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• Radical plans for all-male 'province' within the Church of England | Radical plans to create a traditionalist Church-within-a-Church for opponents of women bishops are being drawn up by legal experts after the Archbishop of Canterbury expressed sympathy for the idea (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Churches escape licensing reforms | Churches are to be made exempt from licensing reforms which critics claimed would have led to carol singers being criminalized (BBC)
  
  
• Also: Churches win fight for licensing exemption (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Also: U-turn lets church off concert fees (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• State of black church is seminar topic | Radio program host will lead Detroit event (Detroit Free Press)

Missions and ministry:

• Late missionary touched lives here, abroad | Hannah Renee Showaker, 24, died in a flash flood in Indonesia while on a missionary assignment (The Sentinel, Carlisle, Pa.)
  
  
• Almighty strength | Power Team will share message in Shoals (Times Daily, Northwest Indiana)
  
  
• Not all missionary work is far away—some needs are met in Hollywood | A program called City Dwellers puts young adult Christians in a communal setting, from which they help their neighbors (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Christian Medical Association releases guide for missions workers | PDA version available for download (Kingsport [Tenn.] Times-News)
  
  
• Evangelists bring message to West Side | 1,000 from Texas and Mexico are attending the Hispanic Baptist Evangelism Conference at Trinity Baptist Church (San Antonio Express-News)
  
  
• Let there be lightness | Burt Rosenberg makes 'em laugh, think & get buddy-buddy with god (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Faithful ponder stewardship of the planet | An environmental movement is sweeping churches, synagogues and mosques (The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.)

India:

• Chief Minister urged to protect missionaries in Kerala | All India Christian Council alleged that the State Government had succumbed to the pressure of the Union Government, which was blindly following what it termed as the "racist and communalist agenda'' of the RSS and other fundamentalist groups (Kerala Next, India)
  
  
• Also: Christian group warns about RSS inroads into Kerala  (Kerala Next, India)
  
  
• Also: Christian body slams govt in Cooper case (Kerala Next, India)
  
  
• Why isn't the media accountable? | Why isn't the media reporting that Australian missionary Graham Staines was evil and that his murderers were heroes? (Arvind Lavakare, Rediff.com)

Life ethics:

• Bill banning 'partial-birth' endorsed | Bill seeks to avoid constitutional challenges that have plagued earlier late-term abortion bills by avoiding any reference to the word abortion. (The Roanoke [Va.] Times)
  
  
• Abortion bill clears Georgia Senate committee | House Democrats say they don't intend to hear controversial legislation that would require a 24-hour waiting period (Savannah Morning News)
  
  
• Teacher apologizes for abortion discussion | Math teacher had students divide the 40 million abortions of the past 30 years by the 45,000-seat capacity of Safeco Field, and do the same with the number of Jews (6 million) who died in the Holocaust (The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.)

• Trimester trimming | The media's elastic interpretations of Roe v. Wade (Tim Graham, National Review Online)
  
  
• Inside a Crisis Pregnancy Center | Lessons learned about bad fathers, young mothers, despair, and hope (Eve Tushnet, The Weekly Standard)

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