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...against Islam.” To our president’s credit, he made this point frequently and emphatically, all the while soliciting Muslim countries for support. U.S. armed forces also respectfully ceased bombing on the first Friday of the bombing campaign to let Afghanis pray in peace on the holiest day of the week. And over these past five weeks, there has been a constant rush to pulverize Afghan cities quickly in order to complete the campaign before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan...
...have never seen such disregard for the rules prohibiting official prayer in school as in the past few weeks [THE SCHOOLS, Oct. 22]. It seems as though every teacher has something to add to the torrent of messages urging the public to pray, pray, pray. This is a problem for Islamic students across the U.S. Not only do they have to worry about prejudice; now they must also try to tune out the references to Jesus from their teachers and fellow students. If school prayer is reinstated, Islamic (and other non-Christian) students will have a choice between hypocrisy...
...live in Dayton, Tenn., site of the famous Scopes "monkey trial," concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools. I am very proud to say that for the past six years my children have been allowed to pray and have Bible classes in their public schools. How can we not pray? Maybe I should protest against the practice of a "moment of silence" because I don't want my kids to hear nothing from us in troubled times; I want them to have faith. JULIE COCHRAN Dayton, Tenn...
...state-sanctioned Protestant seminaries can't graduate enough ministers, and in the countryside, believers commonly outnumber ordained preachers 50,000 to one?not enough shepherds for an expanding flock. The unavailability of rural health-care means that "seven out of 10 converts come to faith through illness" after people pray for their recovery, estimates Faye Pearson, a teacher at China's biggest seminary, in Nanjing. Many of these converts have scarcely read the Bible. Without strong doctrinal leadership, it's a prescription for heterodoxy. "I'm not sure that most rural Christians are well enough grounded in Christianity to even...
...reading glasses hanging down around his neck, denies that the center is in any way involved in supporting or planning terrorism. He says he cannot be held responsible for the actions of all of the more than 4,000 faithful who come through the doors each week to pray, study, eat and watch Arabic videotapes...