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• Ambassador Franklin | Graham was helping Muslims before helping Muslims was cool: Since when did that become a threat to U.S. interests? (World)
  
  
• Why is Bush afraid of Franklin Graham? | If Bush wants to convince the world this isn't a war against Islam, he needs to tell the Christian leader to stay out of Iraq (Steven Waldman, Beliefnet)
  
  
• Relief groups eager to enter Iraq | Critics, however, already are raising concerns that evangelical relief groups may try to use humanitarian aid to make inroads in Muslim countries (Associated Press)
  
  
• Muslims question Christian aid (News14, Charlotte, N.C., video available)
  
  
• Bringing aid and the Bible, the man who called Islam wicked | Evangelist fears that U.S. Christians will inflame situation (The Guardian, London)

War in Iraq:

• Americans bow before holy shrine to deter protesters (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Letters to God about the war in Iraq | The cross and the American flag. The two symbols have led to impassioned debates and "letters to God" at Azusa Pacific University, as students sort through their feelings about the war in Iraq (San Bernardino County Sun)
  
  
• Palestinian Christian urges compassion | War with Iraq increases hostility toward Americans, Hanna Massad says (The Morning News, Springdale, Ark.)
  
  
• Preaching for God and guns | Seldom have black preachers mixed Bible readings, political debate and target practice (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Contrary to policy, U.S. forces occupy schools and church | Experts say the move, which began four days ago in a northern Iraqi town, may violate international law (The Christian Science Monitor)

Spirituality in wartime:

• Out of the ashes | In a burned-out tent, a U.S. Army chaplain in Kuwait finds a reminder of God's protection (Barbara K. Sherer, Beliefnet)
  
  
• Lynch household clung to hope, faith | "We felt it really brought the Lord in closer and Jessie could feel, definitely feel, that she was being prayed for," Mr. Lynch said (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Also: 'Prayer and our boys brought Jessica to safety' (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Local pastor sends church word from Kuwait | It's not exactly the comfortable confines of New Covenant Evangelical Presbyterian Church. But pastor George Yates isn't letting sandstorms and artillery fire stop him from preaching the gospel (New Castle [Penn.] News)
  
  
• Religion in a time of war | More than any crisis in modern memory, the War on Terror—including the current U.S. military presence in Iraq—is being debated in religious, usually Christian, terms (Speaking of Faith, Minnesota Public Radio)
  
  
• Churches to gather for prayer | Tonight's vigil inspired by soldier who is MIA (The Beacon Journal, Akron, Oh.)
  
  
• A sign of caring for Iraqi people | Wooster woman makes comforters for Mennonite collection of relief aid (The Beacon Journal, Akron, Oh.)

Protests and condemnation of war:

• Catholics can part with bishops on Iraq | The answer hinges on two factors: the authority of the bishops to teach on public issues and the strength of the arguments they have offered (Robert G. Kennedy, Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
  
  
• Dissent OK, anti-war Chaput says | Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput, responding to Catholics who disagree with the church's condemnation of the Iraq war, reiterated his opposition to the conflict Wednesday but emphasized that Catholic teaching allows room for dissent (The Denver Post)
  
  
• Profs urge preaching against war | Five Princeton professors and 17 other theologians, ethicists and ministers from across the country and published in the current issue of Sojourners, a Christian-interest magazine (The Star-Ledger, N.J.)
  
  

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March (Web-only) 2003, Vol. 47