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• Ghana Airways seeks divine intervention | The staff of Ghana Airways have now turned to God to keep the airline in the skies after trying every management trick in the MBA curriculum (BBC)
  
  
• Culture of consumption | Many experts believe Bush's call to spend might be sounding increasingly hollow. With the US boldly deciding the fate of nations overseas, and assuming record levels of debt at home, the temperament of the nation, say experts, seems more suited to a message of fiscal prudence (The Christian Science Monitor)

Holy Land:

• Zion's Christian soldiers | For Christians who interpret the bible in a literal fashion, Israel has a crucial role to play in bringing on the Second Coming of Christ (60 Minutes)
  
  
• Apocalypse soon | Evangelicals in the US believe there is a biblical basis for opposing the Middle East road map (Giles Fraser, The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Evangelicals adopt settlers | A prominent evangelical Christian organization is urging its members to pour money into West Bank settlements in its newest fundraising drive, "Adopt-a-Settler" (Forward)
  
  
• Road map testing their faith | Religious leaders decry plan (Newsday, New York)
  
  
• Israeli poor to get Christian charity | International Fellowship of Christians and Jews will donate NIS 12,475,830 (about US$2,822,600) (The Jerusalem Post)
  
  
• Also: U.S. Christians donate NIS 12.5 million for Israel's social needs (Ha'aretz, Tel Aviv)

End Times Prophecy:

• Apocalypse now | Armageddon is hot in America (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• End Times | Some Christian Zionists believe the fulfillment of biblical prophecy is being threatened by the Bush administration's road map for peace in the Middle East (Morning Edition, NPR)

What Would Jesus Drive? campaign:

• 'WWJD' question links love of neighbor, fuel economy | Jim Ball takes the message on tour (The Tennessean, Nashville)
  
  
• Also: Blessed are the fuel-efficient | What Would Jesus Drive campaigners hit the road (Detroit Free Press)
  
  
• Also: Evangelist is spreading word of fuel efficiency | Jim Ball, in Charlotte on long journey, sees car as moral choice (The Charlotte Observer, N.C.)

Other stories of interest:

• Messages from above | Area church billboards offer thoughtful humor, sobering counsel (The Journal Gazette, Ft. Wayne, Ind.)
  
  
• Why America outpaces Europe (Clue: the God factor) | The world is witnessing the stunning triumph of secularization in Western Europe—the simultaneous decline of both Protestantism and its work ethic (Niall Ferguson, The New York Times)
  
  
• Religion news in brief | Southern Baptist International Mission Board to cut 61 jobs, Hindus persecuting Christians and Muslims, Federal appeals court hears Nebraska school prayer case, and other stories (Associated Press)
  
  
• The end of the road for 'devil's highway' | Whatever the validity of the fears, Route 666 is no more (The New York Times)
  
  
• Religion in the News: Father Divine | Since his death, his widow and other believers have done their best to preserve Father Divine's presence and sustain the religious movement he founded in New York during the first half of the 20th century (Associated Press)
  
  
• What it's like to speak in tongues | As the strange sounds rolled off my tongue, they sounded like mindless babble. So why did I feel a sense of inexplicable peace? (J. Lee Grady, Beliefnet)
  
  
• New shock potential as sober Hirst turns to God | In a series of sculptures inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, which will be seen in London this autumn, Damien Hirst will depict Jesus and the apostles as 13 ping pong balls bobbing on spurting fountains of red wine. A washing bowl to bathe Christ's feet will sit beneath their Formica table (The Guardian, London)

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