From The Boston Globe

When President Bush's new nominee for a top international-aid post was president of Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, he instituted a policy that permitted only ''committed Christians'' to be hired to teach in the school's adult education program.

The policy set off a firestorm among many non-Christians when it was approved in 1993, and yesterday, two civil rights groups - and a Jewish instructor who says he was not rehired because of that policy - called on the US Senate to question the former college president, Kent R. Hill, about the hiring criteria and whether he would favor international religious groups in his new job. The nominee must win Senate confirmation to hold the post.