Live updates on faith, culture, politics, and humanitarian issues impacting Christians across the globe.
Barak Alters Story On Rich Pardon
Posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2001
In yet another twist in the troubling "pardon-gate" saga, Israel's former Prime Minister Ehud Barak has changed his story regarding the number of times he spoke to US President Bill Clinton about pardoning fugitive billionaire Marc Rich.
Mubarak to Tell Bush “What is Going On” in Mideast
Posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2001
US President George W. Bush is hosting his first Arab leader, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, at the White House on Monday for frank discussions on some sore points between Washington and Cairo, especially regarding who is responsible for…
Iraq Blames Explosion On “Zionists”
Posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2001
An explosion rocked the Iraqi capital of Baghdad early Friday morning, killing two people and injuring several others. The regime of dictator Saddam Hussein immediately blamed the blast on "the agents of treachery and vice... the Zionists and…
Saudis Storm Plane to End Chechen Hijacking
Posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2001
Saudi security forces stormed a hijacked Russian plane on Friday, ending a hostage situation that began when armed Chechen men commandeered the plane after takeoff from Istanbul yesterday. Three people were killed and several others were injured in…
Lebanese Christians Want End to Syrian Yoke
Posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2001
Anti-Syrian sentiment is rising among Christians in Lebanon, evidenced by bold comments by Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir in his visit to the US last week, and during protests at a Beirut university this week.
Barak Faces Hostile Knesset Without Unity Government
Posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2001
As the Knesset returned from its three-month summer recess on Monday, its first session since the Palestinian uprising started one month ago, embattled Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak faced a deeply divided parliament without an emergency unity government…
Labor Follows Peres Into Unity Government
Posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2001
After a bitterly heated debate among feuding party luminaries, the Labor Central Committee on Monday night approved by a two-to-one margin calls by Shimon Peres to join a national unity government with Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon.
Right-Wing Fights Over Remaining Cabinet Seats
Posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2001
With the Labor Party finally deciding this week to join Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon's government, the Likud leader turned in earnest to negotiations with right-of-center parties, only to be confronted with a series of ultimatums over the remaining…
Assad Predicts Israel Will Eventually Lose War With Syria
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
Just as he issued an historic invitation to PLO chief Yasser Arafat, Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has said that war with Israel is a distinct possibility, that Israel would be on the losing side in the long term,…
Powell, Israel To Boycott Durban Conference
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
US Secretary of State Colin Powell will not attend the upcoming anti-racism conference in Durban, forcing Israel to reassess the level of its own representation at the UN forum where Arab/Islamic elements plan to bash the Jewish State…
Palestinians United In Terror As Israel Mourns Eight Dead
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
The Palestinian war against Israel has heated up again, as eight Israelis have been killed in commando raids and terrorist ambushes from Saturday through Monday, prompting IDF strikes at numerous Palestinian police positions. PLO chief Yasser Arafat and…
An Inside Look at the West Indies Country of Haiti
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
Hurricanes. Poverty. Voodoo. Extinct animals. Disease. Illiteracy. Deforestation. Struggle for survival. These haunting words describe the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere: Haiti.
New Harry Potter Book shares pre-sale frenzy with D&D
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
“The world of imagination and fantasy can help pass on to the child cultural and social messages [and] function as a way to experience vicariously things an individual could not do first-hand.†Aminadav, C. "Fantasies and imagination in…
You May Kiss the Bride, Um, Um … Each Other
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND (ANS) -- Marriage is now no longer a union between one man and one woman - at least in the Netherlands. Two do not necessarily become one in a country where marriage is a man-made…
Hungarian Jewish Community Fears Revival of Anti Semitism
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (ANS) -- A leader of Hungary's Jewish community has warned of renewed anti Semitism in this former Communist nation, as Jewish organizations took legal action against an ultra right wing party. "There is a revival of…
Christian Aid Responds to Horror in the Moluccas
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.)-Responding to urgent pleas for help, Christian Aid has joined a campaign to raise $1.2 million to rescue Christians feared targeted for conversion or extermination by Muslim jihad warriors in Indonesia.
Terrorists Target Christians in Ambon
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
In a new twist to the violence against Christians in eastern Indonesia's Maluku Islands, Muslim Jihad fighters dressed like Japanese "ninjas" have begun targeting individuals under cover of darkness.
‘There are NO Christians Left in Ternate’
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
MANADO, Indonesia (Compass) -- "There are no Christians left in Ternate," said George Saselah, who had left his farm there to join his wife and newborn daughter in a refugee camp in Manado, on Indonesia's North Sulawesi island.
Massacres Continue in Eastern Indonesia
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
LONDON (Compass) -- Maluku's head of police admitted that authorities cannot dislodge the hundreds of Muslim jihad fighters scattered throughout eastern Indonesia's Maluku province and who have escalated the inter-religious conflict as Christmas approaches. More than 100 Christians…
