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• U.S. church leads strippers out of clubs | Carolyn Pool has a request for all the gentlemen in Dallas drop money into the church collection plate instead of a stripper's G-string to help her turn her life around. (Reuters)

Church life:

• State cleric new head of Orthodox Church in America | Archbishop Herman, head of the Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania, was elected Monday as the new spiritual leader of the Orthodox Church in America. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Religious life comes calling | Priests, nuns needed: Clergy hope their sense of fulfillment will attract recruits. (National Post)

Sex abuse scandal:

• In rift with Law, agency to accept lay group's funds | Catholic Charities, the principal social service agency for the Boston Archdiocese, said the organization will accept donations from Voice of the Faithful. (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Lawyers, church say talks are at impasse (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Bishops select lay board on sexual abuse review | Members say their main mission was to restore confidence in a church they love and not to seek the discipline or prosecution of bishops who did not remove abusive priests. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Member of sex abuse panel upsets some | "This appointment is an insult to victims and to professionals," critics say.

Science and Health:

• A theory evolves | How evolution really works, and why it matters more than ever. (U.S. News)
  
  
• Those who worship more often tend to smoke less | Those who said they attended religious services less than once per month were found to be 70 percent more likely than regular worshipers smoke. (Reuters)

Politics and law:

• Christian supporters of Israel planning mass autumn rally in Washington | The rally, titled "Israel, You Are Not Alone," is sponsored by the Christian Coalition of America. (Jerusalem Post)
  
  
• Monuments a Thou Shalt Not? | A federal appeals court ruling has called into question the future of four Ten Commandments monuments placed on public property in Utah decades ago by the Fraternal Order of Eagles. (The Salt Lake Tribune)

Islam:

• Muslims to fight to stay in campus mosque | Muslims at a historically black Baptist university are vowing to fight the school's plans to convert an on-campus mosque into offices. (The Washington Times)
  
  
• University sued over Islam reading assignment | UNC requires all incoming freshmen and transfer students to read a book over the summer. This year: Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations. (CNN)

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