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• Mission volunteer works to overcome obstacles | Cyndi Forbes was in a coma for 10 days, went on to battle spinal cord challenges, a heart attack, and two strokes, and an anoxic brain injury that forced her to relearn how to write and read. Now she's ministering in Nicaragua (Florida Today, Melbourne)
  
  
• Because the Bible says so | No one outside the Jewish community has been more supportive of Israel than U.S. evangelical Christians, and they've just begun to get better organized. (The Jerusalem Post)

• Evangelist's daughter says she has what she needs | Anne Graham Lotz and the Rev. Billy Graham share a leonine profile and such an unwavering conviction for Jesus that evangelicals smile in recognition (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)

Sex-abuse scandals:

• Geoghan victims get $10M: Judge oddly praises all parties | Some upset by praises of church leadership (Boston Herald)
  
  
• Also: Geoghan victims agree to $10m settlement | About half of what the church agreed to pay in March (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Also: Settlement doesn't heal victims' hearts | After Geoghan case, plaintiffs feel defeat (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Why Catholic churches are playing hardball | Faced with 500 suits, they may be agreeing only to smaller settlements to avoid sapping their resources (Abraham McLaughlin, The Christian Science Monitor)

Catholicism:

• Look to the cross, says Pope | Pope John Paul II has called on the faithful to put the image of the cross in schools, hospitals and homes to help guard against increasing secularization (News.com.au, Australia)
  
  
• Cardinal who survived prison dies | Francois Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan's agonizing account of imprisonment by the communists in Vietnam made him an inspirational figure for many Catholics in his homeland (Associated Press)
  
  
• I won't stand in Milingo's way, says his Moonie wife | Says Vatican is lying (The Post, Lusaka, Zambia)
  
  
• Catholic Charities plans to cut services, consolidate | Plagued by chronic deficits and antiquated management systems (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Russia Orthodox leader breaks silence | Accuses Vatican of "expansionist strategy" (Associated Press)

• "Weeping" Madonna still draws crowds | Thousands of people have visited since owner made public more than a week ago that it had begun weeping oily tears (News.com.au, Australia)
  
  
• Drought hits Colo. shrine's spring | Mother Cabrini shrine's main spring—considered holy by the faithful, who believe its water can heal—is being supplemented with city water brought in by truck (Associated Press)

Other stories of interest:

• A priest's plot to fool the Nazis | The Vinland Map suggests the Viking discovery of North America was known before Columbus sailed. (National Post)
  
  
• Disciples with a devotion to discipline | International Churches of Christ cult moves abroad (The Times, London)
  
  
• John C. Harper, 78, minister who preached to 8 presidents, dies | Was rector of St. John's Episcopal Church for three decades (The New York Times)
  
  
• Also: Rector John Harper, 78; preached to presidents (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Cardinal Lucas Moreira Neves | Conservative Brazilian cleric whose papal aspirations were undermined by his careerist reputation. (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Interview With James Dobson | On Muslims, theodicy, judicial nominees, and other subjects (Larry King Live, CNN)
  
  
• Bilked believers forgiving of Jim Bakker | Branson business leaders, church groups support fallen televangelist (Springfield [Mo.] News-Leader)
  
  
• Deliver us from evil | Calling terrorists "evil" requires no courage and justifies no self-congratulatory puffing. It's just not a problem. But it's also not a solution. (Michael Kinsley, Slate.com)
  
  
• Armageddon ahead, please fasten your Bible Belt | There's bad news on the end of the world front. The Rapture Index, which measures end-time activities, has soared to dangerous levels and Bible-Belt America is readying itself for the last trump (Richard Morrison, The Times, London)

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