300+ killed, 900+ injured in Egypt violence (Second Coming Watch #372)

1. According to The New York Times, Egyptian security forces killed more than 200 protesters and wounded hundreds of others on Wednesday in a daylong assault on two sit-ins by Islamist supporters of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, that set off waves of violence in the capital, Cairo, and across the country. 

2. According to The Jerusalem Post, the Israeli military launched an airstrike over the northern area of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning, targeting concealed rocket launching sites in the enclave. 

3. According to the Associated Press, tens of thousands of people were evacuated as a powerful typhoon thundered into southern China on Wednesday after shutting down the bustling Asian financial center of Hong Kong and sinking a cargo ship. 

4. According to The Times of Israel, at the start of talks with the visiting US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the threat of Iran attaining nuclear weapons "dwarfs" the other security challenges facing the nation.

5. According to AFP, Supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi torched three churches in central Egypt on Wednesday in reprisal attacks as police dispersed demonstrations in Cairo. The assailants threw firebombs at a church in Sohag, a city with a large community of Coptic Christians, causing it to burn down.

The Bible says in James 5:7: "Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain."

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