Plus: Churches provide Halloween alternatives for varying reasons, aid groups protest national security approach to foreign aid, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Ted Olsen | posted 10/01/2003 12:00AM
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Haunted house | It took a Catholic priest to restore quiet, at last (Mark Gauvreau Judge, The Wall Street Journal)
Terri Schiavo:
Recovering from a 'persistent vegetative state' | Disability rights activist Rus Cooper-Dowda, who had once been diagnosed as being in a "persistent vegetative state," shares her perspective on the Terri Schiavo case (Day to Day, National Public Radio)
Terri Schiavo's parents seek stake in lawsuit | A group founded by Pat Robertson has joined with Bob and Mary Schindler to help keep their daughter alive (St. Petersburg Times, Fla.)
Life, death, and silence | Why the media elites won't tell the full story on Terri's prognosis and Michael Schiavo (Wesley J. Smith, The Weekly Standard)
Politics and law:
U.S. NGOs attacks Bush foreign assistance policy | InterAction, which represents 160 groups doing overseas relief work, was scathing in its criticism, particularly of the U.S. government's tendency to view foreign assistance "through a national security lens" (Reuters)
Prayer groups proliferate on Capitol Hill | Before they debate issues that affect millions of Americans' lives, many legislators meet for informal prayer sessions and Bible studies (Religion News Service)
Senate Democrats filibuster on Pickering | Mississippi judge Charles Pickering on Thursday became the fourth of President Bush's judicial nominees to be filibustered by Democrats, continuing a two-year struggle tainted with religious, racial and electoral politics over the directions of the federal appellate court (Associated Press)
Homophobic attacks to be 'hate crimes' | Judges and magistrates can hand down longer sentences if an offence is motivated by racial or religious hatred (The Independent, London)
Seniors sue after city stifles sermons at community center | 'And here I've got old and useless, they say, and I ain't got no freedom no more,' says WWII veteran Barney Clark, one of 16 plaintiffs suing Texas city (Associated Press)
Education:
Baptist school to appeal rejection from voucher program | Denver officials denied private school's application because school would expel homosexuals; principal says decision is unfair, contradicts purpose of voucher plan (Associated Press)
School ignores Christ's spirit with expulsion | Jupiter Christian School seems to be crushing a human spirit in mistaken obedience to the Holy Spirit. If so, that makes a mockery of everything Jesus taught and is about as terrifying as a Christian community can get (Steve Gushee, Palm Beach Post)
White House wants churches to settle immigrants | The Bush administration plans to deepen its collaboration with religious groups by recruiting the Roman Catholic Church and other organizations to help set up a mentoring program for new immigrants, a U.S. official said on Wednesday (Associated Press)
Religious displays:
A tribute to the law stirs legal dispute | A sprawling mural called "The Law," which has a likeness of the Ten Commandments flanked by angels as its centerpiece, has been in Cleveland's old federal courthouse for 92 years (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
Alabama court orders Moore trial open to public | But suspended chief justice's lawyers claim he can't get fair, public trial after judiciary panel rejects his request to move ethics proceedings to larger venue (Associated Press)
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