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Fighting around the missionary school has been heavy for the last two days. James Forlines, director of Free Will Baptist Foreign Missions, told the Associated Press that he has been in hourly contact with those trapped inside. "It's a large campus and where they penetrated was at the far back end. I don't think the bullets were in danger of hitting anyone," he said. "It really was crossfire, not shooting at the children but a whole lot of ammo going, scaring the kids to death."

Pop culture:

• Gibson breaks Hollywood mold with film in Latin | The Passion will be in Latin and Aramaic — with no English subtitles (Reuters)
  
  
• Also: Gibson passionate about Jesus picture in Latin (Variety)
  
  
• A hip message | Christian hip-hop artists are moving the medium off the streets and into the church (The Tampa Tribune)
  
  
• Speaking with … Amy Grant | Triple sec and prayer. That's the remedy that Amy Grant says saved a recent concert performance after the Grammy-winning Christian/country music artist lost her voice (Chicago Sun-Times)
  
  
• Christians in sync: pop-group musical, Altar Boyz, gets NYC reading | The show is thought to be a meeting of 'N SYNC and Nunsense and follows the story of a struggling Christian boy band that "has played every pancake breakfast and bingo hall in the Bible Belt." (Playbill)
  
  
• Film poses new challenge to church | The Crime of Father Amaro touches a raw nerve at a time of controversy and change for Roman Catholicism in Mexico (Chicago Tribune)

David Mukuba Gitari:

• Gitari: 'Nation' scribe charged | Francis Muriithi Muriuki allegedly published the false statement saying retired Anglican Church Archbishop, David Mukuba Gitari, said President Moi's preferred successor, Uhuru Kenyatta, might not live to see the presidency (The East African Standard, Nairobi)
  
  
• Writer charged for Gitari report | Nation reporter Francis Muriithi Muriuki denied the charge (The Nation, Nairobi)

Sex abuse crisis:

• Dioceses said to be following abuse policy | The vast majority of Roman Catholic dioceses in the country are in at least partial compliance with the mandates of the new policy on sexual abuse of minors by priests that was adopted by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in June (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Catholic lay board in a hurry | Showing critics and doubters this week it plans to be much more than a token group (Associated Press)
  
  
• Vatican says U.S. bishops' plan on sex abuse still under study | Response expected next month (Associated Press)
  
  
• Church experts say bishops bungling crisis | Diverse observers unite in condemning Catholic hierarchy (San Francisco Chronicle)

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