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Sex and marriage:

• Reported number of teen virgins rises | According to new federal data, virginal teens outnumber the sexually active ones. (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Syria holds mass wedding | The group wedding, for both Christian and Muslim couples, is part of a government drive to encourage young people to marry despite the high cost of living in the country. (BBC)

Church and state:

• Pledge challenger opens new front | Expunging religious references from Congress' resolutions is his goal. (The Sacramento Bee)
  
  
• City can't allow Commandments monument yet bar other religious displays | A federal appeals court has ruled that Ogden, Utah cannot display the Ten Commandments while denying another group the right to display its beliefs. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Student accused of practicing witchcraft loses lawsuit | A high school student has lost her lawsuit that claimed she was suspended because of her interest in the Wicca religion. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Federal judge throws out challenge to Florida's 'Choose Life' plates | Abortion-rights activists tried to stop the distribution of fees from state license plates bearing the slogan "Choose Life." (Associated Press)

Other stories of interest:

• Cathedral is best sight in land | The "quintessentially English" setting of Britain's tallest cathedral has been decreed the best view in the land. (The Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Church image of first Indian saint getting new look | Juan Diego, poised to become the Roman Catholic church's first Indian saint next week, doesn't look much like an Indian these days. (Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Bible camp reports some very old news | Columbia church program reports the good news, of millennia past. (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• How long will the age of secularization last? | When Pope John Paul II arrived in Toronto Tuesday, he arrived in a continent that is still significantly religious—and left a continent that seems to have abandoned religion for agnosticism and material affluence. (National Post)

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