Geologists are reported to have discovered, deep below the earth’s surface in Brazil, a diamond that contained ringwoodite.
The mineral ringwoodite was 1.5% water contained as hydroxide ions. Scientists believe this could prove there is a store of water in the earth’s mantle. Graham Pearson, a geochemist at the University of Alberta in Canada, said: ‘It translates into a very, very large mass of water, approaching the sort of mass of water that’s present in all the world’s oceans.’ This idea seems to match Scripture’s description of ‘waters below and waters above’ in Genesis 1.7.
Burma: attacks
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Artillery and air strikes by Burma (Myanmar) government forces on rebel bases in Kachin state in November displaced hundreds of ethnic Kachin, a predominantly Christian people long targeted, partly because they are not Buddhist.
The Revd Lama Yaw of the Kachin Baptist Convention, who visited areas near Mohnyin where the offensive intensified on 15 November, said that 200 civilians took shelter in churches after attacks against the Kachin Independence Army. Another Christian leader in Mohnyin said that some 300 villagers had fled their homes on 19 November and were taking shelter in his church.
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