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• Kurdish Muslims to honor Christians | A minority in Christian Nashville, Kurdish Muslims today will honor the Christian minority in their native Iraq, where at least seven people have been killed recently in bloody attacks on churches (The Tennessean, Nashville)

Sudan:

• Silence on Sudan | The "peace" movement prefers to ignore genocide by non-whites (Editorial, The Wall Street Journal Europe)
• UN says Sudan agrees Darfur steps | The United Nations says Sudan has agreed to a plan to tackle the crisis in Darfur, where thousands have been killed by pro-government militias (BBC, video)
• Militia 'under orders' | Militia accused of atrocities in Sudan that have caused over a million people to flee have said they were acting under orders from the government (Sky News)

Protests:

• Priest to speak against N.M.'s nuclear arsenal | A Roman Catholic priest, barred from participating in a Hiroshima Day peace vigil in Los Alamos last year by the archbishop of Santa Fe, plans to attend Friday's 59th anniversary observance of the bombing (The New Mexican, Santa Fe)
• Live nude Christian protesters! | The 200 block of Jones Street brings together homeless people, incensed Christians, and adult amusements (SF Weekly)

Politics:

• Slots barred from ballot | D.C. calls flaws 'monumental'; appeal is planned (The Washington Post)
• Falwell on 'thugs' and taxes | The Christian right leader said he is tired of being accused by civil liberties groups of abusing his ministry's tax-exempt status just because he has a few things to say about the direction of the country (The Washington Post)
• Some churches veer into politics | NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty reports on the political activities of churches, spurred largely by the gay marriage issue (All Things Considered, NPR)
• Good faith and bad faith | Behind the fig leaf of nominal nondiscrimination, tax dollars will trickle and then flood into organizations whose very nature is exclusionary and whose criteria of success may have less to do with need and more to do with creed (Bill Fried, The Boston Globe)

Republicans:

• The silent (Christian) majority | James Dobson on Bush, Kerry, Thune, gay marriage and the impact of Christians on the 2004 election (Hugh Hewitt, The Weekly Standard)
• Republicans look to harvest Amish vote | Amish almost always side with the Republican Party when they do vote — making them an attractive, if unlikely, voting bloc (Associated Press)
• Bush talks of religions understanding each other | Sounding evangelical at times, President Bush preached to a Republican choir Thursday during his second visit to Ohio in less than a week. (The Repository, Canton, Oh.)
• Too many Methodists? | Presidential politics and mainline religion (David C. Steinmetz, The Orlando Sentinel)
• The Right Rev. George W. Bush | Among the worshippers at the president's traveling revival show (Slate)

Democrats:

• Democrats' religion adviser quits | Local woman was denounced over stance on Pledge (Lexington Herald Leader, Ky.)
• Religious liaison for Democrats resigns | Minister backs taking 'God' out of Pledge (The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.)
• Furor over Pledge stance prompts Democrat to quit | The Democratic National Committee's director for religious outreach resigned after 13 days on the job because of "negative publicity" about her backing of a U.S. Supreme Court case seeking to remove the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance (The Washington Times)

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August (Web-only) 2004, Vol. 48