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Where Jesus meets football
Non-American readers of Weblog (and maybe even an American reader or two) are probably interested the World Cup, which started today. Anglican Media Sydney has put together a great little weblog compiling news items and resources for "a Christian perspective on the world's biggest sporting event." (It doesn't include CT partner site Sports Spectrum, however.) And if you haven't seen CT's past tiny pieces on soccer, here you go.

• Liberia rebels hand over British priest | Garry Jenkins reportedly in good health (BBC)
• Also: Liberian rebels release priest (Associated Press)
• Visiting synagogue, Bush praises Russian religious tolerance (The New York Times)
• Rights group says 27 million forced into slavery | It's not just a Sudan problem, says Anti-Slavery International (Reuters)
• Cleric's Christian jihad rocks Georgia | Father Basil Mkalavishvili is accused of leading his supporters in scores of violent attacks against non-Orthodox Christians and demands Georgia introduces an Orthodox Christian version of Islamic Shari'ah law (Scotland on Sunday)
• Eritrea closes churches | Government shuts everything but Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Mekane Yesus (Evangelical Lutheran) denominations (World Evangelical Alliance)

• Cloning bill bans abortion too? | "If Brownback['s bill] is enacted, you will have given more protection to clonal embryos than to sexually produced embryos, and that's incredibly powerful if you want to oppose abortion," says American Society for Reproductive Medicine (Wired News)
• Prolife group launches undercover sting | Life Dynamics enlisted a woman to pose as a 13-year-old girl impregnated by her 22-year-old boyfriend (Fox News)
• Also: Abortion foes reveal deceptive tactic (Associated Press)
• Australia revisits euthanasia debate | The friends and family who watched a Queensland woman commit suicide last week may face prosecution. (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Australia PM's stem cell funding angers Catholic Church | The Prime Minister's announcement of tens of millions of dollars for stem cell research has come under fire from the Catholic Church. (ABC News)

• Students pray at graduation despite judge's ruling | About half of 226 graduating joined in, shouting the final words (Associated Press)
• Patrick Henry's first graduates | Va. Christian college has great expectations for class of 14 (The Washington Post)
• Senior prank: be nice to people | Seniors at Holland (Mich.) Christian High School, wash windows, plant flowers, hand out candy, do other nice things (Associated Press)

• Court questions tax breaks given to clergy for housing | Constitutional question is still open despite new law (The Wall Street Journal)
• Cops collar ungodly theft suspect | William Hepworth allegedly ripped off more than a dozen Long Island churches, hitting one of them three times. (New York Post)

• Church should weather harsh words | William Hausen was right to use a vulgarity in a sermon about the sexual abuse scandal (Ruth Ann Baker, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

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May (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46