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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America: Uninformed and Unaware

America's tendency to forget, to put the past and the rest of the world behind them, is a contributing factor to Americans being less informed about world affairs than many of the world's peoples.
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One Year After Sept. 11: What Have We Learned?

A year after suicide hijackers killed almost 3,000 men, women and children in attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, what have we learned?
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World News and Trends: Significant crime hike in England and Wales

A rash of newspaper articles in July reported that England and Wales top the Western world's crime tables.
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World News and Trends- Southern Africa: Hunger may affect millions

The following summary was included in a report from Maseru, Lesotho, to The Independent on Sunday: "The World Food Programme is warning that it may soon have to feed up to 8 million people in Southern Africa as famine stalks...
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World News and Trends: Russia becomes NATO partner

Not many years ago it would have been unthinkable, but now it's happened: Russia has become a NATO partner.
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World News and Trends: Right-wing movement sweeps Europe

The winds of political change are blowing across Europe, including upheavals in the Netherlands and France.
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World News and Trends: National malaise grips France

A Sunday Times feature article contained an element of surprise.
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World News and Trends: Outside powers to occupy Middle East?

Writing in the British Independent newspaper, diplomatic correspondent Robert Fisk commented on the continuing Mideast conflict, which has contributed to the division between the United States and the European Union.
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America's Values War

The war on terrorism, uncertainty in the economy, worries over unemployment. Every day it’s more bad news. In recent months people have begun to reconsider some of the values they thought archaic not that long ago—values like courage and personal...
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The Middle East: Worlds Colliding

Why does the Middle East so often dominate our headlines?
Hospital staff preparing for surgery.
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This Is the Way, Walk in It: Getting Underneath the Skin

So many people today have had "life's air" knocked out of their existence. It takes someone very special to move beyond the hectic moments of life and make the proper decision regarding who needs help first and foremost.
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In Brief... New Archbishop Amid Controversy

Recently Queen Elizabeth II, supreme governor of the Church of England, formally approved the nomination of Rowan Williams, age 52, as the new archbishop of Canterbury after a meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair. When he is enthroned (probably early...
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In Brief... Fears That Saudi Arabia Could Fall to al Qaeda

Saudi Arabia may be dangerously close to collapse, fueling concerns of an extremist takeover of one of the West's key allies in the war on terror. Antigovernment demonstrations have swept the desert kingdom in the past months in protest of...
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In Brief... Blair Pushes for a European Superpower

Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair has challenged Europe to stop complaining about the United States and instead bring together its military resources to become a superpower on the same level with America.
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When Is Enough...Enough?

Speculation rises about when, not if, America will invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein's repressive regime. But what will be the consequences of such an invasion? Experts are divided as the time for action draws closer. Is America asking the...
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Money Won't Solve These Problems

The recent International AIDS Conference in Barcelona called on rich nations to spend still more money on AIDS. Governments spending more money won't solve this or any other problem.
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Restoration...Hope Beyond the Headlines

What a summer when it comes to headlines! Just like the stock market, our hearts, hopes and dreams have gone up and down on an incredible roller coaster ride of news events. Many have affected us personally and others have...
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What Do You Mean, "Under God"?

You've heard the controversy about "under God" and that the vast majority of Americans are in no mood to even consider removing these words from the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance. But is the United States a nation under God? The...
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In Brief... Europe's Next Hurdle an Inclusive Identity

The remarkable progress made in the past 50 years of relative peace to unify many of the nations of Europe into what now constitutes the European Union has not been achieved without difficulty. Differentiated by language, ethnicity, conflict and varying...
Security wall at Qalqilya, West Bank, February 2004.
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This Is The Way, Walk in It: When The Walls Come Tumbling Down

Some walls are made of brick and stone, while other ramparts are simply psychological in nature. The "Iron Curtain" of the last century was a composite of brick, wire, moat and at times simply a very real mental and emotional...
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