Masked assailants beat the daughter of a Douglas County judge Wednesday as she and another Christian relief worker escorted Palestinian children to school in the West Bank.

Rich Meyer, spokesman for the Hebron-based Christian Peacemaker Teams, said Jewish settlers were responsible for the attack.

BY ERIN GRACE AND KRISTIN ZAGURSKI, WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER, Omaha, Sep 28, 2004

Leading members of the Anglican church will recommend that their decision-making body adopt an anti-Israel divestment policy similar to the one the Presbyterian church passed earlier this summer. The announcement, made yesterday in Jerusalem by representatives of the Anglican Peace and Justice Network (APJN), came at the close of the delegation's 10-day tour of the region.

By Daphna Berman, Haaretz, Sep 23, 2004

A group of intercessors who started praying for Bethlehem during the Intifada are calling friends to join for 40 days of prayer for the Holy Land in General and for the Bethlehem area in particular.

The idea was birthed is the heart of Karin Boydgian and Arlette Flefel. In the email request they sent to friends, they ask to pray for "the Seperation Wall to tumble down and to be dismantled peacefully since to say that the wall merely inflicts hardship on the people is a gross understatement. There is a sense of helplessness and hopelessness that is generating a lot of anger. There is fear and uncertainty of what the future holds".

Special for Come and See, Sep 7, 2004

A group of rabbis, heads of yeshivas from the West Bank and the Yesha council of West Bank and Gaza rabbis have issued a public call to the government to toughen its fighting policies in the territories even at the cost of civilian lives, declaring that the army should show less regard for the welfare of the Palestinians if terrorists are hiding in their midst- Christians preaching 'turn the other cheek' will not cause us to panic.

Nadav Shargai, Haaretz, Sep 7, 2004

The discovery, if confirmed, would be among the most significant breakthroughs for biblical scholars in memory.

By Karin Laub, ASSOCIATED PRESS, August 17, 2004

So ironically, Iraq and Syria, led by two of the least Muslim regimes in the Arab world, are the two most targeted by the Bush administration in the aftermath of the attacks on the U.S. by an Islamic terrorist group intimate with neither. Again ironically, these two have been particularly tolerant of their Christian communities whose existence dates back nearly 2000 years

Gary Leupp, CounterPunch, August 9, 2004

Singing such Christian songs as "Jesus Loves Me, This I Know" in Korean, the throngs of 2,300 South Korean Christians -- young and old -- walked through the streets of the Jerusalem suburb of Gilo on Monday and crossed over "Checkpoint 300" into the Palestinian area of Bethlehem on what they called the "March for Peace"

By Julie Stahl, CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief, August 9, 2004

Car bombs exploded outside at least five Christian churches in Iraq on Sunday, killing more than a dozen people and wounding many more in an apparently coordinated attack timed to coincide with evening prayers.

An Interior Ministry source said there had been four blasts at churches in Baghdad and two in the northern city of Mosul. These attacks are the first attacks on churches during the 15-month insurgency -- echoing concerns among Iraqis that they aimed to inflame religious tensions.

Edmund Blair and Maher al-Thanoon, Reuters, August 2, 2004

After days of relative calm, the Palestinian Authority was again hit by internal violence over the weekend, as Fatah gunmen abducted foreign workers. The three are members of a Christian charity affiliated with the Union Church in the United States.

Khaled Abu Tomeh, Jerusalem Post, July 31, 2004