French President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks at a French-Israeli economic conference at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem on June 24, 2008. Later he and his wife Carla Bruni traveled to the West Bank town of Bethlehem where he met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and privately visited the spot where Jesus Christ was born in the Church of the Nativity, before returning to France at the close of their three-day official visit. (UPI Photo/OLIVIER FITOUSSI/POOL)
Jesus Christ is the subject or is mentioned in the following stories:
One Child's Voyage
WOLFVILLE, Nova Scotia, Canada - Was there ever a "once upon a time" when we were more tolerant and open toward those we perceive as different?
Christians and Muslims United in Weddings
CAIRNS, Egypt -- Over the last few years I attended a number of my Muslim colleagues marriage ceremonies at mosques. Every time I participate in this lovely occasion I get the impression that Muslim weddings have become closer, at least in form, to the wedding ceremonies of Christians.
Rainbow – or Guns of August?
Back in Oct. 2005, two months after he had become president, Irans Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – or as Jay Leno calls the tongue-twister, "Im-a-dinner-jacket" – drew world attention when he called for Israel to be wiped off the map. Denials were slow in coming. Various Iranian experts said he had been misquoted when he painted the broad brush strokes of history when a purely Jewish state would cease to exist.
EDITORIAL: Iraq, year five and counting
Mao Zedong, the architect of the Chinese communist revolution and author of multiple texts of military tactics (among other topics), wrote in his "Little Red Book" that the first step in defeating ones enemy is to know him. Mao was repeating what Sun Tzu, author of "The Art of War," wrote six centuries before the birth of Jesus Christ.
