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Israel-Hezbollah war | Politics | Church and state | Life ethics | Media and entertainment | Missions & ministry | Church life | Catholicism | Other stories of interest

Israel-Hezbollah war:

1. Christians fleeing Lebanon denounce Hezbollah | Many Christians from southern Lebanon considered Hezbollah's fighting methods as much of an outrage as the Israeli strikes (The New York Times)
   
   
2. Church leaders on the Middle East Crisis | Wenski, Lajolo, Sadano,  the pope, and others (National Catholic Reporter)
   
   
3. Christians to journey into Israel | 15 from Charleston area plan to show support for Jewish state at war (The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.)
   
   
4. Liberal churches slam Israel | As Israel presses for more time to pursue its military campaigns against Hezbollah and Hamas, liberal American churches are pushing hard for a cease-fire and are criticizing Israeli actions in Lebanon and in Gaza (Forward, Jewish newspaper)
   
   
5. The religious Left's "cycle of violence" schtick | The anti-Israel divestment campaign among U.S. churches has been largely defeated. But in the midst of the terrorists' war on Israel, the Religious Left's hostility to Israel continues (Mark Tooley, Front Page)
   
   
6. It's the end of the world as they know it, do you feel fine? | Critics are taking aim at CNN for its habit of discussing the ongoing Middle East unrest in apocalyptic terms—literally (CBS)
   
   

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Politics:

1. Governor hopefuls try to make religion an issue | One of the last places a Democratic candidate for governor wants to be associated with Christian conservatives is in the voter-rich liberal Jewish condominiums of South Florida (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
   
   
2. Christians call for equality in workplace, labor fairness | Organizers of a local conference championing racial and social justice called upon religious leaders Thursday to push for equality, beginning in the workplace (Commercial Appeal, Memphis)
   
   
3. Senate votes to extend statute of limitations | Bill adds 12 years to child sex abuse reporting period (The Boston Globe)
   
   
4. Judges in check — for now | Is the balance back? (Rich Lowry, National Review Online)
   
   
5. Reed's defeat shows evangelicals getting wise | If the Christian right becomes less vocal about its disgust with Senator Edward Kennedy, gay lifestyles, and the "war on Christmas," there's a chance the public will hear their voices on urgent issues such as poverty in Africa, genocide in Darfur and world health. Who knows, they may even save a few souls (Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg)
   
   
6. Reading the Reed rout | Two Republican primaries in the Deep South expose potentially serious cracks in the party's religious-right foundation (Bob Moser, The Nation)
   
   
7. Clergy too quiet about Bush, war | WWJD about a war initiated on deception in which, every day, men and women — American, Iraqi, Afghani and others — are dying? (Kenneth C. Daniel, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
   
   

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Church and state:

1. Democrats oppose bill denying attorneys' fees in church-state suits | Democratic lawmakers in the House are expressing strong opposition to legislation that would deny attorneys' fees to individuals and groups who win cases challenging government actions as a violation of the Constitution's prohibition on the establishment of religion (The New York Sun)
   
   
2. School Bible club dispute becomes a federal case | Court fight centers on 'Christians only' membership limit (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
   
   
3. In government in-boxes, all e-mail must be equal | In the fall, during the fight over religious holidays in the public school calendar, the Hillsborough County School Board temporarily blocked e-mails coming from the Florida Family Association (Howard Troxler, St. Petersburg Times, Fla.)
   
   

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