The International Olympic Committee bucked political correctness and gave the 2008 Olympics to a country that has been saddled with an appalling human rights record.

Good news-poverty is down in the United States. But, a better average living standard doesn't translate into better living for all.

The average age at which U.S. teens start drinking is 16-down from 18 in the 1960s.

The European Commission's recent unanimous rejection of a proposed merger between two American companies threatens to widen the rift between Europe and the United States.

A Newsweek report states that there has been more scholarship devoted to the study of end-time biblical prophecies in the past 30 years than there had been in the last 300 years. A series of novels based on these prophecies...

Are you aware of the latest dance craze? Freak dancing is sweeping the western world, thanks to the promotion MTV has given it over the past several years. Kids and school administrators clash over whether it's acceptable. Parents seem uncertain...

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.

Many people view Revelation, sometimes called the Apocalypse, as a mysterious book of strange symbols and images. Yet it has a clear and definite historical background.

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...

Christ said that the poor would always be with you. Now, 2,000 years later, that prophecy still haunts mankind.

First hand letters from a doctor working in Africa depict a grim scene.

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.

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."

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...

So many have paid the ultimate price in war. But are we willing to pay the price of peace?

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.

The arm of the law is growing more potent, and an age without political borders is dawning upon the world. National leaders accused of human atrocities no longer neccessarily have a secure place to hide.

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...

Family structure is constantly changing. We cannot afford to assume that different is better. Tampering with God's design will bring catastrophic results.

Continually on our television sets we see violence from the city of peace. Where is the voice of reason, the voice of fairness, that can bring peace to the violent streets of Jerusalem?