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Attack on Baptist pastors in Iraq:

• Iraq slaying underscores risk missionaries face | It is difficult to calculate how many missionaries are traveling to Iraq (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Minister dodges death during Iraq mission | Family keeping in contact by e-mail (The Express-Times, Bethelehem. Pa.)
  
  

More on Iraq:

• Official makes Iraqi constitution threat | The top U.S. administrator in Iraq suggested on Monday that he would block any interim constitution that would make Islam the chief source of law, as some members of the Iraqi Governing Council have sought (Associated Press)
  
  
• Ignoring Iraq's Islamists | A grave and gathering challenge (Paul Marshall, National Review Online)
  
  
• Christians seek greater role in government, Ulemas condemn terrorism | At the convention held yesterday in Iraq's capital 5 Iraqi Christian parties –made up of Chaldean Catholics as well as Assyrian, Armenian and Syriac Orthodox Church members, asked for the "fair representation of all ethnic and religious minorities" in the future Iraqi government (AsiaNews, Italy)
  
  

Southern Baptists to leave BWA, consider new name:

• Baptist committee votes to leave alliance | The executive committee of the Southern Baptist Convention voted Tuesday to withdraw from the Baptist World Alliance, saying it has become too liberal and advocates "aberrant and dangerous theologies" (Associated Press)
  
  
• Southern Baptists move closer to split | The Southern Baptist Convention took another step toward severing ties with the Baptist World Alliance, a group of Baptist entities that it helped form 99 years ago, with a vote by the SBC executive committee (The Tennessean, Nashville)
  
  
• SBC president Jack Graham calls for Southern Baptist name change | "This name that I love and you love speaks of our region and doesn't move us beyond to the great cities of the Northeast, to the West and the Midwest," says Jack Graham (Associated Baptist Press)
  
  

Higher education:

• Retired archbishop's belief in unity finds a home at Seattle U. | Hunthausen Hall will be the new home of the university's School of Theology and Ministry, unique among Catholic ministerial schools for allowing students from both Catholic and Protestant traditions to pursue ministerial degrees together (The Seattle Times)
  
  
• Falwell's fast talkers for Christ | For college debate team, sport is a mission (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Religious leaders condemn varsity ban on prayers | The University of Edinburgh has replaced the centuries-old tradition with secular "reflection" periods amid concerns the prayers could offend non-Christians (PA, U.K.)
  
  
• Also: University scraps prayers at graduation | The University of Edinburgh has scrapped the centuries-old tradition in favour of a secular 'reflection' period following fears that continuing Christian prayers would offend atheists and those from other faiths (Scotland on Sunday)
  
  

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February (Web-only) 2004, Vol. 48