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• Faith leaders gather to coordinate HIV/Aids activities | Over 150 faith leaders from various beliefs gathered in Johannesburg today to further a national faith-sector initiative in the fight against HIV/AIDS (BuaNews, Pretoria, South Africa)
  
  
• AIDS is God's challenge, says South African health minister | "Perhaps HIV and Aids is God's way of challenging us to care for our people, to support the dying and to appreciate the gift of life," Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said (The Guardian, London)

Vatican sex glossary:

• Vatican's last word on safe sex - No | A new "ethical glossary" issued by the Vatican warns against safe sex and says that condoms do not protect against sexually transmitted diseases (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Italian gays blast Vatican's new sex glossary | A controversial new Vatican glossary of sexual terms says homosexuals are not normal and that countries which allow gay marriages are inhabited by people with "profoundly disordered minds." (Reuters)
  
  
• New church glossary angers gay community | Just a day after the release, gay groups were calling the 900-page glossary "vicious" and "irresponsible" (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• Outrage at Vatican ethics dictionary | The Vatican published an ethical dictionary yesterday saying homosexuality has "no social value", warning against concepts such as "safe sex" and "reproductive health" and insisting that condoms don't protect against sexually transmitted diseases (The Guardian, London)

Books:

• Paradise on Earth | A close reading of the pope's surprisingly secular poetry (Slate.com)
  
  
• An ex-priest bears witness to his former vocation | One could call The Other Side of the Altar a memoir, but that would not do justice to the wisdom and reach in author Paul Dinter's interpretation of the Roman Catholic Church (Jason Berry, Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Kirk faces unholy row over English hymn cull | Selecting the 750 hymns to be included in the new edition has taken eight years and resulted in 250 being dropped, the majority of them from England (Scotland on Sunday)
  
  
• Faith in numbers 'blooming' at local churches | But who's counting? The Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches, that's who (The Jackson [Tenn.] Sun)
  
  
• Protestant witness for Pius XII | Real historians will soon refute the likes of Harvard's Daniel Goldhagen and John Cornwell, the author of the scandalous book, Hitler's Pope (Uwe Siemon-Netto, UPI)

Other stories of interest:

• Could U.S. 666 Be a highway to hell? | New Mexico state lawmakers want to change highway's designation (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Pepsi says Gonzalez was wrong to kick its can | Fayetteville City Councilwoman called for boycott over Dr. Pepper's "One Nation … Indivisible" tag (The Fayetteville [N.C.] Observer)
  
  
• People claim to see image in Peckville | Marian apparition on basketball backboard (WNEP, Scranton, Penn.)
  
  
• A Salvadoran town's dream rises slowly from the rubble | In San Agustin, devastated by 2001 quake, 'We are reborn' (The Washington Post)

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