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Our earlier coverage of persecution in Saudi Arabia and what the U.S. should do about it includes:

1. Flogged and Deported | What you can do to help persecuted Christians in Saudi Arabia (May 7, 2002)
   
   
2. How to Confront a Theocracy | The most effective way to address human rights in Saudi Arabia may be to let Muhammad do the talking (Jeff M. Sellers, July 3, 2002)
   
   
3. Speaking Out: The USCIRF Is Only Cursing the Darkness | The increasingly irrelevant U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom seems intent on attacking even those countries making improvements (Robert A. Seiple, Oct. 16, 2002)
   
   
4. Speaking Out: USCIRF's Concern Is To Help All Religious Freedom Victims | The chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom responds to Robert Seiple's claims that it is "only cursing the darkness." (Felice Gaer, Nov. 7, 2002)
   
   
5. Cry Freedom | Forget "quiet diplomacy"—it doesn't work (Michael Horowitz, Feb. 26, 2003)
   
   
6. Full of Sound & Fury | Polemics at home and abroad does not prevent religious persecution. (T. Jeremy Gunn, Feb. 27, 2003)
   
   
7. We Must Never Be Silent About Suffering | The CT religious rights debate continues (Michael Horowitz, Apr. 7, 2003)
   
   
8. Diplomacy, Not Denunciation, Saves Lives | The CT religious rights debate concludes (T. Jeremy Gunn, Apr. 8, 2003)

A Yemeni court was bombed today, leaving a judge and three others injured. It's the same court where Abed Abdul Razak Kamel was sentenced to death Saturday for killing three Southern Baptist missionaries in late December, but the harmed judge wasn't the one who passed sentence. Police have a suspect who has reportedly confessed, It's not certain that the courtroom attack is directly related to Kamel's sentencing.

"The Commission has grown increasingly concerned about abuses of religious freedom in India," says yesterday's report. Now it has one more reason to be concerned. A group of 10 to 15 youths attacked a Christian meeting in Dharwad, injuring at least two. As is common in an increasingly militant Hindu state, the Christians are being portrayed as the villains in the story.

1. The spiritual "Matrix" | Perhaps the most pertinent references are to Gnosticism (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
   
   
2. Also: How deep does the lie go? | Like the rabbit hole in 'Alice in Wonderland,' the virtual world of 'The Matrix' is again set to trap audiences in a web of unreality (The Indianapolis Star)
   
   
3. Also: Forget sci-fi and guns - The Matrix is really about religion (BBC)
   
   
4. Also: Sci-fi offerings prey on our fears but offer a sort of religious hope, too (The State, S.C.)
   
   
5. God is still ready for his close-up | God is not dead in Hollywood, but he's been feeling awfully funny lately (The New York Times)

1. Our religious beliefs: less formal, more diverse | Catholicism still leads, but the number of non-Christian adherents is growing sharply (Vancouver Sun)
   
   
2. Canada has 20,000 Jedis: Census (CBC)
   
   
3. Canadians losing their religion | 16% of population say they have no religious affiliation (The National Post, Canada)
   
   
4. Christians dominate New Brunswick's religious fabric (Saint John Telegraph-Journal)
   
   
5. Religion on the rise in B.C., survey shows (Vancouver Sun)
   
   
6. Atheism growing across Canada, StatsCan shows | One in six declare themselves as without a religion (The Toronto Star)

1. Funeral held for man linked to poisonings | The police report no new developments as they continue to investigate (Portland Press Herald)
   
   

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