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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Political Correctness Hides the Truth

How the West's obsession with political correctness hides some sobering realities.
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World News and Trends: The importance of sea gates

Most of the strategically located sea gates that gave the British Empire and the United States naval supremacy and global dominance have long since been handed over to other nations. But those that remain are also threatened.
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World News and Trends: Stresses in Australian life

According to the International Crimes Victim Survey 2000, published in The Economist, Australia is tops among the rich nations in violent crime and burglary and second only to Britain in car theft.
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World News and Trends: Return to isolationism in the United States?

"As the U.S.-European rift widens, from missile defense and nuclear testing to land mines and global warming, some European leaders . . . suggest President Bush is drawing America into a new era of isolationism," says a recent Associated Press...
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In Brief... Crime Stalks Britain

Britain continues to fall further from it's glorious reputation, now leading in criminal activity instead of peace.
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In Brief... The Apocalyptic Specter of AIDS Marches On

After repeated denials, China has officially admitted a serious problem with AIDS.
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In Brief... Prepare to Reduce Your Standard of Living

Do you remember the advertising line that said, "when [a certain financial planner] speaks, people listen"? People have become accustomed to "listening" to the vagaries of the stock market. Actually, they need to tune their ears to other voices-three in...
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Partitioning Morality

"Does having an extramarital affair mean that a government official is unfit to hold office?" This and related questions have been the focus of the U.S. news media throughout the summer of 2001. Is the subject newsworthy, or is it...
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The Coming Intervention in the Middle East

Blood again stains the soil of the Middle East. Neither the principals in the struggle, nor outside political or religious powers, have been able to broker a peace. Are the circumstances ripe for another power to assert itself?
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World News and Trends: Display of Ten Commandments endangered?

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal of a lower court's ruling that the city of Elkhart, Ind., may not keep a granite pillar engraved with the Ten Commandments on its town-hall lawn.
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World News and Trends: The house that debt built

The Financial Times tells us that "in the US and the UK, household debt has reached a record level as a percentage of disposable income."
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World News and Trends: European cocaine flow flourishing

While U.S. cocaine use leveled off in recent years, the flow of the drug into Europe has nearly doubled—to 220 tons annually—in the last five years.
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Free Trade Area of the Americas What Will Happen to Latin America

The United States can no longer take its superiority in the economy of the western hemisphere for granted. The EU's economic reach grows ever longer and its influence ever stronger.
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The G8 and the Elephant in the Living Room

Any potential good that might have come from the recent summit of the world's economic giants was overshadowed by the death of two rioters among approximately 100,000 who gathered in Genoa to protest the talks. Widespread international poverty remains unresolved...
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Behind the Headlines... First Hand Account: Africa's Deadly AIDS Crisis

First hand letters from a doctor working in Africa depict a grim scene.
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The Growing Plague of Child Pornography

Child pornography was pretty much eradicated in the 1980s," says Kevin Delli-Colli, head of the Cyber Smuggling Center. But, "with the advent of the Internet, it exploded.
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America's Religious Roots

America's citizens "all were reared in a British climate of opinion, with the Ten Commandments at the back of their minds, when not in the forefront."
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America's Astounding Destiny: Was It Foretold in the Bible?

The rise of the United States of America from British colony to superpower is an incredible story worth retelling. Equally incredible is the fact that the rise of the United States and the British Empire was foretold thousands of years...
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In Brief... Children Used as Soldiers

Currently 41 nations use children as soldiers and 120,000 children are fighting in African wars. The country of Myanmar (also known as Burma) holds the "distinction" of having the highest number of child soldiers, 50,000.
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This is the Way, Walk in It: Standing on a Chair

Recently Mary Curtius, a Times staff writer, wrote an article appearing in the June 16, 2001, edition of The Los Angeles Times, titled "Mideast Woes Spill Over to Summer Camp." It is the story of a remarkable program called "Seeds...
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