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• Guess who doesn't believe in God? | Ten percent of Protestants, 21 percent of Roman Catholics, and 52 percent of Jews do NOT believe in God (CNN)
  
  
• Top Christian cleric seeks to build bridges with Indians in U.K. | Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams paid a visit to the Shree Sanatan Mandir in Catherine Street where an estimated 30 per cent of the population is of Indian origin. (Rediff.com, India)
  
  
• Denmark to accept Norse god marriages | State will let a group that worships Thor, Odin and other Norse gods conduct legally-recognized marriages (Associated Press)
  
  
• Local bishop steps into national leadership role | Thomas Hoyt is the new president of the National Council of Churches (Shreveport Times, La.)
  
  
• Soviet general: 'God truly exists because he saved my life' | Vyacheslav Borisov was the only one who cried out for God's mercy as his helicopter crashed into the Panjsher Mountains in Afghanistan in 1984 - and he's the only one who survived (The Tallahassee Democrat, Fla.)
  
  
• State senator denies blaming mental illness on sin and demons | But several mental health advocates say state Sen. D. Nick Rerras has twice during the past four years expressed extreme and insensitive positions about the origins of mental illness, including the belief that psychological disorders are caused by spiritual demons (The Virginian-Pilot)
  
  
• God's servants | An All Saints' Day primer on sainthood (Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.)
  
  
• Safe or satanic? | Church leaders argue over Freemasonry (Jamaica Gleaner)
  
  
• Mormon church seeks to toss block suit | The Mormon church on Wednesday asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a land deal with the city that allows the church to regulate behavior on a downtown block. (Associated Press)
  
  

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