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• Faith in 'God's design' | Long Island's bishop reviews the trauma, tragedy of his first year (Newsday)
  
  
• Houses of worship ponder Sept. 11 | Many respond to President Bush's "National Days of Prayer and Remembrance." Bush had asked all Americans to gather in their places of worship and communities from Friday through Sunday to honor the dead, "give thanks for God's enduring blessings on our land," and pray for world peace and the strength to bring the attackers to justice (Fox News)
  
  
• 'Our refuge, strength' | Atlantans of all faiths look forward, back as anniversary stirs words to soothe soul (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Sermons for Sept. 11 | Local clergy describe what they're telling the faithful on the weekend before the anniversary (Anchorage Daily News)
  
  
• A time to remember | Along with predictable religious themes of love and hope, local clergy are adding a lot of silence, taking away the talk and including a challenge in their Sept. 11 anniversary services (Savannah [Ga.] Morning News)

Life after September 11:

• Pastors recall toll of Sept. 11 | Ministers nationwide urged worshippers to move beyond their anger over Sept. 11 and renew the connections they discovered with other Americans after the terrorist strikes (Associated Press)
  
  
• What really happened after Father Mike died (New York Post)
  
  
• Keeping the faith even as pillars fall | Jim Hayes is a priest and psychotherapist, a specialist in forensic therapy: dealing with those who deal with the dead. (Mike Barnicle, New York Daily News)
  
  
• Why they hate us | As the anniversary week of the 9/11 attacks begins, let's cut to the chase as to their cause: It's the endless mortal enmity felt toward the West by a significant chunk of the Islamic world (New York Post)
  
  
• Pope addresses roots of terrorism | "The recruitment of terrorists is more easily achieved in areas where human rights are trampled upon" (Associated Press)
  
  
• Building reborn as "secular" church in memory of Flight 93 | The vacant church was just miles from the barren field—where the plane fell from the sky (Houston Chronicle)

Islam:

• Analyst who called Saudi Arabia 'evil' quits think tank | Rand denies move, speech linked. (The Washington Post)
  
  
• 'It's a fight between Cross and Islam' | A right-wing Islamic alliance kicked off its election campaign in Pakistan on Sunday by denouncing President Pervez Musharraf as a U.S. stooge and saying Muslims were in a fight with Christianity (Reuters)

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