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Origin of Vatican City

Vatican City (photo by Joyce Thiel) COGwriter The Church of Rome is generally believed to be headquartered in a place known as Vatican City (its claimed ‘spiritual throne,’ called the ‘cathedra’ is located in Rome itself in a place called the Basilica of St. John Lateran). Where did Vatican City get its name? Vatican City [...]

Bilderberg and proposals to end physical cash

Bilderberg Hotel (M.M.Minderhoud) COGwriter Several readers sent me links about efforts to eliminate cash.  As a followup to that I found the following: 19 June 2015 One of the main topics at the Bilderberg Group meeting held last week in Telfs-Buchen, Austria was the idea of promoting a cashless society.  … How times are rapidly [...]

Greece begs Germany’s Merkel not to throw them ‘overboard,’ while it makes deals with Russia

Greece’s Alexis Tsipras COGwriter Greece is trying to make a deal with the Europeans on its debt situation, while also making economic deals with Russia: June 21, 2015 German Chancellor Angela Merkel will face a tough choice on Monday when she will meet with Greece’s representatives and its key EU creditors in Brussels to agree [...]

BibleNewsProphecy: RAND Peace for Israelis and Palestinians?

COGwriter The Continuing Church of God is pleased to announce the following video on our Bible New Prophecy YouTube channel: 16:24 RAND Peace for Israelis and Palestinians? RAND Corp. released a study explaining that there would be economic benefits to Israelis and Palestinians if they would make a real peace deal. Israeli Prime Minister stated [...]

California community could be about to run out of water

COGwriter The Western USA and its Northern Plains are still facing severe drought conditions. But in one California community, they are facing the prospect of having no water June 20, 2015 Master-planned community at risk of losing all water within days When the state last week took the rare step of curtailing the water rights [...]

World Refugee Day: 3 1/2 years for Christians to be refugees are coming

Massive Camp of Refugees from Syria in Za’atri, Jordan COGwriter Today has been designated as World Refugee Day: June 20, 2015 In marking World Refugee Day Saturday, the United Nations refugee agency [UNHCR] said a record number of people, 59.5 million people compared to the 51.2 million from the previous year, have been forced to [...]

Sermon: What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality?

The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah COGwriter The Continuing Church of God is pleased to announce this sermon from its ContinuingCOG channel: 1:19:55 What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality? What does the Bible really teach about homosexuality and various parts of the LGBTIQ agenda?  Are Protestant theologians like the Episcopal Priest Susan Russell [...]

VOA: ‘World Reacts to Racial Tensions, Gun Violence in US’

Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston (Cal Sr.) COGwriter Related to the latest racist church shooting in Charleston and other matters, Voice of America (VOA) had the following: World Reacts to Racial Tensions, Gun Violence in US June 19, 2015 BEIJING—Often the target of U.S. human rights accusations, China wasted little time returning such [...]

State Department: 35% increase in terrorist activities

9-11 Attack in 2001 COGwriter The US State Department reports that terrorist incidents are increasing: 35% increase: Why 2014 was a big year in terror June 19, 2015 WASHINGTON Extremists in Iraq, Afghanistan and Nigeria unleashed a savage rise in violence between 2013 and 2014, according to new statistics released by the State Department. Attacks [...]

Alex Tsipras says Greece will stay in the Eurozone; ECB gives ‘emergency loans’ to Greek banks

European Central Bank, Frankfurt (Eric Chan) COGwriter The Prime Minister of Greece wants his country to remain in the Eurozone and the Europeans have decided to continue to loan Greece more money: June 19, 2015 The Greek prime minister has promised that “there will be a solution to the Greek debt crisis that will allow [...]