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More stories about the Mormon Church:

• Mormons intensify missionary effort in Utah | Young Mormons missionaries are being called back to the center of the Mormon world: Utah. The idea is to spread the groups message among the many newcomers to the state. (The New York Times)
• Judges hear Utah's census plea | One of three judges says counting missionaries would be "wildly" unfair to other Americans abroad. (Associated Press)
• Mormon church asks congregation leaders not to put up Web sites (San Jose Mercury News)

More stories about higher education:

• Jewish Baylor prof welcomed, yet despised | By all accounts, the Baylor University community has welcomed with open arms Marc Ellis as head of the Center for American and Jewish Studies. The same cannot be said for Waco's tiny Jewish community of 400 people. (Houston Chronicle)
• Baptist group visits Harvard | Divinity School explores ties with Baylor U. (The Boston Globe)
• Wisconsin student fee distribution still unconstitutional, judge finds | Judge suggests student government shouldn't have as much power over allocations (Associated Press/Freedom Forum)
• Tyndale seminary fights state regulations | Fort Worth seminary was fined $170,000 for issuing degrees without accreditation or authority from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
• Also: Caesar's reach | Should Texas authorities tell a seminary what kind of degrees it may award? (World)

James Kopp, suspected of murdering abortionist, captured in Paris
Those concerns that prolife Republican John Ashcroft wouldn't do his job as attorney general are looking pretty silly now. The French police, acting on information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrested fugitive James Kopp yesterday for the murder of a New York abortionist and the wounding of three Canadian abortionists. A New York couple was arrested for harboring him. And Ashcroft is committed to prosecuting both. "Enforcing the law doesn't pose challenges for me," he said at a press conference yesterday. "These charges are charges of violence that ended in the tragic death of an individual. If these charges are proved properly, they reflect a very serious breach in the law. I am totally committed to enforcing the law in settings like this, or any time the law is infringed."

In other life ethics news, President Bush on Wednesday signed, as promised, a special memorandum barring U.S. foreign aid to family planning groups involved in abortion.

Other articles of interest:

• Great minds reflect on how God fits into the equation | The curiosity that makes technologists shine puts faith to the test (USA Today)
• Priest brings schoolchildren into the fold | Church offers rare opportunity for children in rural Russia to get a religious education (Associated Press/The Moscow Times)
• Lutheran bishop charged with theft | Tanzanian accused of misappropriating 64 million shillings (US$75,000) from car rental company (Panafrican News Agency)
• Mary Magdalene changing her image | Reputation as a reformed prostitute isn't supported by biblical evidence, say scholars (Amarillo Globe-News)
• Harvard survey: Religiously active more trustworthy (Religion News Service/The Charlotte Observer)
• Churches must update creeds | But this writer's alternative is just plain ridiculous. (Tom Harpur, The Toronto Star)

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