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• Christians, stand up for peace in Holy Land | The virtual silence of prominent Christians in the wake of the terrible suffering and loss of life in this conflict during the past year cannot be erased. (Sherrilyn A. Ifill, The Baltimore Sun)

Crime & justice:

• Trials test the faith of Rwandans | Five clergymen are to be tried on genocide charges that have shaken the trust of many Christians in the region. (The New York Times)
  
  
• When inmates get religion | Going to jail has a multitude of effects on people, and sudden religious conversions are not uncommon. (The News Daily, Jonesboro, Georgia)
  
  
• Witness identifies Dara Singh | Radical Hindu is chief suspect in murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his sons (PTI)
  
  
• Also: Witness identifies prime suspect in missionary's murder (ABC News, Australia)
  
  
• In one last trial, Alabama faces old wound | It is expected to be the final attempt by the State of Alabama to bring to justice a living suspect in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing and, in the process, cleanse itself of a stain on its history. (The New York Times)

Clergy abuse scandal:

• Roman Catholic Church shifts legal strategy | Aggressive litigation replaces quiet settlements (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Scandal erodes traditional deference to church | Prosecutors, judges, and politicians who once looked the other way when it came to the church's dirty laundry are now holding the cardinal and other church leaders to a higher standard. (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Treating the priest, under church's wing | Effectiveness of diocese-paid programs challenged (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Debating more than the church's next potluck | As revelations of sexual abuse continue to roil the Roman Catholic Church, more parish councils around the country are being thrust into the unfamiliar role of transforming themselves from rubber stamps into potential leaders of reform. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Youth group unaffected by scandal, but aware of it | Teens say the scandal has little to do with their faith, or with their lives (The New York Times)
  
  
• Mexican parishioners accept priests who spurn celibacy | Some clerics marry, risking wrath of church hierarchy (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Married priests optimistic over discussions of celibacy | Federation of Christian Ministries says scandal affirms its position (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• Am I my brother's keeper? | David Clohessy spent more than 10 years angrily unearthing the church's dark secrets of sexual abuse. Then he was forced to confront one painfully close to home. (The New York Times Magazine)
  
  
• Supreme Court refuses to get involved in clergy case | Justices refused without comment to review an acrimonious case over how priests can be sued for alleged misconduct (Associated Press)
  
  
• Zero tolerance omits forgiveness | Can a church built on a belief in Christ deny the possibility of redemption and refuse to forgive? (Susan J. Stabile, The Miami Herald)
  
  
• Church bashing delights the left | Politically liberal and religiously secular people are having too good a time beating up on the Roman Catholic Church. (Cal Thomas, The Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• Four facing Jehovah ouster | Jehovah's Witnesses leaders are moving to excommunicate four people who have spoken to a television show about child molestation within the church (New York Post)

Missions & ministry:

• Billy Graham's 'invasion' | His mission—'Save New York' (Newsweek, May 20, 1957)
  
  
• Facing death, embracing life | Evangelist Bill Bright makes the most of year he didn't expect to have (The Orlando Sentinel)
  
  
• Bringing God downtown | Don't count on the $750 million Rio Nuevo project to heal downtown Phoenix's bruised spirit. Four young evangelical Christian men say that's their job. (The Arizona Star, also check here)
  
  
• Evangelist follows faith to the streets | Matt Sallee willing to take rejection from strangers head on for the sake of steering a few souls toward salvation (Susan Ager, Detroit Free Press)
  
  
• Encouraging others to make the time to commit to church | How do church people relate to those who don't go to church? (Dale Turner, The Seattle Times)
  
  

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