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• Roe and Doe: 'abortion harmful' | Plaintiffs in the two companion Supreme Court cases filed amicus briefs telling the federal court why their cases should be overturned. (UPI)
• Jesus Run hits bump in road | Organizers of world's largest Christian walking and running event cry religious discrimination as permits are denied (The Denver Post)
• How L.A.'s mayoral rivals keep the faith (Los Angeles Times)
  • James Hahn sees politics as a way to live out Christian principles, but backs separation of church, state.
  • Antonio Villaraigosa cites Catholicism as a formative influence, but its tenets do not dictate his views.
• Dissident MPs just as religious as leader, Alliance House leader says | Fearing that Stockwell Day is being painted as a dangerous reactionary, senior loyalists are strongly denying he is relying on social conservatives to prop up his fractured leadership. (The National Post)
• U.N. assembly votes to condemn attacks on religious sites | Resolution, sponsored by 115 nations and adopted by consensus, carries no force of law (The New York Times)
• Say a prayer for the Christian Coalition | 'It's on life support at the moment' (U.S. News & World Report)
• Bush is actively courting Catholic voters for 2004 | Catholics, who cast 26 percent of the votes in 2000, represent probably the largest swing constituency in the nation. (The New York Times)

Education:

• Saving the 7-year-old | A missionary group devoted to small children fights to gain access to public elementary schools (Time)
• The impact of religion on education issues separates four officials from their positions | After a minority of school board members opposed adoption of a controversial social studies textbook, some residents accused the board of promoting a right-wing Christian agenda. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• Thou shalt not act on thy beliefs | Trinity Western is cheering the Supreme Court's affirmation of its right to teach its creed. But what good is a creed if you can't act on it? (Ian Hunger, The Globe and Mail, Toronto)
• 1,000 hear rabbi address Cobb seniors | Rabbi, barred from delivering baccalaureate address at Methodist church, calls pastor who made decision one of his "heroes of democracy." (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• Graduates skirt prayer ban | For the first time in an Illinois school's 80-year history, no prayer was heard publicly during graduation services. But graduates who supported an invocation and benediction did what they could to bring God into the services. (Chicago Tribune)
• Churches join truancy program | Volunteers call regarding kids who have missed one or two days of class in the previous week. (Associated Press)
• Schools that kept the faith | Robert Benne's Quality with Soul looks at why colleges lose or keep religious distinctions (UPI)
• Cleveland voucher decision appealed to Supreme Court | But justices have passed on similar issues recently (Education Week)

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