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Middle East News

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BBC - News

  • Danger line
    De-mining on the volatile Israeli-Lebanese border
  • Iran will release US woman hiker
    Iran is set to release on Saturday Sarah Shourd - one of three detained US hikers held since last July and accused of espionage, officials...
  • Al-Qaeda men escape Baghdad jail
    Four prisoners with ties to al-Qaeda have escaped from the US-controlled section of Baghdad's Karkh prison, US officials say.
  • Living under fire in a US Army outpost
    Captain Henry Hansen of the US Army's 101st Airborne shows Quentin Sommerville around their combat outpost near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan.
  • Saudi website for fatwas closes
    The popular Islam Today website, run by the Saudi cleric Salman al-Awdah, has closed its section offering thousands of Islamic religious rulings.

Words of Hope

Back to God

  • CELEBRATING 71 YEARS OF THE BACK TO GOD HOUR
  • THE AGONY, THEN THE ECSTASY
    In his book, Where is God When It Hurt?, Philip Yancy tells the story of a conversation he had one time with Robin Graham. Graham...
  • PAIN - GOD’S MEGAPHONE
    Years ago a parishioner in a church I was serving then was suffering severe pain because of kidney stones. The doctors monitored her situation for...
  • HOW WILL YOU RESPOND?"
    Over the past few weeks we have been considering the age old question of the sufferer: Why? Why do we suffer? We concluded that we'll...
  • HOW STRONG IS GOD?
    Over the past few weeks we have been considering the age old question of the sufferer: Why? Why do we suffer? We concluded that we'll...
  • Why Isn�t God Answering?
    Over the past few weeks we have been considering the age old question of the sufferer: Why? Why do we suffer? We concluded that we'll...
  • Why Do Good People Suffer?
    Over the past few weeks we have been considering the age old question of the sufferer: Why? Why do we suffer? We concluded that we'll...
  • Can I Know the Will of God?
    Over the past few weeks we have been considering the age old question of the sufferer: Why? Why do we suffer? We concluded that we'll...

Bible Thoughts

“For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.” —Acts 20:27