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• Toronto Prepares for Pope's Arrival | Tens of thousands of young Catholic pilgrims are converging on Canada's largest city for a week of prayer and celebration with Pope John Paul II, who is flying in for World Youth Day despite concerns about his health. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Young prepare to party as Pope arrives | The Pope, 82 and ailing, arrives in Toronto on Tuesday at the start of an 11-day trip that will take him to Guatemala and Mexico after he presides over the closing of World Youth Day celebrations at a mass on Sunday. (Reuters)

Pop culture:

• No sex 'n' drugs... just Jesus | Christian rock is losing its happy-clappy image and picking up a flock of fans with a plunge into heavy metal—to the horror of pop pundits. (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• When a muppet becomes HIV positive | The new HIV-positive Muppet on "Sesame Street" will not be introduced on the U.S. version of the program, and will remain in South Africa. (The Washington Times)

Missions and ministry:

• Jesse Jackson names successor | No timetable set at Rainbow/PUSH. (The Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Portland Salvation Army launches campaign to restore lost funds | A Salvation Army chapter that lost tens of thousands of dollars in funding after not providing health benefits to the partners of homosexual employees is launching a campaign to restore the lost funds. (CNS News)

Church life:

• Churches consider merger | Two historic black denominations have moved a step closer to merger, with delegates to a recent gathering of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church adopting a plan of union with the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church as a "working document." (Religion News Service)
  
  
• Rift in Lutheran denomination deepens | Pastor who suspended N.Y. cleric over 9/11 service loses radio preaching post. (The Washington Post)

• Same-sex rift unlikely to hit Island | The rift that has threatened to sunder the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster is unlikely to spread across the Strait of Georgia. (Times Colonist, Victoria)
  
  
• A Mexican state's despised Protestants gain | Many converts are expelled by Catholics. (The Boston Globe)

Other stories of interest:

• Vandals dig up graves of nuns | In a macabre robbery, the skeletons of two Catholic sisters have been dug up and removed. (The Dispatch, South Africa)
  
  
• Brazilians see Virgin in a window | About 40,000 Brazilians have flocked to a house in a working-class town near Sao Paulo over the last week to pray before what they believe is a vision of the Virgin Mary, local security officials said. (Reuters)
  
  
• Illiteracy can't quiet minister | The Bible is a book the Rev. John Yates has never read. (The Charlotte Observer)
  
  
• Movement to Change 'Satans' Nickname | It will be the third time in 16 years that the controversial school nickname will be addressed. (Associated Press)

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