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While IBelieve.com is currently a free site with very little content, Jabez plans to turn the site into "the Internet's first network of subscription-based Christian websites and expects initial partners to span a number of leading Christian organizations and service providers."

Jabez Networks' partners also own Rivals.com and FaithSite.com in addition to providing content-management systems for businesses, churches, schools, and other organizations. According to the IBelieve.com press release, Jabez was formed in 2000 to "expand its territories online."

Business and ethics:

• Enron, WorldCom ethics a sin in Bible | The moral failures that led to Enron and WorldCom are the responsibility not of a liberal secular institution such as Harvard that Colson disdains so much, but of the church (Cary McMullen, The Ledger, Lakeland, Fla.)
  
  
• Earlier: The Wages of Secularism | New laws won't prevent another Enron (Charles Colson, Christianity Today, June 4)
  
  
• Faith-friendly investing a challenge in current scandal climate | Mutual fund executives claim it's hard to know which companies are ethically sound (Religion News Service)
  
  
• Is U.S. swept up in moral vacuum? | Ethicist sees blurring of border between right and wrong. (Deseret News)

Clergy sex cases:

• Priest investigated in sexual abuse case | Prosecutors began investigating a Roman Catholic priest Monday after his diocese suspended him over allegations that he sexually abused a 14-year-old boy. (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Church panel chief calls abuser appeals `shameful' | Since the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops voted last month to remove from ministry all priests who had sexually abused a child, a few clergymen have appealed their cases to the Vatican. (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Ky. Archdiocese knew of abuse claims, nun says | A former Catholic school principal says the Archdiocese of Louisville knew about child sex-abuse allegations against a priest even though it assigned him to parishes where he worked with children. (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Ex-priest says he was deceived | He tells newspaper that child molester was 'deceptively charming' (The Dallas Morning News)

Missions and Ministry:

• Moved by a fitness revelation | Church finds a new calling in fighting obesity and tending to its flock's physical needs. (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Some say Samaritans abetting undocumented immigrants | Volunteers with the "Samaritan Patrol" carry water, food and first-aid supplies to assist migrants who have become lost or otherwise endangered in the desert (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Christian Prophecies And Zionist Dreams | Evangelicals help Jews immigrate to Israel (CBS Evening News)
  
  
• Churches, city square off on plan to rein in shelters | Church leaders and homeless advocates say the rules could simultaneously jeopardize religious freedom and bind them with bureaucratic red tape (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• They're doin' that old-time religion | 'I'm convinced that offenders come to religious observances in prison … who probably would never go through the doors in the free world' (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Churchless street evangelists help people find God | Many Christians feel compelled to take their faith outside the institutional settings of a church and into the streets (Voice of America)

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