In the town where Australian missionary Graham Staines and his sons were burnt alive in 1999, 72 tribal Christians filed affidavits saying they were going back to Hinduism (residents of the area are required to notify the government when changing religion). They said they had initially become Christians in hopes that it would lessen malarial fever, but it did not happen. Christians later protested the reports in Calcutta, saying the reconversion stories were a"bluff."

"No religious groups have announced protests at this year's event, unlike in past years," reports the Associated Press. Instead, this year's Southern Baptist Convention, in Orlando the week after Gay Days, will be protested by homosexual activists.

Alabama Circuit Court Judge Roy S. Moore, who gained headlines a few years ago when he refused to take the Ten Commandments off his courtroom wall, looks set to win in Alabama's primary election today."Judge Moore's primary political assets are his name recognition and his reputation as a man of conviction," writes New York Times reporter Kevin Sack."A victory by Judge Moore would affirm that there are places in the country, and Alabama has been the epicenter, where voters are simply fed up with the breadth of the separation between church and state."

As Israel's troops pull out of Lebanon, so does Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network."All our employees have arrest warrants out for them," says CBN's vice president of programming for Middle Eastern Television. CBN employees say they would likely be persecuted by Hezbollah ...