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Fatima's Testimony
**The names in this testimony have been changed to protect the identies of those involved.** Fatima shivered in her cell as she reviewed her desperate circumstances. Her husband Hasan was confined in another part of the Greek prison. What was he thinking right now, she wondered? Did he regret fleeing persecution? Was he remembering the time...
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Phan Thi Kim Phuc This is the story of a changed life, as told to...
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From Fear to Eternity Disbelief. Terror. Helplessness. Anger. Fear. Patriotism. Anxiety. We’ve run the gamut...
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In the wake of the horror and suffering of the recent terrorist attacks on Manhattan and the Pentagon, and recently the attacks on London, it has been heartwarming to see so many acts of heroism, beginning with the men and women who met a hellish death as they raced up the stairs of the World Trade Center to save lives. Thousands of volunteers, lavish...
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One of recent history's greatest natural disasters rocked south Asia and the Horn of Africa the day after Christmas, 2004. FoxNews.com reported, "Sunday's massive quake of 9.0 magnitude off the Indonesian island of Sumatra sent 500-mph waves surging across the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal in the deadliest known tsunami since the one that devastated...
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We’ve watched our TV screens in horror. The pain and agony of fellow human beings in the midst of disaster goes beyond our comprehension. We grapple with the magnitude of it. Our minds scramble to make sense of it and we simply cannot. Opinions fly from every side. “Its God’s judgment,” some say. Others say, “It’s a sign of the end times.”...
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We've seen the photographs of smoke and rubble where the World Trade Center used to stand. We watched in horror as a 767 airliner carefully banked and crashed straight into one of the towers. We are shaken, shocked and grieving, unable to take our eyes away from the images of smoke and ash, unable to begin to count the devastation of this day. In...
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If God exists, why is there evil in the world? You know, this is a difficult stumbling block and question for many people. The simplest way to look at this question is to examine God's nature and his desire for mankind. Look at the logic. God loves us and wants us to love him back. And how could we love him back unless we have the freedom to not...
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This is part 1 to a 7 part series: Questions About God - Canadian philosopher Michael Horner responds to seven of the most commonly asked questions about God and Christianity. Question 1: Why is there evil and suffering? There is no question that the world is filled with an appalling amount of evil and suffering. We are impacted by this reality...
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