Mail Call.(Letter to the editor)

Most readers of our Feb. 12 report on Europe's church makeovers despaired over ebbing faith. One "found it abhorrent that [churches] are converted into bars." But another reported "a regeneration of Christianity is taking place in Eastern Europe ... new churches are being built."

I would like to add some remarks to your article "Remodeling the Churches." Other symptoms in connection with religious life can also be seen in Europe, especially in Hungary. Believers are moving from traditional churches into smaller churches. Some Western nontraditional churches are sending money and priests to support their East European counterparts. Public worship often includes pop and rock music to attract the younger generation. Members of these churches pay 10 percent of their salaries as a fee for services. The ebbing of faith is a result of Europe's atheist regimes, but it is sad that today's young do not go to church.

Jozsef Majevszky

Szigetszentmiklos, Hungary

Browning of the Blue Marble

David Milibrand is right about global warming ("Kyoto Can Be Made to Work," Feb. 12). Thirty years ago the Earth looked like a sparkling blue and white jewel as Edgar Mitchell, onboard Apollo 14, radioed from the moon. Now it is filthy--filled with dark, swirling clouds of dioxides of carbon and sulfur. The culprits are the developed countries. They should have started going green years ago. America has more than 13,000 windmills generating electricity. If all its suitable sites were developed, the country could generate more than 20 percent of its current electric needs from wind power. While Brazil uses ethanol as car fuel, auto pollution is still a cause for concern in America and in big cities like London and ...