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Post-war Iraq:

• Churches reach out to Iraqis | Christians say their mission is to help with food, not convert (The Detroit News)
  
  
• Relief aid: Onward, Christian soldiers—to Iraq | The International Bible Society has already sent 10,000 booklets created for Iraqis to the Mideast (Newsweek)
  
  
• Iraq humanitarian update | How can aid workers be kept safe enough so they can do their work? How can they maintain their independence from the U.S. military? And should Christian aid workers try to evangelize Iraqi Muslims? (Religion & Ethics Newsweekly)
  
  
• Christians' main role: Communicate God's love | A genuine evangelical's concern is never focused on persuading someone to change their membership from one religious organization to another (Larry Cox, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Resentment, not the Gospel, likely to spread | Many Muslims continue to portray the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism as an attack on Islam. Nothing would feed that image more readily than having prominent evangelical Christians who have denigrated Islam at the forefront of humanitarian relief efforts (Charles Kimball, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Iraqis have choice to make regarding religious freedom | The point of liberating Iraq wasn't to enable it to become a theocratic state (Terry Eastland. The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• If Iraqi Shiite majority wants clerics, let them | If the United States intervenes to quash the desire of the Iraqi people for an Islamic government, won't we simply be trading one form of tyranny for another? (Cathleen Falsani, Chicago Sun-Times)
  
  
• Anti-liberation theology | The clerics got it wrong on Iraq (Joseph Loconte, The Weekly Standard)

Faith in the military:

• Military's religious bent mirrors nation's | The old saying "There are no atheists in foxholes" turns out to be largely correct, at least for the U.S. armed forces: About 0.1 percent of all American military personnel officially declare themselves to be atheists (UPI)
  
  
• Dispatch from the Mideast: Soldiers fight an internal battle | Easter in the Persian Gulf (Steve Munson, The Dallas Morning News)

Church and state:

• Groups file briefs opposing monument | Baptists, Jews and Arabs are among a diverse list of religious and other groups that have filed written arguments with a federal appeals court in opposition to a Ten Commandments monument in the Alabama state judicial building (The Birmingham News, Ala.)
  
  
• Access to Mormon land raises First Amendment issue | A divisive dispute over public access to a piece of Mormon-owned land in the heart of Salt Lake City could go before the U.S. Supreme Court next fall (Legal Times)

Politics and law:

• Charitable choice struggles, thrives | Hiring practices are being challenged (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• Religious zealotry always politically potent | This administration has demonstrated the undeniable lure of mixing religion and public policy. It's good politics because people of zeal can be expected to show out in force (John Young, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Exactly who's the bigot here? | Rick Santorum is a devout Catholic. Like it or not, nothing he said in that interview diverges from Catholic doctrine (Rod Dreher, The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Church and state store | Perhaps Christians shouldn't be buying booze on the Sabbath (Lynda Guydon Taylor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• The church and politics | The Church deserves to take its rightful place in the governance of every nation, and the Zambian case should be no exception (Editorial, The Post of Zambia)
  
  
• Earlier: One African Nation Under God | Zambia is missionary David Livingstone's greatest legacy. But this Christian nation isn't always heaven on earth (Christianity Today, Feb. 5, 2002)

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