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• Out-of-state activists depart church protest | Pastors from elsewhere had come to lend support as Baptist Temple awaits seizure to satisfy tax debt (The Indianapolis Star)

Bush's faith-based initiatives:

• Religious leaders cautious on Bush plan | Some concerned about maintaining freedom (The Washington Post)
• Religious groups not ready to put faith in Bush's plan | Need for funds exists, but church agencies still fear interference (Chicago Tribune)
• Faith-based charity plan gets bipartisan backing (The Washington Times)
• A great leap for faith, but don't oversell it | If Bush believes money can go to faith-based groups without the funds being used to promote religion, why doesn't he also believe money can go to overseas family planning groups without the funds being used to promote abortion? (Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune)
• Jay Leno: "President Bush announced his new faith-based funding for Americans in need. The way faith-based funding works is, if you're poor and you need help, then you pray the Republicans don't cut the program."

Religion in schools:

• Dundee suspends student for speech | Teen talked about God, but school says the topic wasn't the problem (The Toledo Blade)
• Clergy suit sent back to lower court | Federal appeals court overturns ruling that "Clergy in the Schools" counseling program violated First Amendment (Associated Press/Houston Chronicle)
• Clergy in schools divides appeals court (The Beaumont Enterprise)
• Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision | Doe v. Beaumont Independent School District

With discovery of human remains, Madalyn Murray O'Hair's story seems at an end:

• O'Hair's son happy mystery is over (Associated Press)
• Son of O'Hair relieved case is apparently over (Houston Chronicle)
• O'Hair suspect admits to 'violence' | Former office manager David Waters leads investigators to dismembered bodies (Associated Press)
• More remains found in Texas hunt for missing atheist | Investigators find three skulls and metal from an artificial hip joint (Reuters)
• FBI unravels the grisly end of a notorious atheist (The Independent, London)
• Discovery of bones may close O'Hair case (Associated Press)

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