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In the meantime, there's another great Web site on the Burnhams in addition to that of New Tribes Mission. PrayThemHome.com, which New Tribes says was created by "friends of the Burnhams," includes updates, specific prayer requests, and the names of government officials to lobby.

Politics:

• Groups question marriage initiative | An array of anti-poverty, feminist and unmarried-couple advocacy groups are urging the Bush administration and other policy-makers to call off their plans to use taxpayer funds to promote marriage. (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Clergy lead attack on weapons export bill | More than 40 Anglican bishops attacked the Government's policy on the regulation of arms exports to the Third World, saying that it does not go far enough. (The Times, London)
  
  
• PM's blind faith in U.S. terror war unjustified, Australia's Catholics say | Australian Catholic Social Justice Council opposes national endorsement of antiterror plans (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  

Persecution:

• Christian woman to be stoned to death | Human Rights Watch appealed to Sudanese President Omar Hassan Bashir on Friday to intervene on behalf of a young pregnant Christian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. (UPI)
  
  
• China's dubious claim of religious freedom (Paul Marshall, USA Today)
  
  
• Advocates press Bush over North Korean religious persecution | Country will likely be major subject during Asia trip (Voice of America)
  
  

Life ethics:

• Who's speaking up for life? | New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is retreating — slightly — from his stealth attack on pro-life crisis pregnancy centers. (Michelle Malkin, The Washington Times)
  
  
• Abortion bills pass Va. House committee | Measures would require parental consent and ban late-term procedures (The Washington Post)
  
  

Church life:

• Church ushers meet to share their ministry | To greet a church visitor without a smile or the love of Christ is a no-no (The Hartford Courant)
  
  
• Churches advised to join 21st century | Leonard Sweet says anyone born before 1962 is an immigrant to the culture (The Charlotte Observer)
  
  
• Expansion talk angers church's neighbors | One of the largest churches in Palm Beach County wants to become even bigger, but nearby residents are giving the idea a big thumbs down (WPBF, Palm Beach)
  
  
• Churches' leap of faith | Episcopalians canceled their main worship service so that their parishioners and clergy could attend the Presbyterian Church service. (The Bergen Record, New Jersey)
  
  
• The word from a warehouse | A church in Huntington Beach has moved from its tin sanctuary into a courtyard because it doesn't have a permit the city requires (Los Angeles Times)
  
  

Missions & ministry:

• Missionary request may further divide Baptists | Conservatives, Texas moderates clash over affirmation of belief (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Rescued missionaries have no regrets | "Perhaps we deserved what we got," says Heather Mercer. "I actually wasn't too surprised we ended up in prison." (Associated Press)
  
  

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February (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46