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• Testing the limits of tolerance | It happens to almost every immigrant. The new culture collides with the old. Choices have to be made, traditions relinquished, a composite identity forged. Usually, the struggle is personal or familial. But sometimes it breaks out into the open, dividing an ethnic or religious community and posing profound questions for Canadian society. Such is the case with the Islamic Institute of Civil Justice. (Carol Goar, Toronto Star)
• Muslim author takes on Islam, ignites firestorm | A best-seller in Canada, Manji's controversial tome "The Trouble With Islam" was published in the United States this week. The book plays on increasing fears that the social, political and religious values of the West are threatened by the growth of Islam worldwide. (Chicago Tribune)
• Detroit bishop heads to Iraq for information | Gumbleton wants to know how the war has affected the civilians (Detroit Free Press)

Pakistan bombing of Bible society:

• Pakistan tightens security after bombing at Christian site | Security around churches and mosques in Pakistan has been tightened after a car bomb blew up outside a Christian reading room. (Associated Press)
• Car bomb outside church was meant for police, says government | A car bomb that exploded on Thursday outside a bible society's office in the southern port city of Karachi, injuring at least 12 people and damaging the wall of a church close by, was actually an attack against law-enforcement agencies, according to a government official. (UN Regional Information Asia)
• Militants blamed for Pakistan blast | A car bomb exploded outside a Christian Bible society facility in southern Pakistan yesterday, leaving 15 people injured and damaging the wall of a nearby church, officials said. The attack in the port city of Karachi occurred after police received an anonymous phone call warning the Pakistan Bible Society would be targeted, police said. (Associated Press)
• Car bomb targets church in Karachi | A powerful car bomb exploded near a church in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, injuring at least 11 people, including two police officers. (UPI)
• Police link Pakistan church bomb, consulate blast | A car bomb that wounded 11 people outside the Anglican cathedral in Pakistan's biggest city was similar to one used by Muslim militants to kill 12 people outside the U.S. consulate in 2002, police said on Friday. (Reuters)
• Car bomb injures 13 at Karachi church | A car bomb blew up outside a church in Karachi yesterday, wounding 13 people including three soldiers and several Christians. (Telegraph, UK)
• Terrorists Target Bible Society | Terrorists yesterday hijacked a government car, parked it outside the Bible Society here with a bomb and detonated it. Twelve people, half of them police and paramilitary officers, were injured (Arab News, Saudi Arabia)
• Another Church attacked: Govt. expresses concern | The international community is expressing growing concern over continuing attacks on Christian places of worship, Christian Affairs Minister John Amaratunga said yesterday. (Sri Lanka Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka)
• Mob attacks church | The Roman Catholic Church of St. Michael's in Katuwana, Homagama came under a mob attack early yesterday for the second time in three weeks. Police blamed religious extremists for the attack, one of several reported throughout the country in the recent past (Daily News, Sri Lanka)

Politics and Law:

• Clergy lay groundwork for resumption of talks | THE troika of local church leaders met Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Zanu PF's secretary for information Nathan Shamuyarira on Wednesday to lay the groundwork for a resumption of talks, the Zimbabwe Independent can reveal. (Zimbabwe Independent)

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January (Web-only) 2004, Vol. 48