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• Bellmores aid tsunami victims | With the death toll nearing 150,000, the South Asia earthquake and resulting tsunamis have galvanized Bellmore parishes in support of the victims of the natural disaster. (New York Herald Community Newspapers)
• Bay Area churches quick to provide Good Samaritan aid | Catholics are praying, Mormons are paying, and the Baptists are packing their bags. (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Faith-based charities show the value of 'organized religion.' | Of the 23 tsunami-victim aid agencies listed recently in the pages of The Washington Post, The Washington Times, and The Free Lance-Star, at least 10 have explicit moorings in religious faith. (Editorial, The Free Lance-Star, Va.)
• Church joins tsunami relief effort | Zion Baptist Church's congregation will be giving money to the Indian Ocean tsunami victims this month. The Ambler congregation will donate the highest Sunday offering in January to relief efforts. (Times Herald, Penn.)
• A portrait of compassion | N. Texans brush up on fund-raising skills to assist tsunami victims. Local residents, as well as many community organizations, churches and Texas relief agencies, are pitching in to send money to those in need. (Dallas Morning News)

Ministry & relief:

• A heritage of giving | Christians and Disaster Relief (Chuck Colson, Breakpoint)
• Tsunami survivors desperate for help, open to gospel (Agape Press)
• Compassionate Conservatives? | The right turns tight (The Boston Phoenix)
• Government inaugurates committee on tsunami relief | Equating African traditional values of love, compassion and charity which the teachings of Islam and Christianity, Obasanjo stated that Nigerians are obligated by such values to share other people's pain and sorrow in collective action, mutual support and divine intercession. (Nigeria First, Abuja)
• Tsunami mobilizes Christians relief | Relief organizations are trying to head off the threat of cholera and malaria epidemics that could break out where water supplies are polluted with bodies and debris. People of faith are stepping up to mercifully help those across the world. (Naples Sun Times, Fla.)
• Distant crisis prompts local relief efforts | The killer tidal waves struck the far side of the world, but everyone from private citizens and students to churches, businesses and charity organizations wasted no time launching relief efforts in the Somerset Hills this week. (Bernardsville News, N.J.)
• US foreign aid: Do Americans give enough? | Is the US stingy when it comes to foreign aid? The answer depends on how you measure. (Christian Science Monitor)
• Not the time for theology debate | With deep regret I must protest your recent editorial attack upon my character (Phillip Jensen, The Australian)

Relief & corruption:

• Concerns of possible corruption emerging | As relief officials struggle to reach homeless tsunami survivors, another concern is quietly making the rounds of donor meetings: the threat of corruption. (Boston Globe)
• Corruption a two-sided fear for aid groups | Officials concerned that graft could waylay relief - and blunt generosity (Associated Press)
• Conspicuous compassion | From the president on down, it has become the stated purpose of our aid not only to help the victims of the tsunami but to establish our credentials as a supremely good guy (Richard Cohen, The Washington Post)

Kidnapping children:

• 'The men offered to put me in a house and buy me clothes. I ran' | Illegal 'adoption' and paedophile gangs are putting young orphans in peril (The Times, London)

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