The revolution in Egypt and social turmoil across the Arab world may have provided unexpected help for African Christians in a poor country to the south: Sudan. On Jan. 25, the world learned that the citizens of southern Sudan voted overwhelmingly to secede from the north and create their own country …

A new kind of censorship is becoming vogue. Rather than removing documents from the public, some are editing history to make some documents nicer, less offensive to an increasingly ignorant nation of readers …