Live updates on faith, culture, politics, and humanitarian issues impacting Christians across the globe.
Egyptian Christian’s Verdict Delayed another Month
Posted on Friday, August 24, 2001
ISTANBUL, May 9 (Compass) -- An Egyptian criminal court stalled again today on delivering a verdict against Shaiboub William Arsal, the Coptic Christian defendant in the highly-publicized El-Kosheh double-murder trial.
Egyptian Court Releases All 89 El-Kosheh Defendants
Posted on Friday, August 24, 2001
ISTANBUL, December 8 (Compass) -- A criminal court in Egypt's Sohag governate yesterday released without bail all 89 defendants charged in the New Year's massacre in El-Kosheh village, promising a final verdict against the suspects on January 9.
Barak Re-Enters Political Fray With Right-Ward Tilt
Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2001
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak delivered on Monday his most outspoken comments yet on the violent Palestinian intifada since it drove him from office last February, insisting there should be no more negotiations with PLO chief Yasser…
Arab/Islamic Threats Against Israel Never End
Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2001
In recent days, Hamas Sheikh Ahmed Yassin has defended Islamic suicide bombings as a "democratic right," a leading Egyptian newspaper urged Palestinians to kill Israelis everywhere, and Saddam Hussein has called on Jordan to open its borders to…
Ancient Israel, the Zodiac, and the Sun God
Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2001
The latest edition of Biblical Archaeology Review asks an interesting question: Did some ancient Jews observe the Zodiac and worship Helios, the Greek sun god? Raiders News Update believes 2 Kings 23: 11 and similar verses prove this…
What’s Really Happening In Indonesia?
Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2001
A militant fundamentalist group from Idaho is spreading terror across the Midwest-and federal troops are siding with the attackers.
Islamic Glee
Posted on Saturday, August 4, 2001
This is one of the most difficult reports I have ever written. I debated waiting a bit to send it out, due to the deep grieving that is still gripping my native land as decaying bodies are dug…
How Things Really Work …Again
Posted on Friday, August 3, 2001
We had hoped that Shimon Peres' seemingly irrational appointment of Carmi Gillon as ambassador to Denmark would open up his role in the Rabin assassination. So far, that has not happened, but it will. Instead, and from the…
Child Rape – A cry from Africa
Posted on Friday, August 3, 2001
By Eric Wayman Special Correspondent to Assist News Service Costa Mesa, CA (ANS) — An appalling epidemic of child rape is emerging in sub-Saharan Africa. This region, roughly the lower one-third of the African continent, is all ready…
New Trial Ordered for Accused Killers in El-Kosheh Massacre (Egypt)
Posted on Wednesday, August 1, 2001
On Monday, an Egyptian appeals court overturned a controversial verdict that absolved most defendants in the country's worst massacre of Christians in decades in early January 2001 and ordered a retrial. Over the weekend of December 31, 1999…
Latest Headline Briefs from Israel – July 23, 2001
Posted on Monday, July 23, 2001
Israeli police thwarted a major bomb attack in the northern port city of Haifa yesterday, when a Palestinian suicide bomber was arrested before carrying out an attack in a crowded area.
Latest Headline Briefs from Israel
Posted on Monday, July 16, 2001
Efforts to save the collapsing cease-fire shifted to Cairo today, where Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat met separately with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Israel Retaliates Striking a Syrian Radar Station
Posted on Monday, July 2, 2001
Israeli warplanes attacked a Syrian radar station in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley today, in retaliation for an attack by Islamic Hizbollah guerillas on Friday that seriously wounded an Israeli soldier.
300,000 Young People Rebel Against Promiscuity
Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2001
Somehow beauty arrests the emotions. And what is more beautiful than the youth? Somehow vibrancy sparks the imagination. And what is more vibrant than the youth? But too many of our youth are robbed of their beauty, their…
