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Muslims look forward to the rise of the Imam Mahdi, but this would not be expected in the new Islamic year

Mecca, Saudi Arabia COGwriter The Muslim year 1437 is expected to begin today.  Does this have any relevance? Before getting to that, notice something about a documentary produced a while back by Protestant Joel Richardson: < img src=”http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-d...” border=”0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=”Quantcast”/>< /div>[image error][image error] Adnan Oktar, a [...]

Palestinians involved in stabbing attacks in Jerusalem: another intifada?

Stabbings have long been used to kill the unsuspecting COGwriter Certain Palestinians have taken to the use of stabbings to attempt to protest in Israel: October 14, 2015 Israeli police say they have foiled a stabbing attack, killing the assailant as he tried to stab a security guard just outside an entrance to Jerusalem’s Old [...]

FBI frees 149 exploited children

COGwriter There is some very good news today. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted raids to stop some sex-trafficking and prostitution victims: 14 October 2015 A nationwide FBI sting focusing on underage victims of prostitution resulted in the rescue of 149 sexually exploited children and the arrests of more than 150 pimps and others, [...]

Democratic candidates for US President advocated unbiblical views

Logo of Democratic Party COGwriter Democratic party 2016 US presidential candidates had their first official debate on television last night. One of the things that stuck me when I started to watch it was that the opening statements by Hillary Clinton and Martin O’Malley pushed the homosexual agenda and were opposed to biblical views on [...]

Roman Bishop Hippolytus wrote that Roman Bishop Callistus was not one of good repute

COGwriter October 14th is observed as the feast day for the Bishop of Rome named Callistus. There is a church built on top over a pagan temple in Rome that is dedicated to him, which my wife and I have visited. Catholics would generally be surprised to hear that Callistus was the first Bishop of [...]

SDA Ben Carson on the end times

Ben Carson (photo by Gage Skidmore) COGwriter Republican party US presidential candidate mentioned end times in an interview: October 13, 2015 Ben Carson, who’s coming in second in polls for the Republican candidate for president, told investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson during an SBG “Frontline” interview he thought the apocalypse could be right around the corner. [...]

Dutch report says Buk missile shot down Flight MH17, but does not conclude who launched it

Buk Missile Launcher (Владимир Саппинен) COGwriter The report from the Dutch investigation  into who and what caused Malaysian Flight 17 to crash last year was released: Dutch Probe: Buk Missile Brought Down MH17 October 13, 2015 A Dutch-led investigative panel into the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine said the plane was [...]

98th anniversary of the ‘miracle of the sun’

A photostatic copy of a page from Ilustração Portugueza, October 29, 1917 COGWriter October 13th is the 98th anniversary of something commonly called ‘the miracle of the sun.’  Last year to commemorate it, Pope Francis ‘dedicated the world’ essentially to a statue that was supposed to be that of the “Lady” that appeared in 1917. [...]

Pig-Human GMOs proposed

   COGwriter A month after British scientists called for human GMOs (see British scientists insisting on human GMOs), there is a proposal to make pig-human GMOs: October 12, 2015 Prof George Church and colleagues used a technique called Crispr to alter the DNA of pig cells to create a better match for humans. The early [...]

‘World Public Forum’ called the ‘Putin adoration society’ by Politico

Castle of the Knights of St. John on Rhodes (Joyce Thiel) COGwriter The World Public Forum’s latest conference has ended.  Here is some of what Politico had to say about it: The Putin adoration society A purged Kremlin loyalist, a former Czech president and assorted anti-Americans find common cause on a Greek island. By Leonid [...]