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Clergy abuse:

• Among the Vatican goals, guidelines for priests | U.S. cardinals who have been summoned to the Vatican to discuss sex abuse and priests will also agree on guidelines to restore a sense of trust in the church. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Uniform policy on priests' abuse proposed | D.C.'s Cardinal McCarrick urges more openness with public, authorities (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Church goes from too little to too much | Procedures in wake of abuse scandal claim a good priest (Timothy O'Leary, The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Church's problems not new | If we're going to indict the Roman Catholic Church for crimes, misdemeanors and coverups, let's go way back (Stephanie Salter, San Francisco Chronicle)
  
  
• A belief so deep, priest scandals can't shake it | Catholics like Maria Lopez don't lose faith. She says God does too much for her. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Prosecuting the church | Many Americans are demanding that ways be found to hold religious leaders accountable. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Reluctant Mexican church begins to question its own | For first time, a bishop acknowledges pedophilia cases (The Washington Post)
  
  

Crime and violence:

• The convert | David Frost was a Christian missionary living in India. Now he's a Muslim. (The Hamilton [Ontario] Spectator)
  
  
• 14 face trial on missionary murder | The trial in the murder of an Australian missionary and his young sons was adjourned today until next month after a series of hearings had to be postponed because defence lawyers were absent, Indian court officials said (Associated Press)
  
  
• Freedom for 6,000 in Sudan | Group says it pays for, negotiates release in war-torn nation (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Not even clergy being spared violence of Colombia's rebels | "It's raining death threats," says the Rev. GersaÍn Paz (The Miami Herald)
  
  

Pop culture:

• Teen titles | An increasing number of book publishers are starting to put out sophisticated teen-centric religion titles, hoping to sell God to the same 23 million young people who have snapped up $120 billion worth of soft drinks and skateboards in the last year. (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Witch doctors placated | The Ivory Coast government of has settled a long-running dispute with disgruntled witch doctors who claim to have had a hand in the country's only African Nations Cup success. (BBC)
  
  
• Wanted. Fringe act to spread gospel | In an attempt to ensure a fair sprinkling of moral fibre is injected into the Edinburgh Fringe program, the Scottish Bible Society is willing to bless a playwright or company staging a production that will spread the gospel with £1000 in cash (The Scotsman)
  
  
• Timely album for Jars of Clay (The Washington Times)
  
  
  
  
• Reading in rapture | The latest publishing phenomenon to storm the US bestseller lists is religious fiction. (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  
• Off playing field, Orioles' Chris Singleton devotes his life to religion | Outfielder and his wife are associate pastors at church in Atlanta area (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  

Technology:

• Religion sent to cellphones | The Philippine Roman Catholic church will launch a campaign to spread the "Good News" using cell phone text-messaging technology that is very popular in this Southeast Asian nation, especially among youths. (SAPA)
  
  
• Internet inspiration for preachers | Just when you think all pastors need is the Good Book on their desks, here comes the information superhighway to offer clergy another avenue to a meaningful message. (Ken Garfield, The Charlotte Observer)
  
  

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