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.

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World News and Trends- Americans and Britons bored with monogamy

These days adultery is becoming big business in both America and Britain. According to the London Times, "Thousands of Britons have joined a [Web] site for the married but looking" (March 13, 2007).
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World News and Trends- Strategic threats facing Israel: An update

Former Israeli general Uri Dromi sums up the current threats against the Jewish state.
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World News and Trends: Germany debates the American missile shield

A proposed American missile shield to be built in Poland and the Czech Republic is designed as a radar system and missile battery to counter projectiles from rogue countries like North Korea and Iran.
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World News and Trends- Hatred of America: A global disease

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...
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Seek God's Will First

Humility says we should hesitate to follow our first impulse, instead seeking God's will through deliberative Bible study and prayer.
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The European Union: Blessing or Modern Tower of Babel?

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.
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How One of Today's 'Bad Guys' Ended the Scourge of Slavery

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...
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Compass Point and Daily News

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The far reaching effects of al-Qaeda on Europe and America

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The far reaching effects of al-Qaida on Europe and America

How could a group of "men living in caves" have any far-reaching effect on the West? Your Bible speaks of just such far-reaching effects of Middle Eastern geopolitics instigated by Muslim extremist.
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Germany's Rising Economic and Political Power

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...
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Rain, Rain, Don't Go Away

The worst drought in a hundred years finally ended after the prime minister urged Australians to pray for rain.
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Will Iran Be Stopped by Diplomacy?

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...
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A Better Way to Make War on Terror

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.
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Crises in Britain, America, and Israel

These three nations are part of the larger prophetic understanding of world affairs at the close of the age.
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Massive Drought Grips Australia

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?
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What Are We to Learn From the Virginia Tech Tragedy?

Without repentance and heeding the call of the Kingdom of God, life can be extinguished without the chance to understand its purpose.
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Europe's Long Dream

Coming events in Europe will catch the world unaware. Discover how those major events could dramatically affect your life.
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The World Is Watching Nigerian Elections

What happens in Nigeria, the world's sixth largest producer of oil, is of strategic interest to a host of nations. Internal issues also make the country a target for terrorist recruiting and a possible new front in the war on...
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