Weblog: Two Iraqi Churches Bombed
Plus: Mr. Bean opposes British religious hate-crime bill, religious summit opens in Indonesia, Vatican condemns 'Christianophobia', Christmas dilemma, praying for the home team, and other articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Rob Moll

Christianity Today News Briefs
Booting the Salvation Army, falling giving, and suing for rights.
By CT staff

Praying for Terrorists
Christians seek healing in Beslan.
By Dawn Herzog Jewell

Weblog: Senate Passes Fetal Homicide Bill
Plus: Former Archbishop of Canterbury criticizes Islam, The Passion of The Christ opens overseas, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

The Dick Staub Interview: Francis Bok Is Proof that Slavery Still Exists
"After spending 10 years in slavery, the young Sudanese man is telling his story to the world"

"Weblog: With Gay Bishop Consecration Days Away, D.C. Bishop Vows Same-Sex Blessing Rite"
"Anglican commission named, Gen. Boykin story keeps going, church ad rejected after initial acceptance, and other stories from online sources around the world"
Ted Olsen

Christian History Corner: The Vanishing Act of the Church in Turkey
A church worn down by Christian rivalry and Islamic jihad hangs on in the land of Nicea and Ephesus.
Collin Hansen

Pakistani Christian Student Dies from Torture
Muslim seminary implicated in forcible conversion attempt.
By Barbara G. Baker, Compass Direct

Submitting to Islam—or Dying
Ceasefires and peace talks bow to greater powers in Sudan
Jeff M. Sellers

Hopeful Pessimism
The lessons of the civil rights movement turn out to be quite alien to liberal pieties.
by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Rebuilding Afghanistan U
How Christian scholars are using their heads to change people's hearts at universities worldwide-including the one Osama bin Laden used to roam
Agnieszka Tennant

Weblog: Falwell Apologizes For Calling Muhammad a Terrorist
Are clergy likely to be excluded from juries, or just black clergy?
Ted Olsen

Praying for Terrorists
Christians seek healing in Beslan.
By Dawn Herzog Jewell

Weblog: Catholic Life Group to Spend $500,000 Denouncing Kerry-friendly Bishops
Plus: Southern Baptists propose public school boycott, more on the possible Methodist church spilt, death toll rises in Nigeria, faith in China, and more articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Rob Moll

Weblog: The Bible as Canadian Hate Literature
Plus: Attacks on churches in Indonesia, Muslim violence in Thailand, more Sharia in Nigeria, PBS investigates Bush's faith, and more articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Rob Moll

Preemptive Prophecy
In the Turkish city of Kars, schoolgirls forced to abandon their headscarves are killing themselves. A poet who is also a journalist is sent to cover the story.
by Laurance Wieder

The Moral Home Front
America's increasing decadence is giving aid and comfort to Muslim terrorists.
By Charles Colson with Anne Morse

A False Cry of Peace
Wilfred Mlay, World Vision's regional vice president for Africa, discusses the crisis facing black Muslims in Darfur.
Interview by Stan Guthrie

Emerging from the Shadows
House-church Christians start renting buildings, and dream of evangelism.
Runo Samuelson in Baghdad

Weblog: Did Nobel Committee Ignore MRI Creator Because of Creationism?
"The faith-based initiative hold-up, freedom to worship at home, and other stories from online sources around the world"
Ted Olsen

Doors into Islam
September 11 has only intensified the dangers and rewards of Muslim evangelism
Stan Guthrie

Rebuilding Afghanistan U
How Christian scholars are using their heads to change people's hearts at universities worldwide-including the one Osama bin Laden used to roam
Agnieszka Tennant

Islam and the West
Islam in Context shows a religion at a crossroads
Cindy Crosby

The Defender of the Good News: Questioning Lamin Sanneh
"The Yale historian and missiologist talks about his conversion, Muslim-Christian relations, Anglican troubles, and the future of Christianity"
Jonathan J. Bonk

Ordinary Terrorists
Muslim extremists in Pakistan do not always belong to dangerous groups.
By Jeff M. Sellers

Ex-Muslims Harrassed in Egypt
Egyptian state security police arrested and tortured Christian converts
By Compass Direct, wire reports

Hope Amid the Ruins
Anglican bishop in Sudan sees massive church growth.
Interview by Stan Guthrie

Weblog: Bush Wants Church Support, Opponents Cry Foul
Plus: Taliban kills Christian in Afghanistan, court rejects judge's ruling in lesbian custody case, and more articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Rob Moll

Rebuilding Afghanistan U
How Christian scholars are using their heads to change people's hearts at universities worldwide-including the one Osama bin Laden used to roam
Agnieszka Tennant

Books & Culture's Books of the Week: Remember Afghanistan?
Two inside reports
Albert Louis Zambone