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• Churches offer alternatives to Halloween (The Miami Herald)
  
  
• Woman puts out a devil of an anti-Halloween display | This you've gotta see (The Star Press, Muncie, Ind.)

Politics:

• Pa. politics and religion don't mix | A poll shows that churchgoers prefer a separation, although many see a limited role for the clergy (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• Clergy crosses endorsement line | Candidates are looking for support wherever they can—and finding it, unfortunately, in many of the nation's synagogues and churches (Gerald L. Zelizer, USA Today)
  
  
• Group takes faith-based approach to jobs | Coalition will try to use Christian links to create work (Daily Mail, Charleston, WV)
  
  
• Preaching politics | Religious texts rarely offer political guidance, and it is dangerous to think otherwise (Jason L. Steorts, Harvard Crimson)
  
  
• Evangelical politics | D.G. Hart, in his compact, instructive and well-argued That Old-Time Religion in Modern America, posits this central question: "How did born-again Protestants, who were by most accounts among the most respected Americans, become in the minds of many at best an annoyance and at worst a threat to civil society?" (Chicago Sun-Times)

U.S. foreign policy:

• Archbishop warns on Iraq | The outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, yesterday used his final Sunday in office to warn the government not to go to war with Iraq. (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• The end of the affair | Thanks to American missionaries and diplomats, the Arab world once looked to the United States as a friend and source of hope. It didn't last (Ussama Makdisi, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Since attacks, U.S. admits fewer refugees | The United States had allocated space and money for up to 70,000 refugees for the fiscal year starting on Oct. 1, 2001, but it admitted only 27,113. (The New York Times)

Missions and ministry:

• Billy Graham breaks ground for center | Shovel in hand, famed evangelist brings his ministry to Charlotte (The Charlotte Observer)
  
  
• Also: Graham Breaks Ground for Headquarters (Associated Press)
  
  
• Group helping Christian men fight sexual addiction | Pure Life Ministries, 45-acre farm in a 45-acre farm in rural Pendleton County. Kentucky, bills itself as a "totally Christ-centered and Biblical" treatment program for Christian sex addicts (Evansville [Ind.] Courier & Press)
  
  
• Leading his flock of refugees to asylum | A missionary helps North Koreans flee via China and Mongolia. Risking death, the escapees brave the elements and jail (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• To chaplain, warship's just the place to spread message of peace and love | Nightly rosary prayers are said below the flight deck, accompanied by the roar of engines. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Rock 'n' roll revival | Combine the atmosphere of Lollapalooza, the anointing of the Pentecost and the fun of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus and you have the newest entry in the massive Christian entertainment market: the evangelical festival tour (The Tampa Tribune)
  
  
• Out of Utah | Against stiff competition, Mormon missionaries win hearts and converts in West Africa (The Boston Globe)

Church life:

• Iowa's rural churches become casualties of change | As they vanish, so does heritage, historians say. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Archbishop goes back to the beginning to say farewell | The outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, admitted yesterday that the decline in Sunday churchgoing during his tenure was a "disappointment," but he denied that the Church of England was dying (The Times, London)
  
  

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