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• Also: Police remove refugees occupying church in northern France (Associated Press)
  
  
• In pictures: French church stand-off (BBC)
  
  
• Earlier: Church migrants threaten suicide (CNN)
  
  
• Also: Calais migrants face church expulsion (Reuters)
  
  
• Also: Church refugees face showdown (BBC)

War:

• Moral jousting over war and peace | In weighing the morality of a possible attack on Iraq, both hawks and doves are saying they have all the support they need in the thought of a 4th-century African bishop (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• A moral justification for going to war | Just war theory does not see regime change as an acceptable cause for attacking. And what if military action fails? (Pierre W. Whalon, International Herald Tribune)
  
  
• War on Iraq not yet justified, bishops say (The New York Times)
  
  
• Don't go to war with Iraq, Catholic bishops tell U.S. | In a 228-14 vote at their annual fall meeting, the bishops said they fear a resort to military action would not meet Catholic "just-war" standards (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)

Church and state:

• Pro-plaque petition gets 2,400 signatures | Signers: Keep commandments in courtroom (The Express-Times, Bethlehem, Penn.)
  
  
• Columbine tile suit taken to high court | Two families who lost children in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings have asked the U.S. Supreme Court for permission to include Christian themes in a school display of painted ceramic tiles (The Denver Post)
  
  
• Also: Supreme Court asked to back Columbine tiles | Two victims' families want religious art displayed at school (The Rocky Mountain News, Denver)
  
  
• Ministers' lunchtime visits to Gwinnett school probed | Gwinnett parents say groups push religion (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Soledad cross fight set to go to U.S. Supreme Court | Critics say cross should not be in public place (KGTV, San Diego)
  
  
• Duke divinity professor questions president's use of religious rhetoric | Biblical scholar Stephen Chapman assesses George W. Bush's controversial use of scriptural language (Press release)
  
  
• Bush reaffirms references to God in pledge and national motto | President signed the legislation without comment (Associated Press)

Republican majority in Congress:

• Reed relishes GOP's success—without the religious right label | Former Christian Coalition head has gone more moderate (Associated Press)
  
  
• GOP set to end judicial backlog | The nearly two-year deadlock over President Bush's judicial and political nominees has come to an end with Republicans gaining control of the Senate (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Moyers' remarks on PBS draw criticism | Said the Republican Party victory signaled oncoming religious tyranny (The Washington Times)

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