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• In a former hospital, a 'supermarket of ministries'? | Philadelphia Dream Center hopes to convert the seven upper floors into a residential detox program, a vocational program for ex-convicts, a charter school, housing for urban missionaries, and other programs. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• Unconventional ministries use down-and-out to solicit donations | But does it help the homeless? (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
  
  
• Missionary promised help |A U.S. woman who has lived in Taiwan since 1960 helping polio victims and was recently fined for overstaying might be offered permanent residency (Taipei Times)
  
  
• Minister's plan to increase adoption: Make them free (CNN)
  
  
• Released missionary to go home | Peter Hammond was reportedly arrested in southern Sudan by the Sudanese Peoples' Liberation Army (SAPA)

Other stories of interest:

• Falwell goes global | The Reverend is launching a Mideast non-peace campaign and a cable station (Bill Berkowitz, WorkingForChange.com)
  
  
• God's own country | What may emerge from the priestly scandals and the taped revelations of Graham and Nixon is a recognition that deference to church leaders is just as dangerous as deference to any other kind of leader, and that people who claim their political acts are somehow inspired by and endorsed by an Almighty may turn out to be both liars and hypocrites (Duncan Campbell, The Guardian)
  
  
• Biblical reserve echoes Noah's 'two by two' | The Biblical Wildlife Reserve of Hai-Bar Yotvata displays and protects Israel's wildlife, its wildflowers and natural landscape (The Japan Times)
  
  

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