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"He would have had an uphill battle to provide leadership for the college in the present climate," Vice President for Academic Affairs David Reese told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

As for Elliott, Reese says, "I don't think there will be any repercussions against him, but some students were upset because they like the president and didn't want to see anything that would harm the president. I believe he is a sincere young man who was just trying to do his job as a journalist."

1. Lutheran panel reinstates official | Benke was accused of praying with pagans (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
   
   
2. Lutheran minister's suspension overturned (The Journal News, N.Y.)
   
   
3. Lutheran panel clears minister of heresy charge (Chicago Tribune)
   
   
4. Minister's suspension over 9/11 service lifted (The Washington Post)

1. Some Christian humanitarian groups put Bush administration in difficult position | The two groups being viewed with the greatest amount of skepticism by American Muslims are the Southern Baptist Convention and "Samaritan's Purse", both of which are made up of some of President Bush's most loyal constituents (Voice of America)
   
   
2. Baptists in Iraq | Interviews with Al Mohler and Charles Kimball (Fresh Air, NPR)
   
   
3. Shi'a power worries Christian minority | Christian women say they've been harassed by Shi'a men for walking on the street without head scarves, and priests complain that Shi'a clerics inflame religious hatred by calling for the expulsion from Iraq of "nonbelievers." (The Star-Ledger, N.J.)
   
   
4. Jesuits are hoping to reclaim a school | Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party expelled Baghdad College's 33 priests in 1969 and seized the school in retaliation for what it saw as America's pro-Israel policy in the aftermath of the Six-Day War (The Boston Globe)
   
   
5. Protestant social ethics expert assails religious doves who question U.S. war policy (Associated Press)

1. Christian claims discrimination by Burger King | A practicing Christian claims fast food chain Burger King discriminated against him by ending a job interview after he said his religious beliefs meant he could not work on Sundays (The Dominion Post, New Zealand)
   
   
2. Also: Christian claims bias over job (The New Zealand Herald)
   
   
3. Blair gives religious employers the right to sack gay workers | Equal rights campaigners were furious when they discovered that regulations intended to combat discrimination in the workplace contain wide-ranging exemptions for any employer "with an ethos based on religion or belief" (The Independent, London)
   
   
4. Back gays or face the sack | A Merseyside council threatened workers with the sack over their religious opposition to gay adoption (Daily Post, Liverpool, U.K.)

1. Religious leaders vow to fight stigma, discrimination | Leaders of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Islamic Affairs Supreme Council and the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Makane Yesus were brought together here last Wednesday on the occasion of the National Religious AIDS Week (Addis Tribune, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
   
   
2. Also: Ethiopian religious leaders unite in battle against AIDS | Leaders from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the chairman of the Islamic Affairs Supreme Council and the president of the Evangelical Church combined to combat the virus during a news conference earlier this week (UN Integrated Regional Information Networks)
   
   

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