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Dara Singh trial for murder of missionary Graham Staines:

• Dara Singh's bail plea rejected (The Times of India)
• 'Dara sought my help to assault missionaries' | "He wanted to teach the Christian missionaries a lesson," says witness (Rediff.com)
• Dara Singh was enlisting people against Staines: witness (Rediff.com)
• Key witness identifies Dara Singh | 24-year-old says he saw Singh, with an axe in his hand, instructing miscreants to attack the vehicle near the church in which missionary Graham Staines and his sons were sleeping before setting it on fire. (Rediff.com)

Sudan:

• Focus on Sudan seems about-face in Bush diplomacy | Broad coalition turns up pressure (The Boston Globe)
• George W. discovers Sudan | The fire of freedom can no longer be extinguished (Nat Hentoff, The Village Voice)
• What to do about Sudan | Steps the Bush administration can take against one of the world's most brutal regimes. (Elliott Abrams, The Weekly Standard)
• The am-I-dreaming team | Anybody who can get Ken Starr, Johnnie Cochran, Dick Armey, Charlie Rangel, Sam Brownback and Al Sharpton on the same team shouldn't worry about launching a major movement. It's the government in Khartoum that ought to start worrying. (William Raspberry, The Washington Post)
• Bush rips Sudan, China on human rights (New York Post)
• U.S. to press Sudan to halt war on Christians | President Names AID chief as envoy, urges greater religious freedom globally (The Washington Post)
• Also: Bush taps humanitarian envoy to Sudan (UPI)
• Talisman fuelling Sudanese war, Canada's foreign minister admits | But Canadian government can't do anything about firm's involvement, Manley says (Canadian Press)
• Canada sees no sanctions for Talisman role in Sudan (Reuters)

Energy and environmentalism:

• Congregations plan campaign to save energy | Goal to persuade 1,000 churches to join movement (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Churches, temples join conservation effort (San Jose Mercury News)
• Nonprofit tax in bad faith, clergy say | Religious leaders decry proposed city energy charge; 'To tax us is no solution'; News conference, show of strength planned (The Sun, Baltimore)

Other stories of interest:

• A prayer for tech stocks | Two men who spend their lives preaching about faith also embraced the great American pastime of the last decade, the stock market. (The New York Times)
• 'That's what girls are for' | Investigations into two alleged rapes on Pitcairn Island, famous as the paradise haven of the Bounty mutineers, have exposed a society that treats women as sex objects (The Times, London)
• Earlier: Mutiny and Redemption | The rarely told story of new life after the destruction of the H.M.S. Bounty. (Christianity Today's Christian History Corner, Apr. 27)
• 4 killed, 8 hurt in church van accident (Associated Press)
• Earlier: U.S. warns of rollover risk in vans | NHTSA slaps consumer advisory warning on vehicle popular among churches (Associated Press)
• God loves you, especially your haircut | Welcome to Los Angeles, where the quest for beauty, always a matter of religious intensity, now involves the invocation of a higher order. (The New York Times)
• Luther biographer Heiko Oberman dies at age 70 | Saw Reformer as soul in torment (The Daily Telegraph/The National Post)
• Also: Heiko Oberman; history professor, biographer of Martin Luther (Los Angeles Times)
• Ex-Chicagoan keeping eye on key holy site | Encountering echoes of the South Side in the Middle East (Chicago Tribune)

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