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Other stories of interest:

• Folks flock to church to see face of Jesus | Pastor notices apparition while closing up church (WPBF, West Palm Beach, Fla.)
  
  
• Sects and the Church | If it is truly serious about opposing new religious movements, the Orthodox Church should rely more on its own preaching and internal discipline and less on the courts and police. (Lawrence Uzzell, The Moscow Times)
  
  
• A faith near to heaven | A century and a half ago, French priests brought Catholicism to the Tibetan plateau. There it has endured, despite war, Maoism and rival religions. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Youth Day cross arrives in Toronto | 'It's not made of marble. It's just ordinary wood. It's very touchable, it's very tangible': 43-day trek by foot. (National Post)
  
  
• Flying monks and piercing pain at Christian exhibit | Masterpieces from the Vatican and other Italian Collections has been brought to Toronto by the Catholic Church and Hydro One. (National Post)

Ecumenism:

• Churches vow before Queen to work for unity | Archbishop of Canterbury says said that although the Churches were still separate institutions, the past few decades had seen an enormous rapprochement (The Times, London)
  
  
• Royals at prayer for coronation day | Call for unity as Christian leaders attend Windsor service (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Pope, Orthodox Leader Sign Document | Both the pope and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I have described the declaration as another step in helping bridge the nearly 1,000-year-old rift. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Pope courts Anglicans in attempt to heal rift | The Vatican has invited Anglicans, including a woman priest, to an unprecedented conference this week in an attempt to end four centuries of division between the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England. (The Times, London)

Education:

• A spiritual centennial | Point Loma Nazarene stays true to its roots in stress on spiritual and academic values (San Diego Union-Tribune)
  
  
• Conservative Lilongwe grapples with sex education | Malawi Censorship Board has ordered the removal of a controversial condom advertisement that it has declared offensive and pornographic. (UN Integrated Regional Information Networks)
  
  
• Area Protestant schools host 'non-proms' | Dancing is notably absent from many of the program, but not prom gowns, tuxedos, corsages, limosines and other traditional trappings of the graduates' big night. (The Herndon [Va.] Times)
  
  
• A majority of those surveyed want evolution, intelligent design to get equal time in school | The State Board of Education is struggling with the issue of what students should learn about human origins. (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)

Church life:

• New bishop eyes politics | Chane has also questioned the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Bishop Chane's brave, new Episcopalians | Bishop Chane has promised to make Washington the "most exciting diocese in the Episcopal Church." Exciting, perhaps, in the way that a plane crash or a soccer riot is exciting. (Editorial, The Washington Times)

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