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• One week of emergency rule in Plateau | With the crisis in Plateau not showing signs of easing off, the following weeks could determine whether this policy was sound,  because increasingly respected public personalities have come out against it; furthermore, it  seems  what happens in Plateau  might well end up defining the Obasanjo Presidency and the survival of democracy (Paul Odili, Vanguard, Nigeria)
  
  
• Subverting God in the service of God | What happened in Kano was predictable and only another in an endless series of religious rioting. It will surely happen again (Harry Nwana, Vanguard, Nigeria)
  
  
• Cash payments offered for militia guns in troubled Plateau state | The newly appointed administrator of Plateau State, Retired General Chris Alli, has offered cash payments for the return of weapons in the hands of rival Muslim and Christian militia groups that have killed hundreds of people in an upsurge of sectarian violence in recent weeks (IRIN, UN)
  
  
• Work towards peace, unity, Anglican Church tells Nigerians | Concerned about the violence across the country, the Diocese of Lagos, (Church of Nigeria), Anglican Communion has called on politicians to work vigorously towards the enthronement of peace and unity in the country (Daily Times, Nigeria)
  
  
• CAN, traditionalist rift in Ido/Osi council settled | An age long feud between the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the traditionalists in the Ilogbo Community in the Ido/Osi Local Government Area of Ekiti State has come to an end as the warring factions have settled their rift (Daily Times, Nigeria)
  
  
• Refugees flee violence in central Nigeria | Violence in central Nigeria between Christians and Muslims has caused tens of thousands of people to flee the area. President Olusegon Obasanjo declared a state of emergency last week in the state of Plateau. Death toll estimates from attacks in May have ranged from 67 to as many as 600 killed (All Things Considered, NPR)
  
  

Public morality:

• Seismic moral shift | There are now no boundaries in America. Any rule is potentially viewed as oppressive and any law — whether legal or moral — is up for debate, negotiation and overturning if it impedes a single individual from fulfilling his or her desire (Cal Thomas, The Washington Times)
  
  
• Tim Russert Boston College speech stresses values | 'Meet the Press' anchor addresses graduates (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Archbishop attacks pursuit of short-term goals | The Archbishop of Canterbury has criticised Britain's "portfolio culture", in which personal integrity is being sacrificed to short-term goals (The Times, London)
  
  
• Challenging the West's moral virtue | Western values have been found wanting. Stand by for the rise of China and India (Martin Jacques, The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  

Church life:

• Is the sign for commuters a message from above? | On the shaky ride in from the suburbs, one of the last things riders on most Long Island Rail Road lines see before plunging into a tunnel under the East River is a message from New York Presbyterian Church (The New York Times)
  
  
• Log on for salvation | If people won't come to church, the church will have to come to them—or, at least, to their computers (Newsweek)
  
  
• Discord as vicar sacks 'clique' of bellringers | A battle broke out in a village after bellringers were sacked by the vicar of its 13th-century church (The Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Why Kirk's tradition gags talented Moderators | The temporary nature of the Church of Scotland's Moderators' tenure has been a weakness, and never more so than in the modern era (Magnus Linklater, Scotland on Sunday)
  
  

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May (Web-only) 2004, Vol. 48