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• Also: School religious groups get equal benefits | 9th gives Bible club status as Associated Student Body school entity (California Law Recorder)
  
  
• Also: Bible group wins ruling on school rights | A federal appeals court rules that it must be treated the same as any other campus club. Experts see a strong precedent. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Waxahachie Wiccan can wear pentacle | Policy protects religious symbol, Waxahachie school chief says. (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Religious group accuses Missouri city of blocking Sept. 11 service | Lawsuit claims town's policy barring use of its community center for political or religious purposes violates First Amendment. (Associated Press)

Life ethics:

• Abortion fight might scuttle bankruptcy bill | July compromise reconsidered (The Washington Post)
  
  
• California passes broad abortion-rights legislation | With most states hostile to extending rights, the package of bills is remarkable (The Christian Science Monitor)

Politics and law:

• Pat Robertson favors tax hike for roads | Supporters of the campaign say the endorsement from Robertson may encourage conservative voters to reconsider anti-tax positions (The Virginian-Pilot)
  
  
• Narrow victory for gay rights in Dade | Repeal group vows another petition drive (The Miami Herald)
  
  
• Faith-based bill's hopes revive in Senate | Jim Towey expects a vote sometime in the next two weeks (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Depoliticize food aid, Zimbabwe's Catholic bishops say | The bishops' appeal comes after allegations that officials were denying suspected supporters of political opponents access to donated maize (The Daily News, Harare)
  
  
• Catholic lawyer to face Yasser Arafat in January elections | Two other longshots, too (Associated Press)
  
  
• Florida death-penalty battle rages over sentencing | A legal fight over who determines capital penalties could impact many states (The Christian Science Monitor)

Other religions and conversion:

• Religious wars | U.S. Jewish groups and their anti-Christian hostility (David Klinghoffer, National Review Online)
  
  
• Can any good come of radical Islam? | A modernizing force? Maybe. (Francis Fukuyama and Nadav Samin, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• Frenzy without, peace within | 10 million American adults meditate regularly (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Uzbeks convert to Christianity | On rise despite official government efforts (UPI)

Education:

• Holy ivory investments | Conservatives should invest more in religious colleges (Naomi Schaefer, National Review Online)
  
  
• Teens encouraged to abstain (The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.)

Crime and violence:

• Violence flares in the Greek Orthodox Church | Atallah Hanna says his house was attacked (The Jerusalem Post)
  
  
• Accused 'possessed by demon' | A man who stands accused of murdering a 19-year-old woman told a church friend three days after the incident that "something demonic came over him" when he repeatedly hit her with a brick (Die Burger, Cape Town, South Africa)
  
  
• Ethnicity, identity blamed for increasing tensions in church | Delegates to the Annual School of theological lectures heard that the Church had succumbed to tribalism, with leaders showing open hostility towards members of other ethnic communities (African Church Information Service)

Television:

• Holy rolling | On Truthquest—a spirited version of MTV's Road Rules—teens go wild, but without the pagan excess (Outside)
  
  
• TBN habla Español | Controversial Christian network's Enlace network should be available in 10 of the country's largest Hispanic markets within a year (Associated Press)
  
  

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