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Politics and law:

• Activist challenges the use of churches as polling places | ''In order to vote, you basically had to bow before the cross,'' Rob Meltzer said. ''I was sick for a week.'' (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Christian Association of Nigeria urges Christians to vote | Urges against election boycott despite its Holy Saturday scheduling (This Day, Lagos, Nigeria)
  
  
• Also: Christian Association of Nigeria accepts April 19 date for polls (Vanguard, Lagos, Nigeria)
  
  
• Not an issue to be legislated | School prayer bill should be killed (Editorial, South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
  
  
• Liberia bans street preaching | A justice ministry press release cited security reasons for the ban but gave no more details (BBC)
  
  
• Specter seeks support from religious right | He faces a conservative challenger in his 2004 re-election campaign (Fox News)

Music:

• Manson concert inspires Christian band frontman | Skillet's live show is a mix of industrial rock concert and prayer meeting (Chillicothe [Oh.] Gazette)
  
  
• Let sleeping Pope lie, McCartney warned | Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney has been told to keep the volume down when he gets to Rome in May for fear of disturbing the ageing Pope (Reuters)
  
  
• A case of Morder | Death-metal vocalist faces life for an alleged Christian hate crime (Orange County Weekly, link via Holy Weblog)

Pop culture:

• Mel's Jesus not everybody's messiah | Moviemakers know that a dose of pre-release controversy can work wonders for their films at the box office. But even such modern marketing techniques don't quite explain the flak Mel Gibson is drawing over the film he is making based on the final hours in the life of Jesus (Chris McGillion, The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Some churches want schools to ban 'Harry Potter' | Activist Antonio Rivera did not specify which churches, but described them as "Reformed Protestant" (New Haven Register)
  
  
• Vegetables dish up story of Jonah | Giving children the chance to enjoy stories from the Bible with the help of a bunch of animated edible plants is a prime goal of Big Idea Productions (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Chapel jitters for Russell Crowe | Crowe has made the building a nondenominational place of worship, embracing many different beliefs from Christianity to Maori lore and the ancient Nordic religion represented by Odin's cross (Sydney Morning Herald)

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