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• Bruce Cockburn: 30 years of thought provoking | New album is billed as Cockburn's first comprehensive singles collection but it's not really the first, and it's not as comprehensive as it might be. (The Washington Post)
• Singing the praises of gospel music | Young learn of tradition, those who made it great (The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

• Faith turns to anger for Latino victims | An alleged scam combining evangelism with promises of new homes and cars to its working-class targets is broken up. (Los Angeles Times)
• Mormon church faces costly lawsuit | Twelve plaintiffs seek more than $120 million for alleged abuses (Associated Press)
• A shepherd and his flock | Cardinal Bernard F. Law and other church officials, in a test of their pastoral responsibilities, failed to protect the most impressionable members of his flock from the depredations of the pedophile priest John Geoghan (Editorial, The Boston Globe)
• Bible stolen from parked car | "We hope that when the person reads the contents, they have some conscience and return it to the owner," say police (The Belfast Telegraph)

• Teenagers disenchanted with church, warns priest | But faith in action engages them (The Irish Independent)
• Massive majority of young people 'believe in God' | Only 7 percent of college-educated youth said they had no relationship with Christ (The Irish Independent)

• Clergy seek more space at former Denver airport site | Three-acre limitation criticized (The Denver Post)
• Vatican auction to help Afghan refugees | Episcopal rings among items for sale (Associated Press)

• Holy Smokes! | Study finds people who attend church regularly are far less likely to smoke than nonchurch goers (HealthScoutNews)
• Brushes with death | Scientists validate near-death experiences (Good Morning America)

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