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Missions and ministry:

• Syrian Christians may face 'Parsi syndrome': study | Conversions from other faiths have more or less ceased in Kerala's Syrian Christian community since 1961, according to a study (Rediff.com)
  
  
• When does zeal turn to zealotry? | The determination of Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer struck me as brave and passionate, yet foolhardy and overbearing (Ken Garfield, The Charlotte Observer)
  
  
• Wilberforce be with you | Wilberforce stands as a great if flawed Christian social reformer (Bob Holman, The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Au Revoir, Africa | As the child of missionaries, I had come to rely on God and country. This time, it was the French who came to the rescue. (Jason Hotalen, The New York Times Magazine)

Church life:

• Two churches fight over property | Superior Court judge has stopped the eviction of one church group by another, saying that just who owns a Fairbanks church and parsonage is still in dispute (Associated Press)
  
  
• It is written—on church's floor | Fairway Christian Church will literally stand on the promises of God (Orlando Sentinel)

Money and business:

• NEA lets religious members in Ohio redirect union dues | The agreement comes following pressure by the EEOC (The Washington Times)

• Probing religion's role in economic success | The economy of nations whose people hold firm religious beliefs, especially with regard to heaven and hell, tend to grow faster (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Orange County church founder charged | The one-man congregation and a friend are accused of bilking charity donors (Orange County Register)

Other stories of interest:

• Churchgoing tourists view Harlem on Sunday mornings | On Sundays, the choirs and the soloists are the magnet for the tourists who descend on churches in Harlem, a community that after a long troubled period is on the upswing (Jacqueline Thomas, The New York Times)
  
  
• God tells killer to free pal | A killer who became a Christian in prison is fighting to clear the man convicted with him (The Daily Record, Scotland)
  
  
• Parents' code to discourage smacking | A parents' code is to be set up by the Welsh Assembly as part of a strategy to discourage people from "physical punishment" of children (BBC)
  
  
• Batting for God | David Sheppard is best known as the left-leaning Bishop of Liverpool who gave Margaret Thatcher a hard time. But becoming a man of the cloth meant giving up a brilliant future as an England cricketer (The Guardian, London)

• Adoption card could promote homophobia | Organ donor cards are embroiled in anti-gay prejudice controversy after their format was copied in a bid to prevent homosexuals adopting children. (Evening Star, Ipswich, Suffolk, England)

• Kurt Cobain meets Jesus Christ | The Lifehouse package. (Mark Joseph, National Review Online)

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