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• Also: Bishops draft principles to guide response to terrorism | Bishop Joseph A. Fiorenza calls on the prelates to preach a message of hope to help to ease the fears of Americans. (The New York Times)
• Christian leaders push peaceful alternative | International clergy from France, Indonesia, Lebanon, Pakistan, Palestine, Russia, and South Africa talk about living in a violent world (Chicago Sun-Times)
• Psychics join the manhunt | U.S. government reactivates "remote viewers" program (The Sunday Times)

• Bishops elect first black president | Wilton Gregory will head United States Conference of Catholic Bishops as the group reviews position on the war on terrorism (Associated Press)
• Also: Leader: Church welcomes diversity (Associated Press)
• Also: U.S. Catholic bishops elect black leader | Choice of Illinois prelate, a first, reflects changing image of church in U.S. (The Washington Post)
• Also: American Catholic bishops elect their first black president (The New York Times)
• Also: First African-American set to head U.S. Catholic bishops | Wilton Gregory, 53, now bishop of Belleville, Ill. (The Boston Globe)
• Cardinal at odds with his pastors | Some upset that he toes Vatican's conservative line (Chicago Tribune)
• Reaching out with soul | Black Catholics seek to invigorate the church—and draw more African Americans in—with an emphasis on preaching and fervent worship. (The Los Angeles Times)

• Online church sees prayers go unanswered | Fundraising appeals nets 777live.com only $120 (The Boston Globe)
• Innovative idea: This ministry is just a phone call away | TeleCare teams keep church together despite distance (The Dallas Morning News)

• A whole new narrative | "Tolkien and Lewis have their American fanatics, with newsletters and conferences. But over there what appeals is their allegories of Christian supremacy, their versions in fiction of what a universe ruled by Pat Buchanan might be like." (Hywel Williams, The Guardian)
• The rise and fall of a church and its founder | A review of The Liberation of the Worldwide Church of God (Los Angeles Times)
• New Yorkers flock to Christian book | Latest Left Behind book topples Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections (New York Post)
• People of faith: Edward F. Bergman | Author of The Spiritual Traveler: New York City helps residents and visitors find houses of worship (Newsday)
• Criticized book wins acceptance with text revision | After conservative criticism, publisher agrees to change of two environmental science textbooks (Houston Chronicle)

• Doing their business more biblically | CEOs meet to discuss how the Scriptures speak to their calling (The Dallas Morning News)
• Socially responsible funds buck the outflow trend | Values-based investors aren't in it for the short term (TheStreet.com)

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