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• Assignment of book on Islam prompts university debate (Voice of America)

Islam:

• U.S. Muslims say Bush ignores them | They complain that Bush is being swayed by conservative Christians and pro-Israel lobbyists (Fox News)
  
  
• Are we owed an apology? | Muslim leaders remain mute on 9/11. (William F. Buckley Jr., National Review Online)
  
  
• Does Islam foster extremism? | Perhaps every belief system that lays claim to the ultimate truth carries the seeds of violent fanaticism and intolerance (Cathy Young, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Divinity dean weighs in on Islam | Harvard University this week named the first Islamicist — and the first layman — to head its venerable divinity school (The Boston Globe)

Missions and Ministry:

• Graham crusade's return fires revival of the faithful | Spokane is one of only five cities where Franklin Graham will bring his festival this year (The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.)
  
  
• Christian event expected to draw up to 100,000 | For the most part, it looked like any other summer festival in this area: food booths selling yakisoba or bratwurst, groups of families and friends sprawled on vast expanses of grass, listening to bands play on the open stage. But there were subtle differences at the Puget Sound Festival with Luis Palau (The Seattle Times)
  
  
• God books a vacation | From campground to ski slope, people at play find someone else along for the trip — missionaries who minister to tourists (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Minister reprises 'under God' sermon | Pledge of Allegiance flap brings 91-year-old pastor back. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Spiritualized | As the month began, thousands came to Loon Mountain for the region's biggest Christian music festival (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Evangelical 'miracle' | It had been said that getting more than 100 Latino ministers, of various denominations and nationalities, to work together was practically impossible. But when they finally achieved it, they could hardly believe their own eyes. (Miguel Perez, The Record, Bergen, N.J.)
  
  
• Religion radio puts shut-ins, elderly on same wavelength | Many elderly maintain their link to their churches and their spiritual lives by listening to radio broadcasts piped from their churches live or on tape (The Flint [Mich.] Journal)
  
  
• English provides the link | Lutheran pastor returns from five-week stay in China (The Saginaw [Mich.] News)

Persecution in Eastern Europe:

• War of the faiths | An increasingly bitter conflict between Roman Catholics and the Orthodox Church highlights the struggle for real religious freedom in the former Soviet Union (Newsweek International)
  
  
• Attacks on minority faiths rise in post-Soviet Georgia | Georgia has experienced a wave of religious violence that is increasingly calling into question the country's willingness to protect democracy and human rights (The New York Times)

Pope John Paul II in Poland:

• Pope says modern mankind is usurping 'God's place' | Pope John Paul II told a crowd of at least two million Poles on Sunday that mankind was going astray by letting cultural liberalism eclipse God's will (The New York Times)
  
  
• Pope offers mass near site where he toiled under the Nazis (The New York Times)
  
  
• For pontiff, a day of emotion (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Past and present meet on Pope's Polish visit | Pontiff seeks an end to 'every injustice' (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Pope warns poles against euthanasia | Modern man often "lives as if God does not exist," the pope warned, "and even puts himself in God's place" (Associated Press)
  
  

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August (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46