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• Graham daughter may hold revival here (The Cincinnati Post)
  
  
• Jesus goes to the disco | Finding a gang of missionaries in the sex-and-drug-fuelled raves of Ibiza (The Spectator, U.K.)
  
  
• Church 'socks it' to those in need | Each October, the social hall at Saint Paul Lutheran Church becomes a warehouse for heaps of socks (The Pensacola [Fla.] News Journal)
  
  
• Flamingo flock theft threatens fund-raiser (The Wichita Eagle)
  
  
• Earlier: 'Flamingoed' for Missions | How lawn ornaments became 'a way to glorify God.' (Religion News Service, April 3, 2000)

Church life:

• Eccentric churches growing | Evangelicals find key to draw new worshipers (Ledger-Enquirer, Columbus, Ohio)
  
  
• Pastor of megachurch making equally big splash with book | Rick Warren of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest began 'The Purpose-Driven Life' as a series of sermons. The launch is a kind of virtual Sunday school (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Bible-believers 'schism' threat to Anglicans | Archbishop Peter Jensen sees 10 percent of the population converting to a "Bible-believing" denomination within the next 10 years (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Churches use prizes to lure pals to pews | For each person a church member invites, that member is eligible to enter a drawing for member-donated prizes ranging from luxury-lodging weekends to Seattle Mariners tickets (The Seattle Times)
  
  
• Archbishop wants to return to parish flock | David Hope, the second most senior figure in the Church of England, has said that he wants to return to being a parish priest when he retires as Archbishop of York in a couple of years (The Guardian, London)

Catholicism:

• Vatican-Orthodox group proposed | Pope made the suggestion in a meeting with the head of Romania's Orthodox Church (Associated Press)
  
  
• Vatican outraged at brothel slur | A statement from papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said that Franciscan friars in Moscow had let out a flat on church property to someone who - without their blessing - then used it as a brothel (BBC)
  
  
• Pope adds more prayers to Rosary | Part of his efforts to boost spirituality and devotion to Mary (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: Pope is adding new mysteries for the Rosary (The New York Times)
  
  
• Vatican denounces Russia campaign | Calls it despicable operation" to discredit the Roman Catholic Church in Russia (Associated Press)
  
  
• What's Mother Teresa got to do with it? | Monica says she's proof of a miracle by the late nun; her husband begs to differ (Time Asia)
  
  
• A new hat for a bishop, but perhaps not a red one | Archbishop Renato R. Martino is leaving at the end of next month as the Holy See's permanent observer to the United Nations (The New York Times)

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