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But when it came to Judaism, editors fell asleep. "The Bible's core is the Torah, the five books delivered by God to the Jewish people at Mount Sinai through the prophet Muhammad." The prophet Muhammad? (Thanks to the Canada-based RelapsedCatholic.com for pointing out the error.)

Preparing for Easter:

• A city hopelessly devoted to job of 'holding up God' | Nothing prepares you for the magnificence of Seville's Holy Week celebrations (The London Independent)
  
  
• Holy Week traditions run deep for Hispanics | Between church and homestyle meals, area Latin Americans re-enact traditions as old as the 16th century (The Greenwich [Conn.] Time)
  
  
• The role of a lifetime | Playing Jesus in Mexico City's oldest Passion procession has brought Pedro Limon closer to his faith. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Pain central to Mexican observance | Reasons, methods for self-punishment vary (Associated Press)
  
  
• This Lent, prayer is their answer | These four people turned their attention toward creating a dialogue with God during the Easter season. (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• Homeless carry their cross | Marchers come to downtown Santa Ana on Good Friday to call attention to people who live on the streets. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  

Easter in Pakistan:

• Bomb attack chills churchgoers in Islamabad | Attendance by Westerners at the city's three Christian churches, in this overwhelmingly Muslim country, has fallen to a handful. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Islamabad parish shares in sorrow, holiday | At sunrise, two weeks after a hail of grenades ripped apart the Protestant International Church in Islamabad, its grieving but resilient congregation gathered for an emotional ecumenical service at Our Lady of Fatima Church. (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Christians celebrate Easter in Pakistan | Unprecedented security for service (Reuters)
  
  

Easter and the Mideast:

• 'A little peace' at Easter services | Christians took part in early-morning outdoor services, packed churches and prayed for peace on Easter, as the holiest day of the year was marred by continued violence in the Middle East. (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Pope condemns violence in Mideast | Vatican is looking into the possibility of knee surgery soon for the ailing pontiff. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Pope prays for Mideast peace at Good Friday service | Health forces pontiff to sit and watch as others carried the cross in the procession. (Reuters)
  
  
• Bloodshed fails to halt the faithful | Hundreds of Christians braved Arab-Israeli violence on Good Friday to walk in the footsteps of Jesus along the Via Dolorosa. (New York Daily News)
  
  

Easter and the abuse scandal:

• Protesters target Easter service | Cardinal Law, beset by crisis, cites 'wounds,' hope (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Cross overshadows controversy | Catholics put aside talk of a scandal and defy the rain to affirm their faith on Good Friday (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Easter's challenge | By all accounts, the significance of the first Easter Sunday was not immediately apparent. (Editorial, The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Catholics take comfort in Easter | In one Florida diocese, the sex scandal has not shaken the faith of parishioners. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Pulpit takes aim at sensitive issues | Church leaders did not shy away from controversy in their traditional Easter Sunday sermons, as many focused on the recent scandals involving the Governor-General and Justice Michael Kirby as well as the plight of refugees and children. (The Australian)
  
  
• Jesus will save the Catholic Church, Bishop Brown says | In his Easter message, the cleric says of sex scandals, 'We can meet the challenge.' (Los Angeles Times)
  
  

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April (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46