Bible resources related to "Afghanistan"

Regarding the death of Osama Bin Laden, I’m grateful for many reasons but not gleeful. When I watched on TV people gathering around the White House and in Times Square in New York to cheer, chant and dance, one part of me felt like joining in and another part of me felt disturbed as I remembered Proverbs 24:17-18 which warns, “Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles; lest the LORD see it, and it displease Him, and He turn away His wrath from him.”

“Osama bin Laden is dead!” While Americans spontaneously burst onto the streets of Washington, in triumphalism, chanting: “USA! USA! USA!” ...the silence in some other parts of the world was deafening.

Media depicting the exuberance of Americans, expressing their relief that 54 year old Bin Laden, who had a US$50 million reward on his head, was now dead and buried at sea, left many Muslims around the world in a state of bewildered wonderment.

Australia has thrown out John Howard after eleven years as Prime Minister and replaced him with a relative novice, Kevin Rudd. The change in leadership forecasts other changes for Australia. Mr. Rudd has said he will withdraw 500 front line Australian troops from Afghanistan by the middle of 2008. He has also pledged to sign the Kyoto treaty on global warming and he will attend a UN sponsored climate summit in Bali in December.