Luke 21:11 There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.
Revelation 6:3-4 NCV When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" Then another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given power to take away peace (prosperity, rest) from the earth and to make people kill each other (butcher, slaughter, to maim violently, in streets), and he was given a big sword (assassins sword, terrorist, loud, mighty, sore afraid).
A drive to eliminate polio in Pakistan has been stopped after the Taliban executed five women who had been administering the vaccine in Karachi.
Four of the women were killed in a coordinated assault that occurred over a 20 minute time period that kept warnings from being issued to various clinics.
Polio is endemic in Pakistan, the sixth most populous country in the world. That means that the disease is so common that it infects roughly the same number of people in the country each year.
By contract, the last naturally occurring case of polio in the United States was in 1979.
The Pakistani government has “declared war” on the disease and are focused on eradicating it. Over 200 children ended up paralyzed last year from the virus but officials were optimistic they were winning the battle.
“Clearly, we are now so close to eradicating the polio virus,… acts of this type, which are intended to dissuade us, will not deter us,” Shahnaz Wazir Ali, spokesman for the Prime Minister, told the BBC.
The militants claim the people giving the injections are really western spies.
