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A few weeks ago, at the start of Great Lent, I told my wife I really should sit down and chart the negative news about Christians and Christianity that always seem to increase during the Lenten and Christmas seasons. Maybe it’s just my heightened sensitivity, but then again, maybe not. Sure enough, the so-called mainstream media did not disappoint me. Maybe I should rephrase that and say the mainstream media did exactly what I expected. And, they had help from an unfortunate source. Terry Jones, who pastors a small Florida congregation, made good on his promise to burn a copy...

Now a pastor gives an update on the situation in the country BISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN (ANS)- Kyrgyzstan's provisional leader Roza Otunbayeva has been sworn in as president Saturday (July 3,2010), ushering in what the turbulent Central Asian nation's government hopes will be a new era of stability and democratic freedoms. After her inauguration, Otunbayeva, 59, hailed what she described as a momentous new era for Kyrgyzstan, which has endured months of political and ethnic violence since former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was deposed in a bloody uprising in April amid widespread anger over falling living standards and rampant corruption. Reports have said...

'There have been eye-witness accounts of kids being nailed to trees and entire families being raped and then murdered,' says one Christian OSH, KYRGYZSTAN - The ASSIST News Service, has received a shocking first-hand report of the violence that has recently taken place in the Kyrgyz town of Osh

straight nights of clashes between French police and rioters in Paris-area housing projects are laying bare simmering discrimination and ethnic tensions lying just under the country's officially colorblind creed of liberty, equality and fraternity. The riots have gone far beyond law-and-order tangles between youths hurling stones and Molotov cocktails and police responding with tear gas. Eighteen months before French presidential elections, they have taken on a raw political edge as they fuel partisan bickering and existing divisions within the ruling center-right Union for a Popular Movement party. On Wednesday, French President Jacques Chirac waded into the fray for the first...

A 17-page letter seized in the capture of an al Qaeda courier last month reveals an enemy "terrified" that Iraq is on the road to freedom and self-government, a coalition military official said at a Baghdad news conference today. Analysts have concluded the letter was written by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- a suspect in numerous terrorist bombings in Iraq and long believed to have al Qaeda ties – and was intended for the terror organization's top leadership, perhaps even for Osama bin Laden himself. The letter, coalition officials have said, seeks al Qaeda's help in instigating ethnic violence to derail...