Word: mideast
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conference, organized loosely around the theme "The Global Crisis," includes more than 100 panels and workshops such as "Socialism and Democracy" and "Organizing for Mideast Peace...
...having "changed his skin a million times," King Hussein is also respected as a canny analyst who understands better than most the shifting sands of the Arab world. If he has frustrated both Arab and Western allies over the years, he has also managed to survive longer than most Mideast leaders...
...week and revealed that the Administration indeed was considering whether to cut off talks. One possible outcome is that Washington will suspend, but not terminate, the dialogue. That distinction may mean little: the new Israeli government promises to be even less receptive to Secretary of State James Baker's Mideast peace plan than was its predecessor...
Some 10 million Christians remain in the Mideast. But for how long? According to Gabriel Habib, general secretary of the Cyprus-based Middle East Council of Churches, "Fear, human suffering and hopelessness" have caused so many Christians to emigrate that there is deep concern about the "continuity of the Christian presence and witness in this region." At an assembly of the church council in January, Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Protestant and Anglican leaders vowed, "We shall stay in these lands, according to the will of God. This is where we belong and where we are rooted...
After a bleak Easter, the future of Mideast Christians is dimmed by civil war, Muslim pressure and emigration. Even the Holy City could turn into a mere Gospel museum...