Weblog: Marketing to Christians a Violation of Human Rights
Plus: Nicholas Kristof on Chinese house churches, another Episcopal church bolts, and more articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Rob Moll | posted 6/28/2006 12:00AM
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Terrorism's new mutation | The arrest last week of seven members of a fringe religious group in Miami has revealed what could be a new phase in al-Qaeda's grand plan for global terrorism. (Manila Times, Philippines)
Fervent about God and World Cup soccer | The message at yesterday's lively service at the Full Gospel New York Church in Flushing, Queens, was essentially, Know Christ through soccer — specifically, World Cup soccer. (The New York Times)
Ghana united in prayer | Muslim worshippers at Effiakuma and Christians alike rent the midday air yesterday with chants of the greatness of God, before pouring out onto the streets in one exasperating explosion of joy. (Telegraph, UK)
Scientists playing God? We should rejoice | Last week British scientists announced a revolutionary screening process for inherited diseases in embryos. It will be quicker and more accurate than the existing method and it will detect thousands more genetic defects than previously possible. (Minette Marrin, Times, London)
Church leaders say stolen chalice is priceless | Officials of the Episcopal Church of St. Paul and St. James are hoping for the return of a nearly 100-year-old chalice that was stolen sometime on Sunday. (Associated Press)
Demanding rights for great apes | Spain's parliament is to declare support for rights to life and freedom for great apes on Wednesday, apparently the first time any national legislature will have recognized such rights for non-humans. (Reuters)
Scientists take on Intelligent Design | The war (it must be so named) between science and the fundamentalist faith-driven IDM is of a deeply troubling import for science education, and for science itself - thus inevitably for contemporary culture. How serious the implications are has only recently been recognized, probably too late for a reasonable cessation of hostilities. (New York Sun)
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