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Other stories of interest:

• Church debates same sex unions | ELCA ponders reading Bible plainly, in context (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
• When the saints go up for auction | A one-man crusade against online relic sales is met with unholy indifference (Salon.com)
• Bill to post godly motto defeated | Va. Senate Panel Kills School's "In God We Trust" Plan (The Washington Post)
• Mob attacks evangelical church in Sri Lanka, several wounded | Three arrests reported so far (Reuters)
• Connell insists he stands over comments | The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Dr Connell insisted in Rome last night he stood over his controversial comments on inter-church communion although he never intended to offend Church of Ireland members. (The Irish Times)
• Public-school-sponsored baccalaureate service poses problem | Under current court rulings, school sponsorship of a religious service is unconstitutional, but communities can keep baccalaureates that are privately sponsored (Charles Haynes, The Freedom Forum)
• Social taboos force couple to commit suicide | In Pakistan, Christian teen and her 22-year-old Muslim boyfriend kill themselves because parents would not let them marry (UPI)
• Seeking to save place where the Pilgrims prayed | Some symbols—even when they exist as physical structures—may go unrecognized as having a special, sacred value by all but a limited number of people (Gustav Niebuhr, The New York Times)

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