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• Chaplain helps seniors deal with loss, find peace | Sandra Anenson, the chaplain of Bethany Manor nursing home in Story City, exhibits the unfaltering belief and the soulful peace of one who has seen faith played out (The Tribune, Ames, Iowa)
  
  
• Finances get blurry for Focus on Family | Cutbacks follow stagnant giving (Denver Post)
  
  
• Seeking grace, students flock to new church | West coast evangelical attracts Square, student audience (Harvard Crimson)
  
  
• Senate may call Bishop McKinney | Bishop George D. McKinney, who has been a religious force in the heart of San Diego's inner city for 43 years, is a candidate for chaplain of the U.S. Senate (Diane Bell, The San Diego Union-Tribune)
  
  
• Heeding the call | SoCal Christians gather to pray, fast for revival (Pasadena Star News)
  
  
• Christian fest hits town—American-style | Mumbai Peace Festival, organized by the US-based Global Peace Initiative, hit Somaiya Grounds in Sion on Friday night for a three-night run (Mumbai Express, India)
  
  
• Christian relief organizations gear up for crisis in Iraq (Crosswalk)

War:

• 'Human shields' take stand in Baghdad | Peace activists hope presence will prevent U.S. attacks on civilian facilities (The Washington Post)
  
  
• The Prime Minister has not made the moral case for war | George Bush and Tony Blair have muddied the waters (Editorial, The Independent, London)
  
  
• Sacred mysteries: Iraq's fake Christian voice | Although Mr Aziz has been called a "devout" Christian, no evidence has been adduced. To judge from externals, he seems to be a very bad man, and a secular socialist devoted wholly to the Ba'ath party (Christopher Howse, The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• War 'should be last resort' | The Archbishop of Canterbury says alternative ways of disarming Iraq have still to be tried before any resort to war. (BBC | video)
  
  
• Americans are the chosen people | America believes it has a divine mandate to lead the world (Clifford Longley, The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• That wartime religion | Each side in America's greatest conflict claimed to be part of God's army (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Clergy set Hill vigil against Iraq war | Anti-war church leaders from the United States and Europe are touring world capitals to meet heads of state, but they haven't gotten an appointment with President Bush (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Synod says Iraq attack must be backed by UN | The Church of England's general synod has voted heavily against hostilities unless sanctioned by international law through the UN. (The Guardian, London)

Politics:

• Bush could fine-tune religious language | Let's also not forget the role religious values can play in our public debate. Even when presidents interject them into it (William McKenzie, The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Lord have mercy on the church in this country | If Zimbabwe suffers from pathetic political leadership under President Mugabe, the religious establishment is not much better (Chido Makunike, Zimbabwe Standard)
  
  
• Churches engaged in soul searching over role in Zimbabwe's crisis | Some leaders fear the church will become irrelevant if it doesn't do more to speak out against the government (The Christian Science Monitor)

Crime:

• Pastor who joined the genocide | Pastor Elizaphan Ntakirutimina was a man of God, accused of the worst crimes known to man (BBC)
  
  

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February (Web-only) 2003, Vol. 47