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Persecution:

• 2 Pakistani Christians' life terms upheld | "There is no evidence that the Quran was burnt," said Shahbaz Bhatti, president of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance. "The police falsely implicated them in the case when they refused to pay the bribe." (Associated Press)
  
  
• Christians surveyed in India | According to Indian Express, Gujarat police has again started a survey of Christian localities (Pakistan Tribune)
  
  
• China regrets U.S. religious rights monitor's trip pullout | China's foreign ministry put the cancellation down to "technical reasons" and said it hoped the trip could be rescheduled (AFP)
  
  

Crime:

• Pastor arrested over priest's murder | A Pentecostal pastor with the Grace of God Mission, Oroma-Etiti, Anambra West Local Government Area of Anambra State, Pastor Ugwumba, is now cooling his heels in police custody for allegedly having a hand in the murder of a Catholic priest at the Holy Cross Catholic Church in the area, Rev. Fr Gilbert Ohai (This Day, Lagos, Nigeria)
  
  
• Divinity school student prosecuted in Moscow court | More than four months after police seized him in a Moscow airport with $48,000 in American cash in his bags, Harvard Divinity School student Andrew Okhotin saw his day in court Wednesday, but the four-hour hearing ended without any verdict on the smuggling charge leveled against him (The Harvard Crimson)
  
  
• We're all victims now! | Plea bargain in anti-Christian shooting raises questions about fairness of hate-crime laws (O.C. Weekly)
  
  
• Church hopes Solomons militants will follow Keke's lead | A Solomon Islands religious leader says the surrender of rebel leader, Harold Keke, could see other militants follow suit (Radio Australia)
  
  

Other stories of interest:

• State's 1st Christian convert honored | Henry 'Opukaha'ia died in 1818 in Cornwall, Conn. His conversion to Christianity and his memoirs, published after his death, are credited with inspiring the first Christian missionaries to set out for Hawaii (Hawaii Tribune Herald, Hilo)
  
  
• A mighty wind | Talking about the weather, with a slightly higher authority (Steve Mirsky, Scientific American)
  
  
• Dallas is a battleground for body and soul | After speaking on tour about my recently published book, Eve's Revenge: Women and a Spirituality of the Body, I sometimes get the comment, "And you're from Dallas?" (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Christians return to native Turkey | The government has helped resettle Syrian Orthodox member in their home villages (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• How to mean well and give grave offence | When Lancashire farmer Peter Bennett bought a remote smallholding in the Scottish Borders, he hoped to provide a place of peaceful, Christian retreat. Instead, he sparked a holy war (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• On a mission | Activist Randall Terry continues his crusade from St. Augustine (St. Augustine Record, Fla.)
  
  
• Perkins to take helm of Christian group | Tony Perkins will receive salary "in the neighborhood" of $220,000 to be spokesman for Family Research Council (The Shreveport Times, La.)
  
  

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