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Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to Islamic State: So what is next?

Logo of Boko Haram (ArnoldPlaton) COGwriter The Islamic group Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (otherwise known as ISIS): March 7, 2015 Two of the world’s best-known and brutal terror groups appear set to join forces following the release of a new audio recording. The audio message has yet to be authenticated [...]

Planet Fitness needs moral fitness

Planet Fitness location in Michigan (Dwight Burdette) COGwriter The historical rights to gender privacy are being eroded.  Notice the following: March 7, 2015 A Michigan woman’s Planet Fitness membership was revoked after she complained about a transgender person in the women’s locker room. Yvette Cormier, a 48, said she was walking into the Midland Planet [...]

BibleNewsProphecy: Stephen Hawking and ‘Alien Destruction’

COGwriter The Continuing Church of God is pleased to announce our latest video on our Bible New Prophecy YouTube channel: 16:50 Stephen Hawking and ‘Alien Destruction’ CBS reported that theoretical physicist and atheist was concerned about three ways humanity could be destroyed. One of them was actually by being conquered by aliens. Does the Bible [...]

Ambassador Hall for sale for $11 million

‘Ambassador Hall’ COGwriter A reader sent me the following: 100 S Orange Grove Boulevard, Pasadena, CA $11,000,000 $41,809 Est. Mortgage Payment 9 beds / 2 baths / 17,329 sqft / ~2 acres / 1908 built The Historic Merritt Mansion was built by Hulett C. Merritt, one of Pasadena?s most celebrated Millionaires. After his death, the approximately 17,329 SF mansion was sold [...]

EU does not want to increase sanctions against Russia

NATO in Green, Russia in Orange (Ukraine is one of the grey countries between NATO and Russia) COGwriter The EU would prefer to not increase sanctions against Russia: March 7, 2015 (Reuters) – EU foreign ministers showed little appetite on Saturday for stepping up pressure on Russia over Ukraine, preferring to give a fragile ceasefire [...]

Daylight Savings Time affects sunset times

COGwriter Sunday at two a.m., the USA and some other nations change their clocks to go off of Standard Time and back to Daylight Savings Time. At 2 a.m. on the morning of Sunday, March 8, we in USA and many other nations will need to spring our clocks forward – and losing an hour [...]

50th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’

Alabama Police Attacking Protestors, March 7, 1965 COGwriter Today is the 50th anniversary of an event known as ‘Bloody Sunday’: March 7, 2015 This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” assault in Alabama, where on March 7, 1965, police violently assaulted hundreds of demonstrators attempting to march from Selma to Montgomery to [...]

Sermon: Is the Passover on the 14th or 15th for Christians?

‘DO THIS IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME.’ When? COGwriter The Continuing Church of God is pleased to announce this sermon from its ContinuingCOG channel: 1:11:59 Is Passover on the 14th of 15th for Christians? Although the Old Testament teaches that Passover was on the fourteenth day of the first month of the Hebrew calendar, most Jews [...]

Cartwright’s Journal Out: Bear in Orr SEP, female sermon speaker, Ambassador property sale, and character

COGwriter The latest issue (says #170 February 28, 2015) of The Journal was sent out electronically and just received. Some items covered included Orr SEP, female sermon speaker, the Del Mar sales offer, and “What if we were right about events but wrong about character?” The Orr article was mainly about a bear incident by [...]

Vatican priest points to ‘trinity’ and Marianism as basis for unity with the Eastern Orthodox

Pope Francis Wearing Mitre COGwriter A Vatican priest made an appeal for unity, mainly based upon the ‘trinity’: Father Cantalamessa’s 2nd Lent Homily 2015 “East and West on the Mystery of the Trinity” March 6, 2015 Here is the second Lenten homily given this year by the preacher of the Pontifical Household, Capuchin Father Raniero [...]