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• N.D. law forbids unmarried cohabitation | The state Senate has voted to keep a 113-year-old law that makes it a crime for unmarried couples to live together (Associated Press)

Music:

• Audio Adrenaline pumped up for Wayfest | The band has performed enough to know all the kinks and rough spots are worked out, yet it's still fresh and exciting for the band members (The Tennessean)
  
  
• All praise to Bob Dylan | Top gospel artists record folk-rocker's sacred music (The Toledo [Oh.] Blade)
  
  
• Singing God's songs | Top draw Bill Gaither, other Christian music stars often toil in obscurity (The Denver Post)
  
  
• All stops out to find players of mightiest instrument | But organist Mark Quarmby warns that young music students' unfamiliarity with the instrument may turn what is considered the finest 19th-century Romantic concert organ in the world into a silent antique within a generation (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Movies and TV:

• Easter fare that doesn't star Charlton Heston | Many of the new shows are taking a livelier approach to ancient history, complete with reenactments and eager historians trying to breathe new life into some of Christianity's most familiar figures (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• "Last Temptation" reaches Chile at last | Fifteen years after its release, Chile has finally had its premier public showing of Martin Scorsese's controversial film "The Last Temptation of Christ." (Reuters)

Crime:

• Briton 'admits' Vietnam murder | A Briton could be shot by a firing squad after reportedly admitting cutting a UK priest's throat in Vietnam (BBC)
  
  
• 'Ministry' detailed at McAnlis' tax trial | It was called the Universal Life Church, and it was used by golf architect and accused tax scofflaw Theodore McAnlis to get a property tax exemption during the 1980s, an IRS agent testified at his trial on Thursday (Palm Beach Post)

Clergy sex abuse:

• A loss for the archdiocese | The archdiocese of Boston, by refusing a contribution from Voice of the Faithful, is putting the prerogatives of its bishop over the needs of people served by Catholic social services (Editorial, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Law to keep priests' cases alive is signed | The measure freezes the statute of limitations on scores of molestation probes in the L.A. area (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• State enters fray on access to priests' files | California freezes clock for statute of limitations in child sexual abuse cases (The Washington Post)

Catholicism:

• Vatican rep urges better Orthodox ties | We are searching for and finding ways to mutual understanding," papal nuncio Archbishop Antonio Mennini said during a Moscow meeting with Berel Lazar, one of Russia's chief rabbis (Associated Press)
  
  
• Papal address to bishops of Indonesia (full text, Zenit.org)
  
  
• Pope said to make sixth trek to Mexico in 2004 | Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez said after a meeting with Mexican President Vicente Fox that the pope had recently expressed his intention to attend the International Eucharistic Congress (Reuters)

Other stories of interest:

• Thomas Nelson Publishers takes top share in survey | Thomas Nelson Publishers scored the largest marketshare among industry publishers with 19.8 percent of revenue and 17.3 percent of units sold, a survey of sales trends in the Christian retail market shows (Nashville Business Journal)
  
  
• Religion news in brief | United Methodists will debate homosexual conduct again, Canada's Anglicans are debating it now, Catholic-Episcopal talks continue, and other stories (Associated Press)

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