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Crime:

• Secretary pleads guilty to church theft | Angela Mullinax took more than $189,000 from Temple Baptist Church (WYFF, Greenville, S.C.)
  
  
• More than 89 charged in Internet child-porn sting | Clergy, police officer among those arrested (Fox News)
  
  
• Murder in the cathedral | Fourteen worshipers at a prayer crusade died in a stampede on Thursday morning. (Vanguard, Lagos, Nigeria)
  
  
• Nigerian court ponders stoning case | Controversial adultery case was adjourned until March 25 (Associated Press)
  
  

Education:

• ACLU wants religion kept out of schools | Seminar on creationism is illegal, says group (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Ancient but still modern | Catholic school offers a distinctive moral vision in a darkening world (Antony Sutch, The Daily Telegraph)
  
  
• Ban on safe sex lessons under fire | A ban on teaching safe sex in Australia's Catholic schools has been condemned as irresponsible and criminal by health experts and educators. (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  
• Faith, fear and public schools | While we can respect the right of people of all faiths to live their lives according to their beliefs, we cannot allow the fears of individuals who see knowledge of other beliefs as dangerous to take our schools off the educational path to greater intercultural understanding. (Lori Colvin-Hobbs, The Denver Post)
  
  
• Fire displaces about 80 students at Concordia University | No one is seriously injured in blaze that destroys dormitory apartment at school in Irvine. Damage is estimated at $70,000. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• 'Creative' approach to teaching religion draws fire | Education about religious holidays has long been a lightning rod for parental concerns, but this year Islam has come under particular scrutiny. (Shira Boss, The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  

Science:

• Sacred mysteries | If John Polkinghorne can persuade the scientists that they can have something to say about God, £700,000 is a bargain (Christopher Howse, The Daily Telegraph)
  
  
• Study finds no evidence for religion-health link | Earlier studies have found that prayer, meditation and other religious activities provide health benefits, but researches question study methods (Reuters)
  
  

Evolution:

• Darwinian struggle in Ohio | Teaching students the mysteries of the universe—letting them wrap their minds around unresolved questions — is a good way to get them interested in science. But no theory that answers those questions by invoking the supernatural deserves a place in a public school science curriculum. (Editorial, The New York Times)
  
  
• Ripples in Ohio from ad on the big bang | A full-page advertisement in The New York Times on Sunday by a professor of radiology at Ohio State University about abstract theories of heat, the Sun and the cosmos was described by other scientists as demonstrably incorrect and, because of a debate on teaching science in Ohio, politically worrisome. (The New York Times)
  
  
• U.S. creationists on mission to Britain | Peter Vardy, a British creationist and multimillionaire car dealer, has just pledged £12 million to expand creationist teaching in Britain (The Times, Londond)
  
  
• Nature's diversity beyond evolution | Debate over 'intelligent design' (San Francisco Chronicle)
  
  

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