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• US ambassador in Ramadan fast | The United States ambassador to Pakistan, Wendy Chamberlin, is fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan (BBC)
• Others fast in solidarity with Muslims | The nation's largest ecumenical organization and a Roman Catholic leader called on their members to practice a weekly day of fasting. (Chicago Sun Times)

• Putting worship into their workday | More federal employees participating in prayer services at the office (The Washington Post)
• In this company's struggle, God has many proxies | At the ServiceMaster Corporation, the forces of God and Mammon are in a tug of war (The New York Times)

• In a first, Vatican delivers papal text by Net | The Pope himself will press the send button at a ceremony in the Vatican on Thursday (CNN)
• Also: Oceania a voyage too far for frail Pope | In past years, Pope John Paul II traveled to distant continents to deliver a special message to his bishops. (CNN)
• N.Y. woman is ordained Catholic priest | Breakaway N.Y. parish defies another Vatican tradition (The Washington Post)

• Board of education gets religion | Apparently prayer permitted in public school when it's of the non-Judeo-Christian variety (Arnold Ahlert, New York Post)
• Prayer warriors fight church-state division | City Council members in Harvey, Illinois, have called for voluntary prayer in the public schools (The New York Times)

• Nigeria 'arrests Pakistani preachers' | Six Pakistani Muslim preachers have been arrested in south-west Nigeria for allegedly inciting religious violence (BBC)
• North Nigerian women reject Shari'ah | Non-Muslim women say that devotion to Shari'ah does not go much beyond the surface (Daily Mail & Guardian)
• Beijing embraces war on terrorism | China cracks down on minority Muslims violence (MSNBC)

• Manila search for Italian priest takes gruesome turn | Officials first reported he had been rescued, then said his body had been found and later that the corpse was not his (Reuters)
• Also: Found body not that of kidnapped priest| The alleged captors of Italian missionary Giuseppe Pierantoni confirm the body is neither that of the priest nor of the missing Canadian national (Inquirer News Service)
• Kidnapped Italian priest still alive but not well | Fr. Giuseppe Pierantoni has been sighted in the towns of Sultan Gumander, Malabang, Kapatagan Dos, and parts of Pualas (Inquirer News Service)

• A resurrected Ashcroft becomes cabinet power | A year ago, John Ashcroft's political future looked grim until the terrorist attacks "raised a call he could not shirk" (International Herald Tribune)
• Bush's counselor Hughes lets faith be her guide | Washington is "heady stuff" and faith helps temper it (San Antonio Express-News)
• Faith bill advances amid religious mood | Administration yields on expanding grants (Boston Globe)
• U.K.'s blasphemy law to be scrapped soon | Home secretary wants new law against inciting religious hatred to replace old provision (The Guardian)
• MPs say religious hate law would be unworkable | Plans to make incitement to religious hatred a crime are unworkable and should be dropped, a Commons committee has said (The Daily Telegraph)
• Court refuses spanking request | A private Christian school in Liverpool lost its battle for the right to spank unruly pupils with parental consent (Associated Press)
• Also: Christian schools' smacking plea fails (The Daily Telegraph)

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