Herbert W Armstrong

Dusseldorf, West Germany. "Willkommen Konigin Elisabeth" read the banner as Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, stepped off her plane at the Cologne-Bonn airport on May 18. It was to be a spectacular eleven-day state visit to West Germany. Not since the days of King Edward VII ...

Four Hundred Years of Experience Gather for Seminar Thirty-five ministers of the Church in the United States got the year off to a good start with nine days of meetings and workshops at Ambassador College, Big Sandy, Texas. The session was one of a continued series of educational programs de ...

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel arrived several days ago in Washington to urge the Ford Administration to restore $500,000,000 in aid that it had announced plans to cut for the fiscal year 1976-1977. Mr. Rabin also wanted to reassess the overall Middle East, situation and, of course, secure b ...

As we go to press three momentous events have rocked the world. This is the most important news in years! Moscow, October 15: "Khrushchev ousted!" During the previous four days high-ranking Reds held super-secret gatherings at the Kremlin. Charges against Soviet Dictator Khrushchev were hu ...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur left Corregidor on a dark and desperate day, March 11, 1942. The Pacific theater of war was a threatening and bleak arena. One island after another was buffeted into complete submission. The enemy marched into the Philippines as confident and precise as a band marching down Co ...

Why does a Christian-professing civilization use a week named after pagan deifies? What is its origin? When did the Church adopt it? SYNOPSIS: We take "time" for granted - yet we measure it with days named after pagan deities. Why? Our civilization is filled with pagan customs and supersti ...

EVENING rush-hour traffic streamed out of Rochester, New York. On the edge of the business district, cars and trucks, headlights gleaming in the early dusk, waited to swing on to Interstate 490. It was 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, November 16, 1971. To these motorists, taking a familiar route home, ...

Hiroshima Unforgettable Fire by Tom Delamater - Cycling Shifts Into High-Tech by Dan Taylor - What Employers REALLY Want by Lowell Wagner Jr. - What Are Teens Thinking? by Robert C. Taytor: Hiroshima. The very name of this Japanese city is a reminder of the awesome tragedy of nuclear war. Every Augu ...

The recent flurry of world-shaking catastrophes has caused even President Reagan to wonder if we are not approaching "Armageddon" and the end of this world. Suddenly, unexpected mind-boggling disasters fill the news. September 1, the deliberate shooting down by Soviet warplanes of the Kore ...

Take the United States, for example. More Americans attend church in an average week than attend all professional baseball, basketball, and football games combined in the average year. All athletic events of all kinds draw less than 1/ 15th as many people in a week as attend church. How did it come ...

Question: We were discussing the Bible in world history class the other day. One student asked where Cain got his wife. If Adam and Eve only had two sons and one of them was killed, who was there to marry? I'm confused. No one in our class could answer the question. Answer: When God created Adam a ...

"SURELY, Johnny, life was meant to be full - to be enjoyed." It was the notorious Christine Keeler talking. At the time, she was about fifteen, probably still unspoiled, expressing her ideas to a boy friend. But her desire to enjoy life to the full led to a life of immorality. Later, it pr ...

BANGKOK: For some six months now Thai Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj has managed by a rare skill for compromise and his own popularity to keep a shaky coalition government together as Thailand struggles to keep democracy alive after 40 years of military dictatorship. Some two years ago, the Thai peopl ...

As cities went it was a fairly large one. To date it had enjoyed a fairly influential existence in its particular geographic region. And for the most part the city fathers had no reason to suspect anything but continued prosperity for the future. But then it happened. It was just one man who came cr ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - ON THE SAME day I arrived in Tokyo, last December, there was a major-scale anti-United States riot in Okinawa. It was top front-page news in all Tokyo newspapers for several days. Okinawa formerly belonged to Japan. Its people are of Japanese stock. When I ha ...