2 of 4

• Evangelist warns against Mideast ethnic cleaning | Evangelist and sociologist Tony Campolo, speaking to United Methodist leaders in Birmingham on Monday, warned that too many Christians have become "evangelical Zionists" who favor ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the Middle East (The Birmingham News, Ala.)
• Group of 1,000 Christian supporters in Israel | The group, which includes 600 tourists from Singapore, 300 from Sweden and 150 from Russia, was organized by the Jerusalem-based Swedish Christian 'Word of Life' organization (The Jerusalem Post)
• Bishop lashes Martin for abortion stand | The Roman Catholic bishop of Calgary is publicly rebuking Prime Minister Paul Martin for what he calls scandalous "moral incoherence" on abortion, an issue that has quickly become the hottest subject on the election campaign trail (The Globe and Mail, Toronto)
• Bishop's ad to encourage voters | The Bishop for Birmingham has taken the unusual step of advertising in the local press to encourage people to vote (BBC)

Ronald Reagan:

• Pope lauds Reagan's commitment to freedom | Pope John Paul II sent a message Tuesday to Nancy Reagan, expressing "deep gratitude" for her late husband's commitment to the cause of freedom in the world (Associated Press)
• Former Pleasant Hills pastor is comforting the Reagans | For many local people, the sight of a white-haired Presbyterian pastor comforting Nancy Reagan as she laid her head on her husband's casket was somehow familiar (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Religious freedom:

• Runes and rights | Utah State Prison inmate Phillip Leishman wants his runes back. And, no matter what prison officials think of his religion, his argument should be heard (Editorial, The Salt Lake Tribune)
• Agency ponders policy after blocking baptism | Park authority accused of discrimination (The Washington Post)
• Christian group sues mayor, Kelly | Group claims duo trampling 1st Amendment rights (Newsday)
• Too Catholic for Munich's airwaves? | The decision to award a Catholic radio station one of Munich's coveted FM frequencies has caused outcry among critics who say the programming is too fundamentalist (Deutche Welle, Germany)

Ala. School chief qualifications—Conservative Christian:

• Next schools chief: conservative | Alabama's next state superintendent of public schools should be a conservative and a Christian, according to the state Board of Education's list of qualifications for the job. But board members say that's a mistake (The Birmingham News, Ala.)
• Board members don't have "conservative Christian" rule for search | A recommendation that the candidate be "conservative and Christian" came up in 1995 on a laundry list of proposed qualifications and has reappeared in the current search, but board members said that's a mistake (Times Daily, Gadsden, Ala.)

Cross controversies:

• Protesters rally for county seal cross | More than 700 people packed the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday to chastise lawmakers for voting to erase a small cross from the county's official seal (Los Angeles Times)
• Cross in Mojave desert preserve barred | 9th Circuit agrees 'war memorial' violates separation of church and state (The Washington Post)

War & terrorism:

• For God and country | The military chaplain corps suffers its first casualty (Editorial, The Wall Street Journal)
• American prayers, on D-Day and today | While the graphic images from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison have fixated so many, I continue to be drawn to a different picture from our current war. It is a photograph of several U.S. soldiers in Fallujah kneeling in a huddle to pray for a fallen fellow soldier (James P. Moore Jr., The Washington Post)

next page... |  2 of 4

share this page

June (Web-only) 2004, Vol. 48