Plus: Former Bishop indicted on rape charges, Iraq's Christians fight for survival, priests duke it out at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and more articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Rob Moll | posted 9/01/2004 12:00AM
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Thousands of fearful Christians fleeing Iraq | Lawlessness and rising Islamic fundamentalism are sending refugees to Jordan and Syria (Religion News Service)
Iraq's persecuted Christians | Members of one of Iraq's minority faiths face new repressions and discrimination after the fall of Saddam's regime (Time)
Books:
Apostle to the Gentiles | The search for the historical Paul, for obvious reasons, has never been as pressing or controversial as the search for the historical Jesus. Yet Paul's letters are the oldest documents in the New Testament, and at times -- especially during the Protestant Reformation -- the only Jesus who seemed to matter was the figure fashioned by Paul, Christianity's first and most influential theologian. (The New York Times)
'Joy comes in the morning': People of the Word | The promise of the Talmud, Jonathan Rosen asserted in his quirky but moving meditation ''The Talmud and the Internet,'' ''is that it isn't a book -- it's a sort of drift net for catching God.''(The New York Times)
The peculiar institution | Every movement that seeks to change society faces two great tasks. The first is to discredit the old order. The second is to offer a new one. Without the assurance of a new order, the debate becomes a choice between order and chaos, and order wins. This is the challenge now facing the gay marriage movement. (The New York Times)
Welcome stranger | Liberal discovers friends in a fundamentalist church (Houston Chronicle)
Overflowing the banks: It can be a good thing | Idea that early Christianity was a diverse phenomenon is fundamentally sound (Charlotte Observer, N.C.)
Former Bishop indicted on rape charges, won't face trial:
DA won't prosecute bishop accused of rape | Former Springfield Bishop Thomas Dupre won't have to answer to charges in Massachusetts that he molested two boys in the 1970s, but the legal problems for the one-time Roman Catholic leader -- the first bishop to face criminal charges in the sex abuse scandal -- haven't disappeared. (Associated Press)
Bishop is indicted in sex abuse case but won't be prosecuted | Thomas Dupre, former Roman Catholic bishop of Springfield, Mass., was charged with two counts of child rape in an indictment unsealed Monday, but only hours later the district attorney said a statute of limitations would keep him from prosecuting. (The New York Times)
Mass. bishop charged with rape; no trial planned | A grand jury indicted Bishop Thomas L. Dupre, the former head of the Springfield, Mass., Roman Catholic diocese, on two counts of child rape, but he will not be prosecuted because the statute of limitations on the case has expired, a county district attorney said Monday. (Washington Post)
US bishop sex abuse case dropped | Prosecutors have dropped a case against a former Massachusetts bishop, Thomas Dupre, hours after he was charged with raping two children in the 1970s. (BBC)
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