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• Court strikes down Fla. adoption rule | Mothers who want to give a child up for adoption in Florida will not be required by law to publicize their sexual histories in newspaper ads (Associated Press)

Crime:

• Spanking Rev branded a liar | But he's cleared of assault (Daily Record, Scotland)
  
  
• Earlier: Rev 'confessed' to belting two boys | So say police (The Daily Record, Scotland)
  
  
• Preachers fear Abu Sayyaf will go after families | Two female Jehovah's Witness  preachers escape the group (The Straits Times)

Golf:

• Believing doesn't bless the bunkers or save your swing | Augusta's churches were packed to the rafters on Sunday morning, with one or two, as usual, professional golfers who were invited to give testimonies while simultaneously offering up petitions to the Lord for good luck in the final round of the Masters (The Herald, Glasgow, Scotland)
  
  
• Ministers protest end of free golfing | Elimination of privilege at city course called 'unfair' (The Boston Globe)

Other stories of interest:

• Tempting faith: A candy store debates religious chocolates | "I just don't think that you should eat anything that's Jesus," Liz Samuel. "It's OK to eat the cross as long as God is not on it." (Bucks County Courier Times, Penn.)
  
  
• The threat of secular fundamentalism | Our leaders are tempted to abandon the distinctively Christian claims on our historical imagination (Daniel Johnson, The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Religion news in brief | National Day of Prayer rivalry, Duke Divinity School ethics code, and other stories (Associated Press)
  
  
• Walk this way | Not all religious pilgrimages are as strenuous as the Shiites' (Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• Keeping the faiths | America, it is frequently noted, is among the world's most religious societies. Yes, and its religion frequently takes a form that no Medieval monk, 17th century Puritan, or learned European rabbi would recognize (Alan Wolfe, Financial Times)
  
  
• Among the atheists | American atheists are a reclusive lot, trapped between a federal government they consider increasingly theocratic and a populace they consider increasingly fundamentalist (Orlando Weekly)
  
  
• Threats to burn Omieri put Christian views to test | Kenya's news-making gigantic python, Omieri, which three months ago appeared and received friendly treatment in a tiny village in Nyakach district in western Kenya, was recently in danger following threats by a section of Christians to burn it, saying it was "a symbol of the devil". The threat on the serpent's life has invoked sharp differences in opinion between old-time foes, Christians and traditionalists (African Church Information Service)

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