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• Thousands flock to see Christian healer | Benny Hinn goes to Vegas (Las Vegas Sun)

San Francisco Chronicle's special coverage of Moon's Unification Church:

• Children of a Lesser God | The Moonies: Looking to its youth for survival (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Children of a Lesser God | The Path: Coming of new age for alternative religions (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Life as Moonchild far from blessed (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Continuation of the church will fall to Moon's son (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Earlier: Son's death shakes up sect (Christianity Today, Jan. 10, 2000)
• Earlier: Moon struck | Church founder's ex-daughter-in-law pens grim tome about life on the inside. (Christianity Today, Nov. 16, 1998)

Other religions:

• Scientology-linked project to get scrutiny | Critics claim that the ``study technology'' used by literacy program is a disguised form of Scientology scripture. (Boston Herald)

Homosexuality:

• Cost impact minimal for same-sex benefits | Most major cities already offer plan (Houston Chronicle)
• Civil-union law for gays is goal of proposed bills | But Democrats say Washington bill has little chance (The Seattle Times)

Church life:

• Christian denominations offering clergy retirement plans | Other churches have a wider safety net than the Catholic Church. (The Miami Herald)
• Churches' land fight up for vote | County head seeks to limit rural-area sprawl, but churches are lobbying harder than ever before against plan (The Seattle Times)
• Churches praise teachers | England and Wales celebrate Education Sunday (BBC)
• Put sex back in the pulpit | Next week is National Sexually Transmitted Disease and Condom Week (Editorial, The Mail and Guardian, Johannesburg, South Africa)
• McDonald's to feed souls at church | Houston's Brentwood Baptist Church will open first in-church franchise in July (Associated Press)

Jay Bakker:

• Sins of the father revisited by a forgiving son | Another review of Jay Bakker's Son of a Preacher Man (Los Angeles Times)
• Earlier: Semi-amazing grace | Jay Bakker (yes, Jim and Tammy Faye's son) describes his continuing recovery from church-inflicted wounds (Christianity Today, Jan. 23, 2001)

Abortion:

• Abortion foes cheer Florida court ruling | Florida appeals court Friday unanimously upheld a state law requiring that parents or a judge be notified before a minor gets an abortion. (The Orlando Sentinel)
• In the trenches of a new holy war | The Catholic bashers are loose in Albany, and nothing less than the religious freedom of all New Yorkers is at stake. (Rod Dreher, New York Post)

Other stories:

• Priest in fight for sex change | The Church of England faces a test case over a demand from a priest in one of its most conservative dioceses to be allowed to change sex and work as a woman (The Sunday Times, London)
• Christian comedy movie unveiled | First major film by Billy Graham's World Wide Pictures in a decade (Religion News Service, Los Angeles Times)
• Alabama wants right to post Ten Commandments | Resolution urging U.S. Congress to submit an amendment to the 50 states unanimously passes the Alabama House of Representatives (Reuters)
• A porn loophole to close | The Massachusetts Legislature has let too much time go by without updating the child pornography statutes for the computer age (Boston Herald)
• Tanzania's religious leaders plead for tolerance | Catholic Church and the Tanzania Episcopal Conference (TEC), the Muslim Council of Tanzania (BAKWATA) and the Christian Council of Tanzania (CCT) Friday called on the government to prevent further bloodshed as democracy is installed (Panafrican News Agency)

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