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• After 4 years, conservative Baptist group coming into its own | 'We have … turned the corner,' says executive director of convention. (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Church renewal on the roll | A buoyant atmosphere marked the first national gathering of confessing movements from 12 mainline denominations in Indianapolis (UPI)
  
  
• Kirk rejects woman moderator after late vote switch | The Church of Scotland yesterday passed over yet another opportunity to appoint its first female moderator in one of the closest votes held for the post (The Scotsman)
  
  
• Rumours of female moderator unfounded (The Daily Telegraph)
  
  
• Student sues UBC on religious grounds | Anglican woman claims she was exposed to 'hatred and contempt' (The National Post)
  
  
• Bishop's doubts split United Methodists | Chicago Bishop Joseph Sprague describes Christ with "the attraction of any great hero, but falls short of the eternal fullness of the second person of the Trinity." The bishops of Florida and North Carolina publicly challenged him, while the South Carolina bishop endorsed his beliefs. (The Washington Times)

Money and business:

• Vice fund will not repent for investing in 'sin' | New mutual fund will invest heavily in "sin" stocks from four industries: alcohol, tobacco, gambling and defense (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Teens skip skimpy styles | Several teens and their advisors collected over 1,500 signatures on petitions to encourage retailers to start offering more modest clothes for teenagers (The Arizona Republic)
  
  
• Five indicted in Arizona Baptist Foundation fraud case | The five men had earlier been indicted on May 4, 2001, but a superior court judge last month threw out those indictments, ruling that some evidence presented to the grand jury was improper and prejudicial (The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• Receivers sent in to church | One of the country's wealthiest evangelical churches is being investigated by the Charity Commission over the alleged misuse of funds (BBC)

Science and medicine:

• New status for embryos in research | Embryos in experiments are "human subjects" whose welfare should be considered along with that of fetuses, children and adults, says federal advisory committee (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Administration directs panel to study embryo protections (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Patient dies after visit to faith healer | The Santa Ana man sought help for a rash but was injected with an unidentified substance (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• 'Gulf syndrome' forces vicar's retirement | A former Army chaplain is being forced to retire because of illnesses he believes are caused by Gulf War Syndrome (BBC)

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