News and Prophecy Staff

“Modern life is killing children with the number of youngsters diagnosed with cancer rising 40 per cent in the past 16 years because of air pollution, pesticides, poor diets and radiation, scientists have warned” (New Zealand Herald, September 4, 2016). According to a lead researcher, “air pollution was by far the biggest culprit, accounting for around 40 per cent of the rise, but other elements of modern lifestyles are also to blame.

While several EU nations are pushing for a stronger, more unified European military (EU Observer, September 12, 2016), others are pointing fingers and trying to remove other member states.

“Everyone knows you should never go to sleep on an argument, but a new study suggests the old adage might be just as important for a person’s health as [for] their relationship” (Telegraph, August 17, 2016).

Failing governments are major contributors to suffering on a global scale. “Venezuela continues to be embroiled in an economic crisis that has included food shortages.... Inflation is at 700 percent, the country continues to be in a recession and ‘basic food and medicine are in severely short supply’… Venezuelans spend their days queueing for hours at supermarkets, but often go home empty-handed” (US News and World Report, September 2, 2016).

According to a recent report, “the day is fast approaching when the Palestinian Authority [PA] we have known for the past 22 years will cease to exist. PA leader Mahmoud Abbas’s US-trained Palestinian security forces have lost control over the Palestinian cities in Judea and Samaria. His EU- and US-funded bureaucracies are about to lose control over the local governments to Hamas. And his Fatah militias have turned against him” (Jewish Worldview, August 31, 2016).