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• Graham's Cincinnati mission attracts thousands (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram)
• Graham frail but message strong | "It probably won't be too long for me," says evangelist (The Cincinnati Post)
• Graham's Ohio crusade inspires, prepares Dallas organizers | Evangelist plans next meeting in mid-October (The Dallas Morning News)

• Paul Getty gives £5m to help restore St Paul's Cathedral | Will repair moldering carving, rusted iron work, and rain and soot streaked stone (The Guardian, London)
• Fifth of clergy may resign over women bishops | Despite eight years passing since women priests were first ordained in England, 25 per cent of clergy and 17 per cent of laity believe that there "should not be any women bishops anywhere." (The Times, London)
• Changing church aims to be where community is | After a year of canvassing the neighborhood and inviting people to worship with them, leaders of Trinity United Methodist Church in northwest Flint are ready to go all-out to give the church vitality in the neighborhood (The Flint [Mich.] Journal)
• Brazilian church casts out demons and saves souls for a price | Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Japan (Asahi Shimbun News Service)
• Steering area toward a new path | East Baltimore residents replace abandoned homes with meditative labyrinth (The Baltimore Sun)
• A marriage made in heaven? | The Church of England and the British Methodist Church are flirting again (The Guardian, London)
• Bad service to blame for mass exodus | Boredom may be the biggest threat to the future of Christianity as its popularity continues to dwindle among the formerly faithful (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Hundreds get high on a cause | Canada Day finds Christians, cannabis together on Commons (The Daily News, Halifax, N.S., Canada)

• A doctor-spokesman attends to papal image | Nineteen years into his career as papal spokesman, Dr. Joaquín Navarro-Valls, now 65, still has occasional headaches with the centuries-old papal bureaucracy, the Roman Curia (The New York Times)
• Pope meets with Iranian Ayatollah | There are about 150,000 Christians in Iran, about 13,000 of whom are Catholic (Associated Press)
• Report: Pope will not retire | Vittorio Messori, who collaborated with Pope John Paul II on the best-selling book Crossing the Threshold of Hope, says pontiff will stay to his death (Associated Press)
• Woman secretly taped while confiding in her priest sues him alleging malpractice | The taping was legal in Mississippi, where, as in many states, any party to a conversation may record it surreptitiously. But whether a priest must disclose secret taping is an open legal question (The New York Times)
• Archbishop 'a virtual prisoner of Vatican' | So says Emmanuel Milingo's sister (The Guardian, London)
• Magic of World Youth Day cross brings city's Christians together | Some experience spiritual power from Pope's gift (The Toronto Star)

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