Two bombs detonate in Idlib, north Syria: state news - 4/30/12



Syria's state news agency said two bombs had detonated on Monday in the central districts of Idlib city, near the Turkish border, and blamed what it said were terrorists.
"Terrorist bombings in Hanano Square and Carlton Street in Idlib and news of casualties," a SANA newsflash said.
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Eurozone crisis live: Spanish crisis deepens as recession confirmed - 4/30/12



Spain suffers double-dip recession as GDP falls 0.3%
The Instituto Nacional de Estadistica has announced that the Spanish economy shrank by 0.3% in the first three months of 2012. That follows a 0.3% contraction in the final three months of 2011.
That puts Spain back into recession for the first time since it returned to growth at the start of 2010. The 0.3% contraction is actually slightly better than analysts had forecast.
On an annual basis, Spain shrank by 0.4% in the last quarter.
Britain also slipped back into a double-dip recession last week.
By my reckoning, there are now eight eurozone countries in recession.
The other six are Belgium, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Greece and Slovenia -- whose economies all shrank in the third and fourth quarters of 2011.
Looking outside the eurozone, but within the EU, we can include the UK, Denmark and the Czech Republic.
Spain and the UK are among the first countries to report data for the first three months of 2012.
8.20am: The news of Spain's recession (see 8.05am) has long been expected. This graph shows how it only managed weak economic growth through 2010 and most of 2011, before beginning to contract last autumn.
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Thou must keep Sunday



Trade unions across Europe held small protests on March 4 calling for governments to force companies and shops to shut on Sunday, with Catholic preachers supporting the campaign from the pulpit.
Religious groups and trade unions, organized under the banner of the European Sunday Alliance, helped organize protests in 12 EU countries. Much of the activity took place in Italy, where a law allowing businesses to choose their own opening hours was only passed in December. The newspaper of the Italian bishops’ conference, Avvenire, hailed a new “holy alliance” between the Catholic community and trade unions.
Watch for the Catholic Church to eventually force Sunday observance in all in Europe.
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A Day to Remember



In this intriguing lecture, the creation week is presented, emphasizing the relationship between the Creator and the creation answering question such as: Who is the creator?
What significance impact does the seventh-day of creation have on our lives today? Was the seventh day a Jewish institution or did it originate in Eden? An in-depth rediscovery of the day of rest.
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Witness: Gunmen attack Nigeria university campus - 4/29/12



Gunmen attacked Christians worshipping on a Nigerian university campus on Sunday, with witnesses reporting multiple explosions and gunfire.
The gunmen began their attack around 8:30 a.m., targeting a lecture hall normally used by Christians for Sunday services, journalist Salihu Tanko reported from the scene.
"Reports say that they came in one vehicle and they also came on the bike and started shooting sporadically and at the same time threw about four or five small locally made bombs," Tanko reported.
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Sudan and South Sudan border clashes - 4/29/12



CNN's Don Lemon and Azadeh Ansari go beyond the headlines into South Sudan, where border tensions are escalating.
The president of Sudan declared a state of emergency Sunday for cities along the hotly contested border with South Sudan, where Sudanese fighter jets launched at least one attack against their neighbor's ground forces.
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Jeremiah 6:
13For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
14They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
16Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
17Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
18Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
19Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

Bomb leaves 10 Afghan police dead - 4/28/12



A roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan has killed 10 members of the country's security forces, officials say.
Wardak province officials said the dead belonged to the Afghan local police - part of a government-sponsored militia.
Elsewhere, two suspected Taliban militants were shot dead just outside the governor's office in southern Kandahar province.
The men were killed in a 30-minute gun battle in which a guard was also injured, a spokesman told AP news agency.
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Farc rebels kill eight in Colombia attacks - 4/28/12



The authorities in Colombia say left-wing Farc rebels have killed eight people including an infant in two separate attacks.
In the first the rebels killed five soldiers in an army patrol in the south-west of the country.
Later a baby and her parents died after home-made mortars were fired at a police station in Puerto Rico in Caqueta state, also in the south.
The mortars missed their target, hitting the family's house.
The government said a sergeant and four other soldiers died in the attack against the patrol.
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Mark 13:
7And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
8For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

The History of The Jesuits by James Arrabito

The History of The Jesuits by James Arrabito

Spain's unemployment rate hits record high at 24.44 percent - 4/27/12



Newly released figures show Spain’s unemployment rate hit a new record high at the end of March, reaching 24.44 percent.
With the highest rate since 1996, the data released by Spain's National Statistics Institute indicate that some 5.6 million people are now jobless, AFP reported.
This comes hours after the New York-based Standard & Poor’s ratings agency downgraded Madrid’s long-term sovereign credit rating from A to BBB+, giving it a negative outlook.
Earlier this month, Spain’s Labor Ministry had announced a rise in the country’s jobless rate for March, saying an estimated 4.75 million people were unemployed.
In the first quarter of the year, some 37,000 jobs were lost in Spain.
The eurozone’s fourth largest economy has announced spending cuts of more than 11-billion dollars as well as tax increases to reduce the country's deficit to avoid seeking a financial bailout like Greece, Ireland, and Portugal.
Battered by the global financial downturn, the Spanish economy collapsed into recession in the second half of 2008, destroying millions of jobs.
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2 Peter 2:
1But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.



2 Timothy 3
1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

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Green clouds over Moscow spark disaster fears - 4/26/12



Mysterious green clouds have been spotted over the Russian capital, sparking fears of a chemical disaster and even some doomsday theories.
Russian Twitter users have been posting alarming messages like “Moscow schools are closed because of the blast! Children are sent home,” “Sky has turned completely green in Moscow’s south!” and “The factory in Kaluga is destroyed!” -more-


Luke 21:
9But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
10Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
11And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Blast rips through building in Hama, Syria - 4/25/12



An explosion ripped through a building in Syria's central city of Hama according to this video posted to a social media website.
The blast left 12 people dead and wounded dozens more according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Violence has continued in Hama despite a two week U.N.-Arab League brokered ceasefire.
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Taliban torch two NATO fuel tankers in Afghanistan - 4/25/12



The Taliban militants have attacked a convoy of tankers transferring fuel to US-led forces in Afghanistan, setting fire two of them in the country’s Herat Province, Press TV reports.
The highway linking Herat to Kandahar has recently been turned into an insecure route for convoys carrying fuel supplies destined for US-led foreign forces in Afghanistan.
Insecurity remains persistently on the rise across Afghanistan despite the presence of tens of thousands of US-led troops.
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Bomb attack injures Bahrain policemen - 4/25/12



A bomb explosion has wounded four members of Bahrain's police force - two of them seriously - during clashes with protesters, officials have said.
Police said the injured men had been protecting firefighters investigating a blaze inside a shop in the mainly Shia village of Diraz on Tuesday night.
During the operation a "terrorist" bomb was detonated nearby, they added.
One underground group has threatened to carry out attacks on security forces in Bahrain
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Luke 21:
9But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
10Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:

Pakistan bomb kills at least two in eastern city Lahore - 4/24/12



A bomb killed at least two people and injured at least 27 others when it exploded at the main railway station in the eastern city of Lahore in Pakistan's Punjab province on Tuesday
Five of the wounded are in a critical condition in hospital, a health official told Reuters. In January 2011, a teenage suicide bomber blew himself up near a religious procession of Shi'ite Muslims in Lahore, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than 50. Islamist militants have carried out bombings across Pakistan in retaliation for military operations targeting insurgent groups in recent years. In February, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest outside a mosque in a Shi'ite neighborhood in Pakistan's northwestern Kurram tribal region, killing at least 26 people.
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Matthew 24:
7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Rumbling Mexican volcano keeps residents on alert - 4/23/12



Mexico's famed Popocatepetl continued to spew columns of ash and gas into the air on Monday.
Mexico's National Center for Disaster Prevention raised the alert level for Popocatepetl to yellow phase three from yellow phase two last week, indicating possible magma expulsion and explosions of increasing intensity. It is the third-highest warning on the center's seven-step scale.
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Mark 13:
8For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

Thousands displaced by Sudan border clashes - 4/22/12



The ongoing military standoff between Sudan and South Sudan has forced thousands from their homes, fearing for their lives. This is according to a United Nations Human Rights report.
According to the government of Sudan's Humanitarian Aid Commission and other reports received by the UN, the entire civilian population of Heglig town and neighboring villages have fled," the report, released on Sunday, said.
South Sudan's army said it had completed its withdrawal from Heglig, but condemned the north for bombing the area as the pullout was still under way.
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Luke 21:
9But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
10Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
11And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Gunmen kill 14 people in Karachi - 4/21/12



At least fourteen people have been killed in separate attacks by unidentified gunmen in different parts of Karachi, the largest city in Pakistan’s southern Sindh Province, Press TV reports.
Unknown armed men opened fire and killed three people at Kadafi Chowk in the Orangi Town area of Karachi on Friday, local officials told Press TV.
Separately, gunmen killed two more people and police recovered two more bodies in the same area.
In other incidents, one person was killed in Teen Hatti area while two people were shot dead in Malir and New Sabzi-mandi areas at Super Highway.
Meanwhile, three more people were killed in Mominabad and Aligarh while one body was recovered in Memon Goth area of Malir.
According to local media, over 35,000 people have lost their lives in bombings and other militant attacks since 2001 when Pakistan entered an alliance with the US on the so-called war against terrorism.
Thousands more have been displaced by the wave of violence and militancy sweeping across the country.
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Mark 13:
7And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
8For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

Mexican General Mario Acosta shot dead as he dropped off his car at a garage in Mexico City. - 4/21/12



He is one of the highest-ranking military officials to be killed in Mexico in recent years.
In 2000, Gen Acosta was arrested on suspicion of protecting Amado Carillo Fuentes, a leader of the Juarez drug cartel.
He was found guilty and sentenced to 16 years in prison.
But in 2007, an appeals court said prosecutors had failed to prove his alleged links to Amado Carillo Fuentes.
He was freed and given back his rank of general.
He was also accused of participating in the disappearance of leftist activists in the 1970s and 80s, but the charges against him were dismissed.
Police said the fact that Gen Acosta was shot in the head three times from a short distance suggested the motive was not robbery, but a settling of scores.
Gen Acosta had survived an earlier attack on him two years ago.
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Beheading Mexico



Decapitation. Rape. Murder. Mass corruption. National chaos and destruction. If only America’s illicit drug users knew the cost of their love for getting high.
Imagine. You’re sitting on a bus, listening to music, staring sleepily out at the Mexican countryside. Suddenly, the bus screeches to a halt, and there follows a lot of shouting and some random gunshots. Seconds later, gun-wielding gangsters board the
bus and demand the passengers get off. The terrified travelers are divided into
groups. The elderly are promptly executed, shot in the head in full view of the onlookers. Next, select women are pried from the arms of their children and one another and dragged kicking and screaming behind the bus. Everyone knows their fate.
The old are gone, the women and children are dead or paralyzed with shock. Attention
turns to the able-bodied males. The men are herded into a group and surrounded by smirking, laughing cartel members. Each man is given a weapon: a rusty old knife, a machete, a framer’s hammer; the unlucky are handed a stick or rock. Now armed, the bewildered men are told to fight. Not the monsters from the cartel—one another.
Their hands tremble with fear. They hesitate to kill an innocent man, someone they
were chatting with only minutes earlier. But the men quickly realize that the only way to survive is to kill. Soon these normal men— husbands and fathers, farmers, bricklayers and factory workers—become callous gladiators. Unskilled in the act of murder, their arms flail wildly. Chunks of human flesh fly, the dust turns deep red, and hemorrhaging bodies begin to collapse. Thirty minutes later, all that remains is a handful of blood-soaked, exhausted, hollow-eyed men. The victims are now victors.
The c riminals, m embers o f M exico’s deadliest cartel, Los Zetas, whoop and
holler and sing Mexican folk songs as they pile the corpses in the ditch beside the
road. They’re elated. They’ve grown a little richer, satiated their lusts, and now they’ve stolen some new recruits. In the coming days, each male captive will be given a mission: infiltrate enemy cartel territory, assassinate rival cartel members, go to war with the Mexican Army, or get saddled with drugs and dispatched across the border into America. No matter the assignment, each will meet the same end: death.
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Isaiah 1
1The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
2Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
5Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
7Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Mexican forces discover 14 dismembered bodies near US border - 4/20/12



Mexican security forces have discovered 14 mutilated bodies near the United States border with the country, an official says.
"These 14 bodies were apparently left in a van in the early hours of the morning with a message directed at an organized crime group," the official in the government of Tamaulipas State, situated in eastern Mexico, told AFP on condition of remaining anonymous.
The male bodies were found in the state’s city of Nuevo Laredo in early Tuesday. The dead men, who appeared to be in their thirties, had been dismembered, packed into black plastic bags, and placed inside a van.
Mexico has been plagued with violence resulting from fighting between drug mafias over profitable methamphetamine trafficking routes and marijuana fields, both situated across the west of the country.
In January, Mexican officials said nearly 13,000 people had been killed in drug-related violence in the first nine months of 2011, raising the death toll to over 47,500 in a five-year-long drug war.
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Jude 1
1Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
2Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
3Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
4For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
6And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
7Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
9Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
14And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
17But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
20But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
24Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
25To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

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Mark 13:
8For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

Iraqi cities hit by deadly bomb blasts - 4/19/12



At least 36 killed and more than 100 wounded in series of explosions in cities and towns across Iraq, including Baghdad
More than 20 bombs have hit cities and towns across Iraq, killing at least 36 people and wounding more than 100, according to police and hospital sources. The attacks have raised fears of sectarian strife in a country keen to show it can maintain security.
In Baghdad, three car bombs, two roadside bombs and one suicide car bomb exploded in mainly Shia areas in what looked like co-ordinated attacks, killing 15 people and wounding 61.
Two car bombs and three roadside bombs aimed at police and army patrols in the northern oil city of Kirkuk killed eight people and wounded 26, police and hospital sources said.
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The BBC's Rami Ruhayem in Baghdad says this appears to have been a co-ordinated series of attacks.
Blasts were reported in the following cities:
-In Baghdad, a series of at least five blasts struck in various Shia neighbourhoods
-Police say two car bombs went off in Kirkuk, 180 miles (290km) north of Baghdad
-A suicide bomber killed a police officer in Baquba, an army officer said
-Two car bombs targeted security forces in Samarra
-A parked car exploded killing passers-by in Dibis
-Roadside devices exploded in Taji and Mosul
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Matthew 24:
7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8All these are the beginning of sorrows.

US trains terrorists in Kuwait camps: Report - 4/18/12



The United States military has been training terrorists in a military base in Kuwait, preparing them for attacks in the Middle Eastern countries.
The recruits are sent to the “Arifjan” base where they receive military training and learn methods of bombing and terror operations within a three month period, according to reports.
The US military then sends the trained terrorists as ringleaders to countries such as Iran, Iraq and Syria to set up terror networks inside these countries and embark on terrorist activities and carry out acts of sabotage with the support of Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The US military is currently in control of large parts of Kuwait and thousands of soldiers who have left Iraq are currently stationed there. The US dispatched some 15,000 troops to Kuwait late last year after withdrawing its forces from Iraq.
Kuwaiti residents are not allowed to enter these areas without a permit.
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Mark 13:
6For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
7And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
8For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

South Sudan-Sudan border battle leaves 22 dead - 4/18/12



Soldiers from Sudan and South Sudan clashed at a river dividing their two countries, leaving 22 dead as fighting spread to a new area of the tense border.
A Sudanese official demanded on Wednesday that South Sudan withdraw from an oil-rich area it occupied last week or face a concerted attack.
Tuesday's battle began after a Sudanese soldier shot a South Sudan soldier who was getting water from the river, South Sudan government spokesman Barnaba Marial Benjamin said. In all, seven South Sudan soldiers and 15 Sudan soldiers died near the town of Meiram, along the border with Sudan's South Kordofan state and South Sudan's Northern Bahr el Ghazal state, he said.
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Matthew 24:
7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Stirring Mexican volcano closes schools, raises alert - 4/18/12



A powerful plume of steam and ash rose from the Popocatepetl volcano in central Mexico on Tuesday, prompting local schools to cancel classes and emergency teams to prepare for evacuations.
The volcano's lava dome started to expand on Friday, suggesting fresh magma may be pushing upwards. It spewed red-hot fragments and lightly dusted cars and streets in some small towns in the state of Puebla, television images showed.
Popocatepetl, which lies some 50 miles to the southeast of Mexico City, pumped out a cloud of hot air and particles in an emission lasting about 20 minutes on Tuesday.
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Spectacular solar eruption captured by scientists - 4/17/12



The sun has erupted in a spectacular flare, sending an outburst of heated plasma far into space. The eruption occurred along the sun's eastern limb and was not aimed towards Earth, scientists say.
­The flare was captured by NASA specialists and categorized as a class M flare, which is right in the middle on the scale of sun storms.
Although the eruption looked tremendous it was not the strongest solar activity of the year. Earlier this year the Earth was battered by two massive solar storms that sent streams of charged particles towards the planet.
Scientists say the sun is currently in an active phase of its 11-year solar cycle and is expected to reach peak activity in 2013.
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Luke 21
25And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.



Revelation 6:
8And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

Syria troops bombard Homs and other rebel areas - 4/17/12



Syrian security forces are carrying out deadly attacks on opposition-held areas in the north and south and continuing to bombard Homs, activists say.
Some opposition groups report that more than 50 people have been killed over the course of the day.
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