World News and Prophecy: February 2002

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New religions dot the world's nations like mushrooms after a rain. They help mold and shape the course of history. A "new" religion that is really the...
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Portrait of George Washington (1732–99)
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All of us who are a little bit older have those anxious moments, when we have forgotten where we last placed our glasses. We simply can't read the...
8 minutes
Human survival has been at stake in times long before our own. Mankind has already passed through several periods of extreme crisis. But the one up...
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth will celebrate 50 years on the throne this year. Few could have imagined the astounding changes in the nations of the...
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Congo's Nyiragongo volcano exploded in a massive eruption on Jan. 18, instantly killing 45 people in the city of Goma. In the aftermath, burning lava...
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U.S. President Bush declared in his State of the Union address that America "will renew the promise of the Peace Corps, double its volunteers over the...
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"Violence never again! War never again! Terrorism never again! In the name of God, may every religion bring upon the earth justice and peace...
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Say "Middle East" to people in other parts of the world, and they will think in terms of countries such as Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Syria...
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Iran and Iraq fought the longest war in modern history between 1980 and 1988, and one million Iranian and Iraqi troops are believed to have been...
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Is America the world's greatest nation? President Bush and many other national leaders think so and have been vigorously proclaiming such in recent...
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Saudi rulers are increasingly uncomfortable with the American military presence in their country and may soon ask that it end, according to several...