>> today on christian world news, the beginning of the end, the u.s. starts pulling troops out of afghanistan, who's waiting to fill a vacuum and what could it mean more religious freedom, plus a japanese church washed away in a tsunami, washed away, it's all part of god's plan. a korean christian puts down roots in paraguay, he's giving kids a shot at a better life. and welcome, everyone, to christian world news, i'm wendy griffith, tom is on assignment. some question if the u.s. is pulling out too soon, among them are religious rights groups who say afghanistan still has a long way to go guaranteeing religious freedom, after beans who live islam to follow christ have been jailed and threatened with a death sentence. they're providing medical treatment in afghanistan, in 2007, the group -- murdering two of them before releasing the rest. joining us now is the policy director from the u.s. commission on international religious freedom, he's just back from afghanistan, joshing sis, it seems like there's hardly any religious freedom in afghanistan today,

>> today on "christian world news" a world at prayer, millions of christians in hundreds of countries trying out for personal and corporate revival. lifting up the name of the lord throughout the earth. and longing to see transformation in their cities. join us now for our special report on the global day of prayer. the world's christians coming together to seek god's face and global revival. hello everyone, i am george thomas. well this weekend, hundreds of millions of christians will gather to pray for their nations. since its beginning more than 10 years ago, the global day of prayer has changed not only the world, but the church as well. my colleague wendy griffith starts us off. >> lord! >> for reporter: the global day of prayer has been inviting the world's christians to pray together and the church has responded. >> give my people who are called by my name to humble and serve. >> to seek my faith and turn from their wicked ways, then i will hear from heaven and forgive their sins and heal their land. >> praying in open air stadiums, city halls and cathedrals and seeking out the

christians want to share -- because the christians, most christians are black. that is why they. >> fighting is keeping humanitarian agencies from bringing food and water to those displaced by the fighting. he is calling on u.s. and international community to stop attacks so aid canning get to the victims. joining us from washington, d.c. bureau is johnathon hutson. johnathon, apart from newspaper reports, tell us what happen papping in tugugly this week. >> sudan armed forces have been using russian made planes to bomb civilians. it is clear as bishop andudu. the government has a radical perspective on the islamic faith. but they are also willing to bomb muslims as they have in darfore now bombing christians and stamping out the people in the oil producing region. tens of thousands are displaced without food, water or medical care. armed men are searching house to house. >> omar bashir's regime is targeting christians and black africans, why? >> some muslims and arabs view him as inferior because he is black and christian. he chairs the outreach committee for t

>> today on christian world news, denmark's church of love, how one pastor is spreading the love of christ to the very muslims who are threatening to take his life >> and doubts over jerusalem day, but could that city be divided once again? >> and answering the biblical call to call for orphan, how adoptions are on the rise in the church. >> the united states appoints an ambassador to monitor religious freedom worldwide, i'm george thomas. er >> and i'm wendy griefn. the ambassador has a way to mon nor religious freedom across the board, a new pastor took over the post this week, she faces a long list of trouble spots. >> so help me god. >> a baptist preacher from the bronx, she's for international religious freedom >> we have a passionate visionary and defender of religious freedom. >> and we have a big stack of issues just waiting for her. >> hillary clinton served when she served as a domestic advisor to president bill clinton. she's been described as the hair yot turban or women in industry, breaking barriers for the new york -- and the first black woman to be elected senior pastor of

this is thomas jefferson he went on to say christianity is he says but christianity was not introduced until the seventh century in the in the united kingdom the conversion the first christian king of the up darkie took place in five ninety eight the last in six eighty six here and swizz a space of two hundred years during which common law was into existence and christianity no part of it we might as well say that the newtonian system of philosophy is a part of the common law as that the christian religion is in truth the alliance between church and state in england has ever made their judges accomplices in the frauds of the clergy and even bolder than they are but i was hardly there i thought we were talking about the united states and not about europe but it was he's saying that it is that christianity has no part in american common law because it actually even had no part in britain he lost that battle because we know that it has been a part of american common now and that many of the knowledge that we have all now of the says you can't come you can't worship a god of the christian

heard to you know if you look at you and actually do christian we do have a good day of christian heritage thomas jefferson was a deist george washington refused to acknowledge christianity ben franklin was essentially an atheist you have you have a couple you know patrick henry was a bible thumping fundamentalist but he was he was the outlier you know this national group if you go back to the writings of of the founding fathers that we consider d.s. they opened made are references to biblical scriptures and even thomas jefferson there's a story in that he had for the seal of the united states that included moses parted with waters and so. it sounds as if thomas jefferson february tenth eight hundred fourteen i don't care who produces finally an answer for test you alan's question why the ten commandments should not now be part of the common law of england or the united states we may say they are not because they never were anyone who asserts the ten commandments are the basis of american or british law is manifestly believing a document that was a manifest forgery mistakenly sent me this

and i decided to go to a christian cemetery to live with christians to know exactly how christians from within think. i did not want muslims to tell me what the christian religion is or is not. i learned a lot. i learned a great big deal, and i learned how the koran and the christian bible have a lot in common, a lot in common. there's a dvd out muslim and christianity having more in common than what you think and the idea was to distill the audience out there that yes, we have differences, but there's commonalities and from the scriptures themselves and even from jewish studies and the study of the three religions helped me become a better person in so many ways and a better imam. this is a part of my experience that got me engaged with this dialogue and issues. i always say how nations meet at their borders, but religions meet at their heart, and the heart of all religions is love, and therefore there is a way for religions to meet at their heart because i believe at the heart of islam if we take time to study it from within, we find the lot of love there and from the heart of judaism

more than 150 christian denominations have adopted the program. >> christianity is not a spectator sport. it was never intended to be a spectator sport. god gave to the church apostles, evangelists, and pastors and teachers whose job is to equip the saints for ministry. >> how did it feel to have your confession treated in that way? >> stephen ministers go through 50 hours of instruction and practice, earning to help care receivers express their feelings, to listen without judging, and how to bring faith and the bible into the conversation. >> can we pray? dear god, please give randy the absolute confidence of his forgiveness. >> they also study specific situations, like dealing with grief and divorce. but stephen ministers are not counselors, so they also learn when to call in professional help from a pastor or therapist. their work is supervised at the parish level, and if a care-giving relationship doesn't work out, which does happen sometimes, either party can be reassigned. good shepherd's senior pastor, david sloop, introduced the program here in 1987. >> it took a while for people

base as they are trying to combine the tea party with the christian right and this ralph reed event this last week it was all about covering up those differences this is saying now folks need to pay attention and ask where these people's heart really lies i mean rand was an outspoken atheist does being an objectivist or a cause or libertarian or a follower of iran's require being an atheist she said that and that is kind of our point too we don't editorialize in this comment this is and i say no you know these are. publicans they knew somebody or whatever it is simply iran's words people who say well i'm a christian and i can follow my own rand well by definition you can't because iran taught you can't follow her and follow christ and she said that christ's teachings were evil and the root of most of the problems in today's society so if you're saying you follow both of them you clearly don't understand at least one of right and what she what she opposed was everything that was an ethical selfishness because she felt those selfishness was the highest value corporations are organized

publicans they knew somebody or whatever it is simply iran's words people who say well i'm a christian and i can follow my own rant well by definition you can't because iran taught you can't follow her and follow christ and she said that christ's teachings were evil and the root of most of the problems in today's society so if you're saying you follow both of them you clearly don't understand at least one of them right and when what she what she opposed was everything that was in effect a call to selfishness because she felt that selfishness was the highest value corporations are organized by law to be selfish if you go back to the good god first as for michigan supreme court case in the one nine hundred twenty s. when. henry ford because he was painters workers five dollars a day and dodgers only paid a dollar a day he said that's wrong you can't pay them all that money and they quit the supreme court ruled that as long as what a corporation's officers are doing increases the value of a corporation for its stockholders it's legal in other words corporations by law have to be selfish s

he was also, on the other hand, not an evangelical christian. he was not powerfully interested in the theology and in the forms of the christian religion. he did go to church, but he was very careful not to take communion and not to kneel. why he felt that way, we don't exactly know. he didn't mention jesus christ in his correspondence, and he didn't talk about god on his death bed. i believe he was a very moral man, a very virtuous man. he was influenced by the stoics. he took his feelings about morality very seriously. and, indeed, if you had asked him are you a christian, he might well have said yes. but his sense of christianity is very difficult to get ahold of. we just know it wasn't on one of the extremes. well, that's a very powerful image of washington -- [laughter] and this is another powerful image of washington. developing this late 19th century, the early 20th century is the -- as the washington mythology gathers vice president and develops -- gathers strength and develops. and the declaration of independence and beyond that, americ

so if you were a christian, and you happened to be running a business that happens to have a christiantheme but you are a for-profit business, why is that different to a secular business that's running something that just doesn't happen to have a christian theme? >> the conundrum here is that kentucky desperately needs jobs. >> the ark encounter is going to employ almost a thousand people, and the impact on the number of jobs associated with that is going to be in the thousands, and our particular research has shown it will be many thousands, and it will bring millions and millions of dollars into the community. in fact, the research that we did shows that the economic impact of the ark encounter project over 10 years will be something like $4 billion. >> kentucky's democratic governor supports the tax incentives. he says he wasn't elected to debate religion, he was elected to create jobs, especially in hard-hit communities like williamstown near where the ark park will be located and where a majority of the unemployed have been out of jobs for over two years. >> the city and the count

christians are the sunday people.hat is 9 future of israel under this scenario, and if you are benjamin netanyahu right now, are you at a point where you have to pull the trigger first because if he does, you know what the world reaction will be. >> guest: if he does, if it is an offensive operation or a defensive operation, fred, the world reaction will be outramming and castigating israel, and not even sanctions this time around, including this country. after 2012 when, if president obama is reelected, post-2012, he'd have nothing holding him back from carrying out his full fury against israel. this is a man, who in my opinion, and not just opinion, but from looking at his policies and looking at his posture sitting with benjamin netanyahu in the oval office last week when he was schooled by benjamin netanyahu, this is a man who does not like israel. there's a visceral dislike of israel from this administration. we'll get to that in a second, but back to israel pulling the trigger first. with iran, yes. israel is fa

. >>> christiane amanpour is a fearless woman. she's reported in every one of the world's hot spots and now not hotter than washington. tonight, christiane amanpour -- >> this is tough and extreme duty and we take it on for a reason. it's because we believe in it. >> what drives her. >> we're not going to stand by and allow those lies to be told. >> a story she risked her life to get. >> christiane amanpour, cnn, israel. it's getting dangerous and much more dangerous frankly from when i started to today. >> and challenges of female reporters in the danger zone. >> we have to be careful. women have to be careful. >> christiane amanpour for the hour. this is "piers morgan tonight." watching you come back into the studio just now is like watching the queen of england returning to meet her subject. sort offed adore ration for you. >> these are people i worked with all my career. i dispute the word subject. we're a team. i've always been a team player. i believe strongly that television of all our medium is only a team operation. you c

and also among christians. these pilgrims were on their way to the church of the holy sepulcher when they believe christ was buried. i'm going to show you a diagram. all that's left now is really this area. >> reporter: the building was destroyed by muslim rulers and rebuilt in the 13 sh century by crusaders. it is one of christianity's holiest sites. it complicates the task of digitizabling their sacred books. >> the greeks have the central piece. the or men yeens have quite a bit of the chapel surrounding the center. the latins have the far side. the syrians have a small chapel in the back. the cops have a small chapel inside. so it's a little microcosm of all the different religious traditions here in the middle east. unfortunately relations are not always easy. because when you have all these different groups living in what is a fairly small building they're fiercely protective of their rights. >> reporter: many regions where these traditions evolved modern day turkey and iraq, armenia and russia to the nor

the law so can we once and for all put an end of the myth that this country was founded on judeo christian values and stop religion from creeping into our government you know if you back if i may just add to that the big debate back at the founding this country between jefferson and madison jefferson was and you can read this in their letters back and forth jefferson was terrified that religious people would end up in politics and corrupt politics madison who was a very religious guy was concerned the politicians would start giving money to churches in fact that was his first veto was to church in washington d.c. and would corrupt religion and now we've got both we deny that many of our laws are based on judeo christian values are based on yes i would say memorialized in the ten commandments and you disagree with the time camillo i don't but i would i would i would say that you know. i would say that i would agree with thomas jefferson this is natural why he said we we created this country we did not need to look into the musty parchment of ancient religions we look in our hearts and we fi

christiane, always great to see you. the senator not holding back there. talking about the buchanan wing of the party. isolationism taking center stage. what really bothers him about all this? >> well, he was very concerned about it coming to center stage, as he said. he said to me, what would ronald reagan think about this? and i said, what does he mean? he said, look. the republican party has always stood for the battles for freedom. whether it was against the soviet union, against communism in the cold war, or today, against militant extremism. and he said, also, that he felt this was a turning point. and of course, republicans have always been very strong on national defense, on national security and have always stood firmly for that. and you saw those seven candidates standing on the stage in new hampshire, really talking about pulling back. so, he was concerned about that. and of course, it's causing concern amongst many who watch and wonder where the republican party's going to stand on this vital issue. >> all right, christiane. thanks so you. and

america but also the judeo-christian civilization.there is such sheen on the part of the western man, such guilt. we have oppressed of the muslim world. we are the injury list colonialist aggressor. we have oppressed muslims through the world and have been a force for evil throughout the world. that is the mainstream line of thought for the political left and many of our elite institutions, universities and the government mainstream media and i hate to make a blanket statement but i'd seen it, i'm in the media in washington, d.c. in the halls of power and i see this self closing for the western civilization there is an attraction for anything that is not western so there's a natural sympathy of islam victims. the palestinians are victims of the western-style is really is. that is a stream running through, and young people are being taught this revisionist history revisionists islamic history in our schools, public schools and universities there's a lot of confusion and there's a lack pride and self-worth and as i outlined in the book

of the 3,000 active-duty chaplains, a majority are conservative christians. brigadier general douglas lee has served over 31 years as both a reserve and active duty chaplain and now heads the joint commission that represents presbyterian reformed chaplains. he is one of 66 retired chaplains who wrote a letter to president obama and secretary of defense gates urging them not to repeal don't ask don't tell. >> homosexuality is one of a multitude of sins. chaplains essentially help people wrestle with the sins that beset them in their lives and try and give them encourage and hope and a way out of all that, and for the christian the way out is jesus christ. for another religion it might be some other means. the problem with this repeal is that this particular sin is being legitimized as being normal and okay. >> reporter: whereas some chaplains support the repeal, and all chaplains accept their obligation to minister to everyone, chaplain lee fears the conflict conservative christian chaplains are bound to ha when counseling openly gay service members. >> chapla

their last name by the way is christian, the law is christian v. mohammed. [laughter] >> ultimately, they win the case. they're awarded more than $10,000 in 1985, which is a substantial amount of money at the time. so their injuries were fairly severe. he never pays. he dodges the sheriff and flouts the law and i talked to the christian women's attornnd he remembers him bursting into his office and a posse of other. israel is an important point in his radicalization than i thought. when you look at most al-qaeda communications they very rarely israel. it's not just a core concern of al-qaeda's but it was a core concern of ksm, probably because his social group in kuwait was predominantly palestinian and his initial indoctrination in radical islam is through the palestinian message. sometimes when you talk to arab reporters, he claimed that his mother or his grandmother were palestinian. this is a flat-out lie. his mother is from the mountains of iran and his ethnic baluch and his grandmother is most likely the same. ramzi yousef, his cousin who was -- sorry,

churches that burt to the ground, christians attacked. these are the fruits of some power in the brotherhood and the obama administration i will never forget the quote a few days after mubarak, robert against the former press secretary said we want all parties in egypt involved in the political process, including any and he specifically mentioned mom secular parties. hello? the muslim brotherhood. this is madness. >> host: i want to get into more of your thoughts on the arabs bring in a moment, but i didn't want to miss the opportunity to find out how a young 25-year-old free-lance reporter became so involved in domestic terrorism, the pursuit and stealth or civilization jihad because this is your book of business to read this is pretty much all you do now. how did you get from here to there? was it 9/11? >> guest: what was, 9/11 was a watershed moment in many of our lives and mine as well. i started out and i dedicate the book to my father, my father was a paratrooper for the 101st airborne, a patriot, left the military, loved this count

christiane. >> thanks, diane.ee more of diane sawyer's report from afghanistan on "world news" this evening and monday and all of the time on abcnews.com. and coming up, the collapse of control in yemen could be bad news for the u.s. fight against al qaeda. another worry for the u.s. is syria which has killed hundreds in a brutal crackdown and is now targeting children. will the u.s. push for regime change there? more on that when we return. >> announcer: "this week" with christiane amanpour from the newseum in washington, d.c. will continue in a moment after this from our abc stations. washington, d.c. will continue in a moment after this from our abc stations. f@f@f@f@f@ >>> the united states is caught in a bind over syria and whether to call for a regime change there. for more than four decades, the assad family ruled syria with ruthless determination. but the uprising sweeping through the region is threatening to topple the regime. and fighting hard. using tanks and guns against protester, including the very y

the other two-thirds are made up of christians sunnis and jews who are going to be automatically category for the house style. the had no likelihood of success but if they could get everything they wanted that they would get. >> host: [inaudible] with it was a win-win in that sense and the expert showed they have a message for the arab world that they could have greater leverage as they played their cards right and the israelis were all there will come, the syrians were out there will come. what is the prospect of iran wearing of its welcome with the shia. it's already in the fall, among many. >> guest: the power is not welcomed by the majority of the lebanese but it's a little bit different because iran does not occupy the country with its own army and it doesn't control the country directly, it controls iran and syria jointly controls lebanon's foreign policy [inaudible] and his ball occupied and controlled its own territory that hezbollah does and government directly or indirectly anybody else in the country so they are going about it in a much more sophisticated way and if you are a c

but then he talked about religionless christianity, and that's what confused people. he used the word to show how you develop a piety so god can't get at you, and he wanted you to get rid of all those things. he didn't stop worshiping, he led worship for the fellow prisoners, but he did believe that the show we put on very often stands in the way of it. and then the question is, what should he say about jesus christ in the whose divinity he believed? but he said the church should always argue about what all this means, and if all the things in the new testament and the church that would fit in religion christianity is jesus christ as the man for others. his whole life is that, and we're supposed to model it that. so you can carry these to go deeper in your faith, or you can carry it and say let's throw it all out. >> if you were, if you were to identify the single biggest impact of this book on religious thought today, what would you say that it is? i know we'll -- if you want, if any of you would like to ask dr. marty questions, i encourage you to line up ott that mi

good morning, david. >> great to see you, christiane.ow, this was an historic trip for the first lady. first solo trip to africa. a continent that hoped to see more of president obama by now, but in traveling with the first lady this week, it was clear, it was mrs. obama delivering the message to the u.s. ♪ >> welcome to south africa with smiles and songs, at times mrs. obama was deeply moved by the open arms. her first solo trip to africa as first lady, she brought her daughters, sasha and malia, and mother, mrs. robinson, three generations looking to inspire the young people of south africa. mrs. obama spoke of eliminating hunger, and hiv and empowering young women. we were with her at cape town university, where she told disadvantaged high school students, the first generation to grow up after apartheid that there is still history to be made here. >> you are looking at those young faces saying i see the same promise that i see in all of you that i see in my own girls. >> i know how fortunate my girs have been, because it's not the mat

>> for christians, the bible is it. a piece of revelation that says nobody can add to the book. it doesn't end with jesus ascending to heaven, it ends with jesus coming to the americas to speak to the native americans about his message. this is what is different about the book of mormon, and it's used as a tool in mormonism, as christians think about the bible. for them it's a very important book. >> how is jesus -- you spoke of joseph smith and referred to him as a profit. >> let me back up a little bit. before joseph smith finds the book of mormon, he has a vision of god, the father, which in mormonism is called heavenly father and jesus, and jesus is the son of god. he's not the way christians think about this as god himself, although in mormonism you can become a god but that's another piece of theology. you need to think of them as two different entities. god and jesus both have physical form. that's a very important distinction between mormonism and what i would consider to be mainstream christiananity. >> give us

their last name is christian. ultimately they win the case. they were aborted more than $10,000 in 1985, which is a substantial sum of money at the time, said their injuries were severe. he never pays. he dodges sheriff, plus the law. but i tie to the christian women's attorney, stephen jay king and he remembers case and bursting into his office at the translator in a small posse of other arab students to lecture him about the avian iraq war and why america is wrong about israel. israel turned out to be a very important point in his radicalization. more so than i would've thought. you look in the cell qaeda communications can i very rarely mention israel. it just not as a core concern of al qaeda is. but it was a core concern of tsm's probably because the social group in kuwait was predominantly palestinian in this initial indoctrination to radical islamist to the palestinian message. sometimes when you talk to arab reporters, he claimed his mother or grandmother or palestinian is a flat-out lie. his mother is from the mountains of iran and et

christiane, good morning to you. good morning, dan. >> what does it all mean? is in any thans the president will go to congress or pull the operation out of libya? >> it's unlikely congress is going to pull funding. it doesn't want to do that when american forces have been historically involved. we talked to senator john mccain, who is going to be our guest today. he is basically saying, this should come to a vote. he said he and senator kerry have prepared a resolution and it should come to a vote and congress needs to vote on it. >> so let me ask you quickly, about another big story going on on the international scene right now. rather extraordinary development in afghanistan, where the tensions between the u.s. and president of afghanistan, hamid karzai, seem to be boiling over. i want to read something. something that the u.s. ambassador said in a speech. when we hear ourselves being called occupiers and worse, and our aid programs are ineffective and source of all corruption, our pride is offended and we begin to lose our inspiration to carry on. what is g

christiane, this latest case, more luck than intelligence. there's no question, when you put it all together, this has been a good month on the war on terror? >> well, absolutely. a good month for international justice, precisely as you say. they can run, but eventually, they can't hide, no matter how they're taken out. the president of counterterrorism has called this a big victory against al qaeda and its extremist allies. and important to know, within somalia which is not known for success in tracking down the militants which does house the african version of al qaeda, this al shabaab group is host to many foreign militants. so it's a big victory for the somalis as well and the fight against al qaeda. >> christiane, thanks to you. christiane will have much more including the latest on the anthony weiner scandal during the debate tomorrow morning on "this week." >>> we turn next to the gigantic wildfire in arizona. 640 square miles and growing. flames now spreading in neighboring new mexico. and the smoke and haze now a serious public healt

agree that the uprising in syria is to cross their sects it's a christian have been called out i've been career killed and this is why this is uprising. kitty it is such kind of a moment among the syrian this is because the spirit of unity among the syrians what are the demands of the syrian opposition we they want to overthrow us this is and this to but what else what specific things do they demand for their country for the people but as soon it is we need actually to move from under a dictatorship regime to be a democratic country c.d.n. their fifty's has a long tradition of for democratic institutions in one thousand nine hundred fifty four for four has free and fair elections at that time we have the march to progress of going to situation with a give their ideal meant to avoid and the bar to see it in there but again there was a little earlier. that was in the thirty's but you know that the smoke once wrote there that. any country any people deserves its government so if you moved from democracy you had a progressive constitution to authorize hereon regime you have now don't you thi

elected president he would require a muslim to take a loyalty oath that he has no problem with christians jews or warman's this is the sort of bias that our founders were horrified by it's the sort of bigotry that many of the early settlers in this country were fleeing from in europe is what president john adams opposed when he opened the treaty of tripoli ratified by the united states senate and signed in seventeen ninety seven adams their second president with the words as the government of the united states of america is not in any sense founded on the christian religion as it has in itself no character of empty against the laws religion or tranquility of muslims and as the said states never entered into any war or act still ity against any mohammad to be a nation is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions show ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries or when thomas jefferson wrote the legitimate powers of government extend to such acts as are injurious to others but it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there

>> christiane, thanks to you. and as you heard, the senate republican leader and will be one of christiane's guests tomorrow morning on "this week." >>> turning, now, to another high-stakes battle, the campaign for president. the republican field will get even more crowded when michele bachmann makes her candidacy official. at least nine republicans are now actively campaigning. tonight, a look at two of them here with very similar resumes, backgrounds and faith. in fact, some have dubbed it the mormon moment. here's abc's jon karl. >> reporter: mitt romney and jon huntsman. one is the front-runner for the republican presidential nomination. the other, the candidate the white house most fears. both of them share something that makes them different from anyone ever elected president. they are mormons. their campaigns are contributing to what "newsweek" has dubbed the norman moment. its cover, a play on "the book of mormon," one of the hottest musicals now on broadway. ♪ i believe jesus has his own planet, as well ♪

against lebanese christians, sunnis and also against the israelis. so it was a mutual win-win relationship for both of them because iran, the revolutionary guard now basically has a forward base military unit. >> host: but after all, the shia of southern lebanon where they are concentrated, had welcomed the israelis when they came in a couple of years earlier. >> guest: yes they did. that is one of the great ironies of the situation because the reason the lebanese shia initially welcomed the israeli invasion was because the shia is from south lebanon were being governed by yasser arafat's palestinian state within a state which was sunni. it was a foreign implant and it was sunni and the plo was rather contemptuous of the shia's who lived in south lebanon and the plo was also putting them in danger by using south lebanon as a launching pad for attacks on israel. israel of course responded militarily and the shia's who lived there for cod in the crossfire. said they were unhappy about this. so yeah they welcomed the israelis initially when they invaded

thank you, and be sure to join christiane later on "this week." she'll have a lot more on congressman weiner and an in-depth look at the economy on the roundtable. and now let's check the headlines once again, go back to ron claiborne. ron, good morning. >> hello again, dan and bianna. good morning, everyone. >>> in the news, the firefighters battling that massive fire in arizona and now new mexico are warning of a perfect storm that could make things even worse. red flag warnings have been issued again today with high winds and low humidity. there are also new warnings about the air quality as far away as central new mexico because of the smoke from that fire, the more 670-square-mile fire is still mostly uncontained. >>> and another acquaintance of missing indiana student lauren spierer has given police dna samples. the attorney for corey rossman's roommate says he provided a sample but he says that he was home when spierer disappeared. rossman is seen orr was seen on surveillance camera with spierer before she disappeared and he's also provided

. >> coming up, how christians are responding to the biblical call to care for orphans.

. >> announcer: live from the newseum in washington, "this week" with christiane amanpour, starts right now. >> welcome to the program. senator mitch mcconnell joins me in just a moment. but first some news since your morning papers. in north dakota the swollen souris river is cresting at this hour and 17 feet above flood level. lower than expected but high enough to swam 4,000 homes and force 11,000 residents to evacuate. the epic flooding is the worst the region has seen since 1881. in new york, more than half a

with christianity and all that it's a big idea. and i think nobody has

complex that hasn't gone away, and you could say hezbollah is a revenge against the sunnis and christians that have for a long time mistreated them and hurt them economically and politically marginalized and they are afraid of being marginalized all over again if they give up their guns. they might be right. i don't know. >> the period you were there is the time of considerable violence and turbulence politically and on the ground. you bring a very vividly in your account what it meant to travel the streets not just of south lebanon near the israeli border but in beirut itself it was very dicey. as a talk about that. you were there as an american journalist. was that a bad thing to be in the local view? >> guest: it was a great thing to be in 2005. >> guest: people and government and media were on the side of the lebanese revolting against syrians so in 2005 beirut is the most pro-american place in the arab world. in south of beirut and along the border with israel it was much dicier. i was not at all welcome there being an american, and i would only go to those places with lebanese expor

as a christian of law. and so i think the bullwark of the judeo christian ethic is to have an understanding of a transcending god. not one that engages in religious-based bigot tree. >> the argument you just made is identical to the argument i as a lawyer make frequently about the constitution. there are multiple ways to interpret any document, whether it's the bible, the constitution. i'm with you in that camp. this is a debate that will no doubt go on forever. do you think there's progress within the church hierarchy on this issue? >> i think there's progress. and the reality is i have friends who are gay priests, and friends of mine that are gay rabbis and they wrestle with these questions. i'm proud to belong to an organization called faith in america that tries to put these issues in front in the religious agenda to have a constructive dialogue, to move the li re lidgeuous community forward. the religious community can be such a source of progressive voice and god willing that's where it ought to be. >

see as its state religion is first christian. in the early twentieth century armenians went through the horrors of genocide we knew one point five million years we queued and moved on we near broke free from the soviet union in september one thousand nine hundred ninety one was hands independence brought to this ancient country. in two thousand and eight archeologist police just barely and could have rivaled armenian politicians in terms of popularity news of his discovery had spread far and wide for out the world in caves in the mountains around the village of they need the archaeologists had found the settlements dating back to the year five thousand b.c. . these vessels were among the first ones when we saw them it was immediately clear to us that they dated from the copper and stone age that means that people were already living in these caves seven thousand years ago communities maintained very close contact inhabited in areas in the twin the north caucasus and miserable time here they used to migrate from north to south and

church after she married a muslim and converted to islam but even then he was a christian coptic it wasn't a muslim that killed read his brother. and amish neither showed my brother dead a bullet went through his forehead and it came out on the other side and i saw it with no one here has a weapon like this on this old is there it's hard to grasp what happened. rather blames the army for taking the life of his younger brother and the revolution so given the army so much power. and as. we expected the army to intervene to protect people just don't mind answering but instead they started to kill people themselves are we didn't expect that at all that it that the people of egypt didn't expect many things they didn't expect the economy to collapse they didn't imagine the path to a free and democratic society would be such a bloody and painful one they just wanted to free from dictatorship and didn't expect it all to find themselves and to get another one in military one the power in egypt now since mubarak is out rest firmly in the hands of the military chiefs of staff. they were sittin

the receiver to actually go to the christian area to get its pushes down and we're going to believe the answer is. we have to think and pray. some of the people back in their home. ok sean i do keep us updated as best you can sean thomas reporting on the ground there from angry scenes in turkey thank you. you know without still ahead this hour an unlikely alliance. you know how orthodox jews in new york are joining the chorus of palestinians mourning and then the state of israel. join our close up to my journey to one of the most beautiful locations and russia's caucasus mysteriously. died. tragically in secrecy and invite only one meeting of the world's political and financial elite is underway in switzerland the annual gathering of the building has attracted strong protest conspiracy theories. and it has been the following the meeting. the exclusive ski resort of sam rich jude is perfect bill the territory season and crucially practically deserted there are two heights of activity in town though one is the luxury hotel where around one hundred thirty of the world's most influential po

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