Plus: City Journal attacks moral lethargists, New York gets a Dead Sea Scroll, and other stories from around the world.
Todd Hertz & David Neff | posted 11/01/2001 12:00AM
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US ambassador in Ramadan fast | The United States ambassador to Pakistan, Wendy Chamberlin, is fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan (BBC)
Others fast in solidarity with Muslims | The nation's largest ecumenical organization and a Roman Catholic leader called on their members to practice a weekly day of fasting. (Chicago Sun Times)
Also: Oceania a voyage too far for frail Pope | In past years, Pope John Paul II traveled to distant continents to deliver a special message to his bishops. (CNN)
Board of education gets religion | Apparently prayer permitted in public school when it's of the non-Judeo-Christian variety (Arnold Ahlert, New York Post)
Nigeria 'arrests Pakistani preachers' | Six Pakistani Muslim preachers have been arrested in south-west Nigeria for allegedly inciting religious violence (BBC)
North Nigerian women reject Shari'ah | Non-Muslim women say that devotion to Shari'ah does not go much beyond the surface (Daily Mail & Guardian)
Also: Found body not that of kidnapped priest| The alleged captors of Italian missionary Giuseppe Pierantoni confirm the body is neither that of the priest nor of the missing Canadian national (Inquirer News Service)
A resurrected Ashcroft becomes cabinet power | A year ago, John Ashcroft's political future looked grim until the terrorist attacks "raised a call he could not shirk" (International Herald Tribune)
MPs say religious hate law would be unworkable | Plans to make incitement to religious hatred a crime are unworkable and should be dropped, a Commons committee has said (The Daily Telegraph)
Court refuses spanking request | A private Christian school in Liverpool lost its battle for the right to spank unruly pupils with parental consent (Associated Press)
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