Live updates on faith, culture, politics, and humanitarian issues impacting Christians across the globe.
Unity gives way to dissension at U.N. religious summit
Posted on Friday, September 7, 2001
New York -- A kind of spiritual bonhomie was on public display during much of the Millennium World Peace Summit, with religious leaders, attired in their vestments and finery, issuing carefully crafted declarations and prayers for peace.
International religious summit at U.N. receives criticism
Posted on Friday, September 7, 2001
NEW YORK (BP)--Nearly 2,000 religious and spiritual leaders from throughout the world gathered for the Aug. 28 opening of a United Nations-affiliated conference on world peace amid controversy over the nature of the meeting and the exclusion of…
Senate OKs trade status for China despite deteriorating rights record
Posted on Tuesday, September 4, 2001
WASHINGTON (BP)--Congress' annual review of China's human rights record before granting the Beijing government favored trade status came to an end Sept. 19 when the Senate resoundingly approved permanent relations with the communist giant.
Southern Baptists to discontinue discussions with Roman Catholics
Posted on Tuesday, September 4, 2001
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)--North American Mission Board (NAMB) officials have announced plans next year to conclude a series of talks with representatives of the Roman Catholic Church about the Bible's role in the Christian faith.
Advance of Islam in Africa
Posted on Tuesday, September 4, 2001
Islam is exploding across sub-Saharan Africa at a rate even statisticians are having difficulty quantifying, and its growth, fueled by seemingly limitless funding from petroleum sales, is impacting the economy of the region, the political outlook, and other…
Zimbabwe Christians say God working through land seizures, persecution
Posted on Tuesday, September 4, 2001
GWERU, Zimbabwe (BP)--Screams pierced the air as invaders forced their way onto the farm just outside Gweru, Zimbabwe. The attackers forcibly marched frightened farm workers to the workers' living compound, where they beat the workers with axes, picks…
Official Israeli Statement at Durban Conference
Posted on Monday, September 3, 2001
Following is the official statement by Rabbi Michael Melchior, deputy Foreign Minister of Israel, delivered by Ambassador Mordecai Yedid on Monday at the Durban conference on racism.
Iraqi Chemical Weapons Drill Turns Deadly
Posted on Monday, September 3, 2001
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is back on everyone's radar screen again, after his forces reportedly ventured into Saudi territory and killed a soldier, while a recent training exercise using chemical weapons turned deadly for at least 20 elite…
Casualty Figures Released in Kaduna, Nigeria
Posted on Monday, September 3, 2001
LAGOS, Nigeria (Compass) -- The head of the Nigerian Bible Society recently released the casualty figures of Christians killed and churches destroyed during the February and May religious clashes between Muslims and Christians in Kaduna, the capital city…
Still No Justice for David De Vinatea
Posted on Monday, September 3, 2001
LIMA,PERU (ANS) -- "We're praying for the liberation of my husband," Chely Heredia de Vinatea told a Christian leader who visited her husband David, an evangelical imprisoned six years for narco-trafficking crimes he did not commit. "Maybe the…
Has the Prince of Persia Gone Nuclear
Posted on Monday, September 3, 2001
Earlier this week the president of the Nuclear Control Institute testified before the Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Subcommittee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that "important questions about Iraq's nulear-weapons program remain unanswered." He further charged…
Inside Look at What is Happening In Israel
Posted on Saturday, September 1, 2001
I am in the Israeli coastal town of Ashkelon tonight, where I have been listening for several hours to the sound of Israeli fire striking at Yasser Arafat's "Force 17" security headquarters in the nearby Gaza Strip. Other…
Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders
Posted on Saturday, September 1, 2001
WCC General Secretary Konrad Raiser welcomes Kofi Annan's efforts to bring civil society into a closer relationship with UN's Work Rev. Dr Konrad Raiser, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), will give one of the…
Molding Human Resources for the Global Workforce
Posted on Saturday, September 1, 2001
"...all of us, including the 'owners', must be subjected to a large degree of social control... The major function of the school is the social orientation of the individual. It must seek to give him understanding of the…
Christian Leader Murdered in Mozambique
Posted on Saturday, September 1, 2001
Antonio Manuel Chilaule had just returned to his parked vehicle after participating in a church service in Maputo when gunmen who demanded keys to the vehicle accosted him. Chilaule turned over the keys, but because he saw the…
UN Parley On Racism May End Up Judenrein
Posted on Friday, August 31, 2001
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan opened the controversial Durban conference on racism on Friday, receiving his longest and loudest applause for remarks critical of Israel, an omen of the gathering's festering antisemitic agenda that threatens to quickly drive…
Preaching the Word in War-Torn Macedonia
Posted on Friday, August 31, 2001
In the Balkans, fear and tension fill the hearts of those who see a flare-up of the ongoing conflict between ethnic Albanians and the other peoples of the region. Rebels making almost daily mortar attacks and shootings surround…
German Official Urges Freeze on EU Funding of PA Schools
Posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2001
A German member of the European Parliament said on Sunday that European Union funding for the Palestinian Authority's education system should be frozen after he was confronted with proof of "anti-Semitic" schoolbooks in Palestinian classrooms.
