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Church life:

• Charges, racist fliers test church | Rape charge against Sudanese "lost boy" brings racist attack against church that welcomed him (The Boston Globe)
• Religious life is failing to attract young | Decline in the number of clergy in Ireland is accelerating (The Sunday Times)
• Fayetteville megachurch seeks a few good northerners | 5,800-member New Hope Baptist Church wants to open a church in New York City in two years and has asked transplanted Yankees for their help in understanding the culture and customs of the area (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• Cash-strapped church to sell £20m paintings | The move has provoked accusations that the church is "selling off the family silver" (The Sunday Times)
• Faithful shun churches with mobile masts | Churchgoers in Scotland worried about possible health risks (The Sunday Times)

Missions and ministry:

• In Brazil's carnival festivities, evangelicals make a stand | Some oppose annual revelry altogether, others trying to use it as ministry opportunity (The Boston Globe)
• Church tries cube crusade | EvangeCube Ministries uses puzzle for evangelism (The Dallas Morning News)

Popular culture:

• Bono ripe for sainthood | He is a committed Christian after all, and famous for his good works. Not to mention the fact that he's already done more preaching than the 12 apostles combined. (Frank McNally, The Irish Times)
• Church puts faith in Harry Potter | St Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Syracuse, New York, is running classes comparing Potter with Jesus Christ. (The Sunday Times)
• Pope attends QuoVadis premiere | Film has largest budget in Polish history (BBC)

Books:

• How to link two media, and two faiths as well | It's not often that a scholarly work is turned into film, but Marvin R. Wilson's Our Father Abraham: The Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith is about to become a PBS documentary (The New York Times)
• Earlier: Film Tries to Bridge Jewish, Evangelical Chasm | A new documentary explores each group's concept of prayer, the Bible, and the Messiah. (Christianity Today, Jan. 24)
• Bill Bright: Twilight of the evangelist | Along with Billy Graham, he's one of the giants of the Evangelical movement. Now the Campus Crusade for Christ founder wants to write Christian potboillers (Time)
• The Word made fresh | A review of Alister McGrath's In The Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How it Changed a Nation, a Language and a Culture (The Sydney Morning Herald)

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