Kiiza David Maclaren

Failures of the United Nations UN opinion on Hungary and Czechoslovakia were ignored by the erstwhile Soviet Union in 1950s. Israel had been taking unilateral action through decades in its geographical vicinity and nothing substantial has come out even by September 2010. No emphatic role in crisis of worst kinds like the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam crisis etc. UN was nowhere in the picture when the NATO rained bombs over former Yugoslavia. Uni-polarity and unilateralism has shaken the relevance of the world body. Unilateral action in Iraq was bereft of UN sanction. Failed to generate a universal consensus to protect the deteriorating world climate , even at Copenhagen in 2009. Number of nuclear powers in the world has kept on increasing. UN Could not control the horizontal expansion and proliferation of weapons and arms. Financial dependence on the industrialized nations has at times deviated UN from neutrality and impartiality. The world body has failed to reflect the de

THE ESSENCE OF EASTER Scripture Reference: Romans 6:8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him. Jesus came to this earth for a purpose. Firstly He was born as a human being yet fully God. He grew up and later commenced His ministry at about 30years of age. For the following three years He preached the gospel of the Kingdom with supernatural power as He performed untold and mind-boggling miracles, signs and wonders. As it was foretold, He was nailed to death on the cross of Calvary. Three days after His burial, He came back to life. Afterward He ascended to Heaven and is finally seated on the throne of glory. The various stages of the life of Christ after His arrival on earth have meanings to them. The most important of them all is His resurrection from the death (1 Cor 15:17). His resurrection from death was and still is the seal of the victory we have as God’s people. Christ has taken already your place of sin, sickness, poverty, worry, depre