Since 1982, the Pinetown Ecclesia has been involved in the organising and running of a Summer Bible School in South Africa, which is held at the end of December each year. We have been fortunate to secure speakers from oversees on many occasions, which has added tremendous value to those attending,…
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A recent study in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface reports on “A feedback control principle common to several biological and engineered systems”. The researchers, Jonathan Y. Suen and Saket Navlakha, show how harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) use a feedback control algo…
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Tabor is situated in Lower Galilee at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley in the Northern District of Israel, 17 kilometres west of the Sea of Galilee. Its elevation at the summit measures 575 metres above sea level and it is geologically called ‘a horst’ which is a non-volcanic fault block b…
With war at its doorstep following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Union has demonstrated unity and resolve in its response. The war is also accelerating transformations in the EU’s foreign policy as Brussels is forced to adjust to new geopolitical realities. It is hard to overstate t…
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A two-month truce that began April 2 is holding so far and giving rare hope to Yemenis who have suffered through a now six-year war.
“I am encouraged”, said US Special Envoy for Yemen, Tim Lenderking, in an exclusive interview with Al-Monitor. The “parties have taken some significant steps he…
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Israel celebrated 74 years of independence on 5 May this year. The passage of time and the solemn black-and-white photos of the period lend a feeling that the historic events and the nascent country’s first footsteps were orderly, well thought-out affairs.
But in reality, things couldn’t be mor…
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These extracts are taken from Dr Jonathan Sarfati’s book: By Design – Evidence of Nature’s Intelligent Designer – the God of the Bible.
Spiders
Antonia Kesel at the Institute for Technical Zoology and Bionics in Bremen, and colleagues at the University of Zurich analysed the feet of a ju…
The Jezreel Valley is a large valley in northern Israel which divides the hilly areas of Galilee and the open hills of Samaria in the centre of the land. It is sometimes called the Plain of Esdraelon, which is the Greek derivation of the Hebrew, Yizreʿel, meaning ‘God will sow’.
The plain is a…
These two herbs were mentioned together in Luke 11:42—“But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone”.
The Greek word for “mint” is heduosmos,…
During the recent Direct Line, when I was asked about Russian-Ukrainian relations, I said that Russians and Ukrainians were one people—a single whole. These words were not driven by some short-term considerations or prompted by the current political context. It is what I have said on numerous occa…
Article by Vladimir Putin “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians” Read More »
