Top News Roundup

The Religious Right may cast their vote for a third-party candidate in 2008 if pro-abortion candidates Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton prove to be their only picks. Ironically, Mormon Mitt Romney may win the evangelical Christian vote.

Hillary Clinton said Pres. Bush has "declared war on science," and she'd reverse his restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Democratic opponent Barack Obama is popular with young voters, but does that mean he isn't presidential?

Pres. Bush told an Arabic TV station that he believes the whole world prays to the same God: "I believe in an almighty God, and I believe that all the world, whether they be Muslim, Christian, or any other religion, prays to the same God."

United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that he will withdraw half of Britain's troops from Iraq, a move that provokes controversy.

Students in Tehran reacted to Mahmoud Ahmajinedad's Columbia University speech, denouncing his human rights record. One protester demanded, "You, Mr. Ahmadinejad, claimed at Columbia University that there is freedom of speech in Iran's universities … Then why are three students still in jail?"

Palestinians mourned the death of Rami Khader Ayyad, a prominent Palestinian Christian who was kidnapped last Saturday, shot and stabbed. His death prompts questions of whether Gaza is still safe for Christians.

The European parliament passed a resolution "to firmly oppose the teaching of creationism as a scientific discipline on an equal footing with the theory of evolution" and decided "to promote the teaching of evolution as a fundamental scientific theory in the school curriculum." (See WoW's Creationism = Anti-science, Anti-human rights.)