In Brief...World News Review: Largest Food Airlift in History
Famine threatening Sudan
Operation Life Sudan is being mounted to save the starving. It will provide some 15,000 tons of food per month. But observers fear it will not be enough as varying estimates say that from one to two million or more Southern Sudanese are threatened with starvation after 15 years of civil war.
Many thousands have already died. The World Food Program estimates that 1.2 million are in serious danger of starving-four times the figure proffered just two months ago. Sheer size and difficult climactic factors (swampland) seriously hamper aid-transport efforts to the afflicted area.
Yet the war between the predominantly Muslim North and the mainly non-Muslim South drags on. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are already riding in microcosm in some areas of the earth. Famine usually follows war. Los Angeles Times, July 13; The Express July 31.
An Article from:
World News and Prophecy: September - October 1998
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John Ross Schroeder
John died on March 8, 2014, in Oxford, England, four days after suffering cardiac arrest while returning home from a press event in London. John was 77 and still going strong.
Some of John's work for The Good News appeared under his byline, but much didn't. He wrote more than a thousand articles over the years, but also wrote the Questions and Answers section of the magazine, compiled our Letters From Our Readers, and wrote many of the items in the Current Events and Trends section. He also contributed greatly to a number of our study guides and Bible Study Course lessons. His writing has touched the lives of literally millions of people over the years.
John traveled widely over the years as an accredited journalist, especially in Europe. His knowledge of European and Middle East history added a great deal to his articles on history and Bible prophecy.
In his later years he also pastored congregations in Northern Ireland and East Sussex, and that experience added another dimension to his writing. He and his wife Jan were an effective team in our British Isles office near their home.
John was a humble servant who dedicated his life to sharing the gospel—the good news—of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God to all the world, and his work was known to readers in nearly every country of the world.
