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Persecution and crime:

• World Vision worker released in Southern Sudan | Two others still captive (Idea, Germany)
  
  
• Also: Rebels want to control food aid | A militia group holding two aid workers hostage in southern Sudan are demanding control over some of the millions of dollars worth of food aid delivered annually to the impoverished region (SAPA)
  
  
• Priest recalls his meeting with church murderers | Islamic gunmen showed little remorse over one of the worst massacres of Christians in Pakistan's history (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Freed Missionary Hails Indictments (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: Missionary satisfied with indictment (Religion News Service)
  
  
• Also: 5 charged in death of U.S. missionary | None are in custody (The Orlando Sentinel)
  
  
• 'Cheap grace': Are churches giving corporate execs free moral ride? | Religious communities must urge rigorous examination of motives, consistent actions (Religion News Service)

Pennsylvania miner rescue:

• In mine and church collapses, God was there | If  God gets the credit for what happened at Quecreek, does God get the blame for what happened in Memphis, Tenn., last week? (David Waters, Scripps Howard)
  
  
• Giving thanks, taking credit | Did prayer help rescue the miners? (Keith Ward, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• Did God really save the miners? | How we feel about the Somerset nine's rescue says a lot about what we think about God (Frederica Mathewes-Green, Beliefnet)
  
  
• In a clash of cultures, we've put God in the middle | Americans' notion of the deity needs reexamination (Norah Vincent, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Relieved talk of mercy, miracles, and providence | In a rural county in southwestern Pennsylvania where Christian stations crowd the left side of the radio dial, words like miracle, providence and mercy made up the vocabulary of joy and relief today over a rescue that for a while looked as if it was going wrong, but ended up right. (The New York Times)

Gracia Burnham:

• Gracia Burnham looks forward to return to Kansas | Says she needs time to rest, grieve, and write (The Wichita Eagle)
  
  
• Gracia Burnham makes statement during Washington trip (The Wichita Eagle)
  
  
• Now, home life beckons | Accompanied by her family, Gracia Burnham said she now hopes to reacquaint herself to life in the States and to "raise three neat kids." (The Wichita Eagle)
  
  
• Philippine hostage survivor, with her children, visits Bush (KRT)

Bible:

• The Gospels with all their original grace and harshness | Jewish names and the politics of anti-Semitism. (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Why The Message isn't controversial | Is Eugene Peterson's paraphrase a Bible? (Associated Press)

First Amendment:

• Group sues University of North Carolina over reading | The Virginia-based Family Policy Network opposes program requiring incoming students to read "Approaching the Qur'án: The Early Revelations" (The Daily Tar Heel, UNC)
  
  
• Also: Edgy first college assignment: Study the Koran (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Woman: School banned anti-gay talk | Betsy Hansen, who graduated in June, said she was forced to remove comments about homosexuality from her speech to an all-school assembly and was prohibited from being on a panel that discussed religion and homosexuality. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Lawsuit contends N.M. jail bans all but religious literature | Luna County officials say there is no book ban, just a misunderstanding. (Associated Press)

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July (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46