• Bush Signs Sudan Divestment Bill

  WASHINGTON – President George W. Bush signed a bill Monday that allows states and local governments to cut investment ties with companies that do business with Sudan. The bill is aimed at pressuring Khartoum to end the violence in the Darfur region.

• Christianity's Edge over Islam in Holy Book War

  Believers of Christianity and Islam are competing to spread their respective holy book around the world, but distributors of the Bible have some advantages over the Koran.

  

• Religious Leaders Urge U.S. Leadership in Israeli-Palestinian Peace

  WASHINGTON – Religious leaders of Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions has called for “active” and “determined” U.S. leadership in Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations in 2008.

• U.K. Christian Students, Faculty Forced to Don Muslim Garbs

  All 257 students and 41 teachers at Rufford primary school in Lye, England, were ordered to wear traditional Muslim dress in an effort to promote multi-culturalism, reported the U.K.-based Daily Mail newspaper on Wednesday.

• Gaza Christians Fear New Extremists Over Hamas

  The small Christian community in the Gaza Strip says it is more fearful of a new generation of extremists than of Hamas.