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• Head Start flim-flam | Thousands of Head Start workers and volunteers could be displaced as Bush Administration claims faith-based organizations have 'religious hiring rights' (Bill Berkowitz, WorkingForChange.com)
  
  
• Not a leap of faith | The empirical case for faith-based social services (John J. DiIulio Jr., The Weekly Standard)
  
  

Courts and law:

• Long Island man convicted in killing of a priest and a parishioner | Peter J. Troy has argued he was the victim of a set-up (The New York Times)
  
  
• Keeping the faith | Law protect rights to wear religious items at work (Amarillo Globe-News, Tex.)
  
  
• Woman who wore cross gets job back | School aide reinstated until Aug. 28 hearing (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• £350,000 blow for church couple | The Law Lords agreed with the parish's claim that the Wallbanks are obliged to foot the bill for repairs to the chancel in the village on the basis that the Wallbanks' farm is rectorial property (BBC, audio)
  
  
• Man uses strict faith as defense | Husband says woman shouldn't be defendant in breast-feeding case (The Beacon Journal, Ohio)
  
  

Education:

• Paige Patterson boldly takes Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary reins | Patterson has been president of the smaller Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., for 11 years (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Tex.)
  
  
• Also: Baptist leader takes Texas position (The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.)
  
  
• Also: Fort Worth seminary picks Patterson | Conservative was sole candidate for post at Southwestern Baptist (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Professor steeped in religion | Statues, crucifixes and other objects adorn every room of religious studies professor Susan Kwilecki's house (The Roanoke Times, Va.)
  
  

Politics:

• Low-income child tax credit must wait, Republicans say | Republican Senate leaders said there would be no agreement with the House this month to increase the child tax credit for 6.5 million low-income families (The New York Times)
  
  
• Young Latinos: strong believers | Figure this one out: the very young are religious and ethically as conservative as the first generation of immigrants; yet they identify predominantly with the Democratic Party (Uwe Siemon-Netto, UPI)
  
  
• Lutheran clergy denied visas for Winnipeg forum | Immigration Minister asks for review (National Post, Canada)
  
  

Religious liberty and human rights abuses:

• China denies mistreating Christian leader | Ministry of Justice says Gong Shengliang is in good health and hasn't been tortured (Associated Press)
  
  
• Unclear evidence on Viet tolerance | Religious tensions simmer in highlands (The Mercury News, San Jose, Calif.)
  
  
• Missionary to return to Yemen after terrorist attack | Donald W. Caswell, who was shot and wounded last year, said he and his family hoped to return to Yemen by Aug. 1 (Associated Press)
  
  

• A challenge in India snarls foreign adoptions | Indian law allows only Hindus and Buddhists to adopt; Christians, Muslims and Jews in India may only become guardians (The New York Times)
  
  
• The fight against genocide and slavery | Sudan's government breaks faith with President Bush (Nat Hentoff, The Washington Times)
  
  

Sexual ethics:

• Clergymen threaten to shun first gay bishop | More than 30 church leaders, including five bishops from Britain and abroad, said last night that they would not recognise the authority of the first openly homosexual bishop in the Church of England if his appointment was confirmed. (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Dr. John: I am not driven by a liberal agenda | The full text of Canon Jeffrey John's statement on his nomination and appointment as Bishop of Reading, and the issues being hotly debated in the Church as a result (Reading Chronicle, Berkshire, England)
  
  

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