News and Prophecy Staff

“In late January, California officials, for the first time in the 54-year history of the State Water Project, announced they were cutting off the flow of water from the northern part of the state to the south, affecting both farms and cities… This as California’s Central Valley, producer of half of America’s fruits, vegetables, and nuts, is experiencing its worst drought on record” (Christian Science Monitor, February 19, 2014).

Following a year-long investigation, UN investigators recommend “North Korean security chiefs and possibly even Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un himself should face international justice for ordering systematic torture, starvation and killings comparable to Nazi-era atrocities” (Reuters, February 18, 2014).

“The concept of gender-neutral parenting first became popular among feminists in America during the 1970s” yet, it is still around (Daily Mail, February 14, 2014). One U.K. couple is raising their son as both a boy and a girl—leaving the ultimate determination of his gender identity to him. His 23-year-old stay-at-home mom commented “‘If Max wants to wear a pink tutu and fairy wings, then he can’...

In 2012, the World Wildlife Federation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a report that studied the effects of powerful weather events on mental health. According to the report “When you have an environmental insult, the burden of mental health disease is far greater than the physical” (Live Science, February 3, 2014).

Anti-homosexuality laws in Uganda are drawing a backlash from world leaders and organizations (NGO’s). Uganda’s conservative leadership recently passed legislation that punishes overt homosexuality and pro-homosexual propaganda (BBC, February 28, 2014). U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called the action “atrocious,” and, “Both he and South African Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu compared the new laws to anti-Semitic laws in Nazi Germany or apartheid South Africa” (ibid.).