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Brazilian spirituality:

1. 'Prosperity theology' pulls on purse strings | Promises of riches entice Brazil's poor (The Washington Post)
2. Earlier: Brazil's Surging Spirituality | Churches of all stripes have been growing for decades, as have the controversies and challenges facing evangelicals (Christianity Today, Dec. 21, 2000)

Prayer:

1. Zero Hour | Intercessors for America are praying for President Bush and the "zero-year curse." But what is prayer for, anyway? (Susan Lee, The Wall Street Journal)
2. Earlier: Prayer urged over 'zero-year curse' on White House | The breaking of the link to presidential deaths needs to be 'reaffirmed,' appeal says (Charisma News Service, Dec. 18, 2000)

Faith-healing death:

1. Colorado girl's death called homicide | No decision yet on whether parents, who refused to treat daughter's diabetes on religious grounds, will be charged (Associated Press)
2. Infection death ruled homicide (The Denver Post)

Religious schools:

1. Religious schools to increase | Religious schools are expected to play an increased role in the secondary school system in England as the government prepares to increase its subsidy for church-sponsored schools. (BBC)
2. Way of life passes with parish schools | Although there have been 30 to 45 parish high schools at one time or another in Chicago, only four remain. And one of them is breathing its last breath. (Chicago Sun-Times)

Damaging divorce:

1. Laws discouraging divorce spreading slowly if at all | A few states have enacted incentives such as high school classes or voluntary covenants. 'At least marriage is back on the agenda,' says an expert. (Los Angles Times)
2. Oklahoma grapples with legislating love | Divorces holding state back economically (Fox News)

Books:

1. Guides for dummies are turning to religion (Newhouse News Service/The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
2. Also: See The Idiot's Guide to Prayer, by Christianity Today managing editor Mark Galli

Other stories of interest:

1. Abortion access getting harder in U.S., survey says | Abortion rights advocacy group says 43 new anti-abortion measures were adopted across the country in 2000 (Reuters)
2. Messianic Jewish group drops Southern Baptist affiliation | North American Messianic Association expresses concern that some Southern Baptist leaders are insensitive to ethnic differences. (Religion News Service/Beliefnet)
3. Devil in God's church? | Only the very courageous have dared to worship in the tension-stricken churches of the Benin diocese of the Anglican Church (Newswatch, Lagos, Nigeria)
4. Christian media meeting in Dallas | More than 4,000 gather for the 58th annual religious broadcasters convention. (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
5. Oregon judge orders church to release records of sex-abuse complaints | Judge hopes to uncover what the Mormon church knew about a high priest convicted of sexually abusing an 11-year-old boy (Associated Press)
6. Man guilty of Archbishop threats | Puerto Rico resident says he only wanted to scare Philadelphia's Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua and members of a Roman Catholic social services agency. (Associated Press)
7. At center of Church's future, 2 cardinals at odds | Now that Germany's liberal Karl Lehmann has been raised to Cardinal, expect to see dissention with traditionalist countryman Joseph Ratzinger (The Boston Globe)

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