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• Christians gather with Jews to taste the traditions of Seder (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
  
  

Politics:

• Hastert returns to alma mater | Wrestling, football coaches at Wheaton College made lasting impact, says Speaker of the House (The Daily Herald, Chicago suburbs)
  
  
• When private words go public | The gap between the public and private Grahams is a shock, but there is also a less obvious lesson. The distinction between public and private speech is essential to both private freedom and the quality of public life. (Leonard Garment, The New York Times)
  
  
• Christian right vote targeted | Evangelical, conservative Christian voters are key to victory in Alabama's June 4 GOP primary (The Birmingham [Ala.] News)
  
  
• Keeping the faith | Area Mormons welcome the attention Mitt Romney's gubernatorial campaign will bring to their church (Boston Herald)
  
  
• Helms's reversal on U.S. aid reverberates | Senator seeks $500m to help stamp out AIDS transmission in Africa (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Russian Orthodox Church emissary visits Iraq (The Moscow Times)
  
  
• A devilish problem in Florida | Will the devil leave Inglis for Tampa? (Editorial, Chicago Tribune)
  
  

Church & State:

• Judge to rule on Salvation Army center | Denial of center by township may have been illegal (The Flint [Mich.] Journal)
  
  
• Christian Association of Nigeria hails acquittal of Safiya | Group strongly opposes implementation of Islamic Shari'ah law (This Day, Lagos, Nigeria)
  
  
• Words can bring death sentence in Pakistan | Blasphemy laws used 'like a sword' (USA Today)
  
  

Crime:

• Pakistan believes church attacker blew himself up | "We are not sure whether he was a suicide bomber or whether somebody had trapped him, without his knowing it," says Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider (Reuters)
  
  
• Also: Sketch of church attacker released (BBC)
  
  
• Man arrested in archbishop slaying | John Jairo Maturana is head of a Cali-based gang that allegedly trains young assassins (Associated Press)
  
  
• 'I shared Jesus with them' | Evangelist says he tried to save the Yates family (Good Morning America/ABCNews.com)
  
  
• Hoaxer to serve 2 years—in church | A serial bomb hoaxer with a history of mental problems has been remanded into the custody of the Jesus Fellowship Church for two years in a bid to break her habit (The Daily Record, U.K.)
  
  

Education:

• Charter school faces funding loss | Religious promotion alleged (The Arizona Republic)
  
  
• Home-schooled away from home | Parents form academies to support one another (The Washington Post)
  
  
• In seminaries, new ways for a new generation | The talk at Roman Catholic seminaries is about the need to produce a new breed of priest: spiritually prepared and psychologically mature. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Baylor's heritage, Baptist focus attract students from throughout world | School wants 5 percent of its enrollment to be from outside U.S. (The Waco [Tex.] Tribune-Herald)
  
  
• Gay-straight clubs posing challenges for schools | About 1,000 of America's 26,000 high schools now have them (Associated Press)
  
  
• Aid plan launched for urban Christian schools | Christian Schools International hopes that by developing a model to guide the creation of self- sustaining schools in urban centers, newly founded Christian schools can remain open (Education Week)
  
  
• Britain's chief inspector of schools checks 'creation college' | School asked to "clarify" its position on science teaching. (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Teachers oppose expansion of 'divisive' faith schools | Teachers want the Government to abandon its policy of allowing an increase of state-funded faith schools (Ananova)
  
  

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