• Billy Graham’s last message: The preacher’s final will encouraged his family to “maintain and defend at all hazards and at any cost of personal sacrifice” the Gospel message. Read more here.
  
• Think-tank says cut CofE from Charles’s coronation oath: A group from UCL has recommended that the coronation oaths either be updated to reflect Britain’s religious diversity or be axed altogether, as they “reflect a period of history that is now over”. Read more here.

World Scene

• Iran dismisses Pompeo’s demands: The US Secretary of State outlined a series of demands on Monday with which Iran must comply to avoid the re-imposition of heavy sanctions, but these were dismissed by Iran on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Putin and Macron have been meeting this week to try to salvage the nuclear deal.
• Cuban plane crash included 20 church leaders: 10 pastors and their spouses on their way home from a retreat were among the 100+ killed in the devastating crash last Friday. Read more here.
  
• Dutch TV broadcasts anti-Semitic Eurovision spoof: The song parodied Israel’s winning Eurovision entry to critique Israel’s activity at the Gaza border – but tipped over into anti-Semitic tropes about Jews and money. Read more here. Campaigns are already underway in other countries to protest the holding of next year’s Eurovision contest in Israel.

Israel & Middle East

• Abbas in hospital: West Bank Palestinians are in a leadership quandary as their 82-year-old President has been hospitalised three times in a week with reports of pneumonia. Read more here. While in hospital, Abbas has been photographed reading a paper with an anti-Semitic cartoon on the back page.
  
• Latest on Gaza: Protests at the border have subsided, but a group of ten still managed to break through the fence and set fire to an empty IDF outpost. Senior Hamas member Mahmoud Al-Zahar has admitted that all talk of a ‘peaceful resistance’ is ‘deception’. The UNHCR has voted to investigate Israel’s handling of the Gaza riots (Britain abstained).
  • Behind the Smokescreen: French film-maker Pierre Rahev has published a 20-minute documentary of footage from the Palestinian side of the border which makes for very interesting viewing. Watch on Youtube.
    
• Nazi descendants march in Jerusalem: Grandchildren of Waffen SS members have been marching in Jerusalem to celebrate Israel’s 70^th and repent for the sins of their forefathers. Read more here.

• Moedim meeting (London): 15 June, 6:30-9:30pm, All Soul's Clubhouse, London. Join Steve Maltz and Richard Teideman for their 'Head of the Month' Hebraic roots meeting. Click here to find out more.

Recommended Sources

At Prophecy Today UK we are aware that the world is moving very quickly and it is difficult to keep up with all the latest developments – especially when the material circulated by our mainstream media is increasingly far from reality and definitely not devoted to a biblical perspective!

Though we are not a news service, we want to help keep you informed by passing on updates and reports as we are led. This will be a selective, not an exhaustive, round-up, which we hope will be helpful for your prayers. Click here to browse our News archive.

We also recommend the following news services for regular updates from a Christian perspective:

• Christian Concern (UK)
• Christian Institute (UK)
• JNN News (Barry and Batya Segal, Israel)
• Worthy News (Israel)
• Family Watch International
• Barnabas Fund
• Kehila News (Israel)