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• Churches to join in nationwide prayer about war | Working through the National Prayer Committee, a coalition of religious leaders in all 50 states, local pastors are spreading the word through a vast e-mail network (The Sun, Bremerton, Wash.)
  
  
• If you want to effect change, play by the rules | Neither Wesley nor Luther expected to remain on the payroll while they railed against the establishment. Nor should Methodist pastors who tilt at windmills in Iraq while neglecting their flock (Virgil Van Camp, Amarillo [Tex.] Globe-News)
  
  
• Americans should pray about war, ministers say | As leaders of churches in the area, ministers around North Branch have taken the task of guiding their congregations through the theological troubled waters of wartime (North Central Minnesota Post Review)

Iraqi aid and relief:

• Relief groups lash Pentagon | Military is accused of endangering aid by trying to control it (The Charlotte Observer)
  
  
• Charlottean at Iraqi border waiting to help | Charlotte's Ray Branch, who works with Samaritan's Purse, lives for this (The Charlotte Observer)
  
  
• Muslims: Franklin Graham's aid is unwelcome | Graham's aid group accused of seeking to convert Iraqis to Christ (The Charlotte Observer)

Interfaith relations:

• Muslims reach out to other believers in Beaverton | They're scared of Baptists (The Oregonian)
  
  
• Jewish, Christian leaders unite | Campaign is a project of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, whose co-chairmen are Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein and campaign strategist Ralph Reed, the former Christian Coalition leader who often provides political advice to the Bush administration (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Rowan Williams to attend summit in Gulf | Archbishop will be one of several Christian and Muslim leaders (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Mayor of New York rips biased Muslim textbooks | What Is Islam All About charges that many Jews and Christians lead "decadent and immoral lives." (New York Daily News)
  
  
• Students speak out against religious extremists | Many University students were upset about comments made by evangelist Donnie Morris who made his third visit to campus Monday afternoon (The Crimson White, University of Alabama)

Church and state:

• Maryland Senate bars minister from offering Christian prayer | David N. Hughes was barred from giving the opening prayer in the Maryland Senate yesterday after he refused to do so without invoking the name of Jesus—and violating the body's guidelines for public prayer (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• Attorney takes aim at cross above Ventura | Religious symbol on city parkland violates Constitution, says S.F. lawyer representing group of county residents (Ventura County [Calif.] Star)
  
  
• Elkhart County ready to defend new Ten Commandments suit | Display also includes the Mayflower Compact, the Constitution and an American flag (South Bend [Ind.] Tribune)
  
  
• Commission criticized for prayers at meetings | The Cobb County man who took on the school system over evolution has turned his attention to county commissioners, demanding that they stop praying publicly before their meetings (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Church life:

• Kaduna riots: Christian Association of Nigeria needs N4.5bn ($35million) to rebuild churches | According to CAN, the figure comprises 130 churches destroyed during the February and May 2000 religious riots, valued at N3 billion, and another 130 churches valued at N1.5 billion vandalised during the November 2002 disturbances in connection with the Miss World Beauty Pageant (This Day, Lagos, Nigeria)
  
  

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