A couple of items which caught my attention today: Mission Network News, Christians website are attracting many from the Muslim world, February 16, 2006 "While hard-line Muslim nations make accessing Christians websites difficult, it's not impossible and these websites are making an incredible impact for the kingdom.

"Strategic Resource Group (SRG) helps organizations reach out to the lost inside the 10/40 Window. SRG reports Christian websites are receiving nearly 9 million hits per month from the Middle East. One Christian organization hosting chat rooms for Arabic-speaking web users estimates that more than 42,000 people visit those sites daily."

Also this excellent article in today's Guardian, which has a small reference to the web: The Guardian, Everybody's kung fu fighting, February 16, 2006 "Like most of his generation, Shi has meditated a great deal on politics, business and technology. He is a part-time deputy in the National People's Assembly, where he says he was chosen as the first representative of the nation's Buddhists. He set up Shaolin's website, which was one of the first institutional homepages in the country when it went online in 1996. More recently, he has pushed the commercial, legal and public relations interests of the monastery."

Wall Street Journal/WWRN, Zoroastrians use Internet dating to rescue religion, 6 Feb 06, "To replenish their ranks, followers of the Iranian prophet Zoroaster, who is thought to have lived about 3,500 years ago, are extolling not just the modern benefits of fertility clinics but also those of Internet dating.

"The high-technology push to connect and reproduce Parsis comes as education and work opportunities pull a younger generation into the global work force, delaying love, marriage and children. Like other ethnic groups, Parsis in India are trying to adapt to a changing world without changing too much themselves."