Good News Magazine: March - April 1999

Although Egypt has changed in many ways, it is sobering to realize that human nature and the human condition haven't changed that much.

A decades-long struggle brought freedom for slaves in America. But the struggle for freedom from slavery is not over.

Captivity begins with human choice, spirit and character. Discover how we can be freed from spiritual slavery.

Our world's astounding technical and scientific progress, coupled with spreading global prosperity over recent decades, masks enormous suffering in...

Could Europe's new currency unit, the Euro, and the economic union behind it have unexpected and dangerous side effects? Could they even cause war?

In January, 11 nations launched the euro, the new European currency. What does this crucial event mean for the rest of the world?

How can we remove the pain, hurt and guilt of broken relationships? How can we put forgiveness into practice?

The latest trip by John Paul II to the Americas underscores the popularity of an aging yet dynamic religious figure.

Does it matter whether we take God and His Instructions seriously?

In this issue we pick up the story with conditions and circumstances that allowed the descendants of the Kingdom of Judah to return to their homeland.

Last year was the most naturally disastrous on record, with extensive natural catastrophes occurring three times as often as in the 1960s, according...

Ezra the priest was a faithful servant of God who helped fulfill God's promises to the remnant of Judah in Babylon in the 400s B.C. His calling was...

Decades after the Jews went into captivity in Babylon, King Cyrus of Persia made a decree (ca. 538 B.C.) that the Jews in Babylon could return to...

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that four million American households consist of unmarried couples living together.

A team of reporters for the respected Sunday Times has uncovered laboratories around the world willing to sell or export lethal biological agents...

"The ambition of the Germans knows no bounds."

In a world in which most people take the easy way out, is it worthwhile to do things differently?

For decades many nations have spent billions of dollars on bigger and better guns, tanks and military aircraft in a constantly escalating arms race.

Berlin-based Transparency International reports that the 1998 "Corruption Perceptions Index" indicated Denmark, Sweden and Finland were the least...