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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The Unrealized Lesson of Saddam's Fall and Capture What Is It

Earlier in the year one of our Web site commentators wrote: "On April 9 the statue of Saddam Hussein in the center of Baghdad came tumbling down.
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10 Million AIDS Orphans: A Disaster for Africa

AIDS has taken a horrible toll in Africa, and the plague is far from over. What will stop the horror?
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What's the Solution for Africa's Biggest Problem?

The African continent has been devastated by AIDS, and the problem will get far worse before it gets better. Yet on a recent trip to Ghana I saw a glimmer of hope at the Kumasi Virgins Club. If only people...
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The 'Road Map' to Peace: Doomed From the Start?

Few observers want peace in the Middle East more than the staff and publishers of The Good News. But we know that there is only one true path to peace—and the players aren't on it. Yet the Bible does guarantee...
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'Mr. Smith' Takes on Washington

Perception is reality, at least in the minds of many people. In the developing world the common perception of America's foreign policy often is tragically contorted. The problem is compounded by refusal to consider the real source of many nations'...
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Treasure Digest: Our Final Hour?

"The odds are no better than fifty-fifty that our present civilization on Earth will survive to the end of the present century."
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World News and Trends: Will Catholicism become the religion of the EU?

The leaders of the Roman Catholic Church leveled harsh criticism at the Charter of Fundamental Rights adopted by the European Union in December 2000.
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World News and Trends: Why liberate Liberia?

Where in the world is Liberia? And why is America interested in this tiny country on Africa's west coast?
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World News and Trends- Australia: Neighbor-hood policeman in Asia?

The Middle East is far from the only area on the globe troubled by serious conflicts.
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World News and Trends: The knowledge explosion

According to the August issue of Discover magazine: "In the 1990s some library scientists concluded that our stockpile of information doubles every seven or eight years.
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World News and Trends: Iran threatens Israel with missile

According to the British newspaper The Guardian, Iran claims to have conducted final tests on a missile capable of reaching Israel and U.S. forces in the Middle East, and is poised to deploy the weapon.
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World News and Trends: Israel's security fence disturbs U.S. Mideast aspirations

Israel is in the process of constructing a long security fence to help keep suicide bombers from infiltrating from the West Bank.
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World News and Trends- Turkey: An American ally no longer?

For more than half a century the United States has enjoyed good diplomatic relations with Turkey.
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Star Trek, God's Plan and You

Even the most imaginative science fiction pales in comparison to the ultimate reality God has in store for us. This true story is for children—human children as well as all the children of God.
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Same-Sex Marriage: Does It Meet With God's Approval?

The gay agenda is steadily gaining ground in Western nations, with same-sex marriage finding acceptance. But what does the Bible say—and why? And what's at the root of same-sex attraction?
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'I Hope We've Learned Our Lesson ...'

"One day we were neighbors, and the next day the massacre began." That's how the survivor of a tribal massacre described the shocking turn of events that led to the murder of 18 of her family members. Her tragic story...
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Coming: Heaven on Earth

The latest research of science and the Bible shows God has big plans for planet earth.
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Heaven on Earth?

An editorial note from Scott Ashley
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Those Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer . . .

After a winter of getting up in the dark, coming home in the dark with freezing temperatures and snowstorms, Canadians long for the first robin and signs of spring.
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Removal of Ten Commandments Monument Symbolic of Rejecting God

When the removal of a Ten Commandments monument took place did God notice?