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• Relief plans for Iraq raise questions of hidden motive | Muslim critics say Christian groups should stay out (Winston-Salem [N.C] Journal)
  
  
• There is aid, but where are Iraqis? | Relief groups, including some in O.C., were ready, but refugees haven't shown. (The Orange County [Cal.] Register)
  
  
• Christians fear loss of liberty | Iraq war's fallout, reaction to proselytizers could threaten freedom to worship (The Washington Post)
  
  
• The new Christian crusades | Religious right Islam-bashers target postwar Iraq (Bill Berkowitz, WorkingForChange)
  
  
• Bible brigade is ready to roll | President Bush is under pressure to clarify his position on the role evangelical Christian aid groups are set to play in post-war Iraq (The Observer, London)
  
  
• Hell for leather | As always with your classic Anglo-American imperial conquest, sword, flame, bullet and bomb will be accompanied by the maniacal whacking of Biblical leather (The St. Petersburg Times, Russia)

Christians in Iraq:

• Iraq: Church services continue | Telephoning members difficult (Adventist News Network)
  
  
• Church services dwindling | "Previous Sundays there have been three or four hundred Christians worshiping there and today the crowd was only about thirty, thirty-five people" (Newshour, PBS)
  
  
• A Christian in Iraq | One American's view of the war, from the heart of Baghdad (Newsweek Online)

Interfaith relations:

• Religions must listen to each other, says Williams | In a deliberately low-key address, which included only passing references to the nearby conflict, Dr Rowan Williams said that improved relations between Christians and Muslims could help a "deeply troubled world" (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Three faiths: one message. Listen | The "warring" faiths have something to tell each other and everyone else (Jonathan Freedland, The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  
• U.S. interfaith relations strained by Mideast volatility | Some leaders believe those relations have reached a crisis point (Voice of America)
  
  
• Priest encourages cooperation between Jews and Christians | Local residents stand for the Mideast state by attending a talk by Canon Andrew White from the Church of England (Savannah [Ga.] Morning News)
  
  
• Top Vatican official calls for emphasis on Christian unity | Dialogue with other religions is less credible if essentials of faith jettisoned, Quebec gathering told (The Gazette, Montreal)
  
  
• God's children prefer talking to fighting | Yesterday, parishioners from the Dee Why's Uniting Church and St John's Anglican Church joined neighbors and the curious as the mosque, with local police support, opened its doors (Linda Morris, The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Lebanon's Christian, Muslim clergy stand together against war | 'Brought together by America's conceit' (The Daily Star, Beirut)

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