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• Missouri lawmakers want constitutional amendment allowing school prayer | Terrorist attacks provided catalyst for movement (Associated Press)

• Faith-based social services: revival time | Civil rights exemption affecting gays won't cloud new election-year version (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Revival of Bush's faith-based plan expected in 2002 | New version of social services bill takes out civil rights exemption (The Dallas Morning News)

• Relying on tradition, not frills | Jerry Jones, a 'middle-of-the-road conservative,' shuns theatrical emotion and many trappings of modern worship in a bid to keep his church pure. (Los Angeles Times)
• Police brought into church dispute | Parishioners forcibly removed during mass (The Toronto Star)
• Church decorators uncover ancient murals | Depictions of angels in wall paintings believed to date from the 1320s (The Times, London)
• Jail sentence for woman who harassed minister | She had left 31 messages on his answering machine in just one night, and had tipped out bins, turned over plant pots, and thrown paint at his home. (The Scotsman)

• More students pursuing a spiritual path | Campus Crusade for Christ convention a sign of growing religious interest (The Baltimore Sun)
• Evangelists expand reach | Campus Crusade for Christ adds chapters (Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, New York)

• Army chaplains' pack provides first-aid kit for soldiers' souls | The box, developed at the U.S. Army labs in Natick, Mass., and expected to go into service next year, can transform into an office or altar and is good for storing linens, books and other tools of the chaplains' trade. (The Washington Post)
• Flame of hope still burns at church shelter | Many of the regulars here tonight travel the circuit together, doing their own thing during the day--job hunting, visiting the doctor—and meeting up at the churches at night. (Dawn Turner Rice, Chicago Tribune)

• Actual membership of any faith in U.S. is open to debate | A mix of honest mistakes, bad data and wishful thinking make separating inflated numbers from real ones a difficult task. (Associated Press)
• Israel's Christian community still growing | There are 137,000 Christians among the country's population, compared to 120,000 in 1995 (The Jerusalem Post)

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