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• American Shelter Now workers have book deal, agent says | Doubleday wins bid to sell story (The Tennesssean)
• Also: Taliban detainees get book deal | Story of Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer will be released around May by Doubleday (Associated Press)

• Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas | But in Bethlehem, which tradition holds as the birthplace of Jesus Christ, the festival has been a muted affair (BBC)
• Also: Orthodox Christmas in Bethlehem | The Church of the Nativity, built over Jesus' traditional birth grotto, was less than half full and the congregants were all local people (Associated Press)
• How the dean of Clonmacnoise stole Christmas | .The Dean has forgotten that his private doubts should not be imposed on his public role until he is prepared to forgo that role (Mary Leland, The Irish Times)

• Disciple ceases publication after 138 years | Circulation has dropped from 85,000 in 1977 to 19,000 today (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• Onward, Christian moguls | The FCC giveth them millions (The American Prospect)

• Four deaths in freak accident test a congregation | Congregation asks why pastor and his family are killed (Associated Press)
• Pope ordains 10 new bishops | Also laments that the true spirit of the Christmas season was being overshadowed by consumerism (Associated Press)
• Religious leaders to city: give it a rest | Nearly all churches gave the city a thumbs-down in its effort to prevent the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church from allowing homeless people to sleep on its steps (New York Post)
• Finding salvation in tourism | Benedictine monks and nuns complied, and have always welcomed strangers, but now the strangers are paying (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
• Women of God | Nuns are an endangered species. What, if anything, can replace the iconic figure of the nun in the popular imagination of Catholics and non-Catholics alike? (The Atlantic Monthly)
• More than a place to pray | Many churches, particularly in eastern Germany, are in danger of decay after severe damage in World War II that left serious problems despite repairs, while scanty maintenance or neglect under the former East German regime also took its toll (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

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