Plus: Washington Post vs. freedom, censoring Romans 1, and many, many other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 8/01/2004 12:00AM
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What would Jesus view? | A dramatic Passion Play. A collection of ancient Bibles. A model of ancient Jerusalem. Camels and sheep. Movies and musicals (Palm Beach Post)
Evangelical divergence | Protestantism surges in Catholic Brazil, but it differs from U.S. kind (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Tiger, briefly on the loose, causes collision | Circus animal strolls by church choir picnic (The New York Times)
When a spiritual and romantic quest leads to the web | Amid Christiansingles.com, soulmatch.com, and eharmony.com, Buddhist dating service Dharmadate launches (The New York Times)
Rescuers free Colo. hiker pinned by rock | "We were praying the whole time," Greg Curtis said. "To God be the glory" (Associated Press)
Mormon Church's oldest apostle dies | David B. Haight, the eldest member of a high-ranking body of the Mormon church, died of natural causes Saturday at age 97 (Associated Press)
An entrepreneur of ministerial training | Few people drop scriptural citations and business terms like ''branding" in the same breath. But the Rev. Nick Carter, the new president of Andover Newton Theological School, is not your garden-variety career theologian (The Boston Globe)
95-year-old nun is France's favorite woman | The title of France's favorite woman was awarded last week - to the bewilderment once again of the country's film and television elite - to a 95-year-old nun who spent much of her life living alongside rubbish sweepers in the slums of Cairo (The Observer, London)
Presbyterians' shameful boycott | The Presbyterian Church (USA) has committed a grievous sin (Alan M. Dershowitz, Los Angeles Times)
In the language of Jesus | Turkey's Christian revival has a message for Iraq's own communities (The Guardian, London)
God at work: Business embracing faith | More companies nationwide find benefits in promoting a religious context in the workplace (St. Petersburg Times, Fla.)
Pastor preaches good sex | A Devon, Alta.-based pastor and his wife have taken their sermons out of the church and into the bedroom in a bid to help couples "understand and meet each other's sexual needs" (Calgary Sun)
U.S. won't override AIDS drug patents | The government is refusing to take steps to in effect force down the spiraling price of an important AIDS drug, saying such an unprecedented move isn't allowed by federal law (Associated Press)
Shuttlesworth elected SCLC president | The troubled Southern Christian Leadership Conference concluded its convention Wednesday with the surprise election of the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, its 82-year-old interim president, to a full one-year term next year (Associated Press)
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