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Plus: Wheaton College's Billy Graham Center catches fire, archbishops bet on NBA finals, Ala. school board retracts conservative Christian mandate, U.S. considers more debt relief, and other stories from online news sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 6/01/2004 12:00AM
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Evangelist plays uniter role | K.A. Paul, the Christian evangelist who serves as crisis counselor to some of the world's most infamous dictators and shepherd for millions of followers worldwide, was taking me on a tour of his office in Huffman, a mostly white working-class neighborhood just east of Lake Houston (Houston Chronicle)
Brain swelling killed Grand Rapids bishop, ME says | An autopsy has found that Roman Catholic Bishop Kevin Britt died of a rare disorder in which the brain swells in response to an infection (Associated Press)
Church life:
O.C.'s 1st black church is still reaching out | House of worship takes pride in its historical role as a spiritual resource (Los Angeles Times)
'Loving thy neighbor'-hood | How should church leaders reconcile the tension between church facility growth in their neighborhood and the neighbors' concerns about that growth? Religious leaders respond (Daily Pilot, Newport Beach, Ca.)
Protest as moderator installed | Free Presbyterians staged a protest ahead of a ceremony to install the new Presbyterian moderator in Northern Ireland (BBC)
Methodist merger makes room for growing Korean congregation | Two small, aging congregations near Irondale, Grace United Methodist Church and Overton Road United Methodist Church, will each close this month and work together to launch a new church in the same area (The Birmingham News, Ala.)
Making new history at Trinity Church | Next month, serious scaffolding goes up inside the church (The Boston Globe)
Priest won't be assigned to parishes | Archbishop is lauded for seeking views of parishioners (The Indianapolis Star)
Sexual ethics:
BT puts block on child porn sites | The decision by Britain's largest high-speed internet provider will lead to the first mass censorship of the web attempted in a Western democracy (The Observer, London)
Spreading the Pope's message of sexuality and a willing spirit | A rising number of "theology of the body" events indicate a growing interest in trying to reconcile sexual practices with Catholicism (The New York Times)
Priest in kid porn inquiry | A priest has been quizzed by detectives investigating a child porn ring (Daily Record, Scotland)
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"Is Bush the Anti-Christ?" sign goes missing from building | "If I can't find that sign, I'm going to paint it up there,'' says Joe Redner (Tampa Tribune, Fla.)
African churches hold summit on AIDS | Protestant church leaders from across Africa are holding a four-day summit in Kenya on how they can help fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic (Voice of America)
Victims of riots: Their pains, woes and regrets | Since 1953 when the first religious riot rocked Kano, northern cities and Nigeria as a whole have not been the same again. These crises have also produced a numerous ophans and voiceless children who have become forgotten victims of social dislocation (Andrew Ahiante, This Day, Nigeria)
Yes, minister | Alanis Morissette can officiate at a friend's wedding. So can I. (Mark Oppenheimer, The Wall Street Journal)
Charities look to benefit from a new twist on life insurance | Elderly, wealthy donors have allowed insurance companies, hedge funds and other investors to insure their lives in exchange for a promise that part the death benefits will flow to the donors' favorite charities (The New York Times)
Religion in brief | Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod issues guidelines for its pastors' participation in civic events, archaeologists search for Polish Torah, Pope stymied in Ukraine (The Washington Post)
New special permit law approved | The finance department will now process the application for a special event permit (Daily Pilot, Newport Beach, Ca.)
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