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• Singing monks head for US | Greece's most popular boy band—a group of singing Orthodox monks—are to tour the US with their unique brand of pop. (BBC)
  
  
• Bible class learns 'bout a man named Jed | Study on morals looks at 'Beverly Hillbillies' show (The Tennessean)
  
  
• Denver billionaire backs films with moral message | Denver billionaire Philip Anschutz is bankrolling new entertainment businesses he hopes will bring positive, family-friendly movies to the big screen. (The Colorado Springs Gazette)
  
  
• Hollywood takes ax to religion | Faith is one of the few subjects that seems significant to everyone, allowing an insecure first-time director to pose as a daring social critic, and a convoluted gothic thriller to pass itself off as "a cautionary tale about religious fanaticism." (Michael Medved, USA Today)
  
  
• Club turfed out by the God squad | An amateur city football side faces abandoning the rest of this season's matches - following a pitch invasion by a group of Christian travelers. (The Scotsman)

Missions & ministry:

• Taliban 'holiday' inspires crusader | Shelter Now worker Diana Thomas says imprisonment wasn't traumatic, and provided her time to get closer to God (The Sunday Times, Perth, Western Australia)
  
  
• Jim Bowers carries on mission after wife, child slain | Message at memorial: Tragedy inspires others to find their faith (Pensacola [Fla.] News-Journal)
  
  
• Slain missionary's Panhandle parents disappointed in government | Parents of Roni Bowers say they are "very, very angry at our government" (The Daytona Beach [Fla] News-Journal)
  
  
• Grieving couple lack closure in deaths | It took months for Gloria and John Luttig to overcome the shock of learning that their missionary daughter, Veronica, and her infant daughter, Charity, died when their plane was shot down April 20, 2001, over the Amazon River (Pensacola [Fla.] News-Journal)
  
  
• From the ground up | Habitat for Humanity struggles to find land for new, affordable houses. (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Burdens hone Anne Lotz's faith | Graham daughter transformed her crisis into a book, and a nationwide touring revival for Christian women going through similar experiences. (The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.)
  
  
• Also: Graham's daughter speaks on remark | "Inexcusable and indefensible" 1972 comments don't reflect his views, she says (Associated Press)
  
  
• Twists and turns | Church meets unforeseen challenge after Tuesday's tornado (Fort Worth [Tex.] Star-Telegram)
  
  

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