Eleven states oppose North American Union
| Eleven states are working on resolutions that would oppose not only the implementation but the idea of a “North American Union,” or other plans that would lead to the integration of the United States into a larger structure. |
Police search a church in Uzbekistan
| The Voice of the Martyrs has received photographs of police officers interrogating believers in and around a church in Qarshi (“Karshy”Â), Uzbekistan. According to VOM sources police burst into the service on February 25, 2007, confiscated literature and demanded to know who was funding the church. |
Here’s some good news from the earthquake zone
| A deadly earthquake has residents of Sumatra, Indonesia on edge. West Sumatra’s disaster management agency says 85 people were killed by Tuesday’s two quakes, which were also felt in neighboring Singapore and Malaysia, but hundreds more were injured and thousands spent a night in open fields, frightened that further tremors would hit. The Magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck the western part of the island of Sumatra earlier this week.
However, one ministry is thanking God for protection. AMG International works in Indonesia. AMG’s Roger Thomas says, “We have 23 child care projects in Indonesia, serving over 500 children and a number of church planters working with young congregations.” |
Israelis warned: Leave all nations in Mideast (except Israel)
| The Israeli intelligence community, determining immediate insurgency threats, has called on nationals to leave all Middle East countries, Egypt and Jordan in particular.
The National Security Council has issued an updated travel warning that urged Israelis to leave virtually every country in the Middle East. |
Newt has “sought God’s forgiveness”
| Addressing an issue some regard as a hindrance if he runs for president, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich confessed to evangelical leader James Dobson in a radio interview airing tomorrow to moral failing regarding two previous marriages and said he has “gotten on my knees and sought God’s forgiveness.”
Gingrich said the subject of his two divorces, including an affair that took place as he led impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, is a “very painful topic and I confess that to you directly.” Dobson told Gingrich he knew him to be a “professing Christian” with whom he has prayed, but said that when they discussed the subject privately in Washington a few weeks ago, “you spoke of it with a great deal of pain and anguish, but you didn’t mention repentance. Do you understand that word, repentance?” Gingrich replied, “Absolutely,” adding he was raised Lutheran and became a Southern Baptist in graduate school. “I believe deeply that people fall short and that people have to recognize that they have to turn to God for forgiveness and to seek mercy,” Gingrich said. “Somebody once said that when you’re young you want justice and that when you get older you want mercy. I also believe that there are things in my own life that I have turned to God and have gotten on my knees and prayed about and sought God’s forgiveness. I don’t know how you could live with yourself and not end up breaking down if you didn’t find, try to find, some way to deal with your own weaknesses and to go to God about them.” |
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