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Persecution and violence:

• MP warns of campaign to target Christian institutions | Pierre Gemayel says closing of Christian TV station, other acts aimed at making the "struggling people kneel," particularly the Christian community (The Daily Star, Lebanon)
  
  
• Martin obsessed with faith healing, jurors told | Kenneth L. Martin killed believing he could bring man back to life, says public defender (Rapid City [S.D] Journal)
  
  
• Mother's sentence unsettles a Nigerian village | Three years after Shariah's installation, disillusionment has spread among these northerners, as corruption has flourished and harsh punishments have been meted out only to the poor and powerless (The New York Times)

Life ethics:

• NIH funds local theologian's research | In what may be the first NIH grant to a theological seminary, Gordon-Conwell's John Jefferson Davis was awarded $32,000 to find out what evangelical Christians think about genetic engineering (Salem News)
  
  
• Abortion, death rate linked in study | The August issue of the British Medical Journal, published this week, reports that women who have abortions are more likely to die in the years following the procedure than women who give birth (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Baby brainwaves measured in womb | Fetuses can even respond to a bright light shining through their mothers' abdomen (BBC)
  
  
• Menace lurking in the bankruptcy bill | Tucked away in the text of this otherwise good bill is a provision designed specifically to single out and intimidate peaceful pro-life protestors (Joseph R. Pitts, The Washington Times)

Church life:

• Church group wants to buy Gobbler's Knob | A group of Southern Baptists is trying to raise $530,000 to buy the Punxsutawney Sportsman's Club, a 93-acre property that includes Punxsutawney Phil's home (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Religion very much alive on dead end | At the end of Charlotte's City View Drive you can sample two faiths, in 10 or 12 variations, spoken in at least four languages (The Charlotte Observer)
  
  
• Church tests county restrictions | Worshippers gather on Maui farmland where zoning rules prohibit a chapel (The Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
  
  
• Also: Hawaii church holds service despite legal battle over land use (Associated Press)
  
  
• Evangelical church leaders hope merger opens doors | Members applaud uniting English, Spanish speakers (The Morning Call, Allentown, Penn.)
  
  
• 'Christians are forming churches to make ends meet' | Prosperity gospel supplants actual gospel as entrepreneurs start congregations (African Church Information Service)
  
  
• New Russian cathedral stymied by interfaith rift | Tensions between the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches halted the construction of a new Roman Catholic cathedral in Pskov (The New York Times)
  
  
• Cathedral reflects a new vision of church | Roman Catholic cathedral joins other churches in trying to bridge sectarian divides and unite sprawling cities (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Suspended priest returns to his flock in the U.S. | A rift between traditionalist and liberals has shaken Anglicans (The Times, London)
  
  
• Also: Despite defrocking, priest returns to church | The Rev. David L. Moyer said he had wide support and that his Episcopal bishop should be the one to resign (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Yoga:

• Aspen man objects to yoga as religion | Baptist pastor says planned classes violate Constitution (The Rocky Mountain News, Denver)
  
  
• Yoga religious? 'No way!' says program backer | Debate over a children's yoga program at Aspen Elementary School could be resolved with a simple reading of the program's curriculum, the program's founder claims (The Aspen [Colo.] Times)
  
  
• School board gives yoga a go | 3-1 decision was made pending approval from the school district's attorney (The Aspen [Colo.] Daily News)

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