When you first see an Okapi your initial immediate thought is that someone left the barn door open and a horse met a zebra. Yet, the strange looking animal actually is more closely related to the giraffe than it is the zebra! With somewhat long necks and massive tongues, they are a breed unto their ...

Communication. Community. Commerce. These words share ancient Latin linguistic roots, and they all indicate some sort of coming together. War has been described variously as a breakdown of one or all of them.  The mainstream media typically portray the Middle East as a desert of war, but scattered ...

No, UN Dispatch has not been mugged (Brian's previous adventures notwithstanding). This particularly blunt advice came from a Somali woman at an all-day Somalia conference I attended here in Washington yesterday and is not nearly as craven, aggressive, and ungrateful -- at least in the case of Somal...

Dearest in Christ,   I greet you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ our Lord, we have to worship our Lord Jesus Christ with all our heart because we have determined to remain under the covering of His anointing, Obedience to His purpose and living a life that honors Him will keep us under Hi...

The following newsletter was sent by Dr. Peter Hammond of Africa Christian Action. Please think of ways in which you can be involved in reformation in South Africa. The URGENT NEED for REFORMATION& REVIVALin SOUTH AFRICA We in South Africa are at a critical point. Both church and society are facing ...

Denford Magora’s Zimbabwe Blog Latest Zimbabwe News Latest Zimbabwe Pictures, Comment and Analysis Daily. This blew my head off last december; about the same time as I discovered Jestina Mukoko had also been kidnapped. a Two Year old in Zimbabwe’s Maximum Prison, being used to force his ...

Africa was once known as Akebu-Lan, meaning "Mother of Mankind" or "Garden of Eden.' This name was used by the Moors, Nubians, Numidians, Khart-Haddans (Carthagenians), and Ethiopians.    If the MESSAGE is CONSISTANT, then the METHOD will lead only to the MESSAGE.  The MESSAGE is "Jesus Saves." ...

Every day we have the opportunity to plant seeds in a life. All of us do really. Sometimes we give breakfast to a homeless man, and in that moment he see's hope for change. Or we give a Rose to a stripper, and for some reason it puts a chip in her hard heart.Sometimes we get to go to an impoverished...

The Hilton family could probably hire Blackwater, a.k.a. Xe, to clear the ground and run the entire country as a resort. Cuban cigar tobacco grows fine there. Before I use my full days' allotment of sarcasm, I yield the floor to the NY Times Editorial Board. Haiti’s Despair, Continued The Departme...

Mongabay: Every school child knows the giraffe: with its record height, small horns, and tell-tale spots, it is hard to miss. Although well-known among school children and the public there has been a vacuum in giraffe research until recently. Dr. Julian Fennessy probably knows the giraffe better tha...