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• The national crusade, nation's restoration | The supplications and penitent spirit that characterized the Liberia for Jesus Crusade will have no meaning in the drive for national restoration unless we turn a new page of our national history (Bill K. Jarkloh, The News, Monrovia, Liberia)
  
  
• Deadly crusades | Reinhard Bonnke's crusade in Nigeria are always a harvest of miracle amidst deaths (Kunle Owolabi, The News, Lagos, Nigeria)
  
  
• Reinhard Bonnke video documents modern-day Lazarus | Nigerian certified dead, but revived days later at evangelist's meeting (Charisma News Service)
  
  

Church life:

• How the Church failed by reinventing Christianity | What is occurring is not merely the secularisation of the prevalent moral culture, but also the secularisation of the Church's understanding of its own mission (Edward Norman, The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Church willing to modify plan, a bit | Denver-area church fights to expand (The Denver Post)
  
  

Abuse:

• House closes loophole on clergy abuse | Churches back a compromise on reporting (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• A loyal flock | Accused priest's good works, straight talk win support (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Wealthy donors to cover Law's settlements | Cost will exceed insurance (Boston Herald)
  
  
• Boston priests doubting cardinal after sex scandal | Local priests have been demoralized by a daily buffeting by the media, and their trust in Law and his ability to lead the church out of the crisis has been seriously eroded (Reuters)
  
  
• Priest emerges as test for church | Spagnolia case will demonstrate for just how much evidence the church needs to remove a priest accused of that crime, and just what kind of power priests have in a hierarchical church (The Boston Globe)
  
  

Media:

• Spreading the Word on reality TV | TruthQuest: California is a Christian reality program about 12 teenagers who drive around California in a Winnebago, get to know each other, bicker about what music to play—and spread the word of God (Fox News)
  
  
• BBC accused of blasphemy over readings from banned poem | Composition on homosexuality and Jesus was banned in 1977 (The Scotsman)
  
  

Roman Catholics:

• Sicily plans Catholic Mount Rushmore | Plans call for the faces of the Pope, Mother Teresa and Padre Pio to be carved into the hills of Segesta in an effort to corner the lucrative pilgrim tourist niche (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Pope announces summer travel plans | Will go to Canada, Mexico, and Guatemala (Associated Press)
  
  

Other stories of interest:

• Scholars get religion | More academics are starting to see the 'religion factor' as key to understanding forces in economics, politics, and society (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• 'End-time' talks to draw thousands | 3,000 people gather in Tampa this week for the 19th International Prophecy Conference (Associated Press)
  
  
• Scrolls contain some missing pieces of Bible | Scholar hopes lecture series will give people understanding (Corpus Christi [Tex.] Caller-Times)
  
  

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February (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46