A Massive Acid Spill in Mexico Has Turned This River Red and Toxic

TakePart.com | August 24, 2014

More than 10 million gallons of sulfuric acid from one of the world’s largest copper mines spilled into two major rivers—the Sonora and the Bacanuchi—in northern Mexico earlier this month, cutting the water supply of 20,000 people and closing 88 schools. Some locals even fear eating food.

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News Media Pushes for Sunday

Turn it off and tune Him in

East Valley Tribune | August 12, 2014

Welcome to August! As you know, this month ushers in the busyness of the fall. It’s the beginning of school for the kids, football games to watch on the weekends and many fun fall activities. And on top of all that, many of us will be working hard at our jobs during the day, despite the fact that we will oftentimes bring our work home too.

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Vladimir Putin: Don't mess with nuclear-armed Russia

The Telegraph | August 29, 2014

Vladimir Putin raised the specter of nuclear war with the West on Friday as he defied international condemnation over his decision to send thousands of Russian troops and heavy armor into Ukraine.

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Pope: division is among greatest sins of Christian communities

EWTN News | August 27, 2014

During his weekly general audience Pope Francis spoke on the unity and holiness of the Church, stating that despite the fact we are sinners, we are called to live as a community centered on Christ.

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$40 million lawsuit slams Ferguson police actions during recent protests

CNN News | August 29, 2014

In a $40 million federal lawsuit, five people arrested recently in Ferguson, Missouri, accuse police of using "wanton and excessive force" and treating U.S. citizens "as if they were war combatants."

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Alabama Megachurch Builds $26 Million Entertainment Center with Bowling Alley, Night Club

ChristianNews.net | August 27, 2014

A megachurch in Alabama recently held an open house to celebrate the opening of its $26 million dollar, six-dome entertainment center, which some are stating is far from biblical Christianity and the example of the early Church.

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Massive crack in the Earth opens in Mexico

New York Daily News | August 22, 2014

Spectacular footage has emerged showing an enormous crack in the Earth stretching across an arid stretch of northwest Mexico.

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Obamacare Now Pays for Gender Reassignment

The Daily Beast | August 25, 2014

The nation’s health law opens the door for transgender people to gain coverage for gender reassignment surgeries they previously could not afford.

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British Christians forced to hide belief

The Telegraph | August 23, 2014

Britain is at risk of being “sanitised” of faith because an “aggressive form of secularism” in workplaces and public bodies is forcing Christians to hide their beliefs, a former attorney general has warned.

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Adventists being sued for $15 Million for knowingly hiring child molester

Suit: Church knowingly let abuser in youth program

Associated Press | August 26, 2014

Two 50-year-old men filed a lawsuit Tuesday claiming the Seventh-Day Adventist Church put a man known to abuse children in charge of its youth program in the 1970s and kept him in that position even after learning he was accused of abusing a child in its ranks.

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Flood death toll rises to 45 in Cambodia

Shanghai Daily | August 21, 2014

At least 45 people in Cambodia have died and thousands of families have been evacuated from homes to higher grounds in floods caused by monsoon rains and rivers overflowing their banks, a senior official said Thursday.

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Venezuela Will Begin Fingerprinting Grocery Shoppers To Control How Much Food They Buy

Fox News | August 22, 2014

Venezuela's food shortage is so bad the country is mandating that people scan their fingerprints at grocery stores in order to keep people from buying too much of a single item.

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Most Pastors Avoid Controversial Issues to Keep Tithes Up

Charisma News | August 13, 2014

Pastors generally believe same-sex marriage and abortion are wrong, but most of them won't talk to their congregations about it for fear of losing members.

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LGBT Bingo' Homework Part of Radical Campaign to Indoctrinate Youth

Charisma News | August 12, 2014

A homework project that asks pupils to look out for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender characters in TV shows has been criticized by campaigners.

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Nightmare on the border: ISIS and Mexican cartels teaming up

Allanbwest.com | August 22, 2014

Last week, Texas Governor Rick Perry said it is highly likely ISIS is already in the United States, crossing over our unsecured southern border. He’s not the only one.

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Travelodge removes the Bible from every room

Daily Mail | August 16, 2014

One of Britain’s biggest hotel chains has removed Bibles from its rooms to avoid upsetting non-Christians.

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Student suspended for saying ‘bless you’ after classmate sneezed

Fox News | August 20, 2014

A young girl, who claims she was standing up for her religious beliefs in the classroom, was suspended after breaking a class rule of saying “bless you” after a classmate sneezed.

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Wilson: No room for evolution as truth in Adventist schools

Adventist News Network | August 18, 2014

Seventh-day Adventist world church President Ted N. C. Wilson forcefully asserted that life has existed on the Earth for only a few thousand years, not millions of years, as he opened an educators conference in Utah on Friday, and he said teachers who believe otherwise should not call themselves Seventh-day Adventists or work in Church-operated schools.

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Pope Francis beatifies 124 South Korean Catholic martyrs

BBC News | August 18, 2014

Pope Francis has celebrated a large open-air Mass to beatify 124 of South Korea's first Catholics at a ceremony in the capital Seoul.

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Scores Killed in Flooding in Nepal and India

 New York Times | August 18, 2014

The death toll from days of heavy rainfall and flooding in Nepal and India rose to more than 150 on Monday, according to officials in Nepal and India.

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Teaching of Creation is as Bad as Radical Islam

God Father Politics | August 19, 2014

It’s one thing for Great Britain to oppose radical Islam, but condemning the teaching that God is the Creator of all things because Islamists believe it is not the right approach. Condemning the spread of radical religious views within British schools is a good thing.

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Lawmakers call for 'Martial Law'

Rep. John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon, Calls for ‘Martial Law’ in Ferguson, Mo.

Newsweek | August 14, 2014

John Lewis, the Democratic congressman from Georgia and civil rights icon, called on President Barack Obama to declare martial law in Ferguson, Missouri, on Thursday as a necessary response to the blunders of local police. Lewis says the police have responded to largely peaceful protests over the slaying of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, with excessive force reminiscent of the 1960s.

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At Youth Mass, Pope Francis Gets Rock-Star Treatment

Wall Street Journal | August 17, 2014

What do you get when you mix thousands of young people from all over Asia and Pope Francis? A sort of Catholic Woodstock.

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Pope Francis revives the old hard-line, traditional form of Catholicism

AdventMessenger.com | Editorial

We are living in a hour of intense prophetic activity. Pope Francis is on a crusading frenzy to revive the hard-line positions of Roman Catholicism under the guise of peace and unity, toleration and inclusion. It is hard to find any other time in history where so many breaking headlines have had a direct relationship to Bible prophecy. What we see coming out of the Vatican today is a revival of the traditional, hard-line, medieval doctrines of Rome’s apparent bygone days. We see a dangerous situation that is threatening the very freedoms that we have enjoyed in this land of liberty. There is a major crisis that is being developed. Dark storm clouds are forming and are about to explode upon the world, and Rome is leading the world into this unsuspecting crisis.

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Will Obama’s Executive Order against Gay discrimination Affect Seventh-day Adventist Institutions?

AdventMessenger.com | Editorial

On July 21, 2014 President Obama signed and issued an executive order to protect lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered [LGBT] from being discriminated in the workplace. This order forces all federal contractors to accept the gay agenda which includes religious groups and faith-based organizations that partner with the federal government [US Aid] and receive federal money to address hunger, poverty, diseases, and disaster and relief services in the developing world.

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Transgender couple who BOTH changed sex prepare to explain to their two children how their father gave birth while their mom provided the sperm

 Daily Mail | August 15, 2014

A transgender couple are preparing to tell their children when they get get older that their father actually gave birth to them and the person that they call their mother is in fact their father.

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Ukraine Death Toll Doubles in 2 Weeks

Mashable.com | August 13, 2014

The death toll in Ukraine has doubled in just two weeks as government forces escalate their campaign against the pro-Russian rebels who have had a stronghold over eastern cities for months.

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Satellites may soon be able to snap photographs of your face

Rt.com | August 14, 2014

Satellites run by Google and other private companies may soon have the ability to capture images of a person’s face and other sensitive information if federal restrictions continue to loosen from lobbying.

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The Military Take-over of America

In this video you will see how the police in Ferguson, MO are using military-style assaults and tactics upon U.S. citizens. You will see how they chase the peaceful protesters and media through the streets of the neighborhood first with ear-piercing sonic weapons and then with rocket propelled tear gas. -Advent Messenger Commentary

Nigeria: Boko Haram Attacks Christian Town Killing at Least 100

Christian Headlines | August 14, 2014

Militant group Boko Haram attacked a predominantly Christian town in northern Nigeria on Aug. 6. The attack reportedly killed at least 100 people; many more were forced to flee to survive.

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Catholics to pay record sexual abuse settlement

Religious order to pay record sexual abuse settlement

The Globe and Mail | August 12, 2014

The Catholic community has agreed to pay $20-million to people who were once schoolboys in its care in what is described as a record sexual-abuse settlement in Quebec.

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United Church of Christ accused of apostasy for sponsoring Gay Games

Gaystarnews.com | August 13, 2014

US Christian news websites CrossMap and ChristianNews.net circulated by the Christian News Network have accused members of America’s United Church of Christ of committing apostasy by being a major sponsor of this year’s Gay Games, accusing them of abandoning Biblical principles.

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Massive Red Tide Threatens Florida's Gulf Coast

News.discovery.com | August 9, 2014

After Toledo had to temporarily ban residents from using tap water last weekend because of a toxic algae bloom on Lake Erie, you probably figured that we’d filled the quota of bad algae-related news for the summer. No such luck, unfortunately. Off the Gulf Coast of Florida, the biggest red tide bloom seen in Florida in nearly a decade already has killed thousands of fish.

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Chemical linked to cancer found in Colgate

Houston Chronicle | August 13, 2014

New research found that a cancer-causing chemical is used in one of the top-selling toothpastes. A Bloomberg News investigation found triclosan, an antibacterial chemical, in Colgate Total.

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Pope Francis Prays to the Virgin Mary before Korea trip

Pope Francis: Marian devotion ahead of Korea trip
 
News.va | August 13, 2014

Pope Francis visited the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome on Wednesday morning, just hours before his scheduled departure for Korea.

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Navy 'Caves' to Atheists, Yanks Bibles from Hotels

CNB.com | August 13, 2014

The U.S. Navy is removing the Gideon Bibles from every hotel room on its military bases.

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Sovereign citizen movement perceived as top terrorist threat

 
Start.umd.edu | July 30, 2014

Sovereign citizen, Islamist extremist and militia/patriot groups are perceived by law enforcement agencies to pose the greatest threats to their communities, according to a new START study. While sovereign citizens were the top concern of law enforcement, assessments about whether most groups were a serious terrorist threat actually declined for most groups (e.g., the KKK; Christian Identity; Neo-Nazis; Racist Skinheads; Environmental Extremists; Animal Rights Extremists) when compared to a previous study.

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Guinness Uses Christian Hymn "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" to Sell Alcohol

Seventh-day Adventist children killed by carjackers

Hundreds mourn 3 children killed by carjacked SUV

Philly.com | August 6, 2014

Three small white caskets stood open at the front of the church, covered in flowers.

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80,000 Catholics unite to Pray to the Virgin Mary

Thousands flock to Medjugorje for 25th Youth Prayer Festival

Digital Journal | August 6, 2014

As most young people head to the Adriatic coast for sun and sea holidays, tens of thousands of young Catholics attend the Medjugorje Youth Prayer Festival.

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Chinese Communists Create their own Version of Christianity

This is exactly what the Roman Emperor Constantine did. He created his own version of Christianity when he mixed paganism and Christianity. China is following in the same footsteps by mixing Christianity with communism. Soon America will also create an image or "likeness" to Constantine's Roman church by mixing Christianity with elements of the ancient Roman Church. -Advent Messenger Commentary

AllGov.com | August 9, 2014

With a growing population of tens of millions of Christians on its hands, China has decided to compete with established religions and create a socialist version of Christianity.

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Ebola outbreak an international public health emergency

The Guardian | August 8, 2014

The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak an international public health emergency, but it is not recommending general bans on travel or trade.

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Microchips Will Be Implanted Into Healthy People Sooner Than You Think

Business Insider | August 8, 2014

In March 2009, British researcher Mark Gasson had a chip injected under the skin of his hand. The chip, a slightly more advanced version of the tags used to track pets, turned Gasson into a walking swipe-card. With a wave of his wrist, he could open security doors at the University of Reading laboratory, where his experiment was being conducted, and he could unlock his cell phone just by cradling it.

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Missouri crowd after shooting: 'Kill the police'

Chanel 9 News | August 9, 2014

A teenager was killed Saturday after police opened here, sparking outrage among some community residents.

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Target tells shoppers it's going 'gay'

 

World News Daily, | August 8, 2014

Another major American company has gone “gay,” with Target officially signing onto a court action seeking to strike down the definition of marriage as one man and one woman.

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Iranian plane crashes after takeoff, killing 39

Associated Press | August 10, 2014

A regional passenger plane assembled in Iran crashed Sunday while taking off from the capital, killing 39 and injuring another nine onboard, according to a senior transportation official and state media.

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Officers Repeatedly beat an incapacitated Man

Couple Dies After Taking Selfie While Vacationing In Portugal

 

International Business Tribune | August 11, 2014

A Polish couple vacationing in Portugal fell to their deaths over the weekend while posing for a selfie with their children on the edge of a beach-side cliff in the latest selfie-related death. Stories of deadly self-portraits are increasing as more and more people use their cellphone cameras.

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President of a Missouri Baptist conference arrested for attempting to have sex with a dog

Church Leader Jerald Hill Suspected Of Attempted Dog Sex

Huffington Post | August 8, 2014

A church leader in Roach, Missouri, is out of a job after being arrested for allegedly trying to arrange a sexual encounter with a dog.

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Family sues Adventist officials after sexual assault on Arlington campus

Star-Telegram | August 8, 2014

The family of a teenage girl who was sexually assaulted by a teacher and basketball coach on the campus of the Burton Adventist Academy in Arlington is suing the Texas Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, saying officials did not do enough to protect the girl while she was at school.

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Advice From a Vegan Cardiologist

New York Times | August 6, 2014

Dr. Kim A. Williams, the president-elect of the American College of Cardiology, often sees patients who are overweight and struggling with hypertension, Type 2 diabetes and high cholesterol. One of the things he advises them to do is to change their diets.

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Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' is the size of Connecticut

CNN News | August 7, 2014

The Gulf of Mexico's annual spring-summer "dead zone" is the size of Connecticut -- slightly smaller now than in recent years but nowhere near the trim scientists had sought, researchers said this week.

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Pope Francis: We Need to Keep Sunday to be Happy

The Pope's 10 tips for happiness

CNN | August 5, 2014

Just when I thought my amazement with Pope Francis had run its course, he did it again. In a long interview with an old friend who was writing for an Argentine magazine, the pope put forward a 10-point plan for happiness. From where I sit, it seems, well, pretty good if not perfect.

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