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• Religion good but factor in wars | Most Americans are convinced that the influence of faith in the world is a good thing, but a majority also believes that religion plays a significant role in most wars and conflicts, according to a survey conducted by the Washington-based Pew Forum (UPI)
  
  
• Chaplain shares odyssey that led him to the desert | Troops are eager 'to serve God and country,' he says (The Dallas Morning News)

Iraqi Christians:

• In Detroit, church that Hussein built prays for his defeat in war | Iraqis in U.S. remain hopeful of finding missing loved ones (The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• Christian Iraqis seeking asylum in United States detained in central Mexico | The Chaldean Christians have a sizable community in Southern California and frequently try to enter the United States through Tijuana (Associated Press)
  
  
• Baghdad Catholic leader vows to keep city's churches open for refuge | The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Baghdad has vowed that the city's churches will remain open to allow Christians and Muslims to take refuge there during the US-led war, according to a newspaper article published Tuesday in Switzerland. (AFP)

Iraq war and biblical prophecy:

• War evokes biblical tales | Are these the last days? Some Christians say so (The Norwich [Ct.] Bulletin)
  
  
• Treasured past once again at risk | Many Iraqis convinced U.S. wants to blunt resurrection of Babylon (San Francisco Chronicle)

Church and state:

• In God we trust … Canadians aren't so sure | It is traditional for American leaders to speak of faith during moments they seek to bind the country. Not Canadian politicians (The New York Times)
  
  
• Alderwoman's vote blurs church and state | But as an elected official, each alderman at the meeting had an obligation to separate religious from secular when considering the issue and deciding how to vote (Yale Daily News)
  
  
• Reversal sought on Ten Commandments ruling | Child-psychologist James Dobson's Focus on the Family is one of several groups asking a federal appeals court to reverse a judge's order to remove a granite monument to the Ten Commandments from the state judicial building (The Birmingham News)

Media:

• 'Rational Mysticism': On a journalistic and spiritual quest | John Horgan, a former senior writer for Scientific American, sets out to find how trances, visions, satori and other mystical experiences work (The New York Times)
  
  
• It's young, it's hip and it's Christian | For twentysomethings looking for a way to plug into God, life and progressive culture, Relevant Magazine and its online cousin, relevantmagazine.com, seek to provide answers (The Orlando Sentinel)
  
  
• Hot cross words in battle of the buns | Story was utterly untrue (icLiverpool, U.K.)

Other stories of interest:

• Kidnapping case puts Mormons on defensive | Many Mormons here say the misperceptions about their church are back (The New York Times)
  
  
• Nigerian stoning trial delay | Judges failed to turn up for adultery sentencing (BBC)
  
  
• Watery challenge turns into a walk over | Many have tried and, aside from one miraculous occasion on the Sea of Galilee, they have all failed. But yesterday Chris Jones, a 37-year-old shop owner, achieved the supposedly impossible feat of walking on water. (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Onward, faith-based environmentalists | Just as religion now frames international relations, religion will likely shape the environmental debate (Richard Louv, The San Diego Union-Tribune)
  
  
• Christianity is not on the wane in the world, it's just reshaping and relocating | Christianity might fade in Europe, but in global terms, for a long time yet, there will be many more Christians than Muslims in the world (Dwight Longenecker, The Times, London)

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