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!An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point. One even speculated that summer sea ice would be gone in five years.
Greenland’s ice sheet melted nearly 19 billion tons more than the previous high mark, and the volume of Arctic sea …

A law professor at A&M University in Texas claims to have evidence that the star of Bethlehem exists.
Rick Larson said he used scriptures, science and history to try to find out the truth about one of the most celebrated natural phenomena in the Christian history.
“Everything started about 10 years ago,” Larson said. “My daughter and I where working on some Christmas decoration when my daughter asked why we had a star.”
After realizing he didnt know a star was a main symbol of Christmas, Larson started to wonder whether the star …

“The manner in which the Americans relate to the intelligence report on Iran is similar to the way in which they viewed those reports they received during the Holocaust on railways transporting hundreds of thousands of Jews to their death at Auschwitz,” Minister Yitzhak Cohen of Shas said during a security cabinet meeting Sunday morning on the Iranian nuclear issue.
“It can not be that (US President George W.) Bush is committed to peace as was declared at Annapolis, and then the Americans propagate such an intelligence report which contradicts the …

A massive magnitude 7.8 earthquake rocked the South Pacific island nation of Tonga on Thursday, triggering international warnings of a potentially lethal tsunami — but those messages failed to reach the tiny nation.
The warning raised jitters from Hawaii to New Zealand, until authorities called it off two hours later because the quake never generated any massive waves. The 4:26 a.m. earthquake, about 150 kilometers (95 miles) south of the Tongan island of Neiafu, did little damage to South Pacific countries beyond breaking windows.
However, the tsunami warnings did not reach Tonga, …

A gunman killed two staff members at a missionary training center near Denver early Sunday after being told he couldnt spend the night. About 12 hours later, a gunman fatally shot a person at a megachurch in Colorado Springs before a female security guard killed him, police said.
The gunman at the New Life Church was shot and killed by a church security guard after entering the churchs main foyer with high-powered rifle shortly before 1 p.m. and opening fire, Colorado Springs Police Chief Richard Myers said. Four others were wounded, …

More than three years ago, Bernie Ward, a popular San Francisco liberal radio talk show host and former Catholic priest, got on the Internet and downloaded and sent out images of child pornography. He even talked about it in an Internet chat room.
The 56-year-old local personality - the host of a nightly news talk program on KGO 810 AM as well as “God Talk” on Sundays - says he was doing research.
But on Thursday, Ward was indicted by a grand jury on two federal counts of Internet child pornography - …

A Christian biologist is suing the prestigious Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, claiming he was fired for refusing to accept evolution, lawyers involved in the case said on Friday.
Nathaniel Abraham, an Indian national who describes himself as a “Bible-believing Christian,” said in the suit filed on Monday in U.S. District Court in Boston that he was fired in 2004 because he would not accept evolution as scientific fact.
The latest U.S. academic spat over science and religion was first reported in The Boston Globe newspaper on Friday. Gibbs Law Firm …

Two epic, family-aimed fantasy films apparently stand on opposite ends of the religious spectrum.
“The Golden Compass,” imbued with symbolism that some see as anti-religious, opens today, in stark contrast to “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” film, which opened two years ago exactly.
“Narnia” comes from C.S. Lewis, a Christian, and was intended as a parable for Christ’s resurrection. “Compass” is from atheist author Philip Pullman, and carries themes that strike out against religious hierarchy, particularly as it relates to stifling science. The Catholic League views …

An outbreak of a mystery strain of encephalitis has killed nearly 500 children in northern India this year and seems to be getting worse, doctors said Thursday.
Doctors in Uttar Pradesh state, the center of the outbreak, have been unable to identify the strain of the disease, which has affected only children, killing 484 of them since the beginning of the year, said state Health Minister Anant Kumar Mishra.
And the outbreak is spreading quickly, doctors said.
“There has been a sudden spurt in encephalitis cases over the last month. Over 100 children …

The Russian navy is deploying to the Mediterranean. Unlike past rumors on the issue, this is a declaration that comes directly from the defense minister who was speaking with the Russian President Vladimir Putin at the time. The deployment is just as important for what it does not mean, as it is for what it does.
The Russian navy is deploying to the Mediterranean. Unlike past rumors on the issue, this is a declaration that comes directly from the defense minister who was speaking with the Russian President Vladimir Putin at …