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Your census taker might ask you how many bathrooms your house has, what your ethnic makeup is, or how much money you make, but questions about religion are deemed too personal. Salt Lake City's Deseret News looks at the history of religious statistic gathering in the U.S.

After quoting some of the most outrageous comments Israeli Jews have made against Christians ("This indefatigable antagonist seeks to 'suck our blood' and 'burn our souls' by 'lying in ambush outside the door of every Jewish family in economic and social distress, seeking to convert them'"), the Post's David Weinberg tells such radicals to cool down, especially in preparation for Pope John Paul II's visit. "Memory is central to Judaism, and we mustn't forget what the Catholic Church has been. But the Jewish people and the State of Israel have no need to make enemies out of potential friends and to spurn goodwill where it is proffered."

Charles J. Liteky is a former U.S. Army chaplain and recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor. He's also been repeatedly arrested, convicted, and imprisoned for demonstrating outside the U.S. Army School of the Americas, a controversial school that has trained several Latin American dictators and soldiers. He's been convicted again. "I don't think we should do away with the military right away. It takes time," Liteky told the judge at his latest trespassing trial. "But I think we should start."

A dozen statues have been smashed in Brooklyn churches over the last six months. "These are anti-religious attacks," Deputy Inspector Barbara Sicilia, head of the NYPD's Bias Unit, tells The New York Post. "This is definitely a bias case."

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