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Religious response to Iraq war:

• Prelate reassures Catholic soldiers | Service in Iraq war sanctioned (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Area clergy cope with Iraq war | Though Crofton ministers are supporting U.S. troops in Iraq, they say the war has challenged them to reconcile devotion to country with their devotion to God (The Capital, Annapolis, Md.)
  
  
• Clerics, laity disagree | Antiwar rhetoric rings from many U.S. pulpits, but the people in the pews support President Bush's policy in Iraq. U.S. Christians back war with Iraq by about a 2-to-1 margin (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Conscientious objector numbers are small but growing | Antiwar groups say that an increasing number of military personnel are calling antiwar hot lines to say they do not want to fight in Iraq for religious, moral or political reasons (The New York Times)

Iraq relief efforts:

• Churches working to help refugees | A Fremont congregation raises $9,000, but getting supplies to Iraq is hard (Oakland [Calif.] Tribune)
  
  
• Rev. Franklin Graham plans aid for Iraq | Opposition from Muslim groups continues (Associated Press)
  
  
• 'Not going to make converts' | Samaritan's Purse charity deflects criticism (Edmonton Sun)
  
  
• Mixing humanitarian aid with the gospel provokes debate among relief groups | Will proselytizing in Iraq offer comfort and hope to a nation that is 97 percent Muslim? (Newhouse News Service)

God and America:

• Do God and country mix? | Some congregations embrace expressions of patriotism while others are more reserved (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• In the eyes of the faithful, God is behind America | God is good and so are President George W Bush and America's war on Iraq, the congregation at one of the nation's biggest places of worship agreed at the weekend (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Religion a strong current in U.S. wars | The nation often has invoked faith in waging its conflicts. A subtext has been a belief that we have been uniquely blessed by God. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• With God on his side | Throughout America's history, there has been one ally presidents have invoked above all others (Garry Wills, The New York Times)
  
  
• Asbury Theological Seminary removes flags from cafeteria | Wilmore leadership wants to avoid 'sign of conquest' (Lexington [Ky.] Herald-Leader)

End times speculation:

• End games? | War in Iraq has some pointing to signs of apocalypse—but it's a point that's been made before (Ledger-Enquirer, Columbus, Ga.)
  
  
• Religion speaks on the Iraqi war | Some doomsayers predict world's end (WJRT, Flint, Mich. | video)
  
  
• Armageddon? Some say war means end is near | There hasn't been the rush of interest that followed the terrorist attacks, but end-times Web sites are logging more hits (The Times, Gainesville, Ga.)
  
  
• Mideast war ignites Armageddon theories | Some evangelical Christians believe Iraq figures prominently in the end times. Others think apocalyptic interest has waned because of failed predictions that the turn of the millennium signaled Armageddon (The Denver Post)
  
  
• Some Christians say Iraqi war could mark the end of the world | Area church leaders have differences of opinion on issue (The Tennessean, Nashville)
  
  
• 'End-times' talk muddies the international waters | More than foolish, it is easy and cheap theology. It is much harder to try to reclaim the world from peril (William McKenzie, The Dallas Morning News)

Historical Iraqi sites:

• Iraq using sacred sites to protect its military, Australia says | Ctesiphon, an important third century site, being used to shelter vehicles (AFP)
  
  

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March (Web-only) 2003, Vol. 47