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The Iraqis: Death threats, kidnappings and car-jackings are dominating lives By Jack Fairweather in Baghdad (Filed: 29/06/2004) The Kamal family want one thing from their new government. "Security," said Sarmad, a 25-year-old doctor. His family nodded in agreement but who should bring this and how forceful an approach should be taken sparks debate, both at the dinner table of this middle-class Baghdad family and across the country. Many Iraqis think that only an iron fist will stop the kidnappings, car-jackings and random death threats that have dominated the lives of Iraqis. Others want snap elections. Some even want the US...

The decision by Congress to keep summoning U.S. military commanders back to Washington to testify about the Abu Ghraib prison scandal is endangering the lives of U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq, the head of the House Armed Services Committee said on Thursday. "Over the last 24 hours, we have had 66 attacks on American forces," House Armed Services Chairman Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., told MSNBC's "Scarborough Country." "If you‘re the battlefield commander of Iraq [called back to Washington] you have issues stacking up on your desk with respect to convoy security, surveillance capability, operations, working in this IED problem that we...

. For Easter the Trinitiy Broadcasting Network is presenting a new TV Special about... MEL GIBSON's "PASSION of the Christ" See: "Changed Lives: The Miracles of the PASSION" 7pm Pacific Good Friday 2pm Pacific Holy Saturday 2am Pacific Easter Sunday .

LOS ANGELES, April 2, 2004—Jody Eldred Productions today announced it has just completed filming and is in the final stages of production on an inspirational documentary called, “Changed Lives: Miracles of The Passion,” which will air nationwide Easter weekend. With rave reviews from Diane Sawyer on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s “Scarborough Country,” this one-hour T.V. special was shot in High Definition and documents the true stories of people whose lives have been forever changed by Mel Gibson’s incredible motion picture “The Passion of The Christ.” “I knew instantly that people’s lives were going to be...

A new documentary is in the works to prove Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ" has produced miracles in the lives of its viewers. Makers of "Changed Lives: Miracles of the Passion" say they have interviews with people who claim the controversial film has changed them, reports MSNBC columnist Jeannette Walls. They want more people for the documentary and ask on a website for stories of "miracles" such as "a marriage being rescued, an addict who was set free, a Jew who now accepts Jesus as Messiah, someone who experienced physical or emotional healing, and so on." Executive...

MARINA DEL REY, CA (PREWEB) March 18, 2004 -- Jody Eldred Productions, a television and film production company in Marina Del Rey, CA is in the final stages of preparing a nationwide television special to air this Easter called, "CHANGED LIVES: MIRACLES OF THE PASSION." The documentary is telling the stories of people forever changed as a result of seeing the film. These visual testimonies will give powerful witness to the life-altering power of Jesus Christ as presented through this incredible motion picture. SEEKING VIDEOTAPED STORY SUBMISSIONS As part of this documentary, the Jody Eldred Productions is asking people to...

Two of the three documents/articles below were prepared within The Vatican. The first document/article focuses on the present day China's persecution of the Roman Catholic Church in China ( commonly referred to as China's "underground Catholic Church"). The second document/article quotes Cardinal Etchegaray, retired president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. He has frequently served as the Pope's diplomatic envoy. On 03 October 2003, he publicly denied the existence of a divide between the underground and Chinese government-recognized 'patriotic' Catholic Church. "There is only one Church with two faces," he said. "There is not one 'patriotic' Church and...

Dog Saves Family During Fire Tyler Alerted Sleeping Owner Of Fire Monday POSTED: 12:32 p.m. EST February 18, 2004 READING, Mass. -- One Boston-area family has learned that sometimes heroes come from the most unlikely places -- even the pound. Television station WCVB reported that Tyler, a German shepherd/Shar-Pei mix, has been credited with saving the lives of his owners after fire broke out in their home. Monday night, the Costa family lost their home of 55 years after an apparent electrical fire started in the basement. Margaret Costa said she, her husband, and her son were asleep, but thankfully,...

Bird flu virus claims more lives The current outbreak has affected 10 Asian states Two more people have died of bird flu in Asia, as experts warned the virus was far from being under control. An 18-year-old man in Vietnam and a 58-year-old Thai woman took the total death toll to 12. People who have contracted H5N1 bird flu are thought to have caught it through contact with sick birds. The World Health Organization (WHO) has said it cannot rule out one case of human to human transmission in Vietnam, but there was no firm evidence of it. The case...

Iraqi Christians fear for their lives By Reuters By Suleiman al-Khalidi Basra - Bashir Toma Elias was killed by a single shot to the head in the middle of Basra's bazaar on Christmas Eve as he prepared to head home to celebrate with his wife and five children. The killing of the Iraqi Christian alcohol merchant sowed fresh fear in a community afraid of increasing religious intolerance in mainly Shi'ite Muslim southern Iraq. His widow Jihan cried hysterically outside the Chaldean Church in the affluent Manawi Pasha neighbourhood after Christmas Mass, held in the morning because the lack of security...

The generals who face the most daunting challenge of their lives By Rupert Cornwell in Washington 25 March 2003 Lt-Gen David McKiernan is so low-key that he makes even Tommy Franks, the dry and understated head of US Central Command who is running the 2003 Gulf war, look like an ego-driven celebrity hound. Yet Lt-Gen McKiernan, who sometimes speaks so quietly you strain to hear him, is the man who commands coalition forces on the ground in Iraq. Like General Franks, he is a soldier's soldier, steeped in the entrenched culture of the Pentagon, in style and temperament far removed...

THOSE NOW GONE ---- by Roger W Hancock Fallen Servicemen, for country fought; liberty, freedom, the primary reason. They gave themselves, that we be free. Fathers, mothers, sisters, and brothers; our dearly departed, life for country given. Families broken, for liberty. Veterans who served, and lived to tell; the horrors, and risks, now sleep in peace. Served their country, for our security. Unknown Soldier, MIA, remembrance our way, to honor you as well, victims of a warriors hell. Served, now lost that, our lives be free. Sleep now Sleep tight rest now, duty done, price paid in life or death....

Kennewick Man saga lives on This story was published 6/17/02 By Mike Lee Herald staff writer With the fate of the ancient bones found in Kennewick six years ago remaining in legal limbo, Peter Lampson has decided to take action. It's been a year, and the judge still hasn't issued a public pronouncement about the future of Kennewick Man. But the 17-year-old Lampson isn't waiting for the ruling to make his mark. In one of a handful of developments related to the once high-profile case, Lampson is erecting a sign in Columbia Park to commemorate Kennewick's world-famous former resident, who...

Bush blocks bid to save millions of lives By Geoffrey Lean Environment Editor 02 June 2002 European governments have long suspected it. Environmentalists have long proclaimed it. But now there is clear evidence that President George Bush's environmental policy is indeed a load of crap. For the United States is blocking an international plan to halve the number of people, two-fifths of the population of the planet, who have no sanitation. Some 2.4 billion people lack even a bucket for their wastes, and this is one of the main causes of world disease. European and developing nations, meeting in Bali,...

Hundreds of thousands of lives at risk from terror, says Rumsfeld By Kim Sengupta in Bagram, Afghanistan 28 April 2002 The US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, gave an indication yesterday that the "war on terrorism" was likely to be extended to Iraq, and that terrorists were being supplied with weapons of mass destruction. As fighting between rival warlords killed at least 25 people in eastern Afghanistan, a belligerent Mr Rumsfeld told American, British and allied troops that their campaign in the country was a "proving ground" for wars to come against rogue states, and insisted that "hundreds of thousands of...