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• Government limits abortion pill coverage (The New York Times)

Catholicism:

• Evangelicals invited to discuss role of Pope | Ecumenical group received at Vatican (Zenit)
• Why the clergy should still keep faith in celibacy | Was Jack Chick right about priests and nuns? (David Quinn, The Sunday Times, London)
• Catholic magazine accuses Vatican of modern 'inquisition' | America says methods used by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith are obsolete and do not respect human rights. (BBC)

Eastern Orthodox confessions:

• Teen-age monk confesses to killing nun, police say | Nude body of the 39-year-old nun found stabbed to death at the Eastern Orthodox Church school where she lived and worked in near Miami (Associated Press)
• Romanian priest confesses misdeeds | Eugen Jurca, a professor at the Orthodox Theology Faculty in Timisoara, Romania, says he was an informer for Romania's communist-era secret police (Associated Press)

Other stories of interest:

• Two drown in baptism ceremony (The Mail and Guardian, Johannesburg, South Africa) (Also see Ananova)
• Putting God on hold in a high-tech world | More than 80 million Americans own a cell phone or pager, so the odds are pretty good that one or both will find their way into worship. (The Charlotte Observer)
• In a Kenyan preacher's prayer, an instant AIDS cure (The New York Times)
• 'Be prepared' for a war in the troops | The Boy Scouts struggle with a ban on gays (U.S. News & World Report)
• Christian leaders make Easter peace plea | Message, signed by the heads of 13 churches, including the Greek Orthodox, Armenian, and Latin patriarchs, the Franciscan custos, and the Anglican and Lutheran bishops, appeals for "determined effort to respect each other's rights whilst affirming the dignity and worth of every human life." (The Jerusalem Post)
• The Samson syndrome | School shootings are suicides akin to that of biblical judge. (Madison Shockley, The Boston Globe)
• Program leads the faithful to home ownership | Working with five predominantly black churches, Boston's Emmanuel Gospel Center is pioneering a program to help low-income people realize a dream of making a down payment on a house, an education, or a business of their own. (The Boston Globe)

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