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• Church and state: Seeking complicity in a genocide | Catholic clergymen and nuns, as well as pastors of several Protestant churches, were caught up in the ethnic hatred that ripped the country apart, just like everyone else (The New York Times)
• Vatican blasts nuns verdict (New York Post)
• Vatican washes hands of convicted nuns (The Independent, Johannesburg)

Faith-based initiative:

• Senate, House mull charitable-choice debate | Religious, political leaders examine whether offering more federal dollars to religious groups offends First Amendment (Freedom Forum)
• Hiring for faith-based programs | While people generally support the plan, their most serious concern involves hiring: fear that the groups will discriminate in favor of those with their own beliefs (Peter Steinfels, The New York Times)

Missions and ministry:

• Church group provides oasis for illegal migrants to U.S. | A wary collaboration has begun between Border Patrol officers and a religious group to help save the lives of people crossing into the United States (The New York Times)
• Habitat for Humanity turns 25: First the world, then Americus | Nonprofit had to build trust elsewhere before being embraced in its hometown (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Clergy life:

• Demand is rising for clergy as fewer answer the calling | A number of churches and synagogues are finding that filling vacancies takes much longer than it once did, and the pool of candidates has shrunk (The New York Times)
• Bishops to be told: Tighten your belts | No more chauffeur driven cars and first-class travel, palaces may be out too (The Times, London)
• Also: Bishops struggle to make do on £31,000, church report says (The Guardian, London)
• Ministers' wives face challenge | Clergy spouses now turning to their denominations and each other to help cope with their heavy burdens (Associated Press)

Prayer of Jabez:

• Indulgences: Christianity gets easy | Bush is the classic Jabez success story (The New Republic)
• Jabez still chugging along | Sales above 5 million as customers buy book by the dozen (Associated Press)

Other articles of interest:

• Televangelist adds telemarketing to divine calling | Rev. Robert Schuller auto-dials 400,000 homes in a week. Some say it sends a bad message. (Los Angeles Times)
• Adrian Hastings dies at 71 | Theologian, historian, and Africa expert recently edited The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought (The Independent, London)
• 'Hitler's wasn't so bad,' Abbot tells teens | "The subject of the Nazi rule is only ever seen from the negative side and not from the positive aspects it brought to the country," says head of Kremsmuenster monnastery in Upper Austria (Ananova)
• Greek monk killed as Arafat meets Tenet | Greek Orthodox monk shot near the army roadblock dividing Jerusalem from the West Bank (Ha'aretz)
• Baltimore mayor drops plan to tax nonprofits | Hospitals, colleges would pay $20 million to city over 4 years; 'I think it's a win-win'; Council delays vote on budget to permit honing of agreement (The Sun, Baltimore)
• Gospel of Mike | One of the TV news greats finds a higher calling (The Nashville Scene)
• Fugitive says he's found God and wants to be baptized | Suspect in Chinese smuggling conspiracy says he just wants to do good works (The Vancouver Sun)
• Financial health improves for National Council of Churches | Ecumenical group still hopes to woo evangelicals, Roman Catholics (Religion News Service/The Dallas Morning News)
• Why is the Old Testament so weird? | What you need to know to wade into the wild waters of the Old Testament (Discipleship Journal) (Thanks to RelapsedCatholic.com for the link)

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