Florida GOP faceoff
Italy cruise ship search is over
2 injured by falling shopping cart in the Bronx
Hero sniffer dog retires in Poland

Florida Republican primary is today
Obama defends drone policy
Congress takes on insider trading
32 inches of snow slam town in New York State

The following is excerpted from “Cuccinelli Smells a Rat,” ARL Now, Arlington, Virginia, Jan. 12, 2012: “Virginia  Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli called a local talk radio show on Tuesday to complain about rats in D.C. Specifically, Cuccinelli was peeved about a D.C. law--the Wildlife Protection Act--which, since March 2011, has outlawed some common pest control practices including the use of lethal traps on certain species of rats and mice (and on other wild animals that get stuck in homes). ‘Last year, in its finite wisdom, the D.C. City Council passed a new law--a triumph of animal rights over human health,’ he told the hosts of WMAL’s ‘The Morning Majority‘ show. ‘Those pest control people… aren’t allowed to kill the rat. They have to relocate the rat. And… that’s actually not the worst part. They cannot break up the family of the rat.’... Industry leaders say the Wildlife Protection Act makes it prohibitively expensive for homeowners to pay for a letter-of-the-law pest control service. Such a service, they say, would involve trapping an entire family of animals in and around a home and then driving around the District looking for an uninhabited wooded spot to let the critters out.” “Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened: (Romans 1:21). 

(Friday Church News Notes, January 27, 2012, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

Florida poll puts Romney in the lead
NTSB sends investigators to Fla.
Syria violence escalates
Private museum collection goes up for auction

Last push for Florida primary votes is on
U.S., Iraq reportedly to hold defense talks
Administration to introduce plan for military families
Syria claims pipeline attacked.

The following is excerpted from “Chinese Bible Exhibition,” China Aid News, Oct. 13, 2011: “China Aid Association issues the following solemn declaration with regard to the Bible exhibition ‘Thy Word is Truth,’ currently touring the United States, that was organized by the “Bible Ministry Exhibition of the Protestant Church in China,” which is part of China’s official Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement. ... [Though Bibles can be printed and distributed on the Chinese mainland within the official Chinese Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement network] any Christian organization or individual outside the Three-Self system that engages in not-for-profit printing, shipping and warehousing of Bibles is deemed to have engaged in illegal activities and is punished according to the law. ... In November 2005, Beijing house church pastor Cai Zhuohua was sentenced to a three-year prison term because he had transported and warehoused a large quantity of Bibles and other Christian materials. During his imprisonment he was subjected to forced labor: making soccer balls for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. In June 2009, Beijing house church leader Shi Weihan was given a 3-1/2 year sentence for printing and transporting a large quantity of Bibles and Christian materials. In August 2009, Uyghur Christian Alimujiang was sentenced to a 15-year prison term for his work as a house church leader, and he is still serving that sentence today. This is the real ‘truth’ of Red China. ... such a Bible exhibition is a political propaganda show, the intent of which is to mislead members of the public, politicians, and church leaders overseas who are unaware of the realities in China and to cover up the Chinese government’s persecution of house churches and any government-approved church that dares to adhere to the principles of the Christian faith and refuses to submit to the government’s political control and go against those principles.” The communist propaganda display was welcomed by the Billy Graham Library and Dallas Theological Seminary. Information sent to these organizations by China Aid were ignored. 

(Friday Church News Notes, January 27, 2012, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) 

Gingrich lashes out at Romney, trails in polls 2 days before Fla. primary
At least 9 dead in Fla. highway crash
It could take up to 10 months to remove stricken cruise ship
Heavy metal church service.

More than 70 majors of U.S. cities have banned together in support of homosexual “marriage.” The “Mayors for the Freedom to Marry” include the highest elected officials of New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Houston, and San Diego. The objective is to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act that was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1996 and signed by President Bill Clinton. This landmark federal law defines marriage as “a legal union between one man and one woman” and says that no state may be required to recognize as a marriage a same-sex relationship considered marriage in another state. In blatant disregard for U.S. law, Barack Obama’s administration, which has an avowed homosexual rights agenda, has refused to defend the act in court. The normalization and even acclaim of homosexuality is a sign of the end times, like earthquakes, wars and rumors of wars, the return of Israel to her land, and sweeping apostasy. In His prophecies of the last days, the Lord Jesus specifically mentioned Sodom. “But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed” (Luke 17:29-30). Sodom is also mentioned in the prophecies of Peter and Jude. 

(Friday Church News Notes, January 27, 2012, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

GOP race heats up in Florida
IMF appeals for more cash
Another body found in cruise ship
Victoria Azarenka wins Australian open.

The Psalmist said the heavens declare the glory of God, and that has never been more true than in the age of modern science. The evidence for God has never been greater, and the skepticism has never been deeper. If it weren’t for Bible prophecies such as Psalm 2 and 2 Peter 3, it would be an unfathomable situation. The age of space telescopes began in 1990 with NASA’s Hubble, which was placed in orbit by a U.S. space shuttle. NASA also launched the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory in 1991, the Chandra X-ray Observatory in 1999, and the Spitzer Space Telescope in 2003. These space telescopes were joined by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory and Planck Space Observatory in 2009. With no need to pierce the planet’s atmosphere, unprecedented telescopic power and multi-spectrum capabilities, space telescopes have captured never-before-seen images of the heavens. The most iconic is “Pillars of Creation,” composed of columns of interstellar gas and dust from the Eagle Nebula captured by Hubble in 1995. Knowing the willful skepticism that predominates within the American space program, it probably wasn’t named that in honor of the Creator, but it should have been. A more recent example is a new view of the Eagle Nebula created from combined multi-spectrum images from the ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory and x-ray readings from the XMM-Newton space probe. If men don’t want to believe in God, that is their business, but what a joy it is to know the Almighty Saviour God through Jesus Christ and to learn of Him by His incredible creation. “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard” (Psalms 19:1-3). 

(Friday Church News Notes, January 27, 2012, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)