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Middle East Crisis Headlines – 12/27/2000
Posted on Wednesday, December 27, 2000
In a dramatic sign that the Palestinians are leaning toward accepting US President Bill Clinton’s latest peace proposals, Yasser Arafat will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak in Egypt tomorrow.
Sudanese Government Troops Gang-Rape Black African Slaves
Posted on Friday, December 22, 2000
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA, (December 22, 2000) -- Soldiers of the Government of Sudan's Popular Defense Forces (PDF) systematically gang-raped enslaved black African women and girls during and after slave raids on villages in Southern Sudan. This report is…
Middle East Crisis Headlines – 12/19/2000
Posted on Tuesday, December 19, 2000
Ehud Barak's chances of remaining Israel's prime minister increased dramatically in the middle of last night when the Knesset voted against holding general elections at this time.
Middle East Crisis Headlines – 12/18/2000
Posted on Monday, December 18, 2000
Events in Israel continue to swirl in an almost surrealistic dance today as new talk of peace mixes with more violence and final Knesset moves toward early elections next year.
Sudan’s Armed Forces Enslave More Black African Women and Children
Posted on Monday, December 18, 2000
Westlake Village, CA (October 18, 2000) The Government of Sudan's Popular Defense Forces (PDF.) have again raided villages in Aweil West County of Northern Bahr-El-Ghazal. In one village alone, Goc Machar, they enslaved at least 21 black African…
Middle East Crisis Headlines – 12/14/2000
Posted on Thursday, December 14, 2000
Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s office has confirmed that the Israeli leader held another telephone conversation with US President Bill Clinton earlier this week regarding the peace process.
International Aid Sending Medicines, Food to Sudan
Posted on Monday, December 4, 2000
SPRING LAKE, MI (December 4, 2000) - A bitter civil war and famine conditions have devastated the people in Sudan, Africa. International Aid has responded to the tremendous needs of the Sudanese people by shipping such relief supplies…
Religious freedom deteriorating globally, report says
Posted on Monday, November 6, 2000
WASHINGTON D.C., 6 November 2000 (Newsroom) -- Religious freedom around the world is deteriorating, according to a report by Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom in Washington, D.C.
Sudan loses in attempt to win seat on U.N. Security Council
Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2000
10 October 2000 (Newsroom) -- Under intense lobbying from the United States and numerous human rights and religious groups, the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday rejected Sudan’s bid to win a seat on the Security Council.
U.N. vote on Security Council seat for Sudan mobilizes opposition
Posted on Friday, October 6, 2000
6 October 2000 (Newsroom) -- The prospect of Sudan gaining a seat on the United Nations Security Council may help galvanize opposition against a repressive regime that condones slavery, religious persecution, and bullying its African neighbors, human rights…
Kenya church, political leaders renounce decree to muzzle radio stations
Posted on Monday, September 25, 2000
Government plans to regulate the FM radio industry are an attempt to muzzle stations broadcasting in indigenous languages and will violate constitutional guarantees of freedom of the press, religious and political leaders in this East African nation charge.
VOM Hospital bombed by Government of Sudan
Posted on Friday, September 8, 2000
A VOM-sponsored hospital in Southern Sudan was targeted by bombs of the radical Islamic Government of Sudan (GOS) early Tuesday morning, killing one Christian worker and one other person and injuring several others.
Religious leaders sign “Commitment to Global Peace”
Posted on Thursday, September 7, 2000
Religious leaders sign "Commitment to Global Peace"The statement includes 11 promises to work for global peace, education and the abolition of nuclear weapons, among other things.
U.N. critics wary of summit for world government agenda
Posted on Thursday, September 7, 2000
NEW YORK (BP)--Under the watchful eye of opponents of world government, heads of state from 150 countries gathered in New York Sept. 6 for the United Nations Millennium Summit, a three-day event organizers say is meant to combat…
U.N. religious summit speakers decry efforts at conversion
Posted on Thursday, September 7, 2000
WASHINGTON (BP)--The Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders failed to accomplish one of its main objectives in four days of meetings but evidenced widespread opposition to efforts at religious conversion.
Taiwan Presidential Election Results And What It Means
Posted on Monday, September 4, 2000
After nearly eight months of heated competition in election campaigns by five presidential candidates, by 6:30pm of March 18th the victory of Chen Shui-bian and Liu Hsiu-lian of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was assured.
