Plus: John Roberts's church, British patient loses right-to-food case, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 4/13/2006 12:00AM
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Murder case rocks Russian Church | A funeral is being held for the murdered abbot of a Russian Orthodox monastery south of Moscow, whose body showed signs of torture (BBC)
Also: Mafia secret of murdered abbot | When police found the abbot dead in his cell at the Davydova Pustyn monastery, at first they thought that it was just another case of violent robbery (The Times, London)
History:
Translators turning to magic texts for a spell | Lost tales about Adam, the Queen of Sheba and the apocalypse are among ancient stories from biblical times to be translated by scholars in Scotland (The Times, London)
Also: Religious scholars to translate old texts | Ancient quasi-biblical texts written by Jews, Christians and pagans are to be translated for the first time by scholars of divinity (The Telegraph, London)
Roman ruler's head found in sewer | A 1,700-year-old, two-foot carved marble head of Emperor Constantine has been found in a sewer in central Rome (BBC)
St Olav Festival underway | The festival commemorates the life and death of St Olav, the former Olav Haraldsson, who tried to bring Christianity to Norway but was killed for his efforts at the battle of Stiklestad in 1030 (Aftenposten, Oslo, Norway)
Music:
Salty dogma | Bono gives an explicit confession of being saved by Grace, not Karma (World)
Pete deity | Troubled rocker turns to God on advice from his football hero (The Mirror, U.K.)
Doherty turns to Christianity | Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty has vowed to become a born-again Christian after seeking life-coaching from his British soccer hero, former Queens Park Rangers striker Dennis Bailey (ContactMusic.com)
Other articles of interest:
Love thy neighbor, love the neighborhood | Debate over global warming heats up among evangelicals (World)
Mormon portion of Utah population steadily shrinking | If current trends continue, LDS residents no longer will constitute a majority by 2030 (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Charge dropped against Army wife | Her husband, however, remains convicted of intent to avoid hazardous duty (Associated Press)
Catholic hospital adds meditation room for non-Christians | On Thursday, St. Alexius Medical Center in Bismarck, N.D., dedicated a $350,000 solarium and meditation room that may be used for such things as burning sage, cedar or sweetgrass, or for singing or drumming (Associated Press)
What would Jesus eat? | Someone has found a new way to use Jesus as a role model - this time as a dietician - while managing to create sufficient financial spin-off to cope with out-of-pocket and stay-in-the-pocket expenses (Ray Chesterton, The Daily Telegraph, NSW, Australia)
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