Floodwater swamps major Iowa city
BBC - 15/06/2008

USA - Thousands of people in the US state of Iowa have been urged to leave their homes because of rising river levels.

EU grapples with Irish 'No' vote
BBC - 15/06/2008

BRUSSELS - Governments in the European Union are exploring what to do after the Irish Republic's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty to reform the expanded EU.

Support for euro in doubt
telegraph.co.uk - 15/06/2008

GERMANY - Ordinary Germans have begun to reject euro bank notes with serial numbers from Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal, raising concerns that public support for monetary union may be waning in the eurozone's anchor country.

Pope - Rebirth of Europe
Open Europe Press Summary - 15/06/2008

VATICAN - Yesterday, (12th June) Pope Benedict XVI appeared to encourage Catholic Ireland to vote 'Yes'.

EU takes US to task for protectionism trends
euobserver.com - 15/06/2008

BRUSSELS - The EU has voiced frustration over "worrying signs" of protectionism in the United States, pointing to a planned increase of US farm subsidies as well as some anti-terrorism measures such as mandatory scanning of all goods containers entering American territory.

New EU Justice Commissioner is a convicted fraudster
thesun.co.uk - 15/06/2008

BRUSSELS - The EU's new Justice Commissioner Jacques Barrot is a "convicted fraudster." Barrot was given an eight-month suspended jail sentence in France in 2000 for swindling government money.

Bush says US wants partnership with Europe
AP - 15/06/2008

ROME - President Bush is urging Europe to more aggressively partner with the United States to look beyond trans-Atlantic issues and focus on global problems such as Mideast peace, curtailing the rise of radical Islamic terrorists and keeping regimes such as Iran in check.

Forum on Surviving the Century
abcnews.go.com - 13/06/2008

USA - Are we living in the last century of our civilization? Is it possible that all of our technology, knowledge and wealth cannot save us from ourselves? Could our society actually be heading towards collapse?

Tibetan Plateau Water Reserves at Risk
reuters.com - 13/06/2008

TIBET - The Tibetan Plateau's vast reserves of glacial freshwater, which supply Asia's most populous regions, are both at risk and are emerging as an issue in the increasingly tense political and cultural strife between China and Tibet.

In Spain, Water Is a New Battleground
nytimes.com - 13/06/2008

FORTUNA, SPAIN - Lush fields of lettuce and hothouses of tomatoes line the roads. Verdant new developments of plush pastel vacation homes beckon buyers from Britain and Germany. Golf courses - dozens of them, all recently built - give way to the beach.

Water squabbles irrigate tensions in Central Asia
reuters.com - 13/06/2008

VAKHDAT, TAJIKISTAN - Under a scorching sun, an exhausted Tajik woman looks at a drying trickle of irrigation water running across her cotton field.

Robert Mugabe Militia Hacks, Burns Alive Opposition Leader's Wife
foxnews.com - 13/06/2008

ZIMBABWE - The men who pulled up in three white pickup trucks were looking for Patson Chipiro, head of the Zimbabwean opposition party in Mhondoro district. His wife, Dadirai, told them he was in Harare but would be back later in the day, and the men departed.

Flooding Set to Hit Historic 500-Year Levels in Iowa
foxnews.com - 13/06/2008

USA - A "historic hydrologic event" is developing in Iowa Thursday as swollen rivers are expected to crest in central Iowa at 500-year flood levels, while a man was killed when his vehicle plunged into a flooded stream in Minnesota.

The End of Neutrality
german-foreign-policy.com - 13/06/2008

DUBLIN/BERLIN - By using pressure and heavy threats, Berlin is seeking to prevent a "No" to the EU treaty in Ireland's referendum on June 12.

Islamic Group Visits Benedict XVI
zenit.org - 13/06/2008

VATICAN CITY - Benedict XVI today received in audience the participants of a Muslim-Catholic committee meeting in Rome.

“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)