World News and Prophecy: July 1999

Is religion the latest political football in the U.S. presidential election?

President Bill Clinton had a sign taped to his desk at the beginning of his first term in office that read, "It's the Economy, Stupid."

Religion appears to be more important in the United States than any other Western country.

Six months after the first global conference on the millennium bug, experts from over 170 countries met at the United Nations to assess progress in...

A look at three key trends: globalization, religious ecumenism and global power shifts.

President Bill Clinton had a sign taped to his desk at the beginning of his first term in office that read, "It's the Economy, Stupid."

According to a recent report by the World Health Organization, mankind has foolishly underestimated the potential threat posed by bacteria and viruses...

Will modern day Turkey and the Kurds have the same vision as Esau in dealing with their nemesis?

A potentially more dangerous conflict than Kosovo continues to brew in South Asia.

The Montenegrin independence movement has moved into high gear as NATO troops move into Kosovo.

The Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches have ended a nearly five-century-old dispute over how people achieve salvation.

Everyone involved in the strange Kosovo conflict is claiming victory-except its chief victims, the Albanians.

The end of the Cold War promised a safer time, but our planet has become more perilous. Why?

At least two million women from Eastern Europe have been sold as "white slaves" in the West in recent years, according to unofficial estimates by...

As part of the celebrations of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, Rome will be the host site for the next International Marian Congress.

Romanian President Emil Constantinescu has rejected the call for Transylvanian self-government within a federal Romanian state.

U.S. and European intelligence agencies are reporting mounting evidence that Russia and China have massively violated the 1972 Biological and Toxic...

For the first time in the history of England, a census of homosexual couples will be made.

Outside Israel, from Damascus to Washington, the election of Ehud Barak is being hailed as the rebirth of the peace process.

In the 1960s, Vozrozhdeniye was merely a tiny island in the vast Aral Sea.

On June 2, the London-based newspaper Al-Zaman reported that a fatal clash erupted on May 24 between two Iraqi Republican Guard units.

India is fighting an ancient war in a desert village, not against an armed enemy, but against the scourge of polio.

In its biggest food scandal since mad cow disease, the European Union called June 2 for the destruction of Belgian chickens, eggs and any byproducts...

Miloud Oukili, a French clown who has been living in Bucharest, Romania, for the past six years, has rescued over 800 abandoned children from the...

Y2K scare continues to send some into refuge amongst those who don't depend on electrical devices.

Global warming has been blamed for the sinking of two islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Gays and lesbians are one step closer to becoming part of the Presbyterian church's leadership.