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Exporting Faith
The Boston Globe used "a complete raw database of all USAID awards (prime contracts, grants and agreements) obligated from FY 2001 to FY 2005" to investigate the results of President Bush's Executive Orders that "created the faith based initiative and relaxed federal regulations for religious groups using government funds that once sought to protect church-state separations." The series shows that the percentage of USAID awards going to ngo faith based organizations in 2005 was almost doubled the percentage in 2001, from 10.5% to 19.9%. This creates the potential for problems where aid recipients "might forgo assistance because they don't share in the religion of the provider."
Tags: separation of church and state; faith-based initiatives; foreign aid; executive orders; church-state ties; White House Office of Faith and Community Based Initiatives; President Bush; USAID; NGO; Christian evangelicals; Kenya; Angola; Pakistan; Focus on the Family; James Dobb; FOIA; UNICEF; UNDP; State Department; Samaritan's Purse; National Association of Evangelicals; Americans United for Separation of the Church and State; Global Health Outreach; Offfice of Volunteers for Prosperity; Youth for Christ; World Vision; Yellowbook;
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Notes from the underground
"Three weeks before the WTO met, Eugene's (OR) chief of police...warned the Seattle police of the likelihood of violence by Eugene anarchists," Samuel writes. This story documents the increasing number of radicals that are moving to or living in the Whiteaker neighborhood in Eugene more than 30 years after the hippie movement, and why "a community of middle-class TV-literate individuals would subscribe to a world vision more commonly held by crypto-survivalist freaks."
Tags: radicals; protestors; social issues; environment