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North Africa
In the decade of the 1990s, a civil war raged in the North African country of Algeria. Entire villages were killed either by extremist Muslim rebels or by the militant government that sought to eradicate them. In the course of a decade, more than 100,000 men, women and children were
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Persian World
Who could have imagined that the events that unfolded in 1979, with the fall of the Shah of Iran and the triumphant return of the Ayatollah Khomeini, would lead to the greatest turning of Iranians to Christ in history? After listening to stories drawn from the tens of thousands of
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Turkestan
In his turbulent lifetime, Timur Lang’s armies killed five percent of the earth’s population. Timur Lang, or Tamerlane (1336-1405) as he was known to the West, annihilated entire cities of more than a million inhabitants — Delhi, Isfahan, Damascus, Baghdad — slaughtering their citizens after they surrendered. Scholars estimate that
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Western South Asia
No room in the House of Islam has experienced more violence, more warfare, more cruelty and injustice than Western South Asia. Encompassing Afghanistan, Pakistan and Western India, this region has been buffeted by war, and served as a seedbed for terrorism for nearly two centuries. It is true what they
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West Africa
West Africa’s history has been a tragic co-mingling of faith and fortune. The West is captivated by daily stories of Islamic Boko Haram terrorists burning churches and murdering Christians. But Muslims are by no means the only terrorists in this room. Consider for example, the Liberian Baptist lay-preacher Charles Taylor
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