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• Faith-based work gets mixed reviews | Verdict still out on Bush's success among current initiatives in Texas (Houston Chronicle)

Religion and politics:

• Satcher's sex report puts Bush in hot seat | Focus on the Family, other conservative groups calling for Surgeon General's dismissal (Los Angeles Times)
• Ashcroft says Bush welcomes prayer at White House | Seeking "wisdom and presence of God" regular at Cabinet meetings, Attorney General tells church audience (Associated Press)
• Increasingly, U.S. stands alone on Sudan | EU nations move towards engagement (The Boston Globe)

Life ethics:

• Anti-abortionists adopt U.S. extremist tactics | Controversial Nuremberg Files Web site crosses the Atlantic (The Sunday Times, London)

Crime:

• Making amends | Program lets ex-convicts, victims find 'healing relationship of forgiveness' (Las Vegas Sun)
• Murder case sparks unlikely friendship | Parents of murder victim, suspect bond over Christian faith and sorrow for their children (Associated Press)
• David Yonggi Cho's son charged with tax evasion | Kookmin Ilbo, mainly read by members of the Full Gospel Church, charged along with other Korean newspapers (International Herald Tribune)
• Christian hip hop artist charged | Raze's Ja'Marc Antoine Davis waived his right to a preliminary hearing without a plea agreement on rape and molestation charges. (Associated Press)

Abuse:

• Indian nun from Mother Teresa order fined for torturing girl | Sister Francisca fined 1000 rupees ($21) for putting a hot knife on a girl's hand because she had stolen a few pieces of bread. (AFP)
• Churches ask referee for details | Public servant to negotiate cost-sharing on lawsuits brought over residential schools (The Globe and Mail, Toronto)

Homosexuality:

• Religions divided over gays in clergy | Gays and lesbians in the clergy continue to declare their sexual orientation and many demand ordination with no commitment to celibacy (The Seattle Times)
• Compromise keeps gay pastor in ministry | Mark Williams will be allowed to continue ministering to his North Seattle congregation for now, but only under the supervision of an interim pastor (The Seattle Times)

Bible and theology:

• Love thy neighbor | Interfaith group asks publishers to erase anti-Jewish language from children's Bibles (Detroit Free Press)
• About 1 in 4 Americans believe Satan is real | Mormons are most likely to accept that he is more than a mere symbol of evil, says Barna study (Religion News Service)

Evangelism:

• Shrinking church considers recruiting | Traditionally opposed to proselytizing, Church of the Brethren weighs change (The Sun, Baltimore)
• Missionaries to spread word in 'heathen' Britain | Foreign churches have sent at least 60 missionaries to Britain (The Sunday Times, London)
• 1,000 lower-caste Hindus convert to Christianity in India | Move is protest at treatment by upper-caste Hindus (AFP)
• U.S. doctor brings sight, Bibles to the poor in Chinese province (Cox News Service)
• Not tiny anymore | Paul Lemons used to smuggle matchbook-sized Bibles into the Soviet Union. Now he ships Scripture around the world (Associated Press)
• Cardinal focuses on spreading word | Cardinal Jozef Tomko of Slovakia explains evangelism (The Boston Globe)

Church life:

• Flocks in need of shepherds | Do Americans value their clergy enough to make it a viable calling in the next generation? (The Washington Times)
• Playing his way in piped array | Inside the organ—and organist—at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Arlington (The Washington Post)

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