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A Service of the Church of God Faithful Flock
Weekly News and Commentary - Week of April 1, 2007
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WORLD NEWS BULLETIN
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 Biblical Perspective
 Revival Or Return To Darkness?
History reveals that Christian fads and trends come and go. It seems that it is common for many pastors and church leaders to constantly look for some new methodology, “new wave” or “new thing” God is doing, “right now.”
We live at a period in church history that is characterized by enthusiasm for methods and means that facilitate church growth. Large churches are commonly equated with successful pastors and successful church growth methods. Whatever it takes to reach that objective, is acceptable, we are told. Church growth has become the measuring stick for successful Christianity.
 (Joh 16:2) You will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time will come when those who kill you will think that by doing this they are serving God.
 Forty-eight percent of Germans think the United States is more dangerous than Iran, a new survey shows, with only 31 percent believing the opposite. Germans' fundamental hypocrisy about the US suggests that it's high time for a new bout of re-education.
The Germans have believed in many things in the course of their recent history. They've believed in colonies in Africa and in the Kaiser. They even believed in the Kaiser when he told them that there would be no more political parties, only soldiers on the front.
 TOKYO - Will their love be requited? Japan and the United States have been ardently courting India recently for what appears to be an emerging "axis of democracy" in Asia, also involving Australia, primarily aimed at keeping China in check.
In a significant sign that these efforts by Japan and the US may be bearing fruit, the two countries and India are preparing to hold their first-ever joint military exercise in the Pacific Ocean near Japan. Some Japanese media have reported that it will be held in early April for about a week.
 MOSCOW, March 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russian military intelligence services are reporting a flurry of activity by U.S. Armed Forces near Iran's borders, a high-ranking security source said Tuesday.
"The latest military intelligence data point to heightened U.S. military preparations for both an air and ground operation against Iran," the official said, adding that the Pentagon has probably not yet made a final decision as to when an attack will be launched.
(IsraelNN.com) Human cases of bird flu continue to be reported in Egypt, raising fears in Israel due to the open border between Gaza and Egypt.
A third child tested positive for the H5N1 strain of Avian Flu in Egypt this week, bringing the total human cases there to 32.
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Astronomy Picture of the Week
An Active Sunspot Viewed Sideways
Why are there dark spots on the sun? Although noted for thousands of years, sunspots have been known for decades to be regions of the Sun that are slightly depressed and cooled by the Sun's complex and changing magnetic field. High resolution pictures like the above image from Japan's new Sun-watching Hinode satellite, however, are helping to increase modern understanding. In the center of the above image is a sunspot, but not seen in the usual orientation --this sunspot is seen sideways. Of particular interest is erupting glowing gas that shows how the Sun's magnetic field comes right out of the spot center, but curves markedly around the spot edges. Better understanding of how the Sun ejects particles into space may result in more accurate predictions of solar storms that affect satellites, astronauts, and even power grids on Earth.
 Until the end of World War II, Shinto was the state religion in Japan. Even today, pilgrims still throng to the 80,000 shrines, praying for the fulfillment of their personal dreams. The religion, which has no sacred texts, also venerates trees, mountains and rocks.
In the beginning was the rainbow. According to the Shinto creation story, the divine couple - Izanagi and Izanami - sat atop it stirring the ocean below with their pearl-studded spear. When they withdrew their spear from the primal brew, drops of water fell to earth and created the islands of Japan.
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 Damascus reportedly hiding WMD among commercial pharmaceuticals
An American biodefense analyst living in Europe says if the U.S. invades Iran to halt its nuclear ambitions, Syria is ready to respond with weapons of mass destruction – specifically biological weapons.
"Syria is positioned to launch a biological attack on Israel or Europe should the U.S. attack Iran," Jill Bellamy-Dekker told WND. "The Syrians are embedding their biological weapons program into their commercial pharmaceuticals business and their veterinary vaccine-research facilities. The intelligence service oversees Syria's 'bio-farm' program and the Ministry of Defense is well interfaced into the effort."
March 5, 2007
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
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Honiara police load emergency items for earthquake and tsunami affected areas. A huge earthquake and tsunami that pounded the Solomon Islands left at least 24 people dead and more than 5,400 terrified survivors homeless, disaster chiefs told AFP(AFP/Solomom Star)
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HONIARA (AFP) - Thousands of Solomon Islanders were homeless Tuesday after a tsunami spawned by a huge earthquake flattened 13 villages, killing at least 22 people and leaving scores missing, officials said.
The government declared a state of emergency following Monday's tsunami, unleashed by an 8.0-magnitude quake off the islands' west coast, as officials warned the death toll would rise further as extent of the devastation emerged
Police ill-equipped to defend against an American Beslan
 Authorities fear the school massacre that shook Russia a few years ago may be a dress rehearsal for what al-Qaida plans to do in America – only on a grander scale, launching multiple school attacks simultaneously across the country.
In 2004, Chechen terrorists associated with al-Qaida seized a school building in Beslan, Russia, and slaughtered 338, including 172 children.
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
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Afghans retrieve a cabinet following a flood in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, April. 2, 2007. Days of heavy rain and spring snow melt have swelled the once trickling Kabul river, which breached its embankments early Monday, destroying 170 homes in the capital, the U.N. said, adding that an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 people have been affected by floodwaters. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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About 150 People Killed by Avalanches, Flooding in Mountains of Central Asia
KABUL, Afghanistan Apr 2, 2007 (AP)— Avalanches and floods triggered by heavy rains and spring snow melt have killed about 150 people in recent days in the mountains of central Asia, officials said Monday.
In Afghanistan, the death toll reached 88 on Monday and officials said more than half of the country's provinces had flooded, said the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development.
By ALISA TANG
ABCNews
 Biblical Perspective
This is the eye-opening story of the real gospel message of Jesus Christ—of how the missing dimension was withheld, and the whole world deceived.
It’s positively astounding! It has remained undiscovered by science! No religion has revealed it! Higher education has never taught it! Is it possible the whole world has been deceived—regarding the awesome purpose of human life—about the way to world peace and how it will
come? And could it be true that the real gospel message Christ brought from heaven revealed this missing dimension—but was suppressed? This is the eye-opening story of the real gospel message of Jesus Christ—of how this missing dimension was withheld, and the whole world deceived.
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Editorial
The threat from radical Islamic terrorists will not vanish when President Bush leaves office, or if funds for the Iraq war are cut off in 2008.
 A frequent charge is that we are bringing terrorists to Iraq. That is true in the sense that war always brings the enemy out to the battlefield. But it's also false, since it ignores why killers like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (the late al Qaeda chief in Iraq), Abu Nidal and Abu Abbas (Palestinian terrorists of the 1980s), and Abdul Rahman Yasin (involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing) were already in Saddam's Iraq when we arrived.
Moreover, the unpopular war in Iraq did not create radical Islamists and their madrassas throughout the Middle East that today brainwash young radicals and pressure the region's monarchies, theocracies and autocracies to provide money for training and weaponry. All that radicalism had been going on for decades — as we saw during the quarter-century of terrorism that led up to 9/11. And rioting, assassination and death threats over artistic expression in Europe have nothing to do with Iraq.
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
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