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The AFA is also upset at recent 7Up ads that suggest a pitchman is getting naked in public.

Persecution:

• Let's press Russia, others on religious freedom issues | Now that we Americans have a freer hand than we did when our backs seemed to be against the wall in September, our leaders should renew attention to persecution (Lawrence Uzzell, The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Vatican Creates dioceses in Russia | Orthodox Church upset by the move (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: Vatican plan irks Orthodox Church (Reuters)
  
  
• Also: As the Vatican evangelizes, the Russian Orthodox resist (Reuters)
  
  
• Church bell triggers sectarian clash in Egypt | Eleven hurt, cars and homes burnt (Reuters)
  
  
• Also: Church bells lead to Egypt clashes (BBC)
  
  
• Court blocks stoning execution of woman | A Sudanese appeals court has overturned a sentence of death by stoning for a pregnant Christian woman accused of adultery, and has sent the case back to the lower court for fresh sentencing (Reuters)
  
  

Education:

• The Koran as a classroom lesson? At the right time, yes | I give straight F's to those who said such instruction had no place in the classroom (Dana Parsons, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Suspicious minds | Story about teaching Islam in California school is largely false (Roberto Rivera, Breakpoint Online)
  
  
• County of the Scopes Trial is told to halt Bible classes in schools | Judge rules that county school officials "acted with both purpose and effect to endorse and advance religion in the public schools." (Associated Press)
  
  
• Cleveland case poses new test for vouchers | A voucher program in Ohio designed to help thousands of pupils flee failing public schools will be taken up by the United States Supreme Court this month. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Transgender restrooms urged for schools | The United States Students Association says transgender students "have a problem with bathrooms" that are for men or women only and may be assaulted (The Washington Times)
  
  

Evolution:

• In Ohio school hearing, a new theory will seek a place alongside evolution | The latest challenge to evolution's primacy in the nation's classrooms—the theory of intelligent design—will soon get a hearing before the Ohio Board of Education. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Ohio scientists to fight anti-evolution push | Group opposes teaching of Intelligent Design in schools (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
  
  

Pop culture:

• Wrapping Christian messages in films with popular appeal | 'The Climb' embodies 50-year-old group's newest tactics for reaching many people. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Christians urged to worship pop idol | Christians are being told that "a vote for Gareth [Gates] is a vote for God" as ITV1's Pop Idol contest reaches its climax tonight. (The Times, London)
  
  
• Holy Land park tops expectations | More than 275,000 people have visited the park since it opened Feb. 5, 2001 (The Denver Post)
  
  
• Christian group rocks on at 15 | dc Talk members have done solo albums, but they've stayed together longer than the Beatles (The Denver Post)
  
  
• Christian music wins converts | Behind the scenes at "The Fish" (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Creed: the band with all the questions | The band's popularity is the biggest mystery of all (The Washington Post)
  
  

Church abuse scandals:

• Roman Catholic leader claims abuse-conviction nun innocent | Archbishop Mario Conti said he believes Sister Alphonso, also known as Marie Theresa Docherty, is the victim of a miscarriage of justice and should have her conviction quashed (The Scotsman)
  
  
• Churches pay dearly for silence on abuse | Criticism grows in pedophile cases (Chicago Tribune)
  
  

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February (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46