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• Bush encourages Chinese to pursue religious freedom | Little progress in talks with Jiang (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• A prayer for Beijing | In time, Beijing's officials will learn, however, that it is not prayer, but fighting against freedom of religious expression, that is harming their country. (Editorial, The Washington Times)
  
  
• Bush urges China on religious freedom (Associated Press)
  
  
• Bush preaches democracy to China (BBC)
  
  
• Bush urges freedom of worship in China (The New York Times)
  
  
• Chinese leader grilled on religion | Defends rights record before skeptical Bush (The Toronto Star)
  
  
• Bush urges Jiang to respect religion | Bush, beginning his two-day trip to Beijing, said he hoped that Jiang, "as a president of a great nation, would understand the important role of religion in an individual's life." (Associated Press)
  
  
• Activists want religion high on Bush's China agenda | Bush may be taking the advice. (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Jiang: China has freedom of religion | Claims detainees broke law in other ways (Associated Press)
  
  
• Condoleezza Rice says China needs to release detained clergy | Jiang avoids issue (AFP)
  
  
• Supporters of detainees appeal to Bush | China often releases prisoners in connection with high-level U.S. visits (Associated Press)
  
  
• Groups striving for freedom in China | Several Orange County- based religious groups are in the forefront of the fight for religious freedom in China (The Orange County Register)
  
  

Hostages:

• Abu Sayyaf reportedly sends signals of Burnham release | Philippine newspaper reports that a letter from one of the Burnhams' captors indicated the group would surrender and release its hostages unharmed in exchange for amnesty (The Wichita Eagle)
  
  
• Missionaries look back on ordeal as a blessing | Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry continue to speak on being hostages in Afghanistan (Houston Chronicle)
  
  

Politics:

• High profile a drag on faith-based office | The publicity from President Bush's executive order opening a White House faith-based office undercut the administration's ability to quietly shepherd through the initiative, a presidential scholar said yesterday. (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Also: Group cites Bush charity plan flaws | Political miscalculations and poor communication inside the White House have plagued President Bush's effort to direct more money to religious charities, say scholars (Associated Press)
  
  
• Group criticizes U.S. churches for idolizing nation | Kingdom Now movement, largely made of Vineyard,. Mennonite, and Pentecostal congregations, criticizes "Christian America" belief (Religion News Service)
  
  
• Day's religious focus will hurt party, Harper says | Victory for former party head would result in the Canadian Alliance being branded an anti-abortion party (The National Post)
  
  

Church and state:

• Federal judge sides with atheist in dispute over Ten Commandments | Court rejects Nebraska city's argument that monument in city park hasn't hurt anyone and should be protected by the First Amendment's guarantee of religious freedom (Associated Press)
  
  
• Grace under fire | A school-prayer ruling attacks academic freedom (Josiah Bunting III, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  

Crime:

• Searching for truth in killing of nuns | PBS documentary, "Justice and the Generals," examines 1980 murders (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
  
  
• Audit says clergyman misused state funds | Bishop James Wilkowski accused of using $68,000 in state grants for his own use instead of using it to help AIDS patients (Chicago Sun-Times)
  
  
• Teen receives 12-year prison term, sympathy from minister hit by rock | Johannes Christian lost his sight and had every bone in his face broken (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
  
  

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