Earthquake hits Iran; Hezbollah claims Israel 'not safe' (SCW #450)

1. According to the Associated Press, Iranian state television says a magnitude 5.5 earthquake has killed one person and injured 30 in a small town in southern Iran.

2. According to the Jerusalem Post, while Hezbollah remains entangled in the Syrian conflict, one of its top field commanders warned in an interview with the British newspaper Guardian on Thursday that it would behoove Israel to remain on alert.

3. According to Reuters and AFP, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said that the Korean peninsula will be engulfed in a ''massive nuclear disaster'' if war breaks out there again, warning the US it will not be safe in the event of a conflict.

4. According to a recent study, Christianity dominates the United Nations and more diversity is needed to increase non-Christian representation in world peacemaking.

5. According to Reuters, China's first aircraft carrier has successfully finished a series of tests during a training mission in the disputed South China Sea and has returned to port.

Jesus Christ said in Matthew 24:27: "For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."

Our Second Coming quote for today is from John Chrysostom. He said: "In the first advent God veiled his divinity to prove the faithful; in the second advent he will manifest his glory to reward their faith."

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