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• Also: Zambia's President Mwanawasa appoints opposition leader as vice president | Evangelical television preacher Nevers Mumba ran against him in the last election (UN Integrated Regional Information Networks)
  
  
• Vocal gay Republicans upsetting conservatives | The two main tenets of President Bush's brand of Republicanism—the "big tent" philosophy and the "family values" agenda—may be on a collision course (The New York Times)
  
  
• Historians trace an unholy alliance: Religion and nationalism | Is religious sentiment, long considered the prime enemy of nationalism, actually one of its founding elements? (The New York Times)
  
  
• Religious voters in Bush's prayers | President, advisers seek ways to boost evangelical turnout (Howard Fineman, Newsweek)
  
  
• Christian right has issues with Bush | At issue are questions about the administration's stance on gay rights and abortion (The State, S.C.)
  
  
• Assembly bill takes aim at ammunition | 'Sin tax' would pay for shooting victims' medical care (Pasadena Star News, Calif.)

Missions and ministry:

• Japanese pastor reaches out with suicide line | Rev. Yukio Saito has devoted his life to persuading the isolated and despondent to spare themselves (The New York Times)
  
  
• Chicago suburb battles crime with clergy | In a move that worries civil libertarians, Mayor Eric Kellogg has appointed volunteer chaplains to comfort crime victims and promote neighborhood activism in the poverty-stricken town of 30,000 (Associated Press)
  
  
• Flourishing expressions of religion embrace and care for today's society | The next time you read some evangelical firebrand breathing hellfire and brimstone against the evils of the modern age, remember there are those who, in the name of religion, quietly follow other, more elevated paths (Hubert G. Locke, Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
  
  
• Ministry helping gays keep faith | Jeremy Marks, founder of the group Courage, provides support to homosexuals who wish to follow path of Christian discipleship (Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio)
  
  
• Focus on Family prepares for future without its founder | Hodel's new role will largely be behind the scenes, but his decision-making will be critical as the organization seeks to groom others to succeed Dobson, broaden its reach to younger families and keep donations coming (The Denver Post)
  
  
• Habitat for Humanity to open slum 'theme park' | Millard Fuller, founder of the organization, said he expects the Global Village & Discovery Center to attract as many as 70,000 tourists in its first year of operation (Reuters)
  
  
• Also: Theme park offers the thrill of... brick-making | The Global Village, which opens on 7 June, has a serious point to make (BBC)
  
  
• Faith, fun attract flocks | Orlando is moving toward becoming "the Las Vegas of the evangelical world" (The Orlando Sentinel)
  
  
• A former refugee plus 500 blankets equal help for Africans | Obang Okello tells his story to local Christians (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
  
  
• Haitian church's tutors teach success in Fort Lauderdale | Volunteers at Bethel Evangelical Baptist Church hope a little extra attention will make a big difference in the academic careers of Haitian-American students (South Florida Sun Sentinel)
  
  
• Religion Today: Caring for creation | Bartholomew I, the so-called "green patriarch" is bringing his message next to the Baltic Sea (Associated Press)
  
  
• Sparks in a crucible | Terrorism showed its ugly face in 1901 kidnap of an American missionary in the Balkans (New York Daily News)
  
  
• Earlier: Christian History Corner: The Day the Ransoming Began | A gripping new book details the first American missionary hostage crisis, over 100 years ago (Christianity Today, May 23, 2003)

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