World News and Prophecy: January 2009

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Not long ago, a newscaster commented on the financial struggles facing the United States in the wake of yet another venerable financial institution...
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Rev. Martin Luther King, head-and-shoulders portrait, seated, facing front, hands extended upward, during a press conference.
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Forty-five years ago this past August, a relatively young man stood before an audience of a quarter of a million people gathered in the National Mall...
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The servants God sent to the kings of Israel and Judah had difficult roles. Their message was not popular, and they were often rejected as irrelevant...
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Bible prophecy shows us the world is moving toward the fulfillment of several key events mentioned in Scripture. While we watch the horizon, we also...
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The world's most ambitious currency union in modern times has reached a milestone some critics predicted would never happen.
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Over three centuries after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Charlemagne, king of the Franks, was crowned by the pope in the year 800. The second...
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"On November 24, 800, Charlemagne entered the ancient capital in state; on December 1 an assembly of Franks and Romans agreed to drop the charges...
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"In AD 800, Charlemagne (Charles the Great), a zealous Roman Catholic, was crowned Imperator Romanorum (Emperor of the Romans) by Pope Leo III..."