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Plus: The lead attorney drops out of Terri Schiavo's defense team, Sudan blames U.S. for arming Darfur rebels, Presbyterians and Jews try to heal rift, Chicago Tribune visits Bob Jones University, and other articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Rob Moll | posted 9/01/2004 12:00AM
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Crime alert in Fort Worth area: Bible blessing | Police are warning of a scam that targets Christians who believe they're helping a minister from a South African church. (CBS, TX)
Former church's parishioners sue new owner over windows | Larry Ambrose and his sister, Tracy Gerard, thought they were acquiring mementos to cherish when they purchased stained-glass windows from their church in Monessen, which was closing. Two years later, the stained glass remains in the building and Gerard and Ambrose are part of a lawsuit against the building's new owner, the Mon Valley Association of Retired Steelworkers, or MARS, seeking to pry the windows from its possession. (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Penn.)
UN warns on South Asia child sex | The trade in women and children for sex is spiralling out of control in South Asia, the UN children's fund, Unicef, has warned. (BBC)
Other articles of interest:
Noah and the Law | Words stamped in red ink on a 2001 $1 bill that my husband and I received in change at a Huntsville restaurant made us stop and read: "Attention All Mankind Learn And Observe The Seven Noahide Commandments" (The Decatur Daily, Ala.)
Bethlehem residents gloomy about Israel's security wall | The security wall Israel is building aims to protect its citizens from Palestinian suicide bombers and other terrorists coming from the West Bank and Gaza. The wall soon will restrict access to the town of Bethlehem, a popular tourist destination traditionally considered the birthplace of Jesus Christ. (Voice of America)
Monastery home of St Bernards to close after 400 years | The Alpine monastery that bred the original St Bernard dogs more than 400 years ago is closing its kennels because it can no longer afford them. (Times, London)
Flaws of faith | As religion insinuates its way into public life, secularists must unite to fight hellfire with logic (David Aaronovitch, The Observer, UK)
We used to hate, but now we hate hating | This week Greater Manchester Police banned a concert by the Jamaican reggae singer Buju Banton, on the ground that his homophobic lyrics were likely to provoke public disorder and hatred. The police might have changed their tune on gay rights. But it still sounds like censorship to me, and it is still reactionary, even if it is done in drag. (Mick Hume, Times, London)
Out of Africa | A small community in Uganda claiming to be Jewish fights for legitimacy (Jerusalem Post, Israel)
SE Asians urge respect for Islam at U.N. | The West must stop associating Islam with violence, poverty and indignity, top officials from three southeast Asian nations agreed. (China Post, Taiwan)
'Miraculous' Christ washes up in Texas Rio Grande | A fiberglass statue of Christ that washed up on a sandbar in the Rio Grande three weeks ago is attracting scores of devout pilgrims to a police department lost-and-found and being hailed as a miracle. (Reuters)
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