- Role Call. "Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom," a play based on interviews with former Guantanamo Bay prisoners, ran in New York in October with retired South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu playing a British judge who challenged the legal justification of the detention camps.
- Women's Work. Sarah Davis and Carolyn Tyler Guidry were elected bishops in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in July. They are the second and third women to be ordained bishops in the denomination, following Vashti Murphy McKenzie's election in 2000.
- United Stand. In December, 12 South American countries established the South American Community of Nations (CSN), the world's third-largest regional bloc. The CSN will enhance South America's leverage in negotiating trade agreements-such as the unpopular NAFTA-with the United States.
- Smart Choice. Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania decided last year that prospective students could donate their $50 application fee to a charity of their choice-a first for a U.S. college. Nearly 25 percent have chosen this option, according to a press release, which has raised nearly $15,000 for charity.
- Heads Together. The U.S. Catholic Bishops joined the ecumenical effort Christian Churches Together in the U.S.A. in November, bringing together for the first time at a leadership level Catholic, evangelical, pentecostal, mainline Protestant, Orthodox, and racial/ethnic churches.
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