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• Putting biblical principles to work | Job-searching, soul-searching go together in this ministry for the unemployed (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Brazil's Lula appeals to pope on hunger | "For us it will always be of fundamental importance to continue counting on the support, the participation and the critical conscience of the Church … in ending an unjust society model … that contradicts the elementary beginnings of humanism and of Christianity," president  wrote (UPI)
  
  
• X-treme faith | Skateboards, rock bands, street festivals—religious groups woo the MTV generation (The Miami Herald)
  
  
• Residents fear 'covenant' | Reverend wants to turn old school into treatment center for ex-prisoners (Mansfield [Oh.] News-Journal)

Clergy sex abuse:

• Bishops to play no role in sex abuse inquiries | The recommendation is included in a draft document outlining new national protocols for handling clergy sex abuse expected to be released by the church's national Child Protection Committee in July (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Priest, church seek post-controversy life | The new priest at St. Peter's, which formed from an acrimonious split at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Mountain Brook last year, is poised to help move the upstart congregation beyond the controversy that led to its founding (The Birmingham News)
  
  
• Sexual misconduct allegations brought against deceased pastor | Adult woman filed the allegations with the St. Paul Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America before pastor was diagnosed with disease (East Central Minnesota Post Review)
  
  
• Judge lays into priest pedophile | "You took her spiritual life away," says Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Albert Tomei (New York Post)
  
  
• Sex abuse bill sent to floor of Minnesota Senate| Would allow victims of child sex abuse to sue their abusers as long as six years after discovering the link between the abuse and the injury it caused (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
  
  
• California Senate panel OKs bill to extend priest case deadline | The measure would allow more time to file charges as court settles dispute with diocese (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Church services reach out to gays | Three Presbyterian Church (USA) congregations in Pittsburgh host services intended to welcome "gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered Christians to worship" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Redemption key to church defense | Religious freedom argument has been raised throughout the country, with varying results (The Boston Globe)

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