If this is your first time visiting Bible Prophecy In The News, I’d like to invite you to subscribe to our RSS feed. Never miss an update.. Thanks for visiting!Israeli officials vowed to wipe Syria off the map if it is attacked with chemical weapons like one that reportedly exploded in July at a secret Syrian base staffed with Iranian engineers.
Politicians in Israel said yesterday they were not picking a fight with their neighbor, but pledged to forcefully retaliate if chemical warheads come screaming across its shared border.
“We will …

Street clashes have broken out in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, as Islamic activists protested over the publication of an “offensive” cartoon.
Witnesses say that hundreds joined the protest, even though such demonstrations are officially banned under the country’s state of emergency.
Police baton-charged some of the protesters as they tried to break through barricades.
The leading Bangla-language newspaper published the offending cartoons.
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The first thing that catches your eye as you walk in the door is the T-shirts hanging on the wall.
For a few dollars, you can own a black one with “Heretic” emblazoned in white on the front, or a white one sporting the word Darwin etched in black inside a fish-like container.
Reason, science and freedom of inquiry obviously are top dog at the Centre for Inquiry Ontario.
Not far from the T-shirts is the reception desk with a donation box. Visitors are urged to donate $5 to the evening’s affair, an …

The World Health Organization says it has found typhoid in an area of the Democratic Republic of Congo where health experts are working to fight an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus.
Last week, DRC officials ordered a quarantine in central Kasai Occidental province, after the U.N. health agency said five people there tested positive for the Ebola virus. Now, WHO officials say they have discovered five cases of typhoid in the same area.
WHO spokesman, Gregory Hartl tells Reuters news agency that one of the typhoid cases also tested positive for …

The poll revealed a direct correlation between age and levels of faith, with an increase in age corresponding to an increase in the number professing faith. Out of those in their 20s who were polled, just 20 percent answered that they had no faith. In the 65 and above age category, just 8 percent responded that they had no religion or faith.
“Does this mean people tend to find faith or become more religious as they get older — or, alternatively, does it mean that the younger generation are increasingly less …

A strong earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia’s Sumatra Island on Thursday, the same area hit by a powerful tremor last week that killed 24 people and injured more than 115, Indonesia’s meteorology agency said.
The quake struck at 3:31 pm (0831 GMT) at a depth of 76 kilometres beneath the seabed and 120 kilometres south of Padang, the capital city of West Sumatra province, said Nurhayati, an official at the National Meteorology and Geophysics Agency in Jakarta.
Nurhayati, who like many Indonesians uses only one name, said the …

Chilling Soviet plans to launch massive nuclear strikes in Europe followed by a ground offensive in Germany and southern France have been unearthed by a Nato historian.
According to scenarios drafted in 1964, Warsaw Pact forces planned to use 131 tactical nuclear missiles and bombs to sideline NATO armaments and destroy Western Europe’s political and communications centres, in the event of an “imperialist” strike.
In an alarming insight into the “Doctor Strangelove” mindset of Soviet strategists, the Czechoslovak People’s Army, CSLA, was then expected to immediately march over deadly radioactive landscape and …

Two far-reaching Russian Tupolev 95 bombers entered the Icelandic air observation zone north of the country yesterday morning. British military jets flew towards the bombers and followed them to the northern limits of the observation zone.
The Russian aircrafts circled Iceland and flew as close as 43 nautical miles offshore, but without entering Icelandic airspace, ruv.is reports.
According to a statement from Iceland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it received information from Russia about the flight on Wednesday night.
Iceland’s Radar Agency monitored the bombers during the entire flight and exchanged information with appropriate …

The US dollar hit a new record low against the euro as investors sold the currency after the Federal Reserve’s hefty interest rate cut.
The greenback dropped below the psychologically-key $1.40 level against the euro, deepening recent losses.
Meanwhile, the Canadian dollar reached one-to-one parity with the US currency for the first time in 31 years.
A strong domestic economy and concerns about a US economic slowdown have led to the rally on Canada’s Loonie.
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Two officials at leading Communist Party bodies have given interviews in recent days warning - for the first time - that Beijing may use its $1.33 trillion (£658bn) of foreign reserves as a political weapon to counter pressure from the US Congress.
Shifts in Chinese policy are often announced through key think tanks and academies.
Described as China’s “nuclear option” in the state media, such action could trigger a dollar crash at a time when the US currency is already breaking down through historic support levels.
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