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• Ex-priest's letter is key to his arrest | A former Roman Catholic priest who allegedly impregnated a teenage parishioner and paid for her abortion 21 years ago was arrested Thursday. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Church to check backgrounds | It plans to investigate coaches, tutors, helpers (Detroit Free Press)
  
  
• Ex-pastor accused of sexually assaulting girl | Alfredo Julio Cesar Aguilar is the former pastor of Cristo es la Roca church, a Hispanic ministry that operates out of the Evangelical Free Church of Wauconda (The Daily Herald, Chicago suburbs)

Crime:

• Threats, abuse, 'Stockholm syndrome' pondered in girl's case | It isn't clear whether Elizabeth was being indoctrinated into some strange new religion (The Denver Post)
  
  
• Also: Self-styled prophets often favor polygamy | Once again, the LDS church, more commonly known as the Mormon Church, finds itself explaining its history of a practice most people find repugnant (The Denver Post)
  
  
• Norway pastor repeated car theft victim | Since Stig Laegdene started preaching in Tromso, his 1986 Saab 900 has been stolen seven times. It's typically returned—or someone tells him where to pick it up—the next day after word gets out about its owner (Associated Press)

Church life:

May your lips be spared evil of cup-borne nasties | Church goers may be getting more than the symbolic body and blood of Christ when they line up for Holy Communion on Sunday, says a new report (The Sydney Morning Herald)

• Poor Christians are deluded by 'grab it' gospel | An authoritative report by the Evangelical Alliance, an umbrella organization for Britain's evangelical Churches, raises concerns about teachings that if the believer gives a sum of money to the preacher, God will multiply it by a hundred times or more in favor of the giver (The Times, London)
  
  
• Cleric condemns rising claims of miraculous healings | A cleric of the Anglican Church, Reverend Olu Odejimi has condemned the act of the so called miraculous healings now fast gaining ground among the new churches. (This Day, Lagos)

Missions and ministry:

• Palau brings faith with fervency as Beachfest heads to S. Florida | A two-mile stretch of sand, once a haven for scantily clad Spring Breakers, will be transformed into stages for Christian rock bands, with areas for games, skateboarding and wall climbing—and give Luis Palau one of his largest platforms yet (Sun-Sentinel, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.)
  
  
• Also: Christian outreach planned for Beachfest (Sun-Sentinel, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.)
  
  
• Race to bring Christians together | Two local women encourage all area Christians to walk the walk or - even better - run it. (The Shreveport [La.] Times)
  
  
• Missionary headed for Thailand to spread word | Michael Wrang became interested in working on a mission in southeast Asia two years ago, after he and his wife, Elsy, traveled to Vietnam to adopt their son (Associated Press)
  
  
• Salvation Army heaped in trash | Group spends $20,000 every month in East Bay taking useless, ransacked donations to the dump (The Argus, Pleasanton, CA)

Books:

• Agents of change | Once a novelty, religion agents are now established and expanding services (Publishers Weekly)
  
  
• Rare Bible catches eyes of antiques appraisers | Werner Schultz of Newtown values the intellectual worth of a rare German Bible more than the millions he could probably get by selling it. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Author illuminates early abolitionist | Little-known in America, Wilberforce was the Abraham Lincoln of England, working decades to abolish slavery, a goal realized three days before his death in 1833 (The Boston Globe)

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