Gay couple to become fathers
dailymail.co.uk - 19/06/2009

UK - Britain's first gay fathers have announced that they are having a fourth child on Valentine's Day. Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow sparked outrage when they used donated eggs and surrogate mothers in the USA to have their nine-year-old twins Aspen and Saffron and five-year-old son Orlando.

Pepsi and Coke under fire again
BBC - 19/06/2009

INDIA - An Indian non-governmental organisation says samples of Coca-Cola and Pepsi products are showing even worse levels of pesticides than in a previous study. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said their investigations revealed that the drinks contain harmful residues, posing a health risk.

Total sacks 900 oil plant workers
BBC - 19/06/2009

UK - Nearly 900 workers constructing a new plant at the Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire have been sacked, following unofficial strike action. About 1,200 contract workers walked out last week in a dispute over 51 redundancies.

Eco-warrior evicted from cave
telegraph.co.uk - 19/06/2009

UK - An eco-warrior has been evicted from the cave he lives in on his allotment patch in Brighton, East Sussex, because it doesn't have a fire exit.

First ever trial without jury
telegraph.co.uk - 19/06/2009

UK - A criminal trial is to be heard without a jury for the first time in England and Wales after attempts to prosecute a suspected gang of armed robbers was allegedly hit by jury nobbling.

EU leaders agree on regulatory reform
uk.reuters.com - 19/06/2009

BRUSSELS - European Union leaders agreed in principle on Thursday on tighter rules to supervise banks and on the creation of regional regulatory bodies to help prevent another global economic crisis, EU presidency sources said.

Masses mourn protesters in Iran
BBC - 19/06/2009

IRAN - More than 100,000 people have attended a "day of mourning" rally in Tehran to remember eight people killed while opposing Iran's election result. The rally was called by presidential challenger, Mir Hossein Mousavi.

PETA wishes Obama hadn't swatted that fly

WASHINGTON - Norfolk-based group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter-in-chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he's bedeviled by a fly in the White House. PETA is sending President Barack Obama a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, A DEVICE THAT ALLOWS USERS TO TRAP A HOUSE FLY AND THEN RELEASE IT OUTSIDE.

E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress
nytimes.com - 18/06/2009

WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency is facing renewed scrutiny over the extent of its domestic surveillance program, with critics in Congress saying its recent intercepts of the private telephone calls and e-mail messages of Americans are broader than previously acknowledged, current and former officials said.

Time for 'new world order'
AFP - 18/06/2009

YEKATERINBURG, RUSSIA - The global financial crisis has reduced the differences between nations and created the opportunity to form a new world order, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday.

Libya records 13 cases of bubonic plague
AFP - 18/06/2009

LYBIA - "Thirteen cases of the plague have been recorded in a village 30 kilometres (20 miles) away from Tobruk. Eleven people have already (been treated and) left hospital," he said, without reporting any deaths.

EU summit faces difficult issues
BBC - 18/06/2009

BRUSSELS - EU leaders are set to grapple with two particularly thorny issues at a summit in Brussels - the Lisbon Treaty and how to tighten financial regulation. The leaders also have the easier task of nominating the conservative Jose Manuel Barroso for a second term as EU Commission president.

Gold sold from German vending machines
Telegraph.co.uk - 18/06/2009

GERMANY - Shoppers in Germany will soon be able to buy gold as easily as bars of chocolate after a firm announced plans to install vending machines selling the precious metal across the country.

Witches claim religious discrimination after church ban
telegraph.co.uk - 18/06/2009

UK - A group of witches is claiming religious discrimination after church leaders banned them from using its social club.

Florida tent city offers hope to homeless
reuters.com - 18/06/2009

ST PETERSBURG, FLORIDA - A Florida tent city for hundreds of homeless people lies at the end of a dead-end street, but residents say they have not given up hope of a better life despite the US economic downturn.

“Just what is an APOSTLE?”
Just what is an Apostle?

Today we find the Church of God in a “wilderness of religious confusion!”

The confusion is not merely around the Church – within the religions of the world outside – but WITHIN the very heart of The True Church itself!

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Listen to Me, You who know righteousness, You people in whose heart is My Law: …I have put My words in your mouth, I have covered you with the shadow of My hand, That I may plant the heavens, Lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, “you are My people” (Isaiah 51:7,16)