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• Haredim clash with police over Christian conference | Hasidic Jews protest a conference of British healing evangelist David Hathaway. (The Jerusalem Post)

Politics:

• GOP seeks pulpit political leeway | The House Ways and Means oversight subcommittee held a hearing on two measures that would alter tax law to increase the amount of political activity churches can engage in. (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Also: Religious groups divided over bill to permit increased political activity | In the past 25 years, he said, only two churches and five religious organizations have lost their tax-exempt status over political issues. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Faith, politics and one eye on Heaven | In the Fortune 500 corporation that is the second Bush White House, James Towey stands out like an odd little mom-and-pop store across the street. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Bush speeches laced with religious references | More so than any other president since Jimmy Carter, Bush regularly professes his personal faith and relationship with God. (Corpus Christi [Tex.] Caller-Times)
  
  
• Christians plot political infiltration | A powerful network of right-wing Christian campaigners is attempting to infiltrate Scotland's mainstream political parties. (The Scostman)
  
  
• God on their side? | Religious groups are among the most influential of a growing number of lobbyists infiltrating corridors of power. (The Scotsman)
  
  
• Church minister facing long odds against Harper | Bill Phipps running in Alliance territory (The National Post, Canada)

Church & State:

• Lord's Prayer can't be sung at Iowa high school graduation | Federal judge says 30-year tradition violates First Amendment, whether or not most students, choir members and parents want it (Associated Press)
  
  
• Christianity approves of smacking, says head (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• High court won't get involved in clergy malpractice case | Meanwhile, justices refuse to consider Massachusetts town's crÈche ban or to hear case involving Nashville, Tenn., adult-entertainment law. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Commandments tablet challenged | A letter from a high school senior challenging the constitutionality of a Ten Commandments monument in Frederick's Memorial Park has sent shock waves through City Hall that could ultimately topple the monument. (The Frederick [Md.] News-Post)
  
  
• Court lacks last word in aid to religious schools | Whatever the ruling on vouchers, constitutional policy will change little because the government already supports religious schools (The New York Times)

Life ethics:

• Abortion foes cite dubious health risk | Antiabortion activists, stymied in their efforts to restrict abortions through federal legislation and the courts, have turned their attention to the patients, issuing a medically suspect warning to women that terminating a pregnancy increases the risk of breast cancer (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Growing sex imbalance shocks China | An alarming rise in the sex ratio of newborn infants in China suggests that increasing numbers of females are being aborted by parents intent on having a male child. (The Guardian)
  
  
• Clergy insist not all faiths anti-abortion | Tom Davis, chairman for the Planned Parenthood Federation of American Clergy Advisory Board, says antiabortion activists are driven by desire for control, not religion (The Saratogian, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.)
  
  
• Canadian House braces for stem-cell debate | Question brings politicians awfully close to another debate, never really put to rest in Canada (The Globe and Mail, Toronto)
  
  

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May (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46