Live updates on faith, culture, politics, and humanitarian issues impacting Christians across the globe.
UN Body Supports Anti-Israel Map
Posted on Sunday, August 27, 2000
A key United Nations agency has lent its support to a Palestinian Authority Ministry of Tourism map that completely obliterates Israel, CNSNEWS.com reported.
Clinton urges Nigerians to view diversity as blessing, not curse
Posted on Sunday, August 27, 2000
LAGOS, Nigeria, 27 August 2000 (Newsroom) – U.S. President Bill Clinton, during what may be his last official visit to Africa’s most populous nation, urged Nigerians to learn to live together despite their religious differences.
The Trouble with Digital Angels Added: Jul 20th, 2000 3:07 AM
Posted on Saturday, August 26, 2000
Several weeks ago a disturbing secular news story grabbed my attention. Applied Digital Solutions (ADS) received patent rights to new technology named Digital Angel (TM). What's bothersome is that Digital Angel is a miniature digital transceiver specifically designed…
Barak Axes Religious Affairs Ministry
Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2000
Pushing a key element in its alternate agenda for survival, the shrunken cabinet of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud decided to close the Religious Affairs Ministry by the end of the month. The move is a key plank in…
Borno becomes seventh Nigerian state to adopt Sharia
Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2000
Borno becomes seventh Nigerian state to adopt Sharia 23 August 2000 (Newsroom) — Borno has become the seventh state in Nigeria’s mostly Muslim north to formally adopt Islamic law, or Sharia. Police in the state capital of Maiduguri…
Return to the Killing Fields
Posted on Friday, August 18, 2000
SAN JOSE, CA (August 18, 2000) -- Faith Shaw was born in Rwanda, a country that between 1959-64 saw more than 500,000 people killed and a similar number or more fled the country. She was horrified when in…
Report Says UN Summit Seeks to Implement One-World Government
Posted on Wednesday, August 16, 2000
(AgapePress) - The United Nations Millennium Summit is set to get under way in a few weeks. Many Christians regard the agenda as an organizational meeting for a one-world government. The UN calls it the largest single gathering…
Debt forgiveness campaign aims at G8 summit in Japan
Posted on Wednesday, July 19, 2000
19 July 2000 (Newsroom) -- Rock stars, aid agencies, and Pope John Paul II are calling for world leaders attending this week’s G8 conference in Okinawa, Japan, to wipe out the debt of poor countries.
Rights groups fear French cult bill would curb religious liberty
Posted on Wednesday, July 5, 2000
5 July 2000 (Newsroom) -- France is set to pass a law aimed at cults that human rights campaigners fear could lead to the persecution of minority religious groups and possibly make evangelism illegal. The bill, which was…
Putin shows mixed signals on religion policy
Posted on Wednesday, April 19, 2000
19 April 2000 (Newsroom) -- Russia's newly elected president is displaying mixed signals in his approach to church-state relations, according to the Keston Institute, a British-based monitor of religious liberty. Though Vladimir Putin has not publicly discussed his…
Nigeria’s Muslim states approve dialogue on Sharia
Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2000
NIGERIA, 4 April 2000 (Newsroom) -- Northern state governors in Nigeria have approved the formation of a committee of Muslims and Christians to dialogue on aspects of the controversial Sharia, or Islamic law, which was implemented by several…
Bomb Hits Christian School In Southern Sudan
Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2000
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (March 26, 2000) - A Christian school in Southern Sudan was attacked on Thursday, March 23, by the Islamic-led government forces of Sudan and numerous injuries were inflicted to students and their parents.
Pope will meet rabbis to help restore breach with Jews
Posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2000
JERUSALEM, 15 February 2000 (Newsroom) -- Seeking to heal strained relations with Jews, Pope John Paul II has agreed to meet with Israel's chief rabbis during his historic visit to the Holy Land in March, according to a…
