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Australian Cardinal hints Francis could be an antipope; US Cardinal also expresses doubts about Pope Francis

COGwriter A Canadian supporter sent me links to the following two articles: Tanzania: Church Schism Under Pope Francis Is Possible Raymond Cardinal Burke, a conservative who does not support Pope Francis liberal ideas on marriage Until recently I had largely believed in the liberal narrative which holds that Pope Francis’s reforms of the Catholic church [...]

CCOG announces Bible News Prophecy radio

COGwriter The Continuing Church of God is pleased to announce that it now has an internet radio station.  The URL for the webpage of our online radio station is: http://biblenewsprophecy.caster.fm/ Our Mobile Page url, link for mobile users (can also be viewed on desktop) http://mobile.caster.fm/1618C6 Here is some additional technical information: Embedded information for your [...]

Bob Moriarty: ‘There is a flock of black swans overhead, any one of which could be catastrophic’

Black Swan (Calvin Teo) COGwriter Received a link to the following in an email today: Bob Moriarty: There is a flock of black swans overhead, any one of which could be catastrophic. The fundamental problems with the world’s debt crisis and banking crisis have never been solved. The fundamental issues with the euro have never [...]

Ukrainian separatist receives 79% of vote; West condemns the election.

Aleksandr Zakharchenko (newsanna) COGwriter As expected, eastern Ukraine overwhelmingly voted to retain Aleksandr Zakharchenko as the Prime Minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic: November 3, 2014 Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine say the acting prime minister of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic has won an election that Kyiv and the West have made clear they will [...]

Voting and Christianity

Voting Location Sign (Tom Arthur) COGwriter There is an American election coming on November 4, 2014.  Is it your Christian duty to vote? According to certain evangelical and Protestant preachers on American television, it is. Is that what the Bible teaches? What would Jesus do? The world is a complicated place with many types of [...]

United Nations insists ‘climate change’ is real and steps need to be taken: but which steps?

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (World Economic Forum) COGwriter The United Nations released its latest report about climate change: November 2, 2014 COPENHAGEN, Denmark- Climate change is happening, it’s almost entirely man’s fault and limiting its impacts may require reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero this century, the U.N.’s panel on climate science said Sunday. [...]

Eastern Ukraine votes in election condemned as illegal

Previous Donetsk Ballet COGwriter Western Ukraine had an election last week and eastern parts of Ukraine are voting today: November 2, 2014 Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine began voting Sunday in controversial elections that Kyiv and the West say they will not recognize. The separatists who control parts of eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk and Donetsk regions [...]

BibleNewsProphecy: Six Financial Steps Leading to 666?

COGwriter The Continuing Church of God is pleased to announce our latest video on our Bible New ProphecyYouTube channel: 14:16 Six Financial Steps Leading to 666? Revelation 13 warns about one known as 666. This beast power is to control buying and selling. When the Apostle John was inspired to write this over 1,900 years [...]

Catholic endorsements of ‘evolution’

COGwriter Many Catholic leaders have endorsed evolution, including the current pontiff: Pope Francis reaffirmed long-held Catholic beliefs that evolution is not “inconsistent” with Creation. ”When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so,” he told [...]

USA and UK cease combat operations in Afghanistan: What’s next?

COGwriter The United States and United Kingdom ceased combat operations in Afghanistan today: October 26, 2014 The last U.S. Marines unit and final British combat troops in Afghanistan officially ended their operations on Sunday as they packed up to leave the country and transferred a massive military base to the Afghan military. The American and [...]