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• Vatican irked by Christian omission | The Vatican has expressed its anger at the failure of those drafting a new constitution for the European Union to include a reference to Christianity in their working version of the document (BBC)
  
  
• God's place in Europe's future constitution | The debate on God and the E.U. constitution asks some basic questions on what it means to be European (Deutsche Welle, Germany)

Interfaith relations and other religions:

• Pushing the bias button | The Council on American-Islamic Relations and other lobbying groups are reporting a rising tide of anti-Muslim bigotry and a massive increase in anti-Arab crime in America. Obvious questions: What rising tide? What massive increase? (John Leo, U.S. News & World Report)
  
  
• Muslims—fellow believers | Here is a question as knotty as perhaps only a Yale divine can formulate it: How is a dialogue possible between "people to whom God became a book (meaning, the Koran which Muslims believe Allah dicated to Mohammed) and dwelt among them, and people who believe God became flesh and dwelt among them?" (Uwe Siemon-Netto, UPI)
  
  
• Anglican Church establishes Islamic center | Kaduna province of the Church of Nigeria establishes center with Barnabas Fund of the United Kingdom (This Day, Nigeria)

Sex and marriage:

• Blessed are the once married | The Catholic Church's position on denying remarried divorcees Holy Communion is anachronistic and inconsistent, Sydney's Catholic Archbishop, George Pell, has been told (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Marriage means different things to different religions | Couples still seek the blessing of their minister, priest, rabbi or imam (The Fayetteville Observer, N.C.)
  
  
• Bishops eye pastors to fight gay marriage | Want Catholics to press legislators for amendment (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Presbytery asked to discipline minister | Stephen Van Kuiken is being accused of blasphemy, heresy and not following the church order to stop performing the marriages (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
  
  
• Anglican heads 'at war' over gay marriages | In a development that will dismay the Archbishop of Canterbury, seven Anglican primates issued a "call to action" against the liberal Bishop of New Westminster, the Rt Rev Michael Ingham, who openly rebelled against the Church leadership last week by issuing a rite of same sex blessing (The Daily Telegraph, London)

Life ethics:

• Worth the fight | Senator Santorum tells the story of a C-SPAN miracle (Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online)
  
  
• Abortion doctor still missing | More than a week after the Valdosta Police Department sought warrants against Dr. Charles Rossmann for criminal abortion, investigators have still been unable to locate him amid speculation that he has left the country. (The Valdosta Daily Times, Ga.)
  
  
• Also: Doctor faces criminal abortion charge | But Rossmann appears to have abandoned his local medical practice, and the Georgia Medical Board suspended his license for allegedly attempting an illegal abortion (The Valdosta Daily Times, Ga.)
  
  
• A battle over the morning-after pill | Who should say whether a contraceptive can be made available at a state school? (Time)
  
  
• N.H. approves abortion consent bill | State was only in nation without any abortion regulations (The Washington Post)

Money and business:

• Baseball team makes pitch for faithful | Nashville Sounds score more fans by catering to Christians (Associated Press)
  
  
• Faith and fortune | Religious mutual funds pressure corporate America on cultural policies (ABCNews.com)
  
  
• Hark, Herald the angel | Justin Herald turned attitude, as in bad, into Attitude, as in brand, and made a fortune (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)

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