Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Virgin Mary Given "Policing" Award by Spain's Government

This is the result when religious views are based on tradition and superstition. The concept that the dead are not really dead, but are helping us, performing miracles, curing illnesses, and policing our streets opens the door to modern spiritualism. These ideas and not support by Scripture. -Advent Messenger Commentary

Spanish government to face court after policing award given to the Virgin


The Guardian | April 29, 2014 | by Ashifa Kassam
Virgin Mary Given "Policing" Award by Spain's Goverment
Secularists demand the medal be revoked, arguing that the Virgin has not met any of the minimum requirements

Spain's government is being taken to court over a minister's decision to give the country's top policing award to a statue of the Virgin Mary.

The country's interior minister, Jorge Fernández Díaz, singled out an icon of the Virgin Mary, in Málaga, to receive the gold medal of police merit – which is normally reserved for police who have died in terrorist attacks.

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Seventh-day Adventist Newspaper Ad Sparks Sunday Law Debate

Seventh-day Adventist Newspaper Ad Sparks Sunday Law Debate

Digital Journal | April 28, 2014

A two-page, center spread, newspaper advertisement that appeared in the San Francisco Examiner on Sunday, April 27, 2014, pages 12, 13, is stirring up a heated debate on the Biblical Sabbath.

The ad headline reads "Liberty of Conscience Threatened" and predicts that Sunday laws will once again be enforced here in America. The two, full-page ad goes on to describe that the Bible commands us to observe the Sabbath on Saturday, the seventh day of the week.

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National Sunday Law

National Sunday Law

Editorial | AdventMessenger.com

A National Sunday Law is being agitated in the media by both religious and secular interest groups. The churches are promoting the idea that this will bring in God’s blessing. The labor unions are saying that Sunday will save our financial and industrial structures. The world is trying to institute Sunday as the means to save us from completely deteriorating. This is going to be the battle that God’s people will have to engage.

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Sunday, April 27, 2014

Pope Francis Makes Pope John Paul II and John XXIII Saints

Editorial | AdventMessenger.com

Millions worldwide engaged in modern spiritualism as two dead popes were made saints. There is nothing in the Bible that speaks about canonizing dead people. "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten." Ecc. 9:5.

Pope Francis Makes Pope John Paul II and John XXIII Saints

Here Pope Francis prays to the Virgin Mary, another dead person, at the beginning of the canonization ceremony that supposedly made to former dead popes into saints.

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Britain No longer a Christian Nation


Britain No longer a Christian Nation  

Former archbishop of Canterbury: We are a post-Christian nation

Telegraph.co.uk | April 26, 2014

Britain is now a “post-Christian” country, the former archbishop of Canterbury has declared, as research suggests that the majority of Anglicans and Roman Catholics now feel afraid to express their beliefs.

In an interview with The Telegraph, Lord Williams of Oystermouth says Britain is no longer “a nation of believers” and that a further decline in the sway of the Church is likely in the years ahead.

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Friday, April 25, 2014

Happy Sabbath! April-26-2014

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Thursday, April 24, 2014

Obama: Pope Francis 'makes us want to be better people'

A month after meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican, President Obama is still mesmerized by the encounter. He is still singing the praises of the Jesuit Pontiff. Our President is acting like a nurtured son who's been drinking from the wine of Babylon (Rev. 17:1-4). Is this what's got him memorized? We are seeing an intimate relationship between the two powers descried in Revelation 13 that prophecy says will continue to grow until the mark of the beast is implemented. -Advent Messenger Commentary


USA Today | April 24, 2014

Time magazine listed Pope Francis in its annual "100 most influential people" issue and asked fellow world leader President Obama to write a tribute.

"Rare is the leader who makes us want to be better people," Obama wrote. "Pope Francis is such a leader."

Obama lauded the pontiff for his "message of inclusion" and his many acts of kindness, such as "embracing the sick, ministering to the homeless, (and) washing the feet of young prisoners."

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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Seventh-day Adventist Hospital Hosts Easter Sunrise Service

Seventh-day Adventist Hosts Easter Sunrise Service

Editorial | AdventMessenger.com

“And they worshipped the sun toward the east” Ezekiel 8:16.

A Sunday Easter worship service was held on the grounds of Florida Hospital Zephyrhills on Sunday, April 20, 2014. Florida Hospital Zephyrhills is owned by Adventist Health Systems and is operated by the Seventh-day Adventist church. The Sunday morning worship service was held in conjunction with Zephyrhills-Wesley Chapel Ministerial Association. The ministerial association is made up of different church leaders from the community. Seventh-day Adventist pastor Marius Asaftei of the East Pasco Adventist Church is the acting vice-president of the Zephyrhills-Wesley Chapel Ministerial Association.

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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Invoke heaven's blessing on the nation through Sabbath-keeping

Sunday is being promoted as the means to bring in God's blessing. A Sunday law will be agitated as the solution by which the world's culture and the family structures can be saved from completely deteriorating. What they don't realize is that this Sunday movement will actually create the greatest crisis this world has ever seen and will result in the enforcement of the mark of the beast. -Advent Messenger Commentary
Sunday law is a national blessing from God?

Deseret News | April 20, 2014

There is a serious gap in American culture today: We lack the unifying institutions that bring us together, after long and hard-fought debate, into one nation that can act. We ought to dust off a fundamental American unifying tradition of ancient origins and long service, now entirely missing: keeping the Sabbath; urging the whole nation to petition Providence in diverse ways but together in spirit by “remember[ing] the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.”

America’s Sabbath tradition embraces a wide range of Sabbath observances on Friday, Saturday or Sunday — united by the underlying conviction that to step back from daily business once each week, to separate one day and keep it holy, is a crucial part of our free and humane American civilization.

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Wheat rust: The fungal disease that threatens to destroy the world crop

Wheat rust: the fungal disease

Independent.co.uk | April 20, 2014

Scientists are warning that wheat is facing a serious threat from a fungal disease that could wipe out the world’s crop if not quickly contained. Wheat rust, a devastating disease known as the “polio of agriculture”, has spread from Africa to South and Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe, with calamitous losses for the world’s second most important grain crop, after rice. There is mounting concern at the dangers posed to global food security.

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Eyes Over Compton: How Police Spied on a Whole City

Eyes Over Compton: How Police Spied on a Whole City

The Atlantic | April 21, 2014

This is the future if nothing is done to stop it.

In a secret test of mass surveillance technology, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department sent a civilian aircraft over Compton, California, capturing high-resolution video of everything that happened inside that 10-square-mile municipality.

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Sunday, April 20, 2014

Christians and Muslims are building interfaith Bridges


Christians and Muslims are building interfaith Bridges

Good Friday Celebration Showing Interfaith Bridges Christians And Muslims Are Building In Ethnically Split Cyprus

Associated Press | April 19, 2014

FAMAGUSTA, Cyprus (AP) — An unexpected moment during the Good Friday service in a long-abandoned church in Cyprus' breakaway north illustrated how religion is helping to bring together Christian Greek Cypriots and Muslim Turkish Cypriots on this ethnically divided island.

It came when Turkish Cypriot Umit Inatci handed the key of the church of Agios Georgios Exorinos in the medieval center of Famagusta to the city's Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Vasilios, saying: "This is not gift, it's something that is surrendered to its owner."

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6.9-magnitude earthquake hits off Papua New Guinea's Bougainville

6.9-magnitude earthquake hits off Papua New Guinea's Bougainville

AFP News | April 19, 2014

A strong 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck off Papua New Guinea’s Bougainville Island Saturday but there was no risk of a widespread tsunami, seismologists said.

The quake hit at 0104 GMT and was centred 62 kilometres southwest of the town of Panguna on Bougainville at a depth of 45 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said.

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Japan Restricts Chicken Shipments After Bird Flu Outbreak

 Japan Restricts Chicken Shipments After Bird Flu Outbreak

Bloomberg.com | April 13, 2014 | by Aya Takada

Japan has restricted shipments of almost 400,000 chickens in Kumamoto prefecture after the nation’s first outbreak of bird flu in three years, according to the Agriculture Ministry.

Local authorities will today finish culling about 112,000 chickens in two farms in the prefecture on the southern island of Kyushu, Yoshihiro Kawada at the ministry’s animal health division said by phone from Tokyo.

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Friday, April 18, 2014

Happy Sabbath!




"Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people." Isa. 56:6, 7.

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China Says One-Fifth of Its Farmland Is Polluted

This should be of great concern to us considering all the food items we get from China. Could this be contributing to the spike of cancer deaths throughout the world? -Advent Messenger Commentary

China Says One-Fifth of Its Farmland Is Polluted

AP News | April 18, 2014

Nearly one-fifth of China's farmland is polluted, mostly from years long accumulations of toxins from factories, mining and agriculture, the government said, raising sharp concerns about the country's food safety after years of unbridled industrialization.

Results of a nationwide survey of soil samples taken from 2005 through last year, and announced late Thursday, showed contamination in 16.1 percent of the country's soil overall and 19.4 percent of its arable land.

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Catholic Malta legalizes same-sex civil unions

Duetsche Welle | April 15, 2014

Staunchly Catholic Malta has legalized same-sex civil unions and has given gay couples the right to adopt children. The vote comes nearly three years after the Mediterranean island nation legalized divorce.

Malta catholic same sex marriage

The Maltese parliament legalized same-sex unions and gay adoption on Monday in a 37-0 vote, signaling a major change in social policy for a conservative country where Catholicism is the state religion.

"Malta is now more liberal and more European, and it has given equality to all its people," Labour Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said.

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Harry Reid calls Bundy supporters "Domestic Terrorists"

Political corruption is reaching new levels never seen before. Politicians drunk on power and money are sparing no expense to secure their greedy ambitions. They are abusing their positions and using the government as a weapon against American citizens to intimidate and control them. This is exactly what will take place at the enforcement of the mark of the beast. Truly, our nation is "speaking like a dragon." (Rev. 13:11). -Advent Messenger Commentary

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Gay Marriage: God's View

Gay Marriage: God's View

Gay Marriage - What does the Bible say about it?


Editorial | AdventMessenger.com


“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” Gen. 1:27.

God created the human race. And Because God created one male and one female, this became possible for the first humans to join together as a pair and became husband and wife.

“Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” Matt. 19:4-6.

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Thursday, April 17, 2014

Easter Celebrations are going on world-wide this weekend. Are they Biblical?

Editorial | AdventMessenger.com



Worshipers are here seen marching in procession in Zamora, Spain with candles. If "Easter" is about the Biblical passover, where in the Bible are we told to commemorate the event wearing hooded costumes and candles? Photograph: Andres Kudacki/AP
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Deadly Ebola Spreads from Jungle to Cities

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Children's Addiction to iPad is Cause for Concern



Infants 'unable to use toy building blocks' due to iPad addiction

The Telegraph | April 15, 2014

Children ipad AddictionThe Association of Teachers and Lecturers warn that rising numbers of children are unable to perform simple tasks such as using building blocks because of overexposure to iPads

Rising numbers of infants lack the motor skills needed to play with building blocks because of an “addiction” to tablet computers and smartphones, according to teachers.

Many children aged just three or four can “swipe a screen” but have little or no dexterity in their fingers after spending hours glued to iPads, it was claimed.

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Spiritualism is Very Much Alive Today



 

The psychology of spiritualism: science and seances


The Guardian | October 19, 2013

Humanity has been attempting to commune with the dead since ancient times. As far back as Leviticus, the Old Testament God actively forbade people to seek out mediums. Interest peaked in the 19th century, a time when religion and rationality were clashing like never before. In an era of unprecedented scientific discovery, some churchgoers began to seek evidence for their beliefs.

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First church wedding for gay couple is held in UK

First church wedding for gay couple is held in UK

The Guardian | April 14, 2014

Two women have married in what is believed to be the UK's first gay wedding held in a church. Jan Tipper and Barb Burden tied the knot at the Metropolitan community church (MCC) in Bournemouth, Dorset, on Saturday.

The law allowed same-sex couples to marry on 29 March, but this was the first ceremony to be conducted in a religious building, the MCC said.

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7.6 Earthquake hits Solomon Islands

 

Magnitude 7.6 earthquake rocks Pacific Ocean near Solomon Islands


New York Daily News | April 12, 2014

A powerful magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck near the Solomon Islands on Sunday morning, triggering a tsunami warning that was later canceled, according to U.S. government agencies, and there were no immediate reports of damage.

The quake was centered 100 km (60 miles) south of Kira Kira on the island of Makira at a depth of 29 km (18 miles), according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

"So far we have received no reports of damage," said Constable Taylor Fugo from Kira Kira police. "The people responded very well to the (tsunami) warning. They all went up the hills and have been watching and waiting for advice."

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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Earthquakes linked to gas drilling

 

Ohio regulators halt fracking site, drawing link to quakes

Associated Press | April 11, 2014


State geologists in Ohio have for the first time linked earthquakes in a geologic formation deep under the Appalachians to gas drilling, leading the state to issue new permit conditions in certain areas that are among the nation's strictest.

A state investigation of five small tremors in the Youngstown area, in the Appalachian foothills, last month has found the high-pressure injection of sand and water that accompanies hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the Utica Shale may have increased pressure on a small, unknown fault, said State Oil & Gas Chief Rick Simmers. He called the link "probable."

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Transgender category recognized in India

 

India's top court recognizes third gender category

AP News | Apr 15, 2014


NEW DELHI (AP) — India's top court on Tuesday issued a landmark verdict recognizing transgender rights as human rights, saying people can identify themselves as a third gender on official documents.

The Supreme Court directed the federal and state governments to include transgendered people in all welfare programs for the poor, including education, health care and jobs to help them overcome social and economic challenges. Previously, transgendered Indians could only identify themselves as male or female in all official documents.

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Monday, April 14, 2014

Unions working to stop Sunday Sales



Teamsters pressure could block Sunday growler sales

Minneapolis Business Journal | April 14, 2014

A compromise bill that would allow taprooms and microbreweries to sell growlers of beer — a "baby step" approach to the more-controversial issue of allowing liquor stores to open on Sundays — is threatened, with the Teamsters Union pushing against it.

Minnesota Public Radio has a report on the uncertain fate of the bill, which has stalled in the Senate Tax Committee in recent days. Earlier in the session, it seemed like the measure, which passed a committee in the House, seemed like a relatively safe compromise between pro-Sunday sales factions, such as craft breweries and groups like Minnesota Beer Activists, and the liquor-store lobby, which opposes opening on Sundays.

That was before the Teamsters got involved, though. The union's position is that one distributor has told them that the bill would let it reopen union contracts — but it hasn't identified the company, and the author of the Senate bill says he hasn't been shown the contract in question.

Source: http://m.bizjournals.com/twincities/morning_roundup/2014/04/teamsters-pressure-could-block-sunday-growler.html?r=full

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Sunday, April 13, 2014

White House Delegation to Attend Vatican Canonization Ceremonies

White House Delegation to Attend Vatican Canonization Ceremonies

White House Announces Presidential Delegation Will Attend Canonizations In April

Huffington Post | April 11, 2014 | by Antonia Blumberg

A presidential delegation will visit the Vatican on April 27 to attend the canonization Mass of Popes John XXIII and Pope John Paul II, the White House announced in a press release.

The Honorable John Podesta, Counselor to the President, will lead the delegation, that also includes the Honorable Xavier Becerra, Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus and the Honorable Katie Beirne Fallon, Assistant to the President and Director of Legislative Affairs.

Popes John XXIII and Pope John Paul II will be canonized on the 27th in a ceremony at St. Peter's Square that is expected to draw more than 5 million pilgrims. The event will also be live streamed in 3-D movie theaters in 20 countries around the world and online.

Source: http://huffpost.com/us/entry/5135130/

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Saturday, April 12, 2014

Google Executives Create DANGEROUS New Technology

"And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." Revelation 13:17

Could this be the technology that will soon be used to enforce the buying and selling provision of the mark of the beast?

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Four Blood Moons in the Next Year and a Half

"The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come." Joel 2:31.



CNN News April 11, 2014

April 15, there will be a total lunar eclipse that will turn the moon a coppery red, NASA says. It's called a blood moon, and it's one of four total eclipses that will take place in North America within the next year and a half. Pictured here is a blood moon seen over Gaza City in March 2007.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/11/tech/innovation/blood-moon/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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Standoff between Rancher in Nevada and 200 armed federal agents

 


DailyMail.com | April 10, 2014 | by James Nye

Standoff in the desert: Last rancher in south Nevada takes on 200 armed federal agents and SNIPERS trying to confiscate his cattle from his ancestral land in constitutional dispute over a rare tortoise Cliven Bundy is appealing for help to stop the Federal Bureau of Land Management and the FBi from removing his 900 or so cattle.
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Happy Sabbath!



"And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and [that] the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day." Duet. 5:15

Praise God we have come out of the bondage of sin and of Egypt. Christ has set us free and given us rest. Let us enter into His Sabbath rest, a sign of deliverance from bondage!

Happy Sabbath!

-Advent Messenger

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Friday, April 11, 2014

World Leaders Wear Illuminati Pyramid at Summit

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State Department Misplaced $6 Billion Under Hillary Clinton


The Washington Free Beacon | April 4, 2014 | by Adam Kredo

The State Department misplaced and lost some $6 billion due to the improper filing of contracts during the past six years, mainly during the tenure of former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, according to a newly released Inspector General report.

The $6 billion in unaccounted funds poses a “significant financial risk and demonstrates a lack of internal control over the Department’s contract actions,” according to the report.

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All Religions Ready to Welcome the Pope



All Religions Ready to Welcome the Pope

AsiaNews.it | April 4, 2014 | by Pietro Kim Jaedeok

The "Conference of Religious for Peace" concludes with a joint declaration signed by leaders of Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, Buddhist and Confucian faithful: "We are very happy for his visit, it will help peace and the interfaith movement". Billboards of welcome will be posted on the various sacred places throughout the area. And a venerable Buddhist writes: "His love for the poor and the sick is awe- inspiring, I have a lot of respect for him".

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The Catholic church must apologise for its role in Rwanda's genocide



The Vatican's reluctance to confront those accused of murder in its midst is rooted in its refusal to face up to the church's complicity in the events of 1994

The Guardian | April 8, 2014 | Chris McGreal

There is a Roman Catholic priest at a medieval church an hour's drive from Paris who has been indicted by a United Nations court for genocide, extermination, murder and rape in Rwanda.

Father Wenceslas Munyeshyaka was notorious during the 1994 genocide of 800,000 Tutsis for wearing a gun on his hip and colluding with the Hutu militia that murdered hundreds of people sheltering in his church. A Rwandan court convicted the priest of genocide and sentenced him in absentia to life in prison. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda spent years trying to bring him to trial.

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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Federal judge vows to strike down Ohio's failure to recognize gay marriages obtained in other states

Here we see the federal government trumping the rights of the people in the state of Ohio. Soon Sundays laws will also be imposed upon the states and once again the rights of the people will be violated. -Advent Messenger


Cleveland.com | April 4, 2014


CINCINNATI, Ohio – A federal judge said this morning that he intends to issue a ruling in 10 days that will strike down Ohio’s ban on recognizing gay marriages obtained legally in other states.


U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Black informed lawyers of his intentions at a hearing, which set off a joyous celebration in the courtroom among four same-sex couples and their supporters, said attorney Al Gerhardstein.

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Sunday Laws debated in Guernsey

Sunday laws

Guernsey politician says Sunday trading 'changes society'

BBC News | March 17, 2014

Relaxing Sunday trading laws will have a "serious impact on society" according to Guernsey's deputy commerce minister.

Deputy Al Brouard said a change in the rules would make every day a weekday and stop people having a day of rest.

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Seventh-day Adventist and Roman Catholic Ecumenical Service

Interfaith worship service held between Seventh-day Adventists and Roman Catholics


Editorial | AdventMessenger.com

Seventh-day Adventist and Roman Catholic Ecumenical Service

On Wednesday, March 19, 2014, an ecumenical service took place at Auburn Seventh-day Adventist Church. Participants came from 6 different denominations: Seventh-day Adventist, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and Methodist. The theme was to celebrate Lent, a Catholic tradition where ash is applied on the forehead in preparation for Easter Sunday.

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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

A Mexican Drug Lord’s Home Was Raided

A Mexican Drug Lord’s Home Was Raided. It’s Even More Incredible And Horrifying Than I Ever Could Have Imagined

EpicDash.com | Feb 14, 2014



Just a quaint little villa in the hills – Drug money bought it all!

A Mexican Drug Lord’s Home Was Raided

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Cancer to Become Number One Killer




CBS News | cbs6albany.com | April 3, 2014


ALBANY — Cancer will soon overtake heart disease as the leading cause of death in the United States. A new study shows the number of cancer cases will increase by 45% in the next two decades. The local medical community is already starting to brace for an influx of new patients. Most of us have been personally impacted by cancer or at least know someone who has but the number of new cancer cases is expected to almost double in the next 16 years according to report by the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 

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Amazing Video - Chile Earthquake 2014



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Buried Alive in Washington State Mudslide

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Obama "incredibly moved" by meeting with Pope Francis

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Oceans are Dying at an Alarming Rate





Mass Scallop Die Off ‘Red Flag’ For World’s Oceans


MintPressNews.com | March 18, 2014 | by Jacob Chamberlain

An increase of acidity in the Pacific Ocean is quickly killing off one of the world’s most beloved shellfish, the scallop, according to a report by the British Columbia Shellfish Grower’s Association.

“By June of 2013, we lost almost 95 per cent of our crops,” Rob Saunders, CEO of Island Scallops in B.C. told Canada’s CTV News.

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Global Unrest and Riots on the Rise due to Food Prices


Food will be a major issue in the coming crisis. It will be the means by which the government will attempt to coerce the population into submission. This will be the vehicle by which the Antichrist will cause the world to receive the mark of the beast. -Advent Messenger Commentary

Global riot epidemic due to demise of cheap fossil fuels

The Guardian | Feb. 28, 2014


If anyone had hoped that the Arab Spring and Occupy protests a few years back were one-off episodes that would soon give way to more stability, they have another thing coming. The hope was that ongoing economic recovery would return to pre-crash levels of growth, alleviating the grievances fueling the fires of civil unrest, stoked by years of recession.

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Monday, April 7, 2014

Secret Space plane, Mystery Mission

 









The Daily Beast |April 7, 2014 | By Kyle Mizokami

The Air Force’s secret space plane has been up in orbit for nearly 500 days—a space endurance record. But nearly a year and a half into the mission, the Pentagon still won’t say what the X-37B is doing up there, or when it might come back.

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Sunday trading ban for DIY stores

Once again we see how the battle for Sunday legislation continues. The will of the people votes to lessen the restrictions on Sunday - but then the union fights back with newer legislation to impose Sunday closings on all segments of society. These scenes are being played out all over Europe. Slowly the are coming to America. -Advent Messenger Commentary

 

Connexionfrance.com | Feb. 13, 2014

DIY [do it yourself] STORES across France will not be allowed to open on Sundays, after the Conseil d’Etat suspended a government decree following a complaint from trade unions.

The country’s highest administrative court yesterday said “there was serious doubt on the legality” of the decree of December 30 that allowed the stores to be exempt from the rule of Sunday rest.

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Israel to Start Making Sunday A Day of Rest

Even though they are starting with one Sunday a month, Israel is moving forward with legislation that would make Sunday a national day of rest. This is just part of the universal call to implement Sunday as a national day of rest, through civil legislation. -Advent Messenger Commentary

MKs Push to Have Sundays Off - Once a Month

Israelnationalnews.com | February 21, 2014

MKs Silvan Shalom (Likud), Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home), and Rabbi Shai Piron (Yesh Atid) have reached an agreement in the ongoing initiative to introduce Sunday as a day off from work and school, according to Channel 10.

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Does Jay-Z believe he is god?

The devil's lie found in Genesis 3:5 is the "I am god" philosophy that diminishes our faith in God and in His word. And these "humanists" are seducing our young people with their music and entertainment by engrossing our minds with things that destroys our spirituality. -Advent Messenger Commentary

 

Jay-Z’s bling from ‘whites are devils’ group

New York Post | April 6, 2014

Black people are the fathers and mothers of civilization, white men are the devil, the Christian god is nothing more than a ghost and only a small percentage of people understand the world.


These are just some of the ­beliefs behind the bling — the gaudy Five Percent Nation ­medallions worn by Jay Z and Carmelo Anthony.

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South Korea sex change doc: I correct 'God's mistakes'

Mankind is reaching the limits of God's forbearance. Soon God will reveal Himself and punish the inhabitants of this world. We are living in the days of Noah, and in the days of Lot. We are sinking lower everyday to new levels of immorality. Truly, Jesus is coming soon. -Advent Messenger Commentary
South Korea sex change doc: I correct 'God's mistakes'


Associated Press | April 1, 2014

As Dr. Kim Seok-Kwun begins surgery to create a functioning penis for a Buddhist monk who was born female, he is well aware of the unease his work creates in this deeply conservative country. The devout Protestant known as the ‘‘father of South Korean transgender people’’ once wrestled with similar feelings.

‘‘I've decided to defy God’s will,’’ Kim, 61, said in an interview before the monk’s recent successful surgery to become a man. ‘‘At first, I agonized over whether I should do these operations because I wondered if I was defying God. I was overcome with a sense of shame. But my patients desperately wanted these surgeries. Without them, they'd kill themselves.’’

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Sunday, April 6, 2014

Eric Holder: Gay Marriages Performed In Michigan Will Be Recognized By Federal Government

We see the federal government ignoring the will of the state, bypassing the governor, and recognizing gay unions in the state of Michigan. We know that soon the Sunday law will also be enforced by a federal mandate that will once again trump state laws and rights. -Advent Messenger Commentary
Eric Holder: Gay Marriages Performed In Michigan Will Be Recognized By Federal Government

Eric Holder: Gay Marriages Performed In Michigan Will Be Recognized By Federal Government


Associated Press | March 28, 2014

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has extended federal recognition to the Michigan marriages of about 300 same-sex couples that took place before a federal appeals court put those unions on hold.

Holder's action on Friday enables the government to extend eligibility for federal benefits to the couples. It came two days after Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder said Michigan won't recognize the marriages performed last weekend. U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman struck down the gay marriage ban the day before.

Snyder's move closed the door to certain state benefits reserved solely for married couples.

Four counties granted licenses before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a temporary halt. The stay was extended indefinitely on Tuesday.

Source: http://huffpost.com/us/entry/5049251?utm_hp_ref=politics

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Saturday, April 5, 2014

Sex Abuse Scandals Cost US Catholic Church Nearly $3 Billion Over 8 Years

This is part of the "mystery of iniquity" the will prevail in the last days. Has the church become the largest, most well-funded organization of pedophiles in the history of the world? And the financial support still keeps flowing? That is a mystery.  -Advent Messenger Commentary

Sex Abuse Scandals Cost US Catholic Church Nearly $3 Billion Over 8 Years

Christian Post
April 3, 2014
by Leonardo Blair

Sex Abuse Scandals Cost US Catholic Church Nearly $3 Billion Over 8 Years
Sexual abuse scandals have cost the U.S. Catholic Church nearly $3 billion dollars over an eight year period; and according to a report released by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops last month, the scourge has not gone away.

The report, titled 'Report on the Implementation of the Charter for Protection of Children and Young People,' said in 2013 alone sexual misconduct by clergy cost the American dioceses $108,954,109. Of that amount, just over $61 million went toward settlements while another $6.1 million went toward therapy for abuse victims. Some $28.9 million went toward attorneys' fees, while $10.4 million went toward the support of the errant priests.

The report pegged the full cost of the sexual abuse scandals on American dioceses and religious institutes between 2004 and 2012 at $2,744,881,843: $2,351,903,157 for dioceses and eparchies. Scandals cost religious institutes $392,978,686.

Read more:  http://www.christianpost.com/news/sex-abuse-scandals-cost-us-catholic-church-nearly-3-billion-over-8-years-117297/

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Vatican to investigate sexual allegations against Cardinal Keith O'Brien

Vatican to investigate sexual allegations against Cardinal Keith O'Brien

Vatican to investigate sexual allegations against Cardinal Keith O'BrienThe Gardian News
April 4, 2014
by Lizzy Davies

A Vatican-appointed bishop will fly into Scotland next week to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct surrounding Cardinal Keith O'Brien, it has emerged.

The move comes more than a year after O'Brien resigned amid allegations published in the Observer of sexual misconduct from three priests and one former priest. The Vatican subsequently ordered him to spend a period of time in "prayer and penance".

Last month, one of the men appealed directly to Pope Francis to intervene, describing the church as a "formidable machine" and accusing officials of having "passed the buck, misrepresented the truth, engaged in cover-up and … shamelessly procrastinated".

"I want to ask Pope Francis can you sort this out?" the man told the Observer.

As the Argentinian pontiff marked his first year on the papal throne last month, his response to the sexual abuse scandal was singled out by many observers as a blind spot in an otherwise impressive record.

Source:  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/04/vatican-bishop-investigates-sexual-allegations-cardinal-keith-obrien

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ID Cards Issued to Control Food Purchases in Venezuela

The President of Venezuela says that the food ID tracking system is designed to stop people from reselling it at higher prices. But we know from prophecy that this a food rationing method used to control the population's buying and selling of food items. Soon this will be implemented world-wide during the enforcement of the mark of the beast. -Advent Messenger Commentary

Venezuela Issues ID Cards to Curtail Food Hoarding

Associated Press,
ID Cards Issued to Control Food Purchases in VenezuelaApril 1, 2014

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Battling food shortages, the government is rolling out a new ID system that is either a grocery loyalty card with extra muscle or the most dramatic step yet toward rationing in Venezuela, depending on who is describing it.

President Nicolas Maduro's administration says the cards to track families' purchases will foil people who stock up on groceries at subsidized prices and then illegally resell them for several times the amount. Critics say it's another sign the oil-rich Venezuelan economy is headed toward Cuba-style dysfunction.

Registration began Tuesday at more than 100 government-run supermarkets across the country. 

Working-class shoppers who sometimes endure hours-long lines at government-run stores to buy groceries at steeply reduced prices are welcoming the plan.

"The rich people have things all hoarded away, and they pull the strings," said Juan Rodriguez, who waited two hours to enter the government-run Abastos Bicentenario supermarket near downtown Caracas on Monday, and then waited another three hours to check out.


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U.S. Confirms Warrentless Searches of Americans

The end-time scenario describes a controlling power that will dominate the lives of the inhabitants of the earth. This control will result in the establishment of the mark of the beast. The monitoring and intelligence gathering will be a necessary prerequisite required to determine who is in violation of the soon-coming oppressive religious laws. We see prophecy fulfilling before our eyes. -Advent Messenger Commentary

U.S. Confirms Warrentless Searches of Americans

Associated Press
April 1, 2014
b y Eileen Sullivan

U.S. Confirms Warrentless Searches of Americans


The Obama administration has conducted warrantless searches of Americans' communications as part of the National Security Agency's surveillance operations that target foreigners located outside of the U.S., the administration's top intelligence official confirmed in a letter to Congress disclosed Tuesday.

These searches were authorized by a secret surveillance court in 2011, but it was unclear until Tuesday whether any such searches on Americans had been conducted.

The recent acknowledgement of warrantless searches on Americans offers more insight into U.S. government surveillance operations put in place after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The government has broadly interpreted these laws to allow for the collection of communications of innocent Americans, practices the Obama administration maintains are legal. But President Barack Obama has promised to review some of these programs to determine whether the government should be conducting this type of surveillance at all.

"Senior officials have sometimes suggested that government agencies do not deliberately read Americans' emails, monitor their online activity or listen to their phone calls without a warrant," Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Udall of Colorado said in a joint statement. "However, the facts show that those suggestions were misleading, and that intelligence agencies have indeed conducted warrantless searches for Americans' communications."

Documents disclosed last year by former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden showed that the government collects mass amounts of data from major Internet companies such as Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook through one of its programs designed to target communications of foreigners located outside the U.S. The government is not allowed to use this authority to collect Americans' communications, but conversations of innocent Americans are collected inadvertently. When this happens, the NSA is required to take certain measures to hide the communications of Americans that have nothing to do with foreign intelligence.

In 2011, the government sought and received approval from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to search for Americans within the communications it already possessed through its collection of conversations of foreigners outside the U.S. Such searches would only be permissible if there were a foreign intelligence purpose.

Former NSA deputy director Chris Inglis said this authority might be used to search for the target of a terrorist attack. As an example, Inglis said if the government was concerned that terrorists were plotting to attack the New York Stock Exchange, the NSA could search for the term "New York Stock Exchange" among the conversations it collected in its targeting of foreigners overseas.

Wyden, Udall and other civil liberties advocates call this type of search a back-door loophole in the law that governs surveillance of Americans.

"If a government agency thinks that a particular American is engaged in terrorism or espionage, the Fourth Amendment requires that the government secure a warrant or emergency authorization before monitoring his or her communications," Wyden and Udall said.

The Obama administration contends the searches are legal because they are searching information they lawfully obtained.

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/us-confirms-warrantless-searches-americans-23149508

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Friday, April 4, 2014

World Leaders Flock to the Vatican to Meet with Pope Francis

World Leaders Flock to the Vatican to Meet with Pope Francis

Editorial | AdventMessenger.com

The Vatican has become the international stage for world diplomacy. The influence and power and popularity of the Jesuit, Pope Francis, has captivated the world. Presidents, monarchs, dictators, prime ministers, and other world leaders are flocking to Rome to be seen with the Pope who is quickly becoming more popular than the Socialist East and more influential than the Capitalist West.

It seems as though the world is mesmerized or "drunk" (Rev. 17:6) with the political and religious power that Rome has. Rome has become the undisputed leader - leading the world into a one-world political and religious government. Since the election of Pope Francis, everyone has been paying their respect by making the long journey to Rome to consult with him.


World Leaders Flock to the Vatican to Meet With Pope Francis


Queen Elizabeth, the "Supreme Head" of the Anglican Church visited Pope Francis on April 4, 2014. The visit was unscheduled and so very little details were made available on the private meeting they had.



World Leaders Flock to the Vatican to Meet With Pope Francis


President Obama, the leading figure of the industrialized, democratic world, was at the Vatican last week for his first-time visit with Pope Francis. They also had a private meeting and there were reports that the Pope shared his thought and concerns with President Obama.



World Leaders Flock to the Vatican to Meet With Pope Francis


And just last year Russian President Vladimir Putin, former top KGB member and a symbol of old-style Communism, was at the Vatican to try to help improve relationships between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.

There is no doubt that the path to Rome is a well worn path used by the heads of state and church dignitaries. Regardless of what their motives might be, it seems to be the popular thing to do.

Yet Bible prophecy tell us of the inner workings of political and religious leaders and reveals that there are steps being made for the control of the world. And in the end, we know that Rome will dominate the geopolitical landscape.

"And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication." Revlation 17:1-2.

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