Death penalty may be back on table for Shelter Now workers
The eight foreign aid workers standing trial in Afghanistan for promoting Christianity may be executed, says a senior Taliban official. "We will punish them according to the laws they have broken," Taliban chief justice Mawlawi Noor Mohammad Saqib told the Pakistan-based news agency Afghan Islamic Press. "If they have broken the law and should be hanged, then we will punish them like that." But Saqib told a different story to the western media. "Talk of what the punishment will be is premature," he told the Associated Press. "We are not saying anything about the trial proceedings or about the punishment until it is finished." Saqib also refused to meet with three Western diplomats today.
Burnhams reported alive as Abu Sayyaf members killed
New Tribes missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham are alive but suffering, say media reports out of the southern Philippines island of Basilan. Civilians who saw the missionaries last week say food is scarce both among the Abu Sayyaf rebels and their 18 captives. Meanwhile, fighting continues between the kidnappers and the Philippine military, and the government has promised to add more soldiers to the effort. Three of the rebels and one solider were killed in fighting yesterday. But in a hopeful turn of events, American hostage Guillermo Sobero was reportedly seen alive despite reports that the Abu Sayyaf decapitated him. Military officials are still investigating the sighting.
Curious George publishers angry at being aped in Jews for Jesus pamphlet
That crazy monkey created by Margaret and H.A. Rey is always getting into trouble for being places he shouldn't be. And the latest place he's been spotted is in an evangelistic tract by Jews for Jesus. The man in the yellow hat, a.k.a. publisher Houghton Mifflin, has sued the organization for a minimum of $500,000, saying the tract has "confused the consuming public" into thinking Curious George "is associated with or endorses" the messianic organization. Jews for Jesus spokeswoman Susan Perlman says the tract is protected parody, and, besides, "We think Curious George would like it."
New stem cell issue as Congress returns | Critics say restrictions on stem cell research would hamstring scientists in their search for treatments and cures (The New York Times)
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