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Arafat ‘Teams Up With Saddam To Plot Attacks’

By and others ⋅ January 6, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

By Charles Laurence and Inigo Gilmore in Ramallah and Philip Sherwell in Nablus (Filed: 07/04/2002) COLIN POWELL, the US secretary of state, left Washington on his Middle East mission last night amid reports that Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat were planning to stage joint terrorist attacks in the region. Senior officials of Saddam’s General Intelligence […]

Israel: War!

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Monday, April 08, 2002 10:51 AM Title: Ten Wounded Trapped Inside Nativity Church, Lawyer Says Contact: Fr. Raed Awad Abusahlia Personal E-mail: Latin Patriarchate E-mail: Latin Patriarchate’s Homepage: http://www.Lpj.org “Nonviolence Homepage”: http://go.to/nonviolence By Edward Calis JERUSALEM, April 6, 2002–Tony Salman, a Palestinian lawyer trapped inside the Nativity Church in Bethlehem, told Via Dolorosa through a […]

Israel: Inside The War

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Title: Sheer Terror Described In Ramallah Episcopal Church For additional information, contact: Bishop Riah Abu El-Assal, St. George’s Anglican Cathedral Jerusalem “Citizens huddled together, terrified,” Pastor says JERUSALEM, April 5, 2002—Days and nights of “sheer terror” were described inside St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Ramallah where Israeli tanks and armed soldiers have held the town […]

Azerbaijan

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SOURCE: KESTON INSTITUTE http://www.keston.org KESTON INSTITUTE, OXFORD, UK ______________________________________ KESTON NEWS SERVICE: 20.00, 25 March 2002. Reporting on violations of religious liberty and on religion in communist and post-communist lands. ______________________________________ KESTON NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL REPORT AZERBAIJAN: BELIEVERS IDENTIFY RELIGIOUS LIBERTY BLACKSPOTS. Local authorities in several locations in Azerbaijan have been threatening, fining, detaining, beating […]

Military Chaplains

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Yesterday I was in Canberra, speaking to the national conference of Air Force chaplains (clergy from Catholic, Anglican, UCA, Baptist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Churches of Christ churches were there – I think that’s all). These special people do a strategic job, under some difficult conditions. Many of them are ‘reserve chaplains’, some with full-time pastorates (usually […]

Indonesia March 2002

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CRISIS CENTRE DIOCESE OF AMBOINA Jalan Pattimura 32 – Ambon 97124 – Indonesia Tel 0062 (0)911 342195 Fax 0062 (0)911 355337 E-mail Ambon, March 28, 2002 THE SITUATION IN AMBON / MOLUCCAS – Report No. 252 1. SPMM ACCUSED OF SLANDER – In a recent press conference, 19 of the 35 Muslim delegates that had […]

Text Of Speech By Sharon To Israeli Parliament

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I’ve been to Israel – stayed with a Palestinian family, in a small Jewish hotel (in Netanya), and a Christian hospice, talked with many from all three groups… And I’ve read Elias Chacour… My sympathies – and anger – are, if anything, slightly more with Palestinians (particularly Palestinian Christians, who cop it from all directions). […]

China – 3/2002

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3/27/02 Spared death, Chinese house church leader wants public trial this time WUHAN, China (BP) — A Chinese Christian leader who barely escaped execution in January wants his retrial to be conducted in public this time, according to sources close to the case. Gong Shengliang, 46, leader of the South China Church, was sentenced to […]

Religious Persecution

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Uniting Church launches campaign against religious persecution The Uniting Church in Victoria is set to launch a campaign to combat religious persecution, especially against Christians, around the globe. Members of the church, and the general public, are being asked to join a network that will challenge governments, embassies and public officials when incidents of religious […]

The Middle East

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Special Report on Arab Summit in Beirut By Dr Walid Phares Senior fellow Foundation for the Defense of Democracies http://www.defenddemocracy.org INSIGHTS ON THE ARAB SUMMIT IN BEIRUT Mideast Expert, Dr Walid Phares, who serves as a senior fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, has been monitoring the inter-Arab politics surrounding the upcoming […]

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