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Weblog: Convert Killed in Attack on Missionary's Lebanon Home

Dobson and other conservatives reportedly thinking about leaving Republican Party, YWAM missionaries hospitalized with SARS, and other stories from online sources around the world

Ted Olsen | posted 5/01/2003 12:00AM

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Education:

Religious colleges walk a fine line | Colleges with a religious affiliation often must struggle to balance academic freedom with the potentially conflicting values of religion (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
On campus, spiritual groups witness a cultural conversion | Asian Americans are rapidly becoming the face of Christianity on many college campuses across the country, joining evangelical clubs in large numbers and, in some cases, starting their own Christian organizations (The Washington Post)
Religious diversity felt on campuses | The religious diversity at this and many campuses nationwide is often evident outside the traditional morning worship service (Religion News Service)
Finding common ground | Students research the world's belief systems to find their similarities (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Alaska Christian College students graduate in faith-based ceremony | But there was no "Pomp and Circumstance" at the ceremony, literally or figuratively (Peninsula Clarion, Kenai, Alaska)
Pupils take religion 'release' | But pastors are reluctant to publicize the program, and few local school districts take part (Press Enterprise, Bloomsburg, Penn.)
Fact v faith | Creationists cannot ignore scientific truth (Editorial, The Guardian, London)
Regent mourns loss of divinity instructor | Garry Hanvey committed suicide after years of depression (The Virginian-Pilot)

Iraq:

Converting the conquered: WWJT? | Christians are often the most un-Christian when they work hardest to be most Christian. Franklin Graham is the latest poster boy for that kind of zealotry (Steve Gushee, Palm Beach Post)
Should Christian aid workers in Iraq be allowed to proselytize? | Washington Post readers respond (The Washington Post)
Peace advocate reflects on his 3 months in Iraq | Scott Kerr was in Baghdad throughout much of the U.S. invasion serving with Christian Peacemaker Teams (The Daily Herald, Chicago suburbs)
Iraq war breeds doomsday fears | Apocalypse now? Christians, Muslims link conflict to centuries-old visions of humanity's final hours (The Mercury News, San Jose, Calif.)
In Saddam's Iraq, monastery was an oasis of tolerance | Saddam did once visit, according to Father Paulus, a blind Assyrian Christian monk who has lived here in isolation for more than 40 years (Cox News)

Tony Blair's faith:

When fanatics wear an ugly face | Mr. Blair is in a spot of trouble for trying to be nice to God (Wesley Pruden, The Washington Times)
Campbell interrupted Blair as he spoke of his faith: 'We don't do God' | Tony Blair's most senior advisers have intervened to prevent him discussing his faith in public, according to two new profiles of the Prime Minister (The Daily Telegraph, London)
You don't have to be as religious as Blair and Bush to face judgment days | It is a shock to know that the Prime Minister believes in God. It means that Britain is led by a member of a quite small religious minority: the Christian believers (John Lloyd, Scotland on Sunday)
A question of faith | Experience seems to have cured the Prime Minister of the idea that, because he is a Christian believer, everything that he says and does must be right, and everything that his opponents say and do must be wrong (Editorial, The Daily Telegraph, London)
Hi, Lord, it's Tony here … | (Al Kennedy, The Guardian, London)

Faith-based social ministry:

When God goes to prison | The Carol Vance Unit is the kind of faith-based program the Bush Administration would like to see more of. Its mix of religion and rehabilitation may violate the First Amendment, but may also make it the best prison in Texas (Legal Affairs)

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