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• TV debate delineates Christian divide on war | Mainline churches against; evangelicals for (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Activists planning Iraq war protests | When asked about America's 45 million evangelical Christians, 5 million Mormons, 16 million Southern Baptists and various conservative Lutheran, Presbyterian, charismatic and Pentecostal groups that do not belong to the NCC, Bob Edgar responded by saying: "there are fundamentalists who are blindly supporting the president." (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Religious leaders' reactions on Iraq mixed | Christian and Jewish leaders are on both sides of the issue (Palm Beach [Fla.] Daily News)
  
  
• Christianity split over war | Denominations are pushing for peace, but poll shows most followers back battle (The Indianapolis Star)
  
  
• Finding light as shadows of war loom | In Kuwait, about 40 Marines readying for combat were baptized yesterday (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• War is a matter of faith | From the pulpit to the pews, talk of war with Iraq has captured houses of worship in the Hudson Valley (Times Herald-Record, Middletown, NY)

Military life:

• A man of God in the army | How does a chaplain reconcile his faith with serving in the armed forces? (BBC)
  
  
• On the killing fields of war, a spiritual life | Religion is an ally as U.S. soldiers face the fears of battle (The Star-Ledger, New Jersey)
  
  
• Woman's desire to help military personnel spreads throughout community | A Holmen woman's concern about her brother, an Army captain, and the soldiers serving with him in Kuwait has led to an Adopt-a-Soldier program that is drawing many participants in the Coulee Region (La Crosse [Wisc.] Tribune)

Interfaith relations:

• We savor some interfaith harmony | Thirty-seven years have gone by, and every year I still offer a few friends a brief dispensation from Lent on the occasion of Purim. (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Truth or CAIR | The Muslim public-relations group CAIR—Council on American Islamic Relations—has a tough sell in post-9/11 America. But if its goal is simply to promote Islam as a "religion of peace" and to distance American Muslims from terrorism, why can't CAIR begin with a simple acknowledgment that the terrorist threat to America is real? (World)
  
  
• Will the real God please give us a sign | Phillip Jensen set off a major controversy with his first sermon as Dean of Sydney. Critics have found it strangely out of tune with a multicultural city (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Politics and law:

• Ethnicity and religion inflame Nigerian politics | Three politicians have been killed recently in the run-up to next month's national elections. (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Bishops condemn asylum 'disgrace' | The Catholic Church in Scotland is to mount a national campaign against the detention of asylum seekers' children. (BBC)
  
  
• Also: Asylum children policy 'immoral' | The Home Office is to come under pressure to end the detention of asylum seekers' children at a former jail in Scotland. (BBC)
  
  
• Save us from outrageous caricatures | The Christian political vision, at its best, has always tempered idealism with realism, and hope with a sense of the tragic (Douglas Groothuis, Rocky Mountain News, Denver)
  
  
• Coalition criticizes professor | Christian group objects to tax reformer's abortion stance (The Birmingham [Ala.] News)
  
  
• Wanted: Conflicted commander-in-chief | Do we really want a president who takes his inner doubts out for a stroll? (David Reinhard, The Oregonian)
  
  

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