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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Partisan Politics Do Not Lead to Salvation

It's time we move away from the empty partisan politics of this world and focus on the knowledge of God's truth.
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This Is the Way Walk in It: All Men Are Created Equal

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
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In Brief... World News Review: Saudi King Says Arab World Waiting to Explode

Arab region is besieged by a number of dangers, as if it was a powder keg waiting for a spark to explode
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In Brief... World News Review: Should Biggest Debtor Nation Be Worried?

With the United States now as the biggest debtor, can its dollar still continue to be in demand?
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Five Significant Trends of 2006

What are some of last year’s really important benchmark events and trends? How does the Bible pass judgment on these happenings today?
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Is American Isolationism on the Rise?

Americans show growing signs of wanting to withdraw from an increasingly complex and frightening world. Is the isolationism of earlier decades about to return? And what would the consequences be?
Disasters to Hit the United States
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Disasters to Hit the United States

The United States has faced its greatest national health emergencies in the past five years. What do they show about America’s ability to handle national disasters? What is yet to come?
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The Next Holocaust

The ugly specter of anti-Semitism was on display again last month in Iran. It should send a shudder up and down your spine, and serve as a warning that this disease has not been eradicated and threatens world peace.
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Post "post-Christianity" in Holland?

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Europe in 2007

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Chávez's Messianic Inclinations

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Two Options For Iraq

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Deciding How to Decide

The bottom line is that you and I can make a real assessment of how life is going "on the ground" with the challenges facing us personally.
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Crisis in the Netherlands

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Why U.S. Population Growth Has Produced Little Joy

Throughout most of its history, a growing population was considered the United States’ most treasured national resource. Yet the news about America’s population reaching the 300 million mark has caused almost no celebration among the populace. Why?
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World News and Trends- Revisiting Gibraltar: Long "siege" finally ended

According to The Times, officials "from Britain, Spain and Gibraltar are meeting to sign a deal that is expected effectively to end the siege imposed on the disputed territory by General Franco [of Spain] almost four decades ago."
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World News and Trends: Will the Pope, Habermas turn Germans to religion?

Pope Benedict XVI's recent message in Germany urged Europe to rethink the notion that secularism and economic progress is the answer to the European Union's future.
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Gates Sounds Alarm on China

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World News and Trends: Incurable TB threatens South Africa

According to The Guardian, "Doctors at the Church of Scotland Hospital in Tugela Ferry [in South Africa] were already grappling with the onslaught of AIDS and its partner in death, tuberculosis."
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Venezuela Six More Years of Chavez

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won reelection Dec. 3 to another six-year term. Should the world take him seriously? Should the United States be concerned about his rhetoric? Yes!
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