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• Downsized Bakker returns to TV pulpit in Branson, Mo. | Today, the nation's most famous fallen electronic preacher is in Branson, Mo., the family entertainment capital of America's Bible Belt. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
  
  
• Popular TV preachers | Following is an alphabetical list of a new wave of popular word-faith ministers who have used television to build large followings. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
  
  

The return of Henry Lyons:

• Minister returns to pulpit after prison | The Rev. Henry J. Lyons walked out of prison Sunday morning and headed directly back to the pulpit, telling worshippers he had erred but that time behind bars helped renew his faith (Associated Press)
  
  
• 'I have truly, truly repented' | With his prison term behind him Rev. Henry J. Lyons returns to the pulpit promising to work for forgiveness from former followers (St. Petersburg Times)
  
  
• Lyons preaches again as he walks free (Tampa Tribune)
  
  
• Lyons grateful for his freedom (The Ledger, Lakeland, Fla.)
  
  

Operation Christmas Child:

• Co-op cuts Christmas box link with US charity | Bibles and anti-Islamic remarks trigger split with evangelical group (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Co-op cut charity links over Muslim slur | Thousands of people in Norfolk have previously taken part in the annual Operation Christmas Child by filling decorated shoeboxes with presents for children in the Third World (Evening News)
  
  
• 'Lost Boy' remembers shoebox gift | N.C. resident sends own box to Sudan (Associated Press)
  
  
• No religious overtones to Christmas gifts | The Island co-ordinator for a charity which sends Christmas gifts to needy children around the world insists no attempt is made to influence their religious beliefs (Isle of Man Online, U.K.)
  
  

Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ :

• Gibson, Rev. Graham Talk About the 'Passion' | Mel Gibson made a pilgrimage last month to show his new film, "The Passion of the Christ," to Rev. Billy Graham and to discuss the actor's decade-long spiritual journey that inspired him. (Zap2it.com)
  
  
• The Gospel according to Mel | Anti-Semitic or 'one of the best Jesus films'? Controversy swirls around 'The Passion' (National Catholic Reporter)
  
  
• Evangelist Billy Graham screens Gibson's film | 'The Passion of the Christ' - A lifetime of sermons in one movie (press release)
  
  
• Mel Gibson delays Vatican screening of Jesus film | Bishops and cardinals waiting for a special Vatican screening of a controversial Mel Gibson film about Jesus Christ are going to have to wait a little longer, the Hollywood star has told them (Reuters)
  
  
• Mel Gibson pulls 'Passion' from festival | Mel Gibson has pulled "The Passion of Christ," depicting Jesus on screen, from a Vatican-sponsored film festival—because his movie is not ready (CNN)
  
  
• Graham defends Gibson's film about Christ | "The film is faithful to the Bible's teaching that we are all responsible for Jesus' death, because we all have sinned," the 85-year-old evangelist said. "It is our sins that caused his death, not any particular group." (Associated Press)
  
  
• Senior rabbi: Don't boycott Gibson's Passion | James Rudin, who is the American Jewish Committee's senior adviser on interreligious affairs, has seen a rough cut of the film and said Jewish leaders should use it as an example of how Christ's death has been used to stoke up anti-semitism (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Mel Gibson, feminist | One of the truths in The Passion of Christ. (Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online)
  
  

Film:

• 'Gospel of John' is especially poignant | Two ministers gauge film (Los Angeles Times)
  
  

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