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• Cambodian mob trashes Christian church | "Small casualties" reported (ABC News, Australia)
  
  
• Bishop faces anti-rebel probe | Colombian who helped free kidnap victims is now government target (The Washington Post)
  
  

Life ethics:

• Cleric opposes abortion call | Bishop Beneah Salalah of Anglican Church of Kenya Mumias Diocese said legalising abortion was tantamount to sanctioning murder (The East African Standard, Nairobi, Kenya)
  
  
• Abortion foes spark anxiety | Eight days of rallies planned at mosques and clinics (The Charlotte Observer)
  
  
• Judge continues Florence anti-abortion protesters case | jury drawn to hear a case against five members of an anti-abortion group was sent home Tuesday without hearing the first word of testimony when City Judge Donna Owens ordered the case continued until next month (Morning News, Florence, S.C.)
  
  

History:

• In search of Noah's Ark | He found the Titanic. Now Robert Ballard hunts the quarry of a lifetime (Newsweek International)
  
  
• Also: Scientists hunt for evidence of Noah's flood, examine ancient ships in Black Sea (Associated Press)
  
  
• Fighting for a chaplain's name | Bid to strike 1800s discipline gains Pr. George's support (The Washington Post)
  
  

Film:

• Internet reveals Gibson's brutal vision of Jesus | The first trailer of Mel Gibson's controversial version of the final days of Christ, called The Passion, was released over the internet yesterday with explicit images (The Glasgow Herald)
  
  
• Also: Trailers for The Passion (Moviebox.net)
  
  
• Fatalist blockbusters | Hollywood embraces inescapable destinies (Jim Geraghty, National Review Online)
  
  

Prayer and spirituality:

• Forgiving a violent attack | A shocking tale of forgiveness and repentance (The Charlotte Observer)
  
  
• Keeping the faith and seeing results | The "Max Miracle" (Cindy Trane Christeson, Daily Pilot/Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Catholic man says prayers for soldiers should end | Local resident protests church-sanctioned prayers for soldiers in Iraq, believes they conflict with the Catechism (Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Tex.)
  
  

Books:

• Far from pop's promised land | Behind the blues-versus-gospel feud: Robert Christgau reviews Arthur Kempton's Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Religion books | Segregation, sex and hats in church, plus an ethics lesson and a guided philosophical tour (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Rediscovering the lost world of early Christian Europe | A review of Peter Brown's The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000 (Michael Dirda, The Washington Post)
  
  
• A lawyer's mind channels Moses | The book jacket is enough to invite double takes — Moses: A Memoir (The New York Times)
  
  

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