2 of 8

• Church leaders ousted as financial probe continues | A Northern Kentucky Baptist church facing a state police investigation of its bank accounts and a bank ready to foreclose on a $4 million loan ousted dissident members from leadership roles Wednesday night (The Cincinnati Post)
  
  
• Rash of church thefts reported in Lakewood | Thieves get away with little, but cause much damage (KMGH, Denver)
  
  

Iraq IMB workers remembered:

• When God called, he answered | Slain missionary remembered in Canyon (Amarillo Globe News, Tex.)
  
  
• Services for missionary scheduled in Colorado | Memorial services for David McDonnall, the missionary and West Texas A&M University alumnus who was killed in Iraq on Tuesday morning, have been scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church in Lamar, Colo (Amarillo Globe News, Tex.)
  
  
• A witness to faith | Rowlett man died martyr's death in Iraq (Editorial, The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Missionary couple felt call to Iraq | It was a CNN broadcast of an Iraqi man pulling dirty water from a hand-dug well that convinced Larry Elliott to head to the Middle East and offer his expertise in water purification (The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.)
  
  
• Risks catch up to missionaries | Four are killed in Iraq, victims of the violence increasingly directed against civilian aid workers (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• Local pastor knew 2 of Southern Baptist volunteers slain in Iraq | At least 2 of the 4 Southern Baptist missionaries killed in Iraq have Cooke County connections (Gainesville Daily Register, Tex.)
  
  
• Duty calls | Couple prayed about risks in their goal to serve Christ (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Tex.)
  
  

Life ethics:

• Bioethics appointments raise local protest | The Midwest Bioethics Center has lent its voice to a growing national protest sparked when two proponents of stem-cell research were replaced on the President's Council on Bioethics (The Kansas City Star)
  
  
• Birth control a non starter in Philippines election campaign | In the predominantly Roman Catholic Philippines, birth control is a subject the main presidential contenders have chosen to quietly ignore (AFP)
  
  
• Utah mom's arrest alarms women's groups | Melissa Ann Rowland has been called callous, indifferent. The kind of mother who would refuse surgery to save her unborn twins because she didn't want a scar. The kind who would use drugs while pregnant. Women's groups have nevertheless taken up her cause because they say her arrest is an alarming back-door effort to undermine abortion rights (Associated Press)
  
  

Abortion:

• Costello plays safe in abortion debate | The Health Minister, Tony Abbott, has put himself at odds with the Treasurer, Peter Costello, in leaving open the possibility of future moves to discourage abortions (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• State House turns down two abortion bills | 'Partial-birth' ban, waiting period declined (The Concord Monitor, N.H.)
  
  
• N.H. House kills late-term abortion, informed consent bills | The House voted 189-129 against banning what critics refer to as "partial-birth" abortions. It rejected an almost identical bill by nine votes four years ago (Associated Press)
  
  
• Judge says abortion-ban challenge must be tried | A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request by abortion providers to throw out a law banning a type of late-term abortion and ruled a trial is needed to determine whether the measure is unconstitutional (Reuters)
  
  

next page... |  2 of 8

share this page

March (Web-only) 2004, Vol. 48