News and Prophecy

Wars, politics, crimes- it seems like all the news is bad news. When times are turbulent, we can remember our hope and anchor is the good news of the Kingdom of God.

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World News and Trends: Could Britain leave the European Union?

Columnist Mark Steyn stated that "poll after poll shows that up to half the British electorate wants out of the EU" (The Daily Telegraph).
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World News and Trends: The Cold War and President Reagan

In January 1981, Ronald Reagan entered the highest office of the land as U.S. president.
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World News and Trends: The European Union's dangerous liaisons

The Wall Street Journal Europe reported that "just as the United States imposed sanctions on Damascus, the European Union is finalizing a deal to facilitate trade with Syria."
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World News and Trends: China breaks Hong Kong agreement

A foreign affairs journalist, John Simpson, wrote: "Last Monday the convenient fiction on which Britain handed over Hong Kong to China ('one country, two systems') came to an end.
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World News and Trends: EU members agree on constitution

All 25 European Union (EU) member countries have agreed in Brussels on a final draft of the new European constitution.
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Could Anti-Semitism Lead Europe to Another Tragic Defeat?

We Europeans all sincerely want peace. But at times we have unwisely supported policies that have prolonged and aggravated political conflicts. So we need to ask, is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East linked in any way to the...
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Treasure Digest: How Would Jesus Vote for President?

"Vote for George W. Bush!" "Vote for John Kerry!"
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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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Our Cultural Battlegrounds

An editorial note from Scott Ashley
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The Day After Tomorrow movie: How Does It Compare With What the Bible Says?

Currently being shown in theatres across the United States and in many other parts of the world is a movie titled The Day After Tomorrow. Directed and co-produced by Roland Emmerich, this film depicts in graphic detail and drama the...
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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: Religion very important to teenagers

Laura Sessions Stepp articulated an obvious but important truth in a recent article for The Washington Post.
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World News and Trends: Who will be the new pharaoh?

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is now 75.