Live updates on faith, culture, politics, and humanitarian issues impacting Christians across the globe.
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…
Sulawesi Christians Ask Open Doors to Plead Their Cause
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
INDONESIA - (Open Doors, July 9, 2001) - Christian leaders in Tentena, in Indonesia’s central Sulawesi province, pleaded with Open Doors to “be our voice†in the face of increased atrocities being perpetrated against them in Poso district,…
Ready for Reconciliation in Indonesia?
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
AMBON, Indonesia (Compass) -- "It is disappointing that the suffering of the Christians due to the conflict in the Malukus has been insufficiently exposed in various reports on a national and international level," stated the U.S. Consul General…
Netanyahu on Track for Rematch with Barak
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
Friends and even foes of former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu are smoothing the way for him to timely mount a challenge against current premier Ehud Barak in a special election in early February. The remaining quandry, however, is…
Barak Still Letting Waqf Build on Temple Mount
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
Leading Israeli archaeologists are charging Prime Minister Ehud Barak with continuing to turn a blind eye to extensive construction activity on the Temple Mount by the Moslem Waqf, which is destroying valuable antiquites buried there and violating Israeli…
Knesset to Decide Special or General Elections
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
Its another long, testy day in the Knesset, which is scheduled to decide late Monday evening between two bills that will determine whether Israelis will vote just for prime minister in a few months, or also for a…
