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Message From The Bishop Of Jerusalem

24 April 2002 Dear Friends, Salaam and grace in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and blessed greetings from Jerusalem, I want to thank you all for your continued support, your messages, and all your thoughts and prayers at this time. As we continue our ministry in this land, we continue to witness the […]

Cambodia

A First for Cambodia Nhem Nivath from the kingdom of Cambodia was the first delegate to arrive in Manila, the Philippines, for the 6th Asian Baptist Congress, April 19-23 [2002], and the first representative of his country ever to attend an Asian Baptist Federation (ABF) meeting. Indeed this was a historic moment for Baptists in […]

Islamic Persecution Of Christians: The Latest [290402]

UPDATE ON THE SUFFERING CHURCH THE MALUKUS & SULAWESI, INDONESIA A bomb exploded in a busy street in a Christian area of Ambon city, Maluku, on 3 April killing seven people and leaving over fifty injured. Enraged by this incident angry crowds mobbed the governor’s offices setting them ablaze. In Sulawesi there are serious concerns […]

Tutu Compares West Bank Conflict To Apartheid

April 29, 2002 2002-103 (ENS) Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu compared the Israeli occupation of West Bank towns to South African apartheid in remarks to an audience of 200 gathered at Boston’s Old South Church. Tutu spoke April 13 at a “Conference on Ending the Israeli Occupation,” co-sponsored by Sabeel, a Palestinian ecumenical liberation center […]

Sharon’s Plan Is To Drive Palestinians Across The Jordan

The Daily Telegraph, London (Filed: 28/04/2002) THE leading Israeli historian Martin van Creveld predicts that a US attack on Iraq or a terrorist strike at home could trigger a massive mobilisation to clear the occupied territories of their two million Arabs Two years ago, less than eight per cent of those who took part in […]

Hezbollah, Al-Qaida Govern Jenin Camp

FROM DEBKA INTELLIGENCE FILES Hezbollah, al-Qaida Israel shares intelligence documents with U.S. ahead of U.N.’s probe Posted: April 27, 2002 Editor’s note: DEBKAfile’s electronic news publication is a news-cum-analysis live wire, online round the clock seven days a week. A weekly edition,DEBKA-Net-Weekly, is now available through WorldNetDaily.com. Drawing on DEBKAfile’s unique sources, analytical talents and […]

Trust The Claims Of A Massacre? Think Again

Posted on the web site “Scoop” Trust The Claims Of A Massacre? Think Again…… Monday, 29 April 2002, 9:49 am Article: Natalia von Zawidowski Many people nowadays are getting very upset about the terrible massacre and the cold-blooded genocide the Israelis have been committing in Jenin. But not many people know the actual facts, and […]

A Palestinian Fighter’s Version Of The Jenin Battle

April 26 2002 CAIRO – Omar sits restlessly on his chair in the safe-house. He is an “engineer” from Jenin refugee camp: one of the revered bomb-makers from the City of the Bombers. To the Israelis he is the most lethal, and wanted, of terrorists. The poison from the cobra’s head. We meet late last […]

Never Prouder To Be An Israeli And A Jew

by Naomi Ragen (April 25, 2002) I was walking down the street in Jerusalem the other day when it suddenly occurred to me in the way those obvious thoughts just pop into one’s head out of nowhere, that never, in all my life, have I felt more proud to be an Israeli and to be […]

An Insider’s Perspective From The Jenin Camp

By Leiah Elbaum April 25, 2002 Leiah Elbaum, a freelance writer from Modiin, has a Masters in Middle East Studies from the University of London. A lot of you have been asking what really happened in the Jenin refugee camp, the scene recently of the fiercest battle yet in Israel’s ongoing war against Palestinian terrorism. […]