In Afghanistan, observes Georgetown University professor John Langan, “we are forced to fight in cautious and disagreeable ways” and “we never get very far from the possibility of tragedy.”
International
November 20, 2009: The Right War Gone Wrong
November 6, 2009: The Church and the Fall of the Wall
"If any event ever merited the description of miracle," says the Rev. Christian Fuhrer, it was the 1989 revolution that reunited East and West Germany, "a revolution that grew out of the church."
November 6, 2009: The Rev. Christian Fuhrer Extended Interview
Twenty years ago, a nonviolent movement emerged from the sanctuary of historic St. Nikolai Evangelical Lutheran Church in Leipzig. It was rooted, according to its pastor, in weekly prayers for peace and readings from the Sermon on the Mount that countered "the reality of political hopelessness."
October 30, 2009: Muslims in Germany
Germany has twice as many mosques as the United States, but it still has a long way to go to provide equal opportunities for Muslim immigrants and their children.
October 9, 2009: Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize
In his response to receiving the peace prize, the president said "we must pursue a new beginning among people of different faiths and races and religions, one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect."
October 2, 2009: Afghanistan War
As the war in Afghanistan approaches the beginning of its ninth year, Bob Abernethy speaks with William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, about the future of US involvement.
September 11, 2009: Islam in Indonesia
In the world's largest Muslim nation, says Professor Dewi Fortuna Anwar, "there seems to be a greater willingness both to be openly religious and to be modern and educated at the same."
August 14, 2009: Spafford Children’s Center
Located in Jerusalem's Old City near the Damascus Gate, this children's charity traces its roots to 19th-century American evangelicals Horatio and Anna Spafford. Together they established a philanthropic and utopian Christian community that was known as the American Colony.
August 7, 2009: Islam and Modernity
"You can’t say that religious opinions made over 1, 000 years ago are valid for all times," says Gamal al-Banna, a reformist Muslim cleric in Egypt. "We must have a revolution in the understanding of Islam, a revolution almost like Martin Luther’s."
July 3, 2009: Rev. Francisco Marrero Gutierrez: Cuba-US Relations
The head of the Presbyterian Reformed Church in Cuba says Cuban churches are playing a greater role in their society and need stronger ties with US Christians. Watch excerpts from a recent interview with Rev. Francisco Marrero Gutierrez.












