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Missions and ministry:

• Missionary at gunpoint | Assailant in Yemen pulled trigger; nothing happened (San Bernardino [Calif.] Sun)
  
  
• A missionary's view | 'You've got to be willing to give your life' (The Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.)
  
  
• Rev checking out shoppers | A minister has been asked to offer spiritual guidance to stressed- out shoppers (Daily Record, Scotland)
  
  
• Earlier: Aisle 4: Milk, Bread, and God | Asda stores stock chaplains to provide community with a "one-stop shop." (Christianity Today, Aug. 8, 2002)
  
  
• Buoyed by faith, couple become medical missionaries | Jay and Donna Maxfield's first mission could have been their last (Canton [Ohio] Repository)
  
  
• Is a Graham Crusade in Utah doable? | Utah pastors are exploring the possibility of bringing a three-day Franklin Graham evangelical crusade to the state, possibly in 2004 or 2005 (The Salt Lake Tribune)
  
  
• This missionary position stinks | Hindus need Scripture materials like a hole in the head (Helen Martin, The Evening News, Edinburgh, Scotland)

Orthodox Christian again calls for suicide bombing:

• Attallah calls on Christians to carry out "martyr operations" | "They are not suicide bombers as some claim and they are not terrorists, rather, they resist occupation and we support martyrdom operations without any kind of reservations no matter what objectors and doubt-casters say about such a heroic kinds of resistance," says Orthodox priest (IslamOnline)
  
  
• Egyptian copts support Christian martyr operations | Leaders of Christian sects in Egypt as well as leading Coptic political activists welcomed Archimandrite Attallah Hanna's call on Palestinian and Arab Christians to join hands in carrying out martyr operations against the Israeli occupation forces (IslamOnline)
  
  
• Earlier: Weblog: We Support Suicide Bombing, Says Greek Orthodox 'Spokesman' (June 21, 2002)
  
  
• Earlier: Weblog: Greeks Gag Pro-Terrorism Priest (July 15, 2002)
  
  
• Earlier: Israel seizes priest in church power play (The Scotsman, Aug. 25, 2002)
  
  
• Earlier: In the name of the fathers, and of the fired | An interview with Attallah Hana (Ha'aretz, August 2002)

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