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Colombia's U'wa indigenous group, numbering only 5,000, feared for their survival when U.S.-based Occidental Petroleum began plans nearly a decade ago to drill on their lands.

Kari Jo Verhulst 11-01-2002
Bible Study
College, credit cards, and students: A dangerous mix?
Jean Kenny SP 9-01-2002

THANKS FOR including Joan Chittister's article "The Faith Will Survive" in your July-August issue.

Building Supplies
David Goles 9-01-2002

THANK YOU for such a wonderful article ("The Faith Will Survive")!

Joyce Hollyday 9-01-2002
Word and World : Tucson, Arizona : Nov. 9-16, 2002
Joan Irene Morris 9-01-2002

I FOUND SISTER Joan Chittister's article "The Faith Will Survive" encouraging in these troubled times.

Conor O’Reilly 9-01-2002

THANKS TO Walter Brueggemann for calling on us to challenge the capitalist system that causes such loss and pain for the powerless.

The Editors 9-01-2002

'Nonviolent resistance isn't about making a point, it's about taking power." Even many people who believe deeply in nonviolence might be taken aback by the bluntness of such a statement.

Stephanie Lane 9-01-2002

TODAY I RECEIVED an e-mail from a friend who was sharing an article by Julie Polter titled "Martha Stewartship" (May-June 2002).

Two-hundred-seventy Haitian refugees—including children—have been held for more than six months in a maximum-security prison

Employment Opportunities

Brazilian popular educator Paulo Freire probably never thought his ideas would revolutionize the fashion industry, but his student Maria Teresa Romeiro Leal has done just that. 

Daring Deeds. In June, seven women gathered on a boat on the Danube in Austria to be ordained as Roman Catholic priests.

In June, the African Religious Leaders Assembly on Children and HIV/AIDS met in Nairobi at the request of the Hope for African Children Initiative and the World Conference of Religions and Peace.