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...least two organizations, however, seemed ready to risk that impression. Among those at the border last week were the International Missions Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) and Samaritan's Purse, which is run by evangelist Franklin Graham. Both operations are associated with sharp criticism of Islam, the faith of 97% of Iraqis. Graham, who gave the invocation at George W. Bush's Inaugural, has called it a "very evil and wicked religion," and a former SBC president dubbed Muhammad a "demon-possessed pedophile...
...what might be called "aid evangelism." The Baptists will deliver thousands of 70-lb. food packages labeled--in Arabic--with the biblical verse John 1: 17: "For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ." Eight hundred volunteers have reportedly joined the effort. Samaritan's Purse, known as a highly efficient charity, will provide water systems, shelters, medical kits for 100,000 people and probably, though its leaders decline to be specific, a Gospel message. "We do not deny the name of Christ," a spokesman said...
There were signs last week that Graham might be recalibrating his strategy. The Samaritan's Purse website, which used to talk of preparing to help "thousands of suffering families in the name of Jesus Christ," has dropped the last six words. --With reporting by Amanda Bower/New York and Aparisim Ghosh/Amman
...dead?" He gives you a funny look. "The novel will show up at your funeral." If I can get Price's fine new book to be one of my pallbearers, I might be O.K. with that. The novel is alive because writers like Price are crafting books like Samaritan (Bloomsbury; 377 pages), about a guy who discovers the hard way what a complicated transaction charity can be. This is the third work that Price has set in Dempsy, his fictional New Jersey town of blue-collar strivers, scuttling young men on the make and always, always, the police. He discovered...
...relief efforts throughout the history of the United States. You can look at almost every significant military endeavor and find precedence for Christians being actively involved in relief efforts," and often, he adds, actively invited to solicit. If you went to Afghanistan today you would note that (missionary group) Samaritan's Purse is largely responsible for setting up hospitals in the region, without a great deal of controversy...