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• La. school prayer law ruled illegal | Panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 3-0 Tuesday to uphold a judge's 1999 ruling striking the law down. (Associated Press)
• Also: Court voids law covering school prayer in Louisiana | Law allowing vocal classroom prayer is believed to be the only such law remaining in the nation (The New York Times)
• Schools dampen holiday spirit | Christmas is an unwelcome holiday in many public schools this year, says Rutherford Institute (The Washington Times)
• No, it's not a Christmas tree; it's a `holiday tree' | Now that tree is P.C., fight breaks out over ornaments (Religion News Service)

Persecution:

• Christians demand arrest of church attackers | Call for equal rights, joint electorate (Dawn, Karachi, Pakistan)
• Indonesia's dirty little holy War | Indonesia's powerful Laskar Jihad has launched a campaign against Christian villages in Sulawesi (Time Asia)
• Also: Indonesia group tied to al Qaeda kills Christians | As many as 500,000 hiding from Laskar Jihad militia (The Washington Times)
• Chinese crack down on religion | President Jiang Zemin has demanded tighter control over religion, state press reported, in a clear indication strict state restrictions over worship in China are not about to be relaxed. (AFP)

Politics and law:

• Federal appeals court hosts abortion-rights, free-speech showdown | Nuremberg Files case continues at 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (Associated Press)
• Also: Many judges say they think abortion foes' speech protected | Verdict against Nuremberg Files site likely to be tossed out (Associated Press)
• New Christian Coalition leader emphasizes grass-roots support | 'We'll continue to build from what we've done in the past' (The Dallas Morning News)
• Homosexual bias move provokes church row | New laws banning discrimination against homosexuals will be outlined this week, risking a new confrontation between Tony Blair and some religious groups (The Daily Telegraph)

Islam and Christianity:

• After allegations of anti-Christian bias, Voice of America changes direction | Internet campaign centered on allegations that the Hausa Muslim staff of the station have been spreading pro-Muslim, anti-Christian and anti-American propaganda (Daily Trust, Abuja, Nigeria)
• Christian Wahhabists | If we were supposed to root for the Protestants in our high school history texts, shouldn't we be applauding the Islamic "extremists" now? (Barbara Ehrenreich, The Progressive)

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