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...recalls the day Israeli soldiers spotted his white Citroen van on the shoulder of a back road outside the West Bank town of Nablus and, hearing the murmuring behind its closed curtains, concluded they had stumbled on a nest of suicide bombers. At gunpoint, the American exited his vehicle and explained that the six Palestinians with him were a clandestine Christian Bible-study group avoiding the prying eyes of their neighbors. "They are in danger," he told the baffled soldiers--"in danger of being killed." Sam claims to have led more than 100 Palestinians to Christ but says that...
...neglectful carelessness regarding reprisals they sometimes bring down on pre-existing Christian churches and nonevangelistic aid groups. Says Lamin Sanneh, a Muslim convert to Catholicism who teaches the history of world Christianity at Yale: "They come in, don't report to the local churches, stir up a hornet's nest and then quit town when the going gets tough. Why start a controversy if you're not there to face the brunt of it?" Seiple notes that after Curry's and Mercer's arrest in Afghanistan, "all of the other Christian organizations were expelled until the Taliban fell...
...Knowles, a former hairstylist, designed the group's look. Both still work full time on their daughter's career, and during the two weeks a year when she's not traveling or touring, Beyonce lives in her parents' Houston home. To make Dangerously in Love, however, she left the nest and took up residence for several months in a Miami hotel. "The last Destiny's Child album was recorded in, like, 12 days. Twelve days. For this album, I just wanted to get away from any kind of pressure and take my time. I wrote 43 songs ... And I recorded...
...Most astonishingly, David's transformed his tiny new apartment into a warm family nest - papered with crayoned drawings, overrun by two cats and a hamster - in which his kids feel the freedom to exercise every child's birthright: watching too much TV, making too much noise, and loving their daddy to death...
Student actors, dancers, athletes, politicos and other group leaders have long griped that they don’t have the space they need, though most manage to make do with the basement corners they’ve been allowed to nest...