The worst tragedy in Nepal this last week was not the murder of most of the country's royal family, as truly awful as that was. The worst tragedy for the...
When the Palestinians in the occupied territories erupted again in the "celebration" of their "Day of Great Catastrophe," observing 53 years of the founding of the state of Israel, it...
When I spent a week at the Vatican four years ago, studying the pope's uniquely transformational approach to the world, the pontiff's long-cultivated dream of spiritual unity with Eastern churches...
At first, on delving into the bedeviling separatist question of language up here in this stubbornly French-speaking province of Quebec, one finds a lineup of almost Soviet-sounding institutions. There is...
For the faithful of the Baptist missionary work in Peru, the losses of Veronica Bowers and her infant daughter seemed to exemplify tragedy in today's world. Two innocents--a dedicated missionary...
Why are the events here this week reminiscent of the British scrambling up the steep cliffs to the southwest of the city in 1759 and ending the settlers' early dream...
One of the few stories that was able to break into the virtually non-stop coverage of the Chinese-American standoff was, surprisingly, the Peruvian presidential elections in South America. Peru is...
It certainly would not seem that the two major foreign policy events of the last week could be in any way related. When Slobodan Milosevic was rooted out of his...
The Bush administration is 2 months old, which is enough time to see the contours of its foreign policy taking form. While the president has moved briskly and surely into...
The issues of supreme importance regarding the American military during these first weeks of the new administration might seem to be substantial: missile defense, the "force protection" doctrine in Kosovo,...