The news agenda in the past week has been dominated by the UK’’s vote to leave the European Union, and the consequences of that. A respected Christian ‘prophet’ who has a track record of giving accurate prophecies has spoken out about it. She says that the impression that she received from God, while she was praying and fasting, was that this event is a “merciful severe course correction” for the UK. She also suggested that more nations would leave the EU, robbing the EU of much of its power, but that a remnant of nations would band together and be strong. She said nothing about which countries would comprise the United Kingdom in the future.
All five of the candidates of the leadership of the Conservative Party – and hence the position of Prime Minister -- have claimed to have Christian faith in the past. Stephen Crabb seems to have the strongest Christian credentials; he worked for some time for the Christian charity CARE, and has been quoted as saying that “to speak openly as a Christian politician about praying is really asking for trouble.”
The US Supreme Court has overturned a Texas law which forced all abortion clinics to have hospital-level surgical facilities and also to have admission rights at local hospitals. On the surface, the law protects women having abortions against infection and other complications; in practice, it forced most of the state’s abortion clinics to close. The Supreme Court decided that it was unlawful to restrict access to abortion to that extent. In effect, the Supreme Court has declared abortion to be a civil right, and maybe even a human right. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has publicly welcomed the decision, even though it makes it likely that abortion opponents will vote for her rival, Donald Trump, in November's presidential election.
One of those long-delayed government inquiry reports has finally been issued, and it does not make comfortable reading for the current US government. The report concerns the ISIS attack on the American Embassy in Benghazi, Libya in 2012, when the ambassador and three other Americans were killed. In short, the report says that three rapid reaction US military units were ordered to Benghazi by a general to help protect the embassy, but none of them ever took off because the orders were overridden by officials in Washington who were concerned about upsetting the Libyan government. The Secretary of Defense at that time was Hillary Clinton.
The former Pope Benedict, who resigned his post in 2013, has published memoirs in which he tells of a ‘gay lobby’ in the Vatican who sought to influence his decisions. He says he managed to ‘break up this power group’. There were rumours when he resigned that he had done so under pressure from a group of gay clerics who sought to discredit him. The current pope, however, has offered an apology to homosexuals for the way that the Church has treated them.
In sports news, the Euro 2016 football tournament has thrown up several surprises, including England being beaten by Iceland; Wales reaching the semi-finals; and Portugal reaching the semi-finals without winning any matches inside 90 minutes. Wales will play Portugal for a place in the final.
And finally, a Florida couple have been arrested by police for selling ‘golden tickets to heaven’ to hundreds of people for $99.99. The husband said, “I do not care what the police say. The tickets were solid gold. Jesus gave them to me behind the KFC and told me to sell them so I could get some money to go to outer space.” Police confiscated around $10,000 in cash; drug paraphernalia; and a baby alligator.
All five of the candidates of the leadership of the Conservative Party – and hence the position of Prime Minister -- have claimed to have Christian faith in the past. Stephen Crabb seems to have the strongest Christian credentials; he worked for some time for the Christian charity CARE, and has been quoted as saying that “to speak openly as a Christian politician about praying is really asking for trouble.”
The US Supreme Court has overturned a Texas law which forced all abortion clinics to have hospital-level surgical facilities and also to have admission rights at local hospitals. On the surface, the law protects women having abortions against infection and other complications; in practice, it forced most of the state’s abortion clinics to close. The Supreme Court decided that it was unlawful to restrict access to abortion to that extent. In effect, the Supreme Court has declared abortion to be a civil right, and maybe even a human right. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has publicly welcomed the decision, even though it makes it likely that abortion opponents will vote for her rival, Donald Trump, in November's presidential election.
One of those long-delayed government inquiry reports has finally been issued, and it does not make comfortable reading for the current US government. The report concerns the ISIS attack on the American Embassy in Benghazi, Libya in 2012, when the ambassador and three other Americans were killed. In short, the report says that three rapid reaction US military units were ordered to Benghazi by a general to help protect the embassy, but none of them ever took off because the orders were overridden by officials in Washington who were concerned about upsetting the Libyan government. The Secretary of Defense at that time was Hillary Clinton.
The former Pope Benedict, who resigned his post in 2013, has published memoirs in which he tells of a ‘gay lobby’ in the Vatican who sought to influence his decisions. He says he managed to ‘break up this power group’. There were rumours when he resigned that he had done so under pressure from a group of gay clerics who sought to discredit him. The current pope, however, has offered an apology to homosexuals for the way that the Church has treated them.
In sports news, the Euro 2016 football tournament has thrown up several surprises, including England being beaten by Iceland; Wales reaching the semi-finals; and Portugal reaching the semi-finals without winning any matches inside 90 minutes. Wales will play Portugal for a place in the final.
And finally, a Florida couple have been arrested by police for selling ‘golden tickets to heaven’ to hundreds of people for $99.99. The husband said, “I do not care what the police say. The tickets were solid gold. Jesus gave them to me behind the KFC and told me to sell them so I could get some money to go to outer space.” Police confiscated around $10,000 in cash; drug paraphernalia; and a baby alligator.
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