Pope Francis met with Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the Vatican Saturday morning. It was their first meeting since the president’s election on 3 February. The orderly development of “a civil, pluralistic society requires” that the “authentic spirit of religion”…
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Hawaii’s False Missile Attack Warning Sparks Widespread Panic
Friday January 19th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsAt 8:07 Saturday morning, January 13, an employee at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency pushed a button, which sent a message to all cellphones in the state. It read: “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS…
View This Article →Singapore’s Parliament Bans Foreign Preachers labeled “Extremist”
Thursday January 18th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsSingapore is clear in its position as to why it bars certain foreign religious preachers from entry, said Home Affairs and Law minister K. Shanmugam in parliament on January 8. They will be banned if they preach religious intolerance or…
View This Article →Why Religious Conservatives Support Mr. Trump so Strongly
Wednesday January 17th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsWhite evangelical Protestants, especially the core of “born again” or “fundamentalist” believers among them went overwhelmingly for Trump in 2016 — more than 80 percent in the November election, according to exit polls — the highest degree of loyalty the…
View This Article →Pope Issues Blueprint for Geopolitical Stability
Tuesday January 16th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence Briefings“Pope Francis today issued a blueprint for geopolitical stability, calling for a de-escalation of tensions in Korea, for nuclear disarmament and for world leaders to recognize that migrating to another country is a ‘fundamental human right.’ He set out his…
View This Article →Russian Ambassador: Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches should Cooperate to Save Christian Civilization
Monday January 15th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsRussia’s ambassador to the Vatican has praised the current relations between the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches, adding that more cooperation is needed to preserve the foundations of Christian civilization. “The situation that has formed in the world by…
View This Article →Floods and Mudslides further Devastate Southern California
Friday January 12th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsAs fierce rains pounded Southern California, homes were swept away, roads were overwhelmed and widespread rescues forced homeowners to reckon with yet another major disaster. After the fires devastated Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties, hundreds of residents were…
View This Article →Poland Bans Sunday Trading
Thursday January 11th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsThe conservative Law and Justice government in Poland has taken a decidedly regulatory approach toward Sunday shopping. On Sunday, November 24, the government approved a law to ban Sunday trading within the next three years. If the law passes parliament,…
View This Article →Shanghai Database can Recognize 2 Million People Instantly
Wednesday January 10th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsShanghai police recruited some high-tech assistance for catching criminals—an artificial intelligence system that can instantaneously identify any of the nearly 2 million faces in its database. The artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm called Dragon Eye uses China’s national database of 1.3…
View This Article →Pope Francis: Religion should not be confined to ‘Personal Conscience’
Tuesday January 9th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsCommercialism Conflicts with Sunday Rest
Monday January 8th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsChristmas Eve fell on Sunday this year. That is one of Germany’s traditional shopping days, but it also clashed with the German Constitution’s provision that recognizes Sunday as a day of rest. Bakeries, kiosks, and shops in train stations have…
View This Article →Cardinal Marx: Only Well-formed Conscience Can Decide Morality.
Friday January 5th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsGerman Cardinal Reinhard Marx has stated that decisions about sexual morality must be discerned according to a well-formed conscience, respecting “the interplay of freedom and responsibility.” The chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference said in a new interview that a…
View This Article →Eurasia Group: “Big, Unexpected Crisis in 2018”
Thursday January 4th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence Briefings2018 could see a geopolitical crisis on the scale of the financial crash a decade ago, Eurasia Group has warned in its annual outlook. Describing global political challenges as “daunting,” the New York-based political risk consultancy said the world is…
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