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!A strong and potentially deadly earthquake is virtually certain to strike on one of California’s major seismic faults with a magnitude of at least 6.7 within the next 30 years, scientists said Monday in releasing the first official forecast of statewide earthquake probabilities.
By their calculations the probability of such a strong and damaging quake hitting somewhere the Golden state is …

A third day of riots in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, had by Friday paralyzed the city with looting and violence.
The toll includes a U.N. soldier who has been shot and killed in the capital while delivering food to his unit.
U.N. Mission spokeswoman Sophie Boutaud de la Combe said the soldier was shot Saturday afternoon and that he was a member of a 1,000-strong unit that deals with riots.
She said U.N. troops did not exchange fire, but had no further details.
The demonstrations began earlier in the week, in protest against rising …

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Forget about passing notes in study hall; some teens are now using their cell phones to flirt and send nude pictures of themselves.
The instant text, picture and video messages have become part of some teens’ courtship behavior, police and school officials said. The messages often spread quickly and sometimes find their way to public Web sites.
“I’ve seen everything from your basic striptease to sexual acts being performed,” said Reynoldsburg police Detective Brian Marvin, a member of the FBI Cyber Crime Task Force of Central …

Members of a United Methodist congregation in Russia were without a church Sunday, April 13, after authorities closed it for running a Sunday School without government permission, the latest in a series of police raids targeting Christian education, Christians said.
The congregation in the western city of Smolensk was closed down by a local court March 24, on charges of  “educational activity in a Sunday school without a corresponding license,” the church’s Pastor Aleksandr Vtorov said in a statement released by the news service of religious rights group Forum 18.
Investigation into …

Over 80 percent of US Christians - including Evangelicals, mainstream Protestants and Catholics - say they have a “moral and biblical obligation” to support Israel, according to the results of a recent poll released last Thursday.
Commissioned by bestselling author Joel Rosenberg’s Joshua Fund aid organization, the poll showed that while support for Israel was strongest among Evangelical Christians at 89 percent, an overwhelming 76 percent of Catholics also agreed they have a divine mandate to back the reborn Jewish state.
Well over half of the 1,000 Christians polled said Israel should …

Citigroup and Merrill Lynch will heap further pain on Wall Street this week as they reveal additional sub-prime write-downs totalling $15 billion (£7.6 billion) or more.
In another sign of the intense pressure on leading banks, Deutsche Bank is attempting to offload some of its €35 billion (£28 billion) of toxic debt to a consortium of private-equity firms.
Huge exposure to American mortgages is expected to result in Citi taking a $10 billion hit to its accounts, dragging the bank to a first-quarter loss of almost $3 billion. Some analysts believe Citi’s …

Egypt and Israel have been on alert for a major Hamas border strike.
Israeli and Egyptian forces have been placed on high alert along the Gaza Strip amid intelligence that the Hamas regime was planning a series of major attacks. The intelligence warned of Hamas attacks on Israeli facilities and the destruction of the Egypt-Gaza border.
“The Hamas attacks could take place any day,” a security source said.
On Wednesday, Hamas-aligned combatants attacked a gasoline storage terminal along the Gaza-Israel border, Middle East Newsline reported. At least two Israeli workers were killed in …

For 46 years, crime, recessions and hurricanes proved no threat to the daily ritual of St. Monica School, where the entire blue-and-white uniformed student body gathered outside each morning to join in prayer.
Come June, though, the tradition will fade away, and “amen” will close St. Monica’s morning recitations for the last time. The school, a home-away-from-home for mostly minority students, will close.
As Pope Benedict XVI next week makes his first trip to the U.S. as pontiff, Catholic schools across the country, long a force in educating the underprivileged regardless of …

Rising food prices could have terrible consequences for the world, including the risk of war, the IMF has said, calling for action to keep inflation in check.
“Food prices, if they go on like they are doing today … the consequences will be terrible,” International Monetary Fund managing director Dominque Strauss-Kahn said.
“Hundreds of thousands of people will be starving … (leading) to disruption of the economic environment,” Strauss-Kahn told a news conference at the close of the IMF spring meeting here.
Development gains made in the past five or 10 years could …

Speaking Sunday at a closed-door fundraiser in San Francisco, Obama had said he understands why some working-class voters become frustrated and vote on single issues. “It’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,” he had said, in an address revealed in bits and pieces this week by The Huffington Post online, delivering the controversial words on Friday.
Yet speaking today, he didn’t say it all …