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• Silent smile | A new generation of pro-life activists is changing the debate (Shawn Macomber, The American Spectator)
  
  
• Abortion protesters take cause to street | Late-term bans by legislatures inspire some (Detroit Free Press)
  
  
• Lining up to fight abortion | Approximately 200 anti-abortion residents took to one of Hagerstown's busiest thoroughfares Sunday afternoon to peacefully spread their message to passing motorists (The Herald-Mail, Hagerstown, Md.)
  
  
• Local abortion opponents take to the street (The Holland Sentinel, Mich.)
  
  
• Parishioners line streets in St. Charles to protest abortion (Daily Herald, Chicago suburbs)
  
  
• Hundreds turn out for 14th annual Heart of Life Chain | Antiabortion demonstrators line up along Peoria streets, sidewalks (Peoria Journal Star, Ill.)
  
  
• Forging a chain for life | About 100 men, women and children promoted a pro-life message (Pocono Record, Pa.)
  
  
• Hundreds hit streets in anti-abortion vigil | More than 400 residents hit the streets yesterday in three Lawrence County communities to take part in Life Chain, a national pro-life vigil (New Castle News, Pa.)
  
  
• Chain makes a point about life | In Washington County and all across the nation people gathered Sunday to silently protest abortion (Marietta Times, Ga.)
  
  
• Pro-lifers 'not here to bash' | Throughout North America, Christians lined high-volume traffic routes, holding pro-life signs and praying for an end to legalized abortions (Brandon Sun, Manitoba)
  
  

Politics and law:

• Now it's just 'Bless America' on some city signs | To the dismay of some city employees, several signs in city hall bearing the message "God Bless America" underwent a make-over recently when City Attorney Chet Adams said the signs might be construed as a city-sanctioned endorsement of religion (The Reno Gazette-Journal)
  
  
• Connecticut veteran challenges church-run post office | Federal lawsuit contends relationship between Full Gospel Interdenominational Church, U.S. Postal Service violates separation of church and state (Associated Press)
  
  
• Bill would permit military academy prayers | Republicans on Capitol Hill are stepping into a battle over whether military schools should be allowed to include prayer as part of meals and other school-sponsored activities (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Religion and politics blur with Sharpton in pulpit | The entanglement between the personal and public lives of Mr. Sharpton has often proved controversial, especially in the area of finances (The New York Times)
  
  
• School bus 'apartheid' attacked | Councils are facing legal action under the Human Rights Act over allegations of discrimination against non-Christians in their school transport policies (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Article III, Section 2 | Decisions of the federal judiciary over the last half century have resulted in the theft of our Judeo-Christian heritage (William E. Dannemeyer, The Washington Times)
  
  
• 'Under God': An 'injury' with almost no victims | What is this case doing in court? (Charlotte Allen, Los Angeles Times)
  
  

Church life:

• Tiny church dreams big | Preacher's unfettered faith raises building and spirits (The Charlotte Observer)
  
  
• Shadyside Presbyterian to make professor its pastor | Shadyside Presbyterian Church, whose turmoil made headlines five years ago, will celebrate a new beginning and highlight its heritage this Sunday as it prepares to call Craig Barnes (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Is kneeling important to you during worship? | Readers respond (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Mum tipped as first female Moderator | A former academic and mother-of-two is being tipped as the first woman Moderator of the Church of Scotland's General Assembly (Evening News, Edinburgh, Scotland)
  
  

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