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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"Pink" Politicians are "in"

The major political parties in Germany are traditionally identified by color. Conservatives are black, socialists red, liberals yellow and environmentalists green. Now a new color has arrived on the political scene: pink.
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After Arafat

A second contentious dispute between Yasir Arafat and a second prime minister over the control of the Palestinian Security Services shows the world what kind of leader Arafat is—and what the Palestinian Authority will be like when he is gone.
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Intelligence Failure-From Listening to the Wrong People?

Sept. 11 and the war in Iraq have both been partially blamed on bad intelligence. It came as no surprise to this World News and Prophecy writer.
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Britain's Declining Respect for Biblical Values

Traditional values, like basic respect for the rights and dignity of others, are fast disappearing from a society steadily undermined by secularism and growing ignorance of the Bible. How do we rebuild a culture of respect?
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Radical Liberalism

Lawyers argue in U.S. courts that pornography falls under the constitutional right of free speech. There is a strong movement to replace Judeo-Christian influences in schools with extreme multiculturalism. Radical feminists denounce concepts of the traditional family. Homosexuals want to...
Portrait of George Washington
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This is the Way Walk in It: Beyond Politics

Traditional values, like basic respect for the rights and dignity of others, are fast disappearing from a society steadily undermined by secularism and growing ignorance of the Bible. How do we rebuild a culture of respect?
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Ronald Reagan: In His Own Words

In the wake of his recent death, hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles have been written about former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. We focus here on the religious beliefs that shaped his character and ultimately influenced the world.
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Could We Lose the War on Terror?

A quarter century ago a nation in some ways not that different from the United States and Britain lost a war on terror. What lessons can we learn from that conflict so history does not repeat itself?
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World News and Trends: Never on Sunday?

The Daily Mail's social affairs correspondent Steve Doughty recently summarized a somewhat surprising Anglican Church report.
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World News and Trends: Building the behemoth

The Middle East isn't getting any quieter or terrorists less suicidal.
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World News and Trends: Who will be the new pharaoh?

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is now 75.
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World News and Trends: The European constitution suddenly reemerges

As a Daily Mail feature article recently reported: "Suddenly the threat of an all-powerful EU constitution is perilously close ... How profoundly it will change Britain" (March 26).
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Ronald Reagan Remembered

It's hard to believe looking back now, but there was a time not so long ago when the "domino theory" seemed inevitable. One country after another was falling to international communism. Until Ronald Reagan.
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Photo: Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Remembered

It's hard to believe looking back now, but there was a time not so long ago when the "domino theory" seemed inevitable. One country after another was falling to international communism.
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First the End of an Empire - Now, the End of Britain?

Are we witnessing the end of the nation whose people, “relative to their numbers, contributed more to civilization than any other people since the ancient Greeks and Romans”?
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Will Enlargement of the European Union Ensure Peace?

The European Union is seen as an entity that will bring peace. But only Jesus Christ will bring true world peace.
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Member States of the European Union

The member states of the EU as of May 2004
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Who Will Lead the New Europe?

Few qualities in human affairs are more important than competent, capable leadership. With the May 1 addition of 10 nations joining the European Union, which nation or nations will exercise the most control, for good or bad? Who will govern...
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The Rising European Superpower: Prophesied in the Bible?

Events in Europe are reshaping the world. The European Union has now expanded from 15 to 25 members. Most of Europe already shares a common currency and plans within months to have a European constitution to further unify the continent...
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In Brief... World News Review: Moqtada al-Sadr Revolutionary or Puppet

Is Moqtada al-Sadr a genuine Shia religious leader, or is he a self-important rebel?
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