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World News and Prophecy: December 2000

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In This Issue

What Lies Ahead for U.S. Leadership?

  • by Darris McNeely
The next four years could bring some dramatic challenges for America's leadership role in the world. The next president will face the consequences of missed opportunities during the 1990s.
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The Perfect Prophetic Storm

  • by Mario Seiglie
Bible prophecy foretells a time when two great world events will converge to overwhelm all of man's efforts to resolve them.

In Brief... U.S. Population Statistics Show Looming Issues

  • by Cecil Maranville, Darris McNeely, John Ross Schroeder
Some believe that the strong economy will eventually eliminate poverty and that the country needs only to continue on its current path. A more realistic view holds that the economic growth is tenuous and likely to cycle downward.

In Brief... "And There Will Be...Pestilences...in Various Places"

  • by Cecil Maranville, Darris McNeely, John Ross Schroeder
WHO estimates that 3 million people worldwide will die from AIDS during the year 2000. The agency estimates that this will bring the total number of adults and children who have died because of the disease to 21.8 million.

In Brief... Dutch Approve Euthanasia

  • by Cecil Maranville, Darris McNeely, John Ross Schroeder
The Netherlands has become the world's first nation to approve mercy killing. For years the country tacitly approved the practice, but now allows it as a policy of the state.

U.S. Election Crisis End of Political Stability

  • by Melvin Rhodes
Political stability is rare. It's essential that those countries that have found the way to enduring stability hold fast. Has the historical stability of the U.S. form of government begun to wane?
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This is the Way, Walk in It: One Moment in Time

  • by Robin Webber
Headlines about national and international issues are a daily fare, but every day, somewhere, events are occurring that affect some family for a lifetime. These events, whether for good or bad, take up the "headline space" in their family's personal front page of life's happenings. For the moment, such personal activity pushes aside bigger news like elections or wars in far-off nations.