, AFP quoted a regional military spokesman as saying. “Our group was heading to attack them. On the way, they were ambushed,” Colonel Benedict Manquiquis, spokesman for the army unit involved in the battle, told radio station DZRH. “The enemy had the high ground so no matter where our soldiers fled to seek cover, they could still be hit by the heavy firepower and improvised explosive devices,” he said.
April 10, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36008645
https://www.yahoo.com/news/philippine-troops-clash-muslim-rebels-23-killed-73-033345210.html?nhp=1
Wars & Rumors of Wars Matthew 24:6 , Revelation 6:3-4 & Revelation 6:8 “ And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Prophecy Sign: Weapons of Mass Destruction Zechariah 14:12 “And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.”
Headline: North Korea ‘tests long-range missile engine’
North Korea says it has successfully tested an engine designed for an intercontinental ballistic missile. The new type of engine would “guarantee” the ability to launch a nuclear strike on the US mainland, the KCNA news agency said. The test was conducted at the country’s long-range missile launch site near its west coast. It is the latest in a series of tests and launches carried out by the isolated nation. The United States issued a statement criticising North Korea’s action. “We call on North Korea to refrain from actions and rhetoric that further destabilize the region and focus instead on taking concrete steps toward fulfilling its commitments and international obligations,” the state department said. Leader Kim Jong-un supervised the test, state media report, during which “the engine spewed out huge flames with a deafening boom”. The country would now be able to “keep any cesspool of evils in the earth including the US mainland within our striking range,” Mr Kim was quoted as saying.
April 9, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36002713
Economic collapse Revelation 6:5-6 & James 5:1-3– Worldwide– “ When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” (Revelation) “Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.” (James)
Headline: World Bank lending at record since aftermath of financial crisis
A surge in demand by ailing commodity exporters in the developing world has pushed up lending from the World Bank this year to its highest levels since the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Finance ministers and central bankers from around the world are due to gather in Washington this week for the spring meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The latter is widely expected on Tuesday to downgrade its 3.4 per cent global growth forecast for this year. But alongside scheduled discussions on everything from slowing emerging economies to tax havens, officials at the World Bank will be dealing with an increase in requests for loans from commodity exporters such as Indonesia, Nigeria and Peru as they struggle to cope with the effects of the collapse in global commodity prices. In the fiscal year to June, the bank is on pace to lend $25bn-$30bn via its main lending arm, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the bank’s top two officials said in an interview with the Financial Times. That would be most the IBRD has loaned to member countries since the immediate aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, which in 2010 caused the bank to lend $44.2bn. “It is our highest lending in a non-crisis period ever,” said Jim Yong Kim, the World Bank’s president, who has begun a push for an increase in the bank’s capital driven in part by the rising demand for aid. Part of the surge in lending, Mr Kim said, was because of increasing requests to help with crises ranging from Ebola to the exodus of millions of people from Syria and other conflict-affected countries, as well as longer-term responses to things like climate change.
April 10, 2016
https://next.ft.com/content/2fecc550-fed3-11e5-9cc4-27926f2b110c
April 7, 2016-5,000 birds killed by storm in Jessore, Bangladesh
http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2016/04/07/25048/Nor%E2%80%99wester-kills-5,000-birds-in-Jessore
April 8, 2016- Dead fish appear in a pond in Fortaleza, Brazil
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fg1.globo.com%2Fceara%2Fnoticia%2F2016%2F04%2Fpeixes-aparecem-mortos-na-lagoa-do-campus-do-pici-da-ufc-em-fortaleza.html&edit-text=&act=url
April 8, 2016- Dozens of dead birds found along a road in Fairfax County, Virginia
http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/119279845-story
April 8, 2016- 10 kilos of dead fish found in a reservoir in Sifangtai District, China
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fheilongjiang.dbw.cn%2Fsystem%2F2016%2F04%2F08%2F057170325.shtml
April 9, 2016- Thousands of dead fish wash up on Amouli Beach in Samoa
http://www.samoanews.com/content/en/fish-kill-lands-thousands-dead-fish-beach
April 10, 2016- 1,000 tona of sardines wash up in Araucania Chile
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biobiochile.cl%2F2016%2F04%2F07%2Fvaramiento-masivo-de-sardinas-afecta-las-costas-de-la-region-de-la-araucania.shtml&edit-text=&act=url
Headline: Brazilian scientists find new Zika-linked brain disorder in adults
Scientists in Brazil have uncovered a new brain disorder associated with Zika infections in adults: an autoimmune syndrome called acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, or ADEM, that attacks the brain and spinal cord. Zika has already been linked with the autoimmune disorder Guillain-Barre syndrome, which attacks peripheral nerves outside the brain and spinal cord, causing temporary paralysis that can in some cases require patients to rely on respirators for breathing. The new discovery now shows Zika may provoke an immune attack on the central nervous system as well. The findings add to the growing list of neurological damage associated with Zika.
April 10, 2016
Headline: Holy Bible on list of ‘challenged’ books at libraries
On the latest list of books most objected to at public schools and libraries, one title has been targeted nationwide, at times for the sex and violence it contains, but mostly for the legal issues it raises. The Bible. “You have people who feel that if a school library buys a copy of the Bible, it’s a violation of church and state,” says James LaRue, who directs the Office for Intellectual Freedom for the American Library Association, which released its annual 10 top snapshot of “challenged” books on Monday, part of the association’s “State of Libraries Report” for 2016. “And sometimes there’s a retaliatory action, where a religious group has objected to a book and a parent might respond by objecting to the Bible.” LaRue emphasized that the library association does not oppose having Bibles in public schools. Guidelines for the Office for Intellectual Freedom note that the Bible “does not violate the separation of church and state as long as the library does not endorse or promote the views included in the Bible.” The ALA also favors including a wide range of religious materials, from the Quran to the Bhagavad Gita to the Book of Mormon. LaRue added that the association does hear of complaints about the Quran, but fewer than for the Bible.
April 11, 2016
Headline: Horror as China tears down THOUSANDS of crucifixes in crude bid to eradicate Christianity
More than two thousand crosses have now been forcefully removed from churches as part of a government campaign to regulate “excessive religious sites”. The nation’s leadership launched the crusade to eradicate Christianity in the coastal province of Zhejiang almost two years ago. Several members of the public have since been arrested for attempting to halt the government’s crude attempt to suppress the Christian faith. Among the arrested was prominent human rights lawyer Zhang Kai, who was detained after he mounted a legal campaign to challenge the removal of the crosses. Mr Kai was detained for six months before he was “forced” to appear on the State channel to “confess” his crimes against the Chinese governement by supporting the anti-establishment protest of the demolition of crucifixes. Local Christian leaders condemned the forced confession from the lawyer, who also represented a group Christians who were detained for suspected financial crimes last year after they protested at the demolation of crosses, in a public letter.
April 9, 2016
Headline: IS group killed 21 Christians in al-Qaryatain, says patriarch
Headline: The Christian militia fighting IS
Reports are emerging of the killing of Syrian Christians by Islamic State militants in the town of al-Qaryatain. The town was retaken by Russian-backed Syrian forces and their allies earlier in the week (see April 4 http://endtimesresearchministry.com/april-4-2016-never-before-seen-spring-snowfall-in-the-caribbean-islands/ ). Some 21 Christians were murdered when almost 300 Christians remained in the city after IS captured it last August, said the head of the Syrian Orthodox Church. They included three women, Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II told the BBC. He said some died whilst trying to escape while the others were killed for breaking the terms of their “dhimmi contracts”, which require them to submit to the rule of Islam. Five more Christians are still missing, believed dead. Negotiations and the payment of ransoms have seen the remainder of the group re-join their families. The patriarch said warnings had come that Islamic State planned to sell Christian girls into slavery. Meanwhile, A group of Christians in Iraq have formed their own militia to protect people from the so-called Islamic State group. The leader of the Babylon Brigade says they were left with no choice but to take up arms when IS fighters targeted Christians.
April 11, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36011663
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35998716
Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring”
Headline: Afghanistan earthquake shakes major cities
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake has been felt across a number of major cities across south-west Asia. The earthquake struck in Afghanistan, close to its border with Tajikistan, at 10:28 GMT, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). The tremor was felt in Kabul, Islamabad, Lahore and Delhi, forcing residents to leave their homes. The latest quake, in the sparsely-populated Hindu Kush mountains, struck at a depth of 210km, the USGS reported. At least 27 people were admitted to hospital in Peshawar, media in Pakistan reported. There were no immediate reports of significant damage.
April 10, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36009407
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