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Politics:

• New Christian group meets with positive reaction | Body calls for national dialogue (The Daily Star, Lebanon)
  
  
• 'Church Lady' ad for lottery is withdrawn | Backer changes tack to avoid offending some (The Tennessean)
  
  
• Walking in faith | Condoleezza Rice talks about her faith at a Sunday school class at National Presbyterian Church (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Regier wrangle isn't 'people of faith' vs. the infidels | While private citizen Regier's religious beliefs are his business, people of all religious stripes, or none at all, have every right to squirm over his professed desire to "bring God's voice … to public policy" in his role as secretary of Florida's Department of Children & Families (Bill Berlow, Tallahassee [Fla.] Democrat)
  
  
• New Christian loyalist group unveils founding document | But questions persist as to whether gathering exists solely to rival Qornet Shehwan (The Daily Star, Lebanon)

Life ethics:

• Split vote puts stem-cell backers in double jeopardy | The House of Representatives cast a shadow over legislation allowing stem-cell researchers to destroy human embryos last night, when it voted to allow a separate vote on the issue (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Australia's House of Representatives bans human cloning | MPs voted 89 to 43 to support splitting the bill and then unanimously passed a ban on human cloning (ABC News, Australia)

Courts:

• Judge says it's 'premature' to enter Maui church battle | At issue is property where a congregation aims to build a chapel (The Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
  
  
• Unhappy wife loses bid to sue Catholic Church for $25m | Court rules every marriage celebrated by a minister or registrar after oath or solemn affirmation shall be valid and legal (AAP)
  
  
• A religious bias suit by evangelical chaplains against the Navy | The law confronts denominational diversity (Marci Hamilton, FindLaw.com)
  
  
• Lawsuit targets church | Ex-pastor claims broken promises, financial ruin (Wilmington [N.C.] Star)

Crime and violence:

• Suspect arrested at church takes deal | Las Vegas man who walked into church three weeks ago and confessed he killed his wife (Las Vegas Sun)
  
  
• No death penalty in church attack | Nassau DA's decision in 2 killings (Newsday)
  
  
• Zimbabwe's militias drive priest from parish | Patrick Kelly accused his Zimbabwean bishops of being cowed by Mugabe's regime and of failing to defend him when he was ordered to abandon his church in the mountain village of Nyanga (Sapa)

Islam and Christianity:

• Christians can learn much from the Qur'an | Christians can hardly expect Muslims to take our theology seriously if we do not know the basics about theirs (Thomas W. Goodhue, Newsday)
  
  
• The learning response | Beneath all the controversy, many non-Muslims take time to learn about Islam (The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.)
  
  
• Academic freedom | Reading program on Koran ignites debate (Editorial, The San Diego Union-Tribune)
  
  
• Islam's anguish | The best antidote to narrow and rigid fundamentalism is knowledge. (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Agenda against Muslim charities | Christian-based organizations support terrorism, too (Joseph B. Abboud, Dawn, Karachi, Pakistan)
  
  
• Opening western eyes to a view of Islam | David Schoenbaum reviews Daniel Pipes's Militant Islam Reaches America (The New York Times)

Schools and education:

• Extreme religious conservatives have power to block books | What should Texas' textbooks say? (Samantha Smoot, The Dallas Morning News)
  
  

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August (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46