In
Mexico's Chiapas state, remnants of the Mayan people who once ruled the region are contending for land rights in an ecological preserve that represents nearly half of Mexico's remaining rainforest.
Millions
of Africans know Jesus' parable of "the good Samaritan," that familiar story of a traveler who aids a man who's been wounded, robbed, and left to die.
Recently a European visitor to our offices commented on what she saw as Americans' naiveté about the rest of the world, perhaps because of the general lack of historical context in American thinking.
