I just read that there have been 100,000 casualties in Iraq since the beginning of conflict. I find it interesting you never (and I mean never) hear that number on any news outlet. It doesn't matter: tv, internet news site, newspaper - the only number you hear are the over 1,000 Americans who have died. I grieve for my fellow Americans lost in battles, but I grieve all the more for the much greater number of natives who have died for their (or our?) cause.
Pray for Iraq today.
Check out sojourners.com. It is a Christian organization aimed at opening Christians' eyes to the scope of Christianity. What a messed up world we live in.
Christian Assembly in 197 CE: The Witness of Tertullian, Part 3
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Post #3 Carthage, North Africa, in 197 CE. Tertullian describes a gathering
of believers in Jesus for his Roman audience. “We pray, too, for the
emperors, ...
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