Issue for April 15, 2002
SMOKE rises (right) from a house behind a mosque in the Old City in Bethlehem, 50 meters from the back door of the Church of the Nativity, April 11. The Israeli army and Palestinians have been at a standoff near the site, the latest battle in the centuries-long struggle over who will control the Holy Land. (Reuters/ Oleg Popov) Full Story _
_Church clinic offers hope & healing
___By George Henson,Staff Writer
___DALLAS--Once he saw the figures, Elmin Howell could do the math in his heart. The 40,000 people from nine ethnic groups who live within 5 miles of Shiloh Terrace Baptist Church added up to one thing--ministry.

Baptists called to pray for Tuareg
___By Mark Kelly, International Mission Board
___RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--The name of one unreached people group in West Africa literally means "abandoned by God."
___On May 19, Southern Baptists will ask God to help that people group, the Tuareg, know he