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• Main Street evangelism | Young members of Bridge of Promise present their message - and do good deeds (Newsday, Long Island, New York)
  
  
• Church of England in £800m loss as shares fall | The church commissioners invested heavily in telecommunications, hi-tech and pharmaceuticals companies and have taken a particularly heavy hit from the fall of Vodaphone. (The Guardian, London)

Television:

• Pax looking more like a real network | Subtract wrestling, and Pax has more hours of original prime-time programs than UPN and almost as many as the WB (Tom Jicha, South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
  
  
• On Family, bit o' s-e-x | ABC Family's prime-time summer programming is about to get a little steamy (New York Daily News)
  
  
• HBO'S gay series stops shooting after a letter | HBO apparently didn't think scenes were racy enough (The New York Observer)

Pope John Paul II:

• Protestant growth and the Pope | The astonishing growth of evangelical Protestantism in Guatemala was said to have been one reason for the pope's visit to that Central American nation. But John Paul II may have had something else in mind, too-the resurgence of ancient Maya spirituality (Uwe Siemon-Netto, UPI)
  
  
• Resurrecting the message of Jesus | The Pope may be ailing, but his latest foreign trip shows how well he still manages the media—and his skill at setting a religious agenda (Newsweek)
  
  
• Guatemala non-Catholics have mixed views on Pope | At a faster rate than almost anywhere else in Latin America, Guatemalans have abandoned the Catholic Church to join fundamentalist Christian groups (Associated Press)
  
  
• Pope stresses peace in face of threats to Guatemalan church | Despite war's end, rights activists feel beset (The Washington Post)
  
  
• On Mexico visit, Pope will find divided Catholic country | The divide comes clear in surveys that show Mexicans in favor of birth control, opposed to religious education and open to abortion (The New York Times)

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