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• Parents of drowned teen-ager file suit against church, camp | Shelby County youth was doing missionary work with children of migrant farmers when he died in Perdido Bay (Mobile Register)
• Man sues teacher and Catholic Church over 1984 strapping | Australian Paul Hogan says corporal punishment caused permanent hand injury (Sydney Morning Herald)

Denominations:

• Baptists on a mission in Miami | Progressive National Baptist Convention seeks converts, distinction from National Baptist Convention USA (The Miami Herald)
• Lutheran membership rolls continue to grow around world (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• Anglican church leader to visit Nigeria | Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey will travel to states that have implemented Shari'ah as well as mainly Christian south (News24, Johannesburg, South Africa)

Huston Smith's Why Religion Matters:

• Stop science's rule over faiths, educator says | 'World's Religions' author sees need for respectful co-existence (Associated Press/Chicago Tribune)
• Arguing the need for the sacred in a scientific world (Los Angeles Times)

Other articles of interest:

• What teenagers talk about when they talk about chastity | Testimonies from True Love Waits (The New York Times)
• Today's Associated Press religion writer looks at the AP's first | George Cornell examined growing teamwork between churches (Richard N. Ostling, Associated Press)
• Mormons live, work to spread faith | Careers, retirement put aside for church (The Washington Post)
• Psst! Want a hot tip? Try a crystal ball | In a turbulent market, psychics see the future (U.S. News & World Report)
• Goat hurled from church tower window despite ban (News24, Johannesburg, South Africa)
• Adult businesses prevail against Dade County law | Forcing them to relocate would violate constitutional rights, federal judge says (The Miami Herald)
• Refugees cite 'walls of division' in Angolan church (African Church Information Service, Nairobi)
• Anna death sparks bid to ban exorcisms (Ananova)
• World Economic Forum turns to faith | Religious leaders debate peacemaking role (Associated Press)
• Hope, comfort and miracles | The Black Christ of Esquipulas, Guatemala, is the most popular holy site in Central America (New York Newsday)
• Hard-wired for God? | A Christian takes issue with a book claiming that religion is merely a trick of evolution (Michael Joseph Gross, Salon.com)
• Copts criticize secrecy in World Council of Churches meetings (ArabicNews.com)
• Church's illuminated cross proves costly | Town council charges minister for church's cross because it is considered advertising (The Guardian, London)
• Nuns 'can use Pill for risk of rape in war zones' | Spanish Catholic bishop says oral contraception okay to "defend their religious condition" (The Daily Telegraph, London)
• Be my martyr | Links to sites about Valentine's Day history and practices (Los Angeles Times)

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