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But the Abu Sayyaf may have plans of its own for Holy Week. "Intelligence reports have it that Abu Sayyaf hit men have slipped into Zamboanga City to carry out the attacks on government installations and public places, including Catholic churches," The Philippine Star reported Monday.

The Burnhams were abducted exactly ten months ago today.

Theology:

• Fallibility in Holy Week's narrative | The key to understanding the humanity of the church is to understand the humanity of the Gospels, texts that embody the capacity to get things wrong, with terrible consequences. (James Carroll, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Is Jesus the only way to God? Yes, no, maybe | In this post-Sept. 11 world, many observers are saying religions that teach that they are the only way to salvation are at the root of many of the world's troubles (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
  
  

Is religion violent?

• Religion, violence forever intertwined | For much of recorded history, people of all faiths have been killing each other in the name of their deities. (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• Faith-based violence and religious zealotry | The need for sober secularism is more profound than ever (Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Other people's religions | To scrub Scripture of intolerance, you have to erase religious history. (Judith Shulevitz, The New York Times)
  
  

Persecution:

• Rights group says China detained underground Catholic bishop | Police in Zhengding say they are unaware of Bishop Jia's detention (Voice of America)
  
  
• China confirms crackdown on Koreans | Police said Monday they are rounding up North Koreans hiding along China's border and sending them home (Associated Press)
  
  
• RSS, Christian leaders talks fail | RSS and Christian leaders on Friday said they had failed to bridge growing differences over conversions and violence which have marred relations between the two communities (AFP)
  
  
• Nigeria in crisis over Shari'ah law | With the northern states indicating that they intend to ignore the minister's intervention, the stage is clearly set for a constitutional battle (BBC)
  
  
• The impending ban on drumming | Christians, traditionalists likely to clash again this year (Ghanaian Chronicle)
  
  
• Last year: Christians and Animists Face Off Over Loud Worship in Ghana (Weblog, May 10, 2001)
  
  

Crime:

• Rwandan priest arrested in Cameroon | Hormidas Nsegimana accused of being one of the organizers of the 1994 genocide (BBC)
  
  
• Ugandan troops shot for priest's murder | Two soldiers have been executed by firing squad for murdering an Irish priest and two companions in Uganda's volatile north-eastern region of Karamoja. (BBC)
  
  
• Also: Priest condemns Uganda execution | "If [the soldiers] did fire the shots, they were only acting on orders from senior officers," said Father Jones from the St Joseph's Society for Foreign Missions. (BBC)
  
  
• Salvadorans honor murdered archbishop | Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was killed 22 years ago (BBC)
  
  
• Dean of Forman Christian College hurt in Pakistan church bombing | Christy Munir suffered shrapnel wounds and a broken leg but was expected to recover fully (Chicago Tribune)
  
  

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March (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46