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World Regions

"So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city" (Genesis 11:8).

Long ago, an ancient civilization revolted against God, gathering together and attempting to build a tower to the heavens. In response, God divided their languages and caused them to scatter across the globe. Now, millennia later, each world region has its own unique history...and shared future. Find out more below, or focus on a specific region with the links on the right.

  • by Rex Sexton
In June 1967 the tiny nation of Israel crushed an attempted invasion by Egypt, Jordan and Syria in less than a week. Israel's complete military victory should have ended its security problems. But in the forty years since that conflict the Middle East has been anything but secure. Peace was not victorious.
  • by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder
Americans don't like not knowing why they are hated around the world. Of course, the United States still has some nations as friends—chiefly among the English-speaking world, Israel and in parts of Northern and Eastern Europe. But the numbers are becoming fewer.
  • by Darris McNeely
Humility says we should hesitate to follow our first impulse, instead seeking God's will through deliberative Bible study and prayer.
  • by John Ross Schroeder
A union of 27 nations with nearly half a billion people should not be carelessly underestimated. Yet the lofty ideals of the EU founding fathers and those of Europe’s current leaders should sometimes be taken with a grain of salt.
  • by Melvin Rhodes
Two hundred years ago, Great Britain became the first major nation to abolish the slave trade. By the end of the century slavery had been abolished around the world. Here is the remarkable story of the abolition of the slave trade—and of its tragic return to plague the world.
  • by Melvin Rhodes
Germany, not the United States, is the world's biggest single exporting nation. The German-dominated European Union is the world's biggest single market. Additionally, the German-based euro is increasingly the international currency of choice. Few realize how significant these economic factors are.
  • by Sarah Gray
The worst drought in a hundred years finally ended after the prime minister urged Australians to pray for rain.
  • by Randy Stiver
The better War on Terror isn't fought with guns and bombs or with political contention. It's fought in the spiritual battlefield of the human mind. It's fought with truth from the Bible.
  • by John Ross Schroeder
America has some 180,000 military people in Iraq and Afghanistan still trying to establish democratic stability in those two troubled nations. President George W. Bush is also hampered by a Congress urging direct talks with Iran and even contemplating restraints on potential American military strikes. But will the only credible alternative option, diplomacy, really work with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...
  • by Reg Wright
Years of drought have taken Australia to the edge of massive water redistribution that threatens vital agricultural interests. Many blame it all on global warming, but is there something deeper to consider?
  • by Darris McNeely, Melvin Rhodes
Coming events in Europe will catch the world unaware. Discover how those major...