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• Easter services take center stage | Message: Many churches use a multimedia approach and the arts as part of, or instead of, their Easter services (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• Easter message varies among Christians | Many take a literal view of biblical accounts. Others less so. But the emphasis of the Easter story varies among denominations and in the pews (The Oregonian)
  
  
• Gov. Bush brightens Easter for inmates at Broward prison | The governor and his wife, Columba, weren't out to win votes, but rather souls. (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
  
  
• Meaning of Easter resonates amid war | Area religious leaders point to comparisons between Easter and the situation in Iraq (Gainesville Sun)
  
  
• Easter around the world | Passover, Easter, war give us much to ponder (Religion News Service)

War with Iraq:

• Bush marks Holy season by reflecting on Iraq war | President Bush, whose public expressions of faith have raised eyebrows in Europe, on Saturday mourned the loss of American lives in Iraq, saying God's purposes were "not always clear." (Reuters)
  
  
• A congregation divided | On the war, not just a matter of practicing what I preach (Henry G. Brinton, The Washington Post)
  
  
• German church leaders criticize Washington over war on Iraq | Easter messages focus on Bush (DPA)
  
  
• Antiwar Protestants | The once awesome power of the late, great Protestant churches will fade away perhaps within a decade. Not because of a struggle, but because the troops will abandon the commanders whose own ambition blinded them from seeing the necessity of a regime change—their own. (Dave Berg, The Washington Times)
  
  
• Christians fear future more than Saddam | Christian girls wearing bright lipstick and no headscarves voiced fears that such freedoms would come to a rapid end if hardline clerics among Iraq's Shia majority impose Sharia, Islamic law, and turn the once-secular state into an Islamic republic (The Times, London)
  
  
• Do Arab Christians have a future? | In the last 30 years, Arab Christians have attempted to weather several storms: the Lebanese war, the intifada and Israeli violence, the Iranian revolution and the resurgence of Islamic revivalism and now the war on Iraq (George Emile Irani, The Daily Star, Lebanon)
  
  
• God doesn't take sides | What about the prayers that aren't answered (E.R. Shipp, New York Daily News)

Relief , aid, and evangelism in Iraq:

• A controversial crusade | Evangelizing may backfire, some say (Newsday)
  
  
• Evangelical crusaders prepare to fight Islam with aid and a Bible | Such insensitivity is viewed by some as playing into the hands of those to whom the "war on terrorism" is a religious crusade (The Independent, London)
  
  
• Christian group gives RM100,000 | National Evangelical Christian Fellowship Malaysia gives equivalent of US$26,000to the Iraqi Welfare Fund to help rebuild the country (The Star, Malaysia)
  
  
• Aid packages: Christian charity or U.S. crusade? | Some Muslims fear shipments to Iraq have evangelical purpose (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Giving spirit: Churches flow aid to Iraq | From brownies to bandages, aid from churches flows to troops and civilians in Iraq (Miami Herald)
  
  
• A tale of two Fridays | Workers from Mr. Graham's Christian relief organization, Samaritan's Purse, are in Jordan, waiting to inveigle Iraqi infidels with a blend of kitchen pantry and Elmer Gantry (Maureen Dowd, The New York Times)
  
  
• Praise the Lord and pass the, um, Bibles | The work of God and the GOP, the divine mating of religion and politics, must move in deliberate haste to serve both Jesus and George W. Bush in timely devotion (Bill Gallagher, Niagara Falls Reporter)
  
  

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April (Web-only) 2003, Vol. 47