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Powell Praised For Skipping U.N. Racism Conference By Jim Burns CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer August 30, 2001 (CNSNews.com) - One of England's biggest newspapers Thursday praised U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell for his "considerable courage" in deciding against attending the United Nations conference on racism that is set to begin in Durban, South Africa on Friday. The Daily Telegraph, in an editorial, emphasized the pressures on Powell to attend were "enormous," and the paper cited United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Rev. Jesse Jackson and the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus as among those putting the pressure on. "The Secretary of ...

Moscow's Hammer Comes Down on Religion By George Thomas CBN News Reporter January 26, 2001 CBN.com - CBN News -- Thousands of religious organizations in Russia, including the Baptist and Pentecostal churches, are in jeopardy of being outlawed in the coming weeks. One organization in particular is already feeling the effects of a recent religious crackdown in the city of Moscow. A law passed in 1997 requires such organizations to "re-register" with the Russian authorities. The deadline for re-registration was January 1, 2001. So far, only about 17,000 groups have applied for their official status change. Some 8,000 are ...

TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES. This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing. America: The Good Neighbor. Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record: "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war ...