Catholic Charities and Roy Moore rejected by the Supreme Court. Plus: Pat Robertson in Israel, Woman, Thou Art Loosed, child porn scandals, and many more articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Rob Moll | posted 10/01/2004 12:00AM
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TV preacher turns to film world | Television preacher T.D. Jakes has released a film called Woman Thou Art Loosed -- the story of a woman who was molested as a young girl. Jakes has enlisted clergy to get their congregants into the movie theaters. Janet Heimlich reports. (All Things Considered, NPR)
Radio:
DXCP starts broadcast of Muslim-Christian drama | Government officials and religious leaders from various Christian denominations and Islam hailed as timely and educational a breakthrough radio drama series that went on air last week over local radio station dxCP. (Sun Star, Philippines)
Islamic talk finds a spot on radio dial | `Radio Islam,' the 1st daily English-language Muslim program in the U.S., hopes to mix serious issues and lighter fare (Chicago Tribune)
Books:
Religion scholar is subject of Kentucky Author Forum | Karen Armstrong has spent most of the past two decades explicating how and why the world's religions have been created, as well as how and why they go awry. (Courier Journal, Louisville, KY)
Why some horrors must be stopped by 'just war' | Despite this book's provocative title, "war" does not qualify as a "virtue." War is an action, a passion, a relation. (The Washington Times)
A battle for God, church, and booty | In 1095, the pope told Christians to retake Jerusalem - and a holy war was born (The Christian Science Monitor)
Da Vinci Code will spearhead drive to put Scotland back on the movie map | The movie adaptation of bestselling book The Da Vinci Code will become the focus of a new drive to attract major film-makers to Scotland. (Sunday Herald, UK)
Sorting through the chaos of the Da Vinci uproar | Is the most popular novel in recent memory a hard-hitting expose of the Roman Catholic Church? Or is The Da Vinci Code a mischievous fib? (Vancouver Sun, Canada)
Life, happily, sucks | Graham Greene may have been a spoilt bourgeois, but he is still the master of ambiguity and subversion (The Guardian, UK)
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