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United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan made yet another appeal today for united Security Council action in ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction as the 15-member body continued to wrestle over whether to give UN inspectors more time or to declare Baghdad in default by next Monday. “I think what is important is that governments have to find a way of working together,” Mr. Annan said in reply to reporters’ questions at UN Headquarters in New York. “Regardless of how this crisis or the current issue is resolved, the Council will have to work together, and the Members States...

Kofi Annan 10 March-United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today appealed for a peaceful solution to ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, stressing that war must "always be a last resort" and that the UN has "a duty to search till the very end for the peaceful resolution of conflicts." Speaking at a news conference in The Hague, where he held talks on the situation in Cyprus, Mr. Annan said: "The members of the Security Council now face a great choice. If they fail to agree on a common position, and action is taken without the authority of the Security...

  JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES: OBJECTIONS TO THE TRINITY (Based on the Watchtower publication: SYBT and other standard arguments used by JWs) OBJECTION #1: THE WORD TRINITY    The SYBT says that the word, "Trinity" is not in the Bible."RESPONSE: Also see the Oneness Objections to the Doctrine of the Trinity. As mentioned above In point of fact, virtually all anti-Trinitarian groups make this same objection. To assume: what is not stated must not be true is an argument from silence. Further, to say that the doctrine of the Trinity is not true because the exact word "Trinity" is absent from the Bible is...

WARNING: this is a vanity post, a rambling collection of thoughts coalesced during the past few days of concentrated reading and musing at FR. With deference to Luis Gonzalez and JohnHuang2, excellent essayists unique to FreeRepublic—so far, I will try to maintain a degree of coherence while I entice in their venue. Thursday night on Radio FR, Doug From Upland had a great one-hour interview with Ted Hayes, the very articulate activist devoting his life to championing the plight of homeless Americans, and I suspect, especially homeless military vets. [I didn’t catch the entire hour, so I may have missed...

QUESTION: Isn't the devil behind all the confusion and fighting over Bible versions? ANSWER: Undoubtedly.

Discordance In Bid For Unity Official coalition negotiations will begin only after President Moshe Katzav officially charges Ariel Sharon with forming the next government. In the meantime, Sharon's plan to form a broad-based government continues to face difficulties. He is not concerned, however. "Nothing in my life has been easy," he said. The leaders of the second and third largest parties - Amram Mitzna of Labor and Tommy Lapid of anti-hareidi Shinui - met today, but neither convinced the other to accept his position. Lapid tried to persuade Mitzna to agree to enter a unity government, while the latter wants...

January 30, 2003 Leader (U.S.) Eight European Leaders Voice Their Support for U.S. on Iraq Letter From Group of Countries Isolates France, Germany, Smooths Path to War By MARC CHAMPION Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNALLONDON -- In a broad statement supporting the U.S. in its effort to strip Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, eight European leaders signed an op-ed article publicly calling for unity with the U.S. position, further shifting the global political calculus toward support for war.The article, published in Thursday's Wall Street Journal, was signed by the leaders of Spain, Britain, Italy, Poland, Hungary, the...

Seven European leaders on Wednesday sought to rally an uncertain continent behind a possible US-led attack on Iraq with a joint public appeal for unity. The declaration, initiated by José María Aznar of Spain and whose signatories include Tony Blair of Britain and Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, is published in 12 European newspapers and urges Europeans to unite with Americans to force Saddam Hussein, Iraqi president, to give up his weapons of mass destruction. But the move also highlights growing divisions in Europe over Iraq. France and Germany, two European states to have expressed the strongest reservations about US policy,...

North Korea on Saturday called for unity of all Koreans, accusing the United States of seeking to drive a wedge between Seoul and Pyongyang, as the two Koreas prepare to engage in a busy week of talks. South Korea has said that it will use a flurry of upcoming inter-Korean meetings, including talks involving senior cabinet ministers, to urge the North to pay heed to international calls to give up its nuclear ambitions. "It is an issue of particular importance to achieve great national unity now that the US imperialists seek to deprive the South Koreans of their sovereignty, hinder...

Date: 2002-12-12 Rosary May Contribute to Unity, Says Protestant Theologian If Contemplated as a Christological Prayer, as Suggested by Pope ROME, DEC. 12, 2002 (Zenit.org).- The rosary has found an unlikely fan in a leading Protestant theologian. John Paul II's recent apostolic letter "Rosarium Virginis Mariae" states, "To go through the scenes of the rosary with Mary is like going to the 'school" of Mary to read Christ, to penetrate his secrets, to understand his message." The rosary can even promote ecumenism, the Pope affirms. That is a position shared by professor Stephan Tobler of the University of Tübingen, in...

Who is the head of the Orthodox Church? This is a question often asked, especially by Roman Catholics. No doubt they expect to find in the Orthodox Church an equivalent to the papacy. For Orthodox, however, the very existence of a visible head of the Roman Catholic Church indicates that, whatever its merits, the Roman Catholic Church is structurally a secular insti-tution. Visible heads are the symbols of secular corporations, companies or governments. Orthodox would argue that, ultimately, the Pope is the descendent of the pagan Roman Emperors: historically, when the Imperial Power disappeared from Rome, its authority and prestige...

We have little more than a week left to get the word out across this great land we love and call the United States of America. On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, all Americans who will be driving a motor vehicle are being asked to do so with their HEADLIGHTS ON. Contact the newspaper in your town or at your school. Call the television and radio stations in your area. Inform your elected representatives. Pass the word at your place of employment. Tell your family, friends and neighbors. Send this e-mail to people. Discuss this event in chatrooms and on message...

We have little more than a week left to get the word out across this great land we love and call the United States of America. On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, all Americans who will be driving a motor vehicle are being asked to do so with their HEADLIGHTS ON. Contact the newspaper in your town or at your school. Call the television and radio stations in your area. Inform your elected representatives. Pass the word at your place of employment. Tell your family, friends and neighbors. Send this e-mail to people. Discuss this event in chatrooms and on message...