Plus: Evangelicals in Morocco, doubts on Uganda's AIDS numbers, Doug Wead hands over Bush tapes, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 4/13/2006 12:00AM
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Tickets sell out for star evangelist's Dallas event | Tickets to see the Rev. Joel Osteen this weekend in Dallas are going for as much as 10 times their face value (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Tex.)
Most Reverend Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndugane | With Desmond Tutu leaving as the Anglican Bishop of Capetown, South Africa, Njongonkulu Ndugane will replace him. He is an outspoken leader against poverty, third-world debt, and HIV/AIDS. In his youth, Ndugane was an anti-apartheid activist who was jailed for three years on Robben Island. During his imprisonment, Ndugane became religious and entered the priesthood after his release. He then lived in London for a time and became a fellow at King's College. He has published many theological works on the Christian view of human rights (Fresh Air, NPR)
Gambling:
Is bingo's number up? | Numbers and revenue are down as casinos draw players from church halls (The Boston Globe)
House panel approves slots | Meanwhile, church leaders yesterday held a press conference in Annapolis to declare the first two weekends in March as "Stop Slots Sabbaths" -- a campaign sponsored by the group Stop Slots Maryland (The Washington Times)
More articles of interest:
Scholars to debate Resurrection at Bethel | It's John Shelby Spong vs. William Lane Craig (South Bend Tribune, Ind.)
'Passion'-less Oscars aren't worth watching | By snubbing "The Passion" this year, the Oscars have given the vast majority of America no reason to watch this year (Wayne Judkins, The Roanoke Times, Va.)
Groups urged to continue boycott | Movie chain should run pro-marriage ads, they say (The Globe and Mail, Toronto)
Quiet undercurrent of religion pervades UW basketball program | The Huskies don't advertise or moralize this, but they're a relatively spiritual group, from the top down (The SeattlePost-Intelligencer)
Slaves' Bible on the block | The penned entries fill four water-stained pages inside the back cover of a leather-bound Bible printed in 1771. They are about Jeffrey, Lilly and Catherine, son and daughters of Suzanah, and Suzanah dying of smallpox in 1779, and other slaves owned by Samuel Townsend, one of the founders of Oyster Bay (Newsday)
Uganda's AIDS decline attributed to deaths | Abstinence and sexual fidelity have played virtually no role in the much-heralded decline of AIDS rates in the most closely studied region of Uganda, two researchers told a gathering of AIDS scientists here (The Washington Post)
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