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• Damaged synagogue begins clean-up | Work has begun on restoring a synagogue in north London that was vandalised and daubed with a swastika. (BBC)

Sexuality and gender:

• Pullen Memorial breaks new ground | Baptist church welcomes lesbian minister. (The Tennessean)

Money and business:

• Designers hoping to take nuns' fabric beyond the cloth | Versace fashion house is negotiating to buy rich fabric encrusted with metallic embroidery usually made into priests' vestments and about $120 apiece. (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Episcopal fund goes interfaith | Detroit group helps families and small businesses. (Detroit Free Press)

Education:

• Independent school's key to success is sacrifice | Tiny San Miguel School in the Back of the Yards neighborhood has done what dozens of other Catholic schools in Chicago's poor neighborhoods could not. It has stayed open. (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Churches heed a calling to educate poor children | School choice feeds a 'quiet revolution' (USA Today)

Other stories of interest:

• Church stolen as couple prepares for wedding | Congregation that meets at the local YMCA keeps Church materials in a trailer, but someone drove off with it. (The Arizona Republic)
  
  
• Biblical organization committed to Egalitarianism | A profile of Mimi Haddad. (The Ledger)
  
  
• Tutu's visit provides epiphany to students | 'You are special,' says Nobel laureate. (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Monsignor George Higgins Dies at 86 | "The labor movement's priest" spent more than half a century speaking out for social justice. (Associated Press)

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April (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46