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• Pope asks Catholics to welcome immigrants | Denounces racism, xenophobia and the "terrible crime" of human trafficking in a message Monday, calling it a Christian duty to welcome immigrants (Associated Press)
  
  
• Betting on the next Pope | An Irish bookmaker is risking the displeasure of the Vatican by inviting punters to have a flutter on the identity of the next Pope (BBC)

Prayer and spirituality:

• Did the sniper attacks affect your spiritual life or beliefs? | Washington Post readers respond (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Don't wait; share God's love | Perhaps in our fast paced culture, waiting has become a practice that is foreign and unappreciated. For the Christian, however, waiting is part of our relationship with God through God's Son, Jesus Christ (Suzan Farley, Bucks County [Penn.] Courier Times)
  
  
• All freakish and alien | The Bible is of very little sincere use to anyone these days (Zoe Williams, The Guardian, London)

Other stories of interest:

• Battle fatigue | Even with the GOP in power, the pro-family fight can be frustrating (Joel Belz, World)

• Church sues Broward over zoning issue that blocks use of building | Parishioners at a Hispanic Baptist church contend they are being denied the right to pray, and that Broward County employees have been watching them to make sure they are not using their building as a church (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
  
  
• Christians split over support for Israel, Palestine | Two groups of Americans who are visiting the West Bank travel a path within Christianity that diverges sharply (Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.)
  
  
• Chinese church leader on hunger strike in jail | Gong Shengliang, founder of the South China Church, has refused to eat since Nov. 14 (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Religion news in brief | Canada-Anglican abuse settlement, Methodist pastor detained in West Bank, and other stories (Associated Press)
  
  
• Conversions belong to pre-modernity | Organized efforts at conversion, recalling the Crusades of yesteryear, is unwarranted and uncalled for (Subrata Mukherjee, Indian Express)
  
  
• Researchers struggle to explain religious behavior | Some scholars at annual meeting believe that social science and faith just don't mix (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• CE is pointlessly PC | It is not merely the fact but also the timing and irony that is galling about this latest act of multicultural intolerance toward the country's majority Christian tradition (Editorial, The National Post, Canada)
  
  
• Keeping the papers on side | Rowan Williams, the new Archbishop of Canterbury, is learning to choose his words with care (The Telegraph, London)

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