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Religion Today Summaries: Daily summaries of the top national and international religious news stories impacting Christians
In Today's Edition:
Bill Bright Names John Maxwell To Succeed Him at GPN
Janet Chismar - Senior Editor for Crosswalk Faith
As his battle with pulmonary fibrosis takes its toll, Bill Bright, founder and chairman emeritus of Campus Crusade for Christ and co-founder of Global Pastors Network (GPN) has selected John C. Maxwell to succeed him as chairman of GPN following his death. Bright, 81, has been fighting pulmonary fibrosis for more than a year. "It appears that what God has prepared for Bill in heaven is about ready," Vonette Bright wrote in a letter that was posted on the ministry's Web site Feb. 20. "Bill entered the hospital for the second time on Saturday, February 16th. Yesterday, the doctor told Bill, (when Bill asked), that he might live 6 months or less. He shared with both of us that it was time for us to seek help from Hospice care. We have known from the beginning of diagnosis, that without a miracle that Bill's time on earth is limited. We have prayed and are still praying for that miracle. We know too, when the miracle comes, it will be to honor Christ only, no person or group." Maxwell is the founder and chairman of the INJOY Group, based in Atlanta. Also a noted author and speaker, Maxwell trains leaders around the world through his non-profit organization, EQUIP. Recently, he launched a plan to train one million Christian leaders worldwide by 2008 through leadership conferences, certified national trainers, partnerships with other ministries, and technology.
New York Lawmaker: Prison Chaplain Hiring Flawed
Greg Munno
(RNS) A New York senator last week called for an immediate investigation of all 42 Muslim clerics working for the state Department of Correctional Services. State Sen. Michael F. Nozzolio, R-Seneca Falls, chairman of the Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee, said the arrest on federal charges of Osameh Al Wahaidy of Fayetteville, N.Y., a Muslim chaplain at the Auburn Correctional Facility, is an embarrassment. Al Wahaidy, a Jordanian working in the United States, has been charged with helping to send aid to Iraq through a charity in violation of U.N. sanctions. Until recently, the state prison system relied almost exclusively on one person to recruit its clerics, Warith Deen Umar, who has been linked to anti-American propaganda. The corrections department barred him from New York's prisons after The Wall Street Journal quoted him as saying the Sept. 11 hijackers should be honored as martyrs. State Corrections Commissioner Glenn Goord told the Journal that the prison system relied on Umar and a group he was closely associated with, the National Association of Muslim Chaplains, to recruit clerics. Two other Muslim clerics, or imams, in the New York state prison system have been accused of anti-American activity since Sept. 11.
