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A Service of the Church of God Faithful Flock
Weekly News and Commentary - Week of July 22, 2007
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WORLD NEWS BULLETIN
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Italian Police Arrest 3 Moroccans They Say Used Local Mosque As 'Terror School'
 Italian police arrested three Moroccans on Saturday an imam and two aides accusing them of belonging to a militant cell that allegedly used a mosque in central Italy as a terror training camp.
The cell held courses on hand-to-hand combat and used propaganda films and documents downloaded from the Internet to teach students how to prepare poisons and explosives, pilot a Boeing 747 and send encrypted messages, anti-terrorism police in Rome said in a statement.
NORFOLK, Va. — A massive joint training exercise is scheduled to begin July 26 off the coast of the eastern United States involving 25 ships, dozen of aircraft and thousands of sailors.
 Named “Operation Bold Step,” the Joint Task Force Exercise, or JTFEX, will involve some 15,000 personnel from the U.S. and British navies.
The five-day exercise serves as a “forward-certifying event” for the ships of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, and “sustainment” training for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group. The Eisenhower returned to port from a nearly eight-month deployment to the Middle East on May 23. The Truman strike group is scheduled to deploy next from Norfolk.
 Book Review
 Do we owe our existence on Earth to chance or design? Do we occupy a privileged spot in space and time, primed for life and discovery?
Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez and philosopher/theologian Jay W. Richards firmly stand in the design camp. In The Privileged Planet, the authors have produced a comprehensive, richly illustrated and heavily notated book.
Gonzalez and Richards counter the prevailing notion among scientists that Earth is merely an average rocky planet revolving around an ordinary star on the outskirts of an undistinguished galaxy. The authors present evidence that suggests life in the cosmos is a rarity due to a variety of prerequisite conditions, such as the unique properties of water, the peculiarities of the Earth-moon system, the sheltering effects of Jupiter and Saturn, and the fine-tuned nature of the universe. The authors maintain that these same conditions allow mankind's significant discovery of the structure of physical laws and the universe. The appendices examine a revised Drake Equation and tackle the idea of "panspermia" - the seeding of life on Earth.
The euro just keeps setting records this week and went above $1.38 on Thursday. Politicians in Europe have said there's nothing to worry about, but German industry isn't so sure.
 The euro just keeps rushing to new all-time highs against the dollar. On Thursday, the European currency was briefly worth $1.38 in the early afternoon before slipping back slightly. But while German industry on Wednesday expressed concern that a strong euro was eating into their profits and competitiveness, European officials on Thursday said there was nothing to worry about.
"That is an exchange rate that we can live with," said German Economy Minister Michael Glos on Thursday at a German-Arabic business conference. "The economy is doing great. There are no worries at present."
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Picture of the Week
Bright Galaxy NGC 2903
Spiral galaxy NGC 2903 is only some 20 million light-years distant in the constellation Leo. One of the brighter galaxies visible from the northern hemisphere, it is surprisingly missing from Charles Messier's famous catalog of celestial sights. This impressively sharp color image shows off the galaxy's beautiful blue spiral arms. Included in the ground-based telescopic view are intriguing details of NGC 2903's central regions -- a remarkable mix of old and young star clusters with immense dust and gas clouds. In fact, NGC 2903 exhibits an exceptional rate of star formation activity near its center, also bright in radio, infrared, ultraviolet, and x-ray bands. Just a little smaller than our own Milky Way, NGC 2903 is about 80,000 light-years across.
Damascus - On an official state visit to Syria Thursday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad voiced his support for Lebanon's radical Islamic Hezbollah movement and warned "the enemies of the region" to abandon their hostile plans or risk being "burned.""The enemies of the region should abandon plans to attack the interests of this region, or they would be burned by the wrath of the region's peoples," Ahmadinejad said at a joint press conference with Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The Iranian president welcomed Hezbollah's victory over Israel in a war between the two sides in the summer of 2006 and called for a similar victory this summer.
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Pope Benedict XVI consolidates sweeping changes, reasserting the spiritual supremacy of the Vatican.
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Pope Benedict XVI: He held a cross during a mass at the Vatican in June.
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The leader of 1.1 billion Catholics, Pope Benedict XVI, is completing a significant theological shift of the Roman Catholic church – a sweeping change that not only eclipses 40 years of a more moderate and collegial Catholicism, but seeks to reassert the spiritual supremacy of the Vatican and more openly proclaim the authority of the office of pope among all Christians.
Some two years after taking the reins, say Protestant and Catholic theologians and religious experts, the Bavarian-born pope is moving swiftly to affirm orthodox doctrines and medieval church rituals that undermine the spirit of Vatican II, a period of modernization in which the church appeared to be rethinking its centuries-long insistence that it had exclusive claims to matters of grace, truth, salvation, and church structure in the Christian world.
New museum head says lower population would cut CO2 at a fraction of renewable energy cost
The new head of the Science Museum has an uncompromising view about how global warming should be dealt with: get rid of a few billion people. Chris Rapley, who takes up his post on September 1, is not afraid of offending. 'I am not advocating genocide,' said Rapley. 'What I am saying is that if we invest in ways to reduce the birthrate - by improving contraception, education and healthcare - we will stop the world's population reaching its current estimated limit of between eight and 10 billion.
'That in turn will mean less carbon dioxide is being pumped into the atmosphere because there will be fewer people to drive cars and use electricity. The crucial point is that to achieve this goal you would only have to spend a fraction of the money that will be needed to bring about technological fixes, new nuclear power plants or renewable energy plants. However, everyone has decided, quietly, to ignore the issue.'
Robin McKie, science editor
Sunday July 22, 2007
The Observer
 Editorial
There was nothing the Philistines could have done to deter Samson. If the calculus is: I exchange my worthless earthly life against the triumph of Allah on earth, and an eternity of bliss for me, if the enemy wishes to be dead, if to him the Apocalypse is desirable, he will not be deterred.
 When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the Mayor of Tehran, he insistently proposed that the main thoroughfares of Tehran should be widened so that, he explained, on the day of his reappearance, the Hidden Imam, Mohamed ibn Hassan, who went into the great occultation in 941 AD could tread spacious avenues. More recently, he told the Indian Foreign Minister that “in two years, everything will be settled,” which the visiting dignitary at first mistook to mean that Iran expected to possess nuclear weapons in two years; he was later bemused to learn what Ahmadinejad had meant, to wit, that the Mahdi would appear in two years, at which points all worldly problems would disappear.
This attitude, truly, is not new, nor should it surprise us: religious notions and their estranged cousins, ideological representations, determine not only their believers’ beliefs but also their believers’ actions. Reality, as it were, is invaded by belief, and belief in turn shapes the believer’s reality. The difference between the religious and the ideologically religious is this: the religious believer accepts that reality is a given, whereas the fanatic gambles everything on a pseudo-reality of what ought to be. The religious believer accepts reality and works at improving it, the fanatic rejects reality, refuses to pass any compromise with it and tries to destroy it and replace it with his fantasy.
Laurent Murawiec Senior Fellow,
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C.
Biblical Perspective
 Where did the matter of the universe come from? Did it appear in some mysterious way? Has the universe always existed? Is the universe infinite? Astronomers do not know the basic answers of WHY this universe exists - WHERE the laws governing it came from. But there is a missing key that unlocks the answer to fhese age-old puzzles.
WHEN you look up into the starry heavens on a clear night you can see thousands of stars.
Where did those stars come from?
Why are they in existence? WHO or WHAT regulates those stars - and the entire universe?
The universe is an Awesome entity.
Most astronomers accept what is thought to be a proven observation-that the universe is expanding.
When one realizes the sizes of stars - the cosmic distances astronomers have measured, it's frankly bewildering to the human mind.
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Health Alert
Ga. Processor Recalls More Than 90 Brands Of Canned Chili, Stews And Dog Food Due To Botulism
(AP) Georgia meat processor on Saturday expanded its recall of canned meat products that may be connected to a botulism outbreak.
Castleberry's Food Co. of Augusta recalled more than 90 brands of canned chili, beef stew, corned beef hash and other meat products in addition to the 10 brands it had recalled Thursday.
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