Briefings
Superbug Increasing Five-fold in USA Hospitals
Sunday September 21st, 2014 in Natural Knows BestAccording to the August issue of the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, community hospitals in the southeastern U.S. have had a 500% increase in the number of dangerous superbugs that are drug-resistant in the last five years. Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae,…
View This Article →Lawsuit: Dunkin Donuts Refused to Hire Sabbath-Keeper
Friday September 19th, 2014 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsDarrell Littrell, a Seventh-day Adventist living in Asheville, North Carolina, was offered a job as a donut maker at a Citi Brands, a manufacturing facility of Dunkin Donuts near Arden, North Carolina. When the plant manager offered him the job…
View This Article →Sierra Leone declares Ebola lockdown
Monday September 15th, 2014 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsSierra Leone, one of four countries worst hit by the Ebola outbreak, has announced a three-day lockdown in an effort to stop the disease. People will not be able to leave their homes from 19 to 21 September. The purpose…
View This Article →Peres to Pope Francis: Establish “United Nations of Religions”
Monday September 15th, 2014 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsDuring his visit to the Vatican in September 2014, retired Israeli President, Shimon Peres, proposed a UN style organization called “United Religions” to counter religious extremism. Peres said that the UN is ill suited to handle today’s conflicts, since most…
View This Article →Pope Sends Message to Waldensian Methodist Synod in Italy
Monday September 1st, 2014 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsPope Francis sent a message to the Waldensian-Methodist annual synod held 24-29 August 2014 in Torre Pellice, Italy. The Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin signed the telegram on behalf of the pope. The letter offered the Waldenses the…
View This Article →Ferguson, MO: Militarized Police
Sunday August 31st, 2014 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsMilitarized police are become more common in the United States. The most recent example is the “overwhelming militarized response of the local police forces to the protests over the shooting of an unarmed black teenager” in Ferguson, Missouri. On August…
View This Article →Tony Palmer and the Collapse of Protestantism
Wednesday August 27th, 2014 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsTony Palmer, an evangelical friend of Pope Francis, died in a motorcycle accident. Francis sent a message to be read at his funeral by his wife, Emiliana. Ironically, he was buried in a Catholic cemetery in Bath, England after a…
View This Article →Pope Says He Plans to Visit Philadelphia
Tuesday August 26th, 2014 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsOn the plane from Korea back to Rome, Pope Francis said he wants to go to the United States in 2015 for the planned Catholic family meeting. He also said he would like to visit Washington to address Congress, the…
View This Article →U.S.: Back to Iraq?
Monday August 25th, 2014 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsA recent USA Today opinion poll revealed that, increasingly, Americans believe the United States has a responsibility to respond to rising violence in Iraq, though they do not like the idea of being pulled back into a military conflict. Of…
View This Article →Korea: Religious Leaders Meet with Pope
Friday August 22nd, 2014 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsThe ecumenical movement marches forward as Pope Francis met with the heads of non-Catholic religious communities in Korea, just before his final mass in the country. The inter-faith meeting was held at the Catholic Myeong-dong Cathedral and included leaders of…
View This Article →California Water Rush
Thursday August 21st, 2014 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsThe Central Valley in California is drying up and drilling for water has become more important than drilling for oil as water resources are being drained at an alarming rate. But some private landowners that still have leftover water reserves…
View This Article →The United States goes back to Iraq
Wednesday August 20th, 2014 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsThe United States has launched an air strike against the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) group in northern Iraq. Two F/A-18s dropped 500 pound laser guided bombs on mobile artillery that was being used to shell Kurdish forces defending the…
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