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Eye on the World: Friday, May 4, 2012
After a tense week of US-China negotiations over the fate of Chen Guangcheng, a prominent Chinese legal activist who escaped his house arrest last week and fled to the US embassy in Beijing, relations may be warming between the two countries. China suggested a potential resolution to the diplomatic dust-up on Friday, saying that Chen could apply to study abroad, and an American university quickly offered him a fellowship, paving the way for Chen and his family to leave China safely and legally.
“Prayer for government” focuses on how each of us can pray not only to support humble, selfless motives in our own country’s government, but to recognize that even delicate international situations can be resolved harmoniously through the unifying, purifying touch of the Divine.
A Taliban suicide bomber attacked a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing 20 people, including the head of a Pashtun security force. The Pakistani army has said in the past that Bajaur, the province where the blast occurred, has been cleared of Al Qaeda and Taliban militants, but blasts in the area appear to keep proving them wrong.
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