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• Red rosary | China's Catholics deal with their own brand of oppression (ABCNews.com)
  
  
• Hostile congregation | Eager to remain the official state religion, Russia's Orthodox Church cracks down on Roman Catholics. (Time)
  
  
• Also: Russia's growing religious repression | Almost overnight, Russia's Catholic minority has caught up with the Protestants as a target of repression (Lawrence Uzzell, The Washington Post)

Politics and law:

• Senate bill protects clergy | Pre-emptive strike against federal appeals court now goes to President (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Ex-priest faces murder probe | Former Ebenezar Evangelical Church pastor Reverand Itumeleng Sibenya, whose wife Shirley was murdered in an alleged hijack drama, is to be questioned by the police about the circumstances of his wife's murder (City Press, Johannesburg, South Africa)
  
  
• U.S. will revive policy to down narcotics planes | Shoot-down program was suspended a year ago after a CIA spotter aircraft helped Peruvian warplanes fire on a U.S. missionary plane (The Miami Herald)
  
  
• Abortion issue returns as state GOP meets in Waikiki | At least 1 legislator opposes the party's moderate platform (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
  
  
• Aids fear as Bush blocks sex lessons | US undermines global declaration (The Observer, London)

Church and state:

• As a word, 'Church' isn't up to city code | Broader terms—"religious facilities" and "religious organizations"—will replace the word throughout the Thousand Oaks's municipal code (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Offbeat issues fill the bills in California Senate | State replaces "holiday tree" with "Christmas tree," among other actions (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Girl sues to put 'God' on yearbook | Grade school printed her winning yearbook cover design without the words she wanted: "God Bless America." (Quad-Cities Times, Davenport, Iowa)
  
  
• Israel refuses to recognize Greek Orthodox patriarch | The Israeli government has refused to grant Irineos formal recognition, a decision the cabinet restated on Sunday. (The New York Times)

Religion and culture:

• Faith in America | It's as important as ever, no matter what you believe (Cover Story, U.S. News & World Report)
  
  
• Religion can stop healthy patriotism becoming nasty nationalism (Stephen Plant, The Times, London)
  
  
• Religion a force in local environmentalism | Area congregations called to activism as a moral obligation (The Ann Arbor [Mich.] News)
  
  
• Americans credit faith for nation's strength, poll says | While Americans strongly believe in the importance of religion, they are also tolerant — 84 percent say religious belief isn't necessary to be a good American citizen. (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Fall and rise of Christianity | Despite its decline in the West, the Christian faith is growing fast in parts of Latin America, Africa and Asia. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Other stories of interest:

• Blessing the beasts | Interfaith ceremony celebrates the bond between all creatures. (News & Observer)
  
  
• Prayers for a new saint | Devout Puerto Ricans are hoping a second miracle will elevate 'Beato Charlie' (The Hartford [Conn.] Courant)
  
  
• Private schools compare faiths, discover unity | Muslim students and students from Greater Atlanta Christian School gather with a Jewish student body to learn about religious history, custom, and tradition. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• The small ads | The story behind a personal ad (William Shaw, The Observer, London)
  
  
• Congregation used to Pastor of Disaster | Tim Davis races trucks and preaches. (Times Colonist, Victoria, B.C., Canada)
  
  
• Anglican visits Ambridge with wit, wisdom, love | Archbishop of Canterbury speaks at Trinity seminary (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Censor bid on opera fails | Homosexual-themed production will go on. (The Mercury)
  
  

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