Israel will hold a national war exercise to test emergency response on the home front during a large military conflict. The drill will simulate rocket attacks by Hezbollah and Hamas as well as an eruption of nationwide violence by Israeli Arabs. Scenarios on the domestic front will including wide-scale rioting and blocking of major roads,… Read More Israel holding a national war exercise
The coming weeks are decisive for the future of the nuclear deal with Iran, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday the 10th of October, adding that every day that passes without Tehran responding to U.S. overtures will result in Iran enriching more uranium. Speaking during a visit to Israel, the outgoing chancellor said that… Read More Coming weeks are decisive for Iran nuclear deal, Merkel says
This morning we looked at those who are in Christ Jesus who will not be judged as sinners but are taken on by God as His children. (Romans 1 & 8) We thought of the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus which has made us free from the law of sin and… Read More Morning service of 2021 October 17: Adopted children
This year’s Special Issue of the Christadelphian Tidings is ready for you to download and share with your family and friends. This year’s Special Issue was written almost exclusively by and about Young People and their struggles in Coming of Age in Christ. We are sure that you will enjoy it and ask that you… Read More Christadelphian Tidings looking at teenagers and young adults “Coming of Age in Christ”
After twenty years of conflict, the US withdrawal from Afghanistan has brought the curtain down on Nato’s military mission there. BBC News reported: “Under a deal with the militant group, the US and its Nato allies agreed to withdraw all troops in return for a commitment by the Taliban not to allow al-Qaeda or any… Read More Signs of the Times – Afghanistan: a defeat for the West?
The landlocked multiethnic country located in the heart of south-central Asia that got in the news every day for twenty years, got special attention when America decided to leave that region of a continuous endless war. For millennia great armies have attempted to subdue Afghanistan, officially Islamic State of Afghanistan. Its significant mineral resources remain largely… Read More Afghanistan 2020-21 report – 9/11 – 20 Years on – A land in shambles
The mountainous country with an extensive plateau covering central Anatolia, Turkey has caused Europe enough headaches in 2020 and 2021. Though a multiparty republic with one legislative house; its head of state the president is governing the country like a dictator and trying to make it a totalitarian Islamic state. Its land area is greater… Read More Turkey 2021 update
Transcaucasia, also known as the South Caucasus, is a geographical region on the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, straddling the southern Caucasus (Russian Kavkaz) Mountains, presenting us the Caucasian States lying between the Black Sea (west) and the Caspian Sea (east) and occupied by Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. Around the Black Sea… Read More South Caucasus 2021 update
Dominated by the great arc of the Carpathian Mountains, whose highest peak, Moldoveanu we find Romania, or Rumania, with its national capital Bucharest. The great arc of the Carpathians is accompanied by an outer fringe of rolling terrain known as the Subcarpathians and extending from the Moldova River in the north to the Motru River… Read More Romania 2021 update
Bounded by Ukraine to the north, east, and south and by Romania to the west, Moldova lies to the east of the great arc of the Carpathian Mountains. Until today there is still the problem of Transdniestria, also called Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Republic and Pridnestrovie, separatist enclave in Moldova, located on the east bank of the… Read More Moldova 2020-2021 update
At the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea we can find the country which is of so much importance for us. The small country with a relatively diverse topography has often been negatively in the news with the continuous fighting between them and Palestine. The desire for a Jewish homeland by the People of God,… Read More Israel 2021 update
On our visits to the Greek islands, we more than once could witness how vendors of candles sold them to church visitors and as soon as the visitor was gone, took them away to resell them. The established church of Greece, and one of the most important autocephalous, or ecclesiastically independent, churches of the Eastern… Read More Greece 2021 update
Finland, officially Republic of Finland, Country, northern Europe, having as majority of the people Finns and a small Sami (Lapp) population in Lapland. The country is predominantly Protestant but has also a large group Eastern Orthodox church members. The country has the highest percentage of church membership in Scandinavia. The great majority of the people… Read More Finland 2021 update
The northernmost of the three Baltic states, compared with other European countries, Estonia has a large percentage of foreign-born residents and their children. Only about two-thirds of the population are ethnic Estonians. The vast majority of Russians, the most significant minority of the Baltic states, are also scattered throughout other post-Soviet states such as Belarus,… Read More Estonia 2021 update
Communication with many of our brothers and sisters has been maintained utilising modern technology ‘online’ as we continue to ‘walk together’ in fellowship as we see the day approaching. Whilst ‘virtual’ fellowship is not the same, it has become very important in our care for one another in our united walk to the Kingdom. Several… Read More Adriatics and Hungary 2020 report
On the west coast of the Iberian Peninsula, southwestern Europe, once continental Europe’s greatest power, Portugal shares commonalities — geographic and cultural — with the countries of both northern Europe and the Mediterranean. Like everywhere in Europe, here also, regular attendance at mass has declined in the cities and larger towns, particularly in the south.… Read More Portugal 2020 report
As a country predominantly Roman Catholic; also Eastern Orthodox), Poland became a member of NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004 but took on a not so social attitude to help others, like the refugees who tried to enter the country. Many Polishes have some extreme right ideas and are against other religious… Read More Poland 2021 update
In the Weekly World Watch for October 3 – 9, 2021 Andy Walton looks a.o. at China. China has warned that “war may be triggered at any time” with Taiwan after it deployed a record number of fighter jets into the self-governing island’s air identification zone. The government in Beijing sent 56 military aircraft, including… Read More Andy Walton looking at a “war may be triggered at any time” with Taiwan
A short visit to see two sisters in the Oslo area took place in January. Two further visits booked for the first half of 2020 had to be cancelled because of Covid-19. Although no visits to Norway have taken place since the pandemic began, contact with our three isolated sisters has been maintained, one of… Read More Norway 2020 report
Last year the decision was taken to meet in homes rather than renting a meeting room. Largely this has not happened, and meetings have been via Zoom, and these have been supported by some of those who have visited the island. The members have largely benefitted from online meetings, as some were not able to… Read More Malta 2021 update
