Church Issues

• CofE to consider new baptism service for transgenders: The General Synod in July will discuss a proposal for a special service to baptise people into their chosen gender and name, to help celebrate and welcome transsexuals. Read more here.
  
• New GAFCON bishop to be consecrated today: Rev Canon Andy Lines is being consecrated in the USA to pastor Anglicans in Europe seeking to remain faithful to the Bible’s definition of gender and sexuality. Read more here and here.

World Scene

• Canada can now force citizens to endorse trans agenda: The new bill adds ‘gender expression’ and ‘gender identity’ to Canada’s human rights code and hate crimes legislation, meaning that people can now be charged with a hate crime for refusing to use gender neutral pronouns. Read more here.
  
• Pride parades have an anti-Israel flavour: Being queer increasingly also means being anti-Semitic. Read more here.

Israel and Middle East

• War looms on Israel’s northern border: Israel has closed part of the Golan to visitors due to stray Syrian shells. Iran and its allied Shi’a forces (including Hezbollah and the Assad regime) have their eye on Israel – and a new Iranian poster overlooking Israel’s northernmost town of Metulla proves it – inscribed with the words ‘we are coming’. Read more here.
  
• Iran sets up countdown timer for Israel’s destruction: As part of Al-Quds Day rallies, a timer has been erected in Tehran counting down 25 years to Israel’s destruction, supposedly in 2040. Meanwhile, at the London Al-Quds Day march, ‘Zionists’ were blamed for the Grenfell fire.
  
• Assad planning another chemical attack? The Trump administration has warned that Assad is planning another mass chemical weapons attack on civilians, though there are fears that an American backlash could lead to direct clashes with Russia. Read more here.

Upcoming Events

• Kelvin Crombie / CMJ tour: Please click here for the full list of Kelvin's June/July UK tour, in partnership with the Church's Ministry among Jewish People and based around his up-coming documentary '31 October, Destiny's Date?'.
• Foundations Taster Day, Somerset (8 July): 10am-5pm, Rockwell Green Christian Centre, Wellington. Free. Click here to find out more and register your interest.
• London Bible Week (17-22 July): Emmanuel Centre, Westminster. Click here to find out more.
• Foundations South (11-13 August): High Leigh Conference Centre, Herts. Weekend conference of Hebraic teaching, worship and fellowship, on the theme of 'controversy'. Featuring teaching from Prophecy Today's Resources Editor Paul Luckraft. Click here for more information.
• Feast of Tabernacles celebration (20-21 October): Emmanuel Centre, Westminster. Join Barry and Batya Segal and Vision for Israel for their annual Sukkot celebration. Click here for more information and to book tickets.

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)
• Family Watch International
• Barnabas Fund
• Kehila News (Israel)