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• Four bands share their mission | Actually, the Go Show players hope to inspire their fans to do missionary work (The Orange County Register)
  
  
• Bones of creativity sate Hounds of Hell | Behind those eyes dimmed with glaucoma, something young and alert lives in Johnny Cash (Philip Marchand, The Toronto Star)

Politics and law:

• Winsome Earle Sears won't seek 2nd term in Assembly | Virginia General Assembly's lone black Republican says it was ``the Lord's will'' that she step down and voiced frustration with cutthroat politics (The Virginian-Pilot)
  
  
• God and man in the Oval Office | Contrary to what his critics say, Bush's religion is in the American mainstream (Fred Barnes, The Weekly Standard)
  
  
• Town uses religious act as 'shield' in court | A Maryland city is apparently the first in the country to defend itself in court by invoking the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (Fox News)
  
  
• Faith no more | Texas' record shows dangers of faith-based policy (Don Monkerud, In These Times)
  
  
• Justice in Guatemala can be gasoline and a match | Evangelicals charged with frightening villagers about the dangers of satanic cults and encouraging retribution (The New York Times)

Science and health:

• Director tries to untangle web of cancer controversies | Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach discusses a controversial Web site posting, mammography, hormone replacement therapy and other issues (The New York Times)
  
  
• Abortion and breast cancer | For many years, there have been conflicting research results, differing interpretations among experts and confusion for the general public. Part of the trouble in seeking an indisputable answer has been built-in flaws that researchers suspect biased many of the earlier studies. (Editorial, Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Also: Delinking abortion and breast cancer | A crude effort by anti-abortion groups to associate abortion with an increased risk of breast cancer can now be stopped (Editorial, The New York Times)

Clergy sex abuse:

• Resignation of bishop in troubled Tucson diocese is accepted | Diocese is now on the verge of bankruptcy because of large financial settlements with victims of sexually abusive priests (The New York Times)
  
  
• Priests who asked Law to quit attacked | Some leading conservative Catholics are sharply criticizing the 58 Boston priests who called for cardinal to step down (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Trial date for church abuse suit stalled | Says relentless publicity in the sex scandal has made it impossible for the church to get fair treatment (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: Judge says church officials can't get fair trial (WCVB, Boston)
  
  
• United Church of Christ suspends minister | Robert J. Yim accused of sexual abuse (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Persecution and violence:

• Mideast Christians endure persecution | In modern times, Christians' status in the region has long been precarious (Associated Press)
  
  
• Assyrians fight to be noticed | Day of prayer highlights more than Iraqi oppression (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Assaults frighten off city vicars | Archbishop of York David Hope has said violent assaults on clergy and burglaries from churches are making some vicars too frightened to take up posts in inner city areas (BBC | video)
  
  
• Christian council to move court on survey in Gujarat, police denies charge | The council has submitted a memorandum to the state Director General of Police alleging that police were conducting a survey on Christians (PTI)
  
  
• Police deployed in force in south Egypt | Reinforcements sent to southern village after Christian-Muslim row in barber's shop degenerated into gun shooting (Middle East Online)
  
  

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March (Web-only) 2003, Vol. 47