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The service was planned as a project for the Lenten season, but London's Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that the British Jesuits are expected to extend "pray-as-you-go" well beyond the end of Lent.
Each session opens with a peal of bells and closes with questions to encourage personal reflection.
The site also offers the option of using "pray-as-you-go" as a daily podcast, which automates the downloading process and keeps the user up to date with the site's latest offering.
-- Religion News Service
'Black Contract' Search For Signers Is Extended
After undergoing treatment for cancer, an African American pastor has extended his deadline for seeking 1 million Christian signatures for a "Black Contract with America on Moral Values."
Bishop Harry R. Jackson is the head of the High Impact Leadership Coalition and senior pastor at Hope Christian Church in Lanham, which has 3,000 congregants. He originally set a Feb. 1 deadline for obtaining the signatures but has extended it to the 2008 presidential election.
Jackson would not name a specific figure, but he said current signatures number "in the thousands." Jackson began treatment for esophageal cancer six months ago, putting the coalition's goals on hold. He said that his cancer is in remission and that he has resumed public activities.
The contract outlines issues that Jackson considers most critical in the black community: traditional family values, reduction of poverty, education, prison reform, health care and aid for Africa.
The contract, he said, is intended to stimulate the creation of "a voice for the new black church" in contrast to the "stereotypical, politically left-leaning African American stance."
-- Religion News Service
