Live updates on faith, culture, politics, and humanitarian issues impacting Christians across the globe.
Barak Does One More About-Face Before Election
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
Following the very sort of zig-zag pattern that has brought him into such disfavor with Israeli voters, Prime Minister Ehud Barak has reversed course and said he is now open to a possible meeting with PLO chief Yasser…
Barak Campaign Determined to Smear Sharon
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
Trailing badly going into the final week of the election, the campaign of incumbent Prime Minister Ehud Barak stooped to new lows, as activists had to be restrained on Tuesday from distributing fake call-up orders for IDF duty…
Election Winds Down With Sharon in Command
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
In the final days of the snap Israeli election for prime minister, incumbent Ehud Barak courted the Arab and Russian immigrant blocs, but had little chance of catching the surging Likud candidate Ariel Sharon, especially after the ultra-Orthodox…
Sharon Wallops Barak
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
Though widely expected, Likud candidate Ariel Sharon's lopsided victory in Tuesday's special election for prime minister was so potent, it drove incumbent Ehud Barak into political retirement and has left the Labor party in turmoil.
Talks on Unity Coalition at Critical Stage
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon is pressing on with his bid to persuade vanquished Israeli leader Ehud Barak and the Labor party to join a national unity government, but differences still remain over the coalition’s policy guidelines and the…
Arafat’s Corruption Costing His People
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
While Western envoys are pressing Israel to help alleviate raging Palestinian poverty caused by their own violent uprising, Arab states are withholding the bulk of $1 billion pledged towards the renewed intifada because they do not trust PLO…
Arab States Dictate Peace Terms to Sharon
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
Arab foreign ministers met in Cairo over the weekend and demanded that Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon stick to the land-for-peace script laid out in UN resolutions and the Madrid and Oslo peace talks or else.
Palestinians Test Sharon with New Spiral of Violence
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
Palestinian rioters and terrorists escalated the renewed intifada in recent days throughout Gaza and Judea/Samaria, including Jerusalem, in a move meant to “test†Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon even before he formally assumes office.
Sharon Closing In On National Unity Government
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
Likud leader Ariel Sharon's decisive win in last week's election and the subsequent escalation in Palestinian violence have spurred calls for Labor to hurry up and join a unity coalition.
Europe, US Parting Ways Over Peace Process
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
In what appears to be a growing divide between US and European approaches to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the European Union this week expressed support for the Palestinian position that Israeli concessions made since the Camp David talks should…
Plot Uncovered For Sarin Gas Attack in London Subways
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
Britain's security services have discovered a plot by an unidentified "Middle East group" to perpetrate a terrorist attack on London's Underground rail network using the highly lethal sarin gas.
Nigerian Churches will Challenge Islamic Law
Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2001
LAGOS, Nigeria (Compass) -- Disturbed by some northern Nigeria states' widespread declaration that they are Islamic states and have adopted Islam as the state religion, Nigerian Christian churches have resolved to go to court to challenge what they…
New Human Rights Council in Peru Tackles Plight of Innocents
Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2001
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (Compass) -- In late June, the government of Peru initiated a special task force, the National Human Rights Council, which is charged with freeing persons wrongfully imprisoned as terrorists.
Dutch weigh legalized euthanasia even for children as young as 12
Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2001
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (BP)--Pro-life activists in the Netherlands are facing an uphill struggle as they mobilize opposition to a government proposal to legalize euthanasia and "assisted suicide" -- even for children as young as 12.
Earth Day Joins Easter — A Sign of Our Times?
Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2001
“The emergence of a civilization in which knowledge moves freely and almost instantaneously throughout the world… has spurred a renewed investigation of the wisdom distilled by all faiths. This panreligious perspective may prove especially important where our global…
Deadly Ebola Virus Strikes Close to Home for Uganda Missionary
Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2001
KAMPALA, UGANDA (November 1, 2000) -- Former Canadian grid iron and nightclub singing star Peter Simon Turko, who is now a pastor in Kampala, Uganda, ministering to homeless children and those infected with the AIDS virus, has written…
Netherlands legalize Euthanasia
Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2001
The Netherlands has become the first country in the world to legalise euthanasia, after the Dutch senate formally approved a bill allowing mercy killing.
Religious Freedom in the Classroom Disputed in Chile
Posted on Friday, August 24, 2001
SANTIAGO, Chile (Compass) -- The issue of religious discrimination is in the public spotlight in Chile, due to the case of San Pedro de la Paz, a town some 300 miles south of Santiago. There a Baptist lawyer…
On Cults, Leaders and Politics in China
Posted on Friday, August 24, 2001
ANHUI "Here we only have one registered church, which is packed out with people standing in the courtyard. However, since the church was opened, none of the accounts listing all the believers' donations have ever been made public…
