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• On an Indonesian island, a reverence for tolerance | The priests at the Roman Catholic seminary in Maumere, Indonesia, have redoubled their efforts to stress forbearance (The New York Times)
  
  
• Saudis won't allow churches on its land | On Thursday, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent federal agency, complained that a new State Department list of countries that severely limit religious freedom omits several that deserve censure, including U.S. ally Saudi Arabia (Associated Press)

Money and Business:

• Amid the action figures and trading cards, a niche of Christian children's toys grows | Five hundred years after miniature replicas of Noah's ark became the earliest play sets made available to children, religious children's toys fill store shelves by the boatload (Religion News Service)
  
  
• Antigua PM accuses religious organizations of unfair practices | Antigua Christian Council and the United Evangelical Association criticized (Antigua Sun)

Education:

• Wisconsin Lutheran College president to retire | Gary Greenfield built campus up over three decades (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
  
  
• Medical-accuracy bill at center of sex-ed skirmish | Proposition is a red flag for national groups such as the Abstinence Clearinghouse (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Other stories of interest:

• Program lets inmates find god on their terms | Coordinator believes `chrysalis' can help keep women out of prison (Associated Press)
  
  
• Family ordeal only strengthens Rivera's faith | For the Yankees' Mariano Rivera, baseball gives him a platform to spread God's message, and the birth of his third child has strengthened his faith even more (The New York Times)
  
  
• Language of Jesus clings to life | In a remote village in Syria, Aramaic is still spoken, but it is beginning to fade into memory as the modern world encroaches (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• U of T's new divinity student: Fired Hydro One chief | Eleanor Clitheroe came under fire last year for a multimillion-dollar pay packet (The National Post, Canada)
  
  
• New Age conservatives hate big government, eat organic | 'Crunchy con' trend has religious base (Religion News Service)
  
  
• Earlier: Birkenstocked Burkeans | Confessions of a granola conservative (Rod Dreher, National Review Online)

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