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Vouchers:

• Anxious parents await hearing on school vouchers | Cleveland case offers high-stakes test over church and state; Justices to hear arguments (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• Supreme Court faces stark choice in school voucher case | The Court's decision, expected to come this summer, could mark the beginning or the end of a national school voucher program. (Fox News)
  
  
• The court and school choice | Children in Cleveland, and millions elsewhere, are being disabled by the anti-choice coalition's campaign to turn the Constitution into a barricade to prevent poor children from escaping from the public school plantation (George F. Will, The Washington Post)
  
  
• Cleveland families disagree on value of school vouchers | Beyond the legal arguments lies a deep division among Cleveland parents (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
  
  

Other education issues:

• Debate evolves over biology lessons | Next month, the Ohio School Board will be the first to consider adding to its statewide standards the "intelligent design" theory, which advocates say explains complex parts of biology that are elusive in Darwin's evolution paradigm. (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Do religion lessons violate separation of church, state? | Religious leaders asked about History Alive program (Los Angeles Times)
  
  

Politics:

• Variety of faiths make views known at Capitol | Unlike some of their fellow lobbyists, however, those representing religious causes have no political action committees and no hefty expense accounts (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• GOP aims to broaden churches' politicking | Bill would allow backing of candidates (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Detention is no way to treat asylum seekers in a true state of grace | Locking refugees in camps is a poor way to start our relationship with them (Peter Jensen, The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Zealous Stockwell Day crosses line | Politicians have no place in the churches of the nation (Don Martin, Calgary Herald)
  
  

Persecution:

• No faith in China | While we believe political and religious freedom will inevitably follow the greater economic liberty available to Chinese citizens, this seems unlikely to occur prior to the collapse of the party dictatorship (Editorial, The National Post)
  
  
• Chinese clamps down on religion | Until recently, the campaign against Christian groups was overshadowed by China's effort to crush the Falun Gong spiritual movement. But the treatment of underground Christians is drawing increasing attention, and could be an issue when President Bush visits Beijing this week. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Zimbabwe police arrest four priests | Ministers were going to pray for peace in upcoming elections (SAPA)
  
  

Missions & ministry:

• Missionaries deal with primitive challenges | Being a missionary has never been easy, says recruiter Dun Gordy (The Orlando Sentinel)
  
  
• AIDS crisis in spotlight | About 1,000 people, including missionaries, denominational leaders, and nonprofit and elected officials expected to attend the "Prescriptions for Hope" conference in Washington, D.C. (The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina)
  
  

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February (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46