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Persecution and crime:

• Suspects in church massacre are killed | Four accused of Bahawalpur attack killed in escape attempt (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Man gets death, fine for blasphemy | Wajih-ul-Hassan latest target of Pakistan's controversial law. (The News International, Pakistan)
  
  
• Also: Pak court orders death for blasphemy | Second such sentence in nine days (The Independent, Bangladesh)
  
  
• Top Indonesian Islamic group against Shari'ah law | Nahdlatul Ulama wants religious freedom untouched (AFP)
  
  
• China sentences Catholic priests to labor camp | China has sentenced three Catholic priests to three years in a labor camp for "cult" activities it says threaten social stability (Reuters)
  
  
• Also: Catholic priests jailed in China (BBC)
  
  
• Houses for dislodged Christians demanded | 25 Pakistani families homeless after government destroys church (Dawn, Karachi)
  
  
• Christian rebels kill 42 in Uganda | Members of the Lord's Resistance Army attacked a village near the northern town of Kitgum Wednesday and killed the victims with machetes and clubs, Radio Uganda reported. (UPI)

Politics:

• Evangelical leaders ask Bush to adopt balanced Mideast policy | "The American evangelical community is not a monolithic bloc in full and firm support of present Israeli policy," say 59 theologians, community activists, pastors and college professors (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Religious Right makes headway in Bush policy | Influence especially evident in recent foreign policy decisions (Fox News)
  
  
• James Meeks kicks off race for Senate | Residents fill park Sunday in support of Baptist pastor's bid for 15th District (The Times, Munster, Indiana)
  
  
• In Texas, churchgoers are integral to campaigning | Demos support moment of silence in schools; GOP pledges to dispel myth of separation of church, state (Associated Press)

Education:

• Evolution critics meet to create strategy | Hundreds of evolution critics slipped into a quiet Missouri suburb over the weekend with a single-minded purpose: to shatter the lock Charles Darwin has had on science for 150 years (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
  
  
• Blaine is slain | School choice passes a second constitutional test. (Pete Du Pont, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• Safe sex: Time to abstain | True abstinence programs help young people build an understanding of commitment, fidelity and intimacy that will serve as the foundations of healthy marital life. Can the same be said for classroom demonstrations involving condoms and cucumbers? (Edwin Feulner, The Washington Times)

Church life:

• Episcopal equanimity | Episcopal Diocese of Virginia bishop Peter J. Lee's efforts to balance competing interests in a diocese that comprises a liberal south and a conservative north has kept 187 churches up, running, and growing (The Washington Times)
  
  
• A pastor's $23,650 problem | The Rev. Viorel Dumitrescu says he is a God-fearing pastor and former torture victim who only wants to build a home for his immigrant congregation in a former knitting factory. But the city's Department of Buildings says that in pursuing his goal, he authorized construction without a permit and illegally operated single room occupancy apartments. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Theological trustees tend to be older and aren't big givers, study finds | Board members are concerned most with increasing enrollment at their institutions and establishing financial security, says Auburn Theological Seminary's Center for the Study of Theological Education (The Chronicle of Higher Education, subscription required)
  
  

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July (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46