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• Religious activism has many voices | "Prophetic voice" tradition has been galvanized (The Christian Science Monitor)

Church and state in Africa:

• Curse or Coincidence? | Zimbabwe political leader says party fears "the hand of Lucifer is at work" (The Zimbabwe Standard)
• Mugabe faces excommunication | Several groups, including Roman Catholic bishops, press Vatican for move against Zimbabwe leader (Zimbabwe Standard)
• 'The Church is not interested in political careers of individuals' | Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace chairman draws distinction between defending Constitution, opposing president (The Post, Lusaka, Zambia)

Homosexuality:

• Church anger at £500,000 grant to gay rights organization | Recipient "is a group that is well known for promoting homosexuality," says Church of Scotland leader (The Times, London)
• Also: Church attacks gay lottery grants (BBC)
• Church rethinks stance on gays | New catechism, written by one of the Church of England's most senior figures, suggests homosexuality has been "divinely ordered" (BBC)
• Also: Homosexuality is divinely ordered, says catechism (The Daily Telegraph, London)
• School bars conference of anti-gay group | Meeting moves from Catholic U. to Trinity; colleges say organizer misled them (The Washington Post)

Sexual misconduct:

• Priests given Egan 'alert' on sexual abuse | New York archbishop says in no uncertain terms abuse has to stop—people's lives are being shattered and the church is suffering (Rod Dreher, New York Post)
• Bishop in sex case vanishes | Russian Orthodox bishop from Britain, facing pedophilia charges in France, goes into hiding (The Daily Telegraph, London)
• Vicar quits job for new partner | The Rev Malcolm Strange leaves wife, teenage children, for church administrator (The Times, London)
• Also: Rev. Rat runs out on his wife (The Sun)

Noisy churches:

• Pastor defiant over noisy church | Albert Olorunleye, pastor of Christ Apostolic Church in east London, was found guilty of breaching noise regulations and ordered him to pay fines of up to £11,000. (Evening Standard, London)
• The ban on drumming | The Bible enjoins us to "Praise him upon the loud cymbals" (Tony Korsah-Dick, The Accra Mail, Ghana)

Christians and Jews:

• Jews 'shocked' to receive Christian video | 'Israel in Prophecy' tapes sent in plain wrappers from U.S. (The Ottawa Citizen)
• I forgive the sins of Catholics in Poland during World War II | But for all the sins committed against Jews in 1946, in what was then a free and independent Poland, I shall never forgive them. (Rachel Patron, The Hartford Courant)

Ecumenism:

• Ecumenism is slowing down in Ireland | Methodist leaders blame recent Vatican documents (The Belfast Telegraph)
• Theologian criticizes Vatican on liturgy | Protestant professor of worship says Catholic leadership is abandoning efforts to pray together (The Boston Globe)

Catholicism:

• Vatican cracks down on travelling priests | Young priests from developing countries reportedly reluctant to return home after visiting the West (BBC)
• Bishop-to-be says elevation a surprise | Samuel Aquila is the first priest from the Denver Archdiocese to be elevated to bishop in almost three decades. (The Denver Post)
• A Latin for the Vatican? | Honduran Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga emerges as a man to watch in Rome's College of Cardinals (Time Europe)
• Ring slips off of late pope's hand | Apparently fell off as John XXIII's body was being moved for display (Associated Press)
• Church is out to raise $300m | At kickoff event, Boston's Cardinal Bernard F. Law announces diocese is already 45 percent of the way there. (The Boston Globe)

German Church:

• German Church conference to consider tough issues | German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder will attend the conference for the first time since 1987 (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
• Inflatable Jesus installed on top of bank HQ | 40-foot project is part of the German Protestant Church Day (Ananova)

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