News and Prophecy Staff

“The unthinkable is happening” said one Indian power plant operator in reaction to the severe drop in water levels on the Ganges River that closed his plant for ten days (BBC, March 27, 2016). For the second year in a row in India, monsoon rains have been scarce, snowmelt limited, and ground water levels have fallen. The falling river level has caused power plants to go offline, stranded river barges and caused shortages of drinking and washing water (ibid.).

“Lulu, a six-year-old Argentine child who was listed as a boy at birth, has been granted new identification papers by the Buenos Aires provincial government listing her as a girl” (Christian Post, March 22, 2016).

Iran has become emboldened since the recent nuclear deal and is challenging U.S. foreign policy. “Iranian Army Commander Maj. Gen. Ataollah Salehi… announced that Iran intends to deploy warships and destroyers in Latin America… to expand its military cooperation with countries opposing the US” (Israel National News, April 3, 2016).

According to Gallup research, morals have dramatically shifted since the early 2000s (Gallup, May 26, 2015).Today, far more people approve of divorce. In 2001, 59 percent of Americans morally accepted divorce. In 2015 that number rose to 71 percent (ibid.).

In a recent article in the EU Observer, Professor Michael Smith commented on  European finger-pointing in the wake of the Brussels bombings: “The inevitable result of this confusion of naming and shaming, wishful thinking, and piecemeal intergovernmental cooperation is the Europe we have today, where all the major recent crises—the eurozone, refugees, and now terrorism—stem from the same problem: profound disagreement among EU member states, particularly the ‘big three,’ about the future of Europe