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• Records show Moores received money for car, home security | David Moore calls records inaccurate (The Desert Sun)
  
  
• Minister plans career shift | Desert clergyman who resigned under fire defends his reputation (The Press-Enterprise)
  
  
• Moore embarks on new path | Former pastor of Southwest tells 2,000 at polo grounds he won't start a new church (The Desert Sun)
  
  
• Church dispute spawns split | The ex-pastor will meet with supporters. Church leaders inspect finances (The Press-Enterprise)

Sports:

• Birds of Pray | Many Eagles players share their faith, and look to the divine - not for intervention, but inspiration (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• Soccer row over sign of the cross | Under controversial proposals designed to tackle sectarianism north of the border, MSPs are advising police to crack down on the religious gesture when it is used "provocatively" by players or fans to rile opponents (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Also: Church in religious gesture warning | Any proposal to prosecute people for making the sign of the cross at football matches would be "absurd and unworkable", according to the Scottish Catholic Church (BBC)
  
  
• Ex-Gators lineman ascends to new pulpit | His says his youth as a ''big sinner'' and his ministry to farm workers and prisoners prepared him for a senior pastor post (St. Petersburg Times)

Iraq:

• Blair's holy war on the home front | The new archbishop is set to lead opposition to attacking Iraq (Mark Lawson, The Guardian, London)
  
  
• U.S.A. Churches delegation concludes visit to Iraq | American threats called illegal and unchristian (Arabic News)
  
  
• Pope 'deeply worried' amid possible Iraq war, Vatican official says | "Unilateralism is not acceptable," says Archbishop Renato Martino, prefect of the Council for Justice and Peace and the Holy See's former U.N. envoy (Associated Press)
  
  
• Catching the eye of the godless blinds the wise men | Western church leaders are opposing war against Iraq but some are going too far (Mark Steyn, The Sydney Morning Herald)

Life ethics:

• Abortion rights group plans a new focus | The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League is planning a multimillion-dollar campaign to try to make abortion a critical issue in the 2004 presidential election (The New York Times)
  
  
• More calls to police cloning | Company's claims of a second cloned baby are renewing efforts to ban the practice in U.S. (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Cash offer to fertility clinics 'creates market in embryos' | The Medical Research Council (MRC), which is setting up the UK Stem Cell Bank to store cells for spare body parts, has written to selected IVF clinics offering them money to pay for a nurse co-ordinator who would encourage patients to donate their embryos for stem-cell research (Sunday Herald, Glasgow, Scotland)

Christmas and Epiphany:

• In pictures: Orthodox Christmas Eve | Christmas Eve is being marked in the former Soviet Union, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa by Orthodox Christians who follow the Julian calendar (BBC)
  
  
• Egypt makes Christmas a national holiday, highlighting uneasy Christian-Muslim relationship | Muslims complain, Copts rejoice (Associated Press)
  
  
• Taking up the cross | Greek Orthodox celebrate Epiphany with dive and dance (The Tampa Tribune)

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