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Life ethics:

• Scientists find crucial gene that explains cloning failure | Discovery illustrates how vastly problematic it would be to clone a human (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Stem cell research runs into roadblocks | Nearly three-quarters of the 78 stem cell batches that met Bush's conditions for support remain unavailable to US researchers (The Boston Globe)

Foreign policy:

• Danforth: U.S. should be facilitator in Sudan | Envoy calls civil war unwinnable (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Christians hit theological rift on Mideast policy | As war in the Holy Land rages on, American Christians claim a greater stake in the situation as they strive to understand dynamics behind the news and to take moral stands. But the more informed they get, the more they part company along perennial fault lines of biblical interpretation and the role of politics in faithfulness. (The Christian Science Monitor)

Courts & law:

• When the High Court welcomes messianic Jews | This Supreme Court's ruling has not only set in motion a wave which will flood Israel with non-Jews who actually think they are Jews, but has opened the flood gates to the proselytizing Christians. (S. Alfassa Marks, Arutz Sheva)
  
  
• Zimbabwe lawyers seek divine intervention | Sternford Moyo, the president of the Law Society of Zimbabwe, on Friday urged Christians in the legal profession to seek divine intervention for the restoration of sanity in the country's judicial system (The Daily News, Harare)
  
  
• School waits for smacking judgment (BBC)
  
  
• House prohibits Pentagon Abaya rules | U.S. servicewomen in Saudi Arabia should never be required or encouraged to wear Muslim-style head-to-toe robes, the House unanimously said Tuesday (Associated Press)
  
  
• Mexican authorities in Chiapas arrest Catholic official for stockpiling arms (Associated Press)

Missions & ministry:

• Melding faith and hospitality | Giving immigrants help and understanding is the idea behind The Welcome Center, a new multicultural Catholic ministry serving the northern region of the Twin Cities metropolitan area (Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minnesota)
  
  
• Prayerful preparation | Myrtle Beach readies for Luis Palau (The Sun News)
  
  
• God not comfortable in Jamaica, says US preacher | George Otis Jr painted a picture of Jamaica as a God-forsaken country which had little hope for transformation outside of a miracle. (Jamaica Observer)
  
  
• Group considers trip to Israel mission of prayer, not politics | Seven Baltimore-area women join about 250 others from Christian organization (The Baltimore Sun)

Higher education:

• Nicholi's believe it or not | For decades, a psychiatrist has asked Harvard students life's hardest questions (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• At Yale's divinity school, a need for healing | Interim leader Borsch has credentials to help weather crisis (The Hartford [Conn.] Courant)

Sexual ethics:

• Scotland to approve same-sex weddings | Civil partnership and commitment registers have already been introduced in London, Manchester and Liverpool (The Scotsman)
  
  
• Tories and Christian groups fight plan to allow gays to adopt (The Independent, London)

Bible:

• Western characters raise doubts about age of Dead Sea Scrolls | Some scholars rethink assumption scrolls were written before Christian times (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Message aims to be wake-up call for readers | Writer hopes fresh look at scriptures reaches Christians (Deseret News)

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May (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46