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Missions and ministries:

• Missionary volunteers are growing in ranks | Many see benefits for others, but also see benefits for themselves (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Ministering to men on the move | Chaplain, volunteers tend to transient flock at truck stop, wives via internet (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Messianic Judaists to convene in Kansas City (Kansas City Star)
  
  
• Bikers For Christ burning rubber across the tri-state to save lost souls | Dale Bolling and his wife Nessa, a hairdresser, researched dozens of motorcycle ministries before deciding to start a Bikers For Christ chapter in Dothan in the spring of 2002 (The Dothan Eagle, Ala.)
  
  
• With hymns, prayers, Hong Kong Christians demonstrate against soccer betting | Praying that Hong Kong will avoid what they call the evils of soccer gambling, about two dozen Christians on Tuesday began an all-night vigil outside legislative chambers (Associated Press)
  
  
• Aid agencies put pressure on Malawi churches over gender rights | Norwegian Church Aid and Danish Church Aid threaten to pull funding unless churches "respect the rights of women and other vulnerable groups" (African Church Information Service)
  
  
• Foundation supports kicking the habit | Christian Community Youth Against Drugs Foundation graduates 29 former addicts (The Times-Picayune, New Orleans)
  
  
• Teens let their light shine at midnight in park | The Conference on Evangelizing Black America's youth evangelism rally attracted between 300 and 400 teens and preteens—both white and black (The Roanoke Times, Va.)
  
  
• Archdiocese will dedicate center to aid immigrants | While the new influx is helping the Catholic Church grow, the church is facing increased competition from Pentecostal and evangelical churches that have made inroads in winning over Hispanic Catholics (The Denver Post)
  
  

• Piety with a punch line | Brad Stine can be as edgy as the best of them, but he feels comedy has a higher calling (The Orlando Sentinel\)
  
  
• Magic with a mission | Magician Danny Ray has no illusions about his message (Redlands Daily Facts, Calif.)
  
  

Vacation Bible school:

• Bible school in a box | Big demand for creative programming (The Washington Post)
  
  
• The ABCs of VBS | This summer tradition features creative curriculum, eager children and hard-working volunteers (Knoxville News-Sentinel)
  
  

Mother Teresa®:

• Nuns seek to copyright Mother Teresa's name | Missionaries of Charity trying to stop other organizations — from banks to business schools — trying to cash in on the Nobel peace laureate's image worldwide (Reuters)
  
  

• Nuns seek Mother Teresa copyright (BBC)
  
  
• Copyright sought on Mother Teresa's name, nuns' logo (AFP)
  
  

Deaths:

• Raphael I Bidawid, spiritual leader of Iraqi Chaldean Catholics, dies at 81 | The cause of death was not announced (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Disabled woman dies while trying to escape fire | She was an evangelical Christian, and neighbors often saw her walking slowly away from her house, on her way to preach or give food to people up and down 86th Street (The New York Times)
  
  
• Tom Green, Christian television program producer, dies at 55 | Was best known as the host of the "Lightmusic" video show and as co-creator of "His Place," a soap opera and talk show set in a diner (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  

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