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• Also: Teachers suspect end run by Perdue for vouchers (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Need facts to promote faith-based initiatives | The problem for proponents and opponents alike is that little is known about the implementation of this far-reaching program (Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.)
  
  
• Faith-based discrimination? | Religious organizations and fair hiring (Duane Shank, Sojourners)
  
  

Free to worship at home:

• Home prayer group wins court case | A town zoning enforcement officer blocked the meetings at Robert and Mary Murphy's Jefferson Drive home in 2000 after neighbors complained about the crowds (New Haven Register, Conn.)
  
  
• Also: Home prayer meetings ruled legal (Associated Press)
  
  

"Honor killings":

• Voice for Muslim women terrorized by their families | Sabatina James comes from a Muslim family but attempted to convert to Christianity, which has brought her death threats from Muslims—including her father (Scotland on Sunday)
  
  
• Man jailed for 'honor killing' | A businessman was jailed for life yesterday for murdering his daughter's boyfriend because he was a Christian (PA, U.K.)
  
  
• Mom gave long-distance order for honor killing, police say | In the cold end, it was her own mother who gave the final order to cut the young woman's throat. That's what police in India say. (The Boston Globe)
  
  

Christianity and Judaism:

• Religious leaders divided over Christian Yom Kippur | Some people laud the ambitious leader of a small, growing Simi Hills Christian Church for his creativity and passion for the shared heritage of Judaism and Christianity. Others assert he's trespassing into dangerous terrain (Ventura County Star, Calif.)
  
  
• Jewish High Holy Days have meaning for Christians | Jesus used three of the feasts during the current holidays to make some of His most remarkable claims (Joe Downey, The Times Herald, Olean, N.Y.)
  
  
• Hold the hugs for evangelicals | A practical alliance of Jews and Christians standing for Israel and against militant Islam is wonderful — in the present circumstances, crucial. But imagining that the relationship can go deeper than that is a temptation that some, including myself, may need to guard against (
  
  
• Judaism and the messianists | Jews are disturbed by what they interpret as spiritual kidnapping (Barbara Kay, The National Post, Canada)
  
  
• How accurate is the latest Jewish population survey? | The survey defined a Jew as someone whose "religion is Jewish, OR, whose religion is Jewish and something else, OR, who has no religion and has at least one Jewish parent or a Jewish upbringing, OR, who has a non-monotheistic religion, and has at least one Jewish parent or a Jewish upbringing." (Terry Mattingly)
  
  

The Passion :

• Gibson's movie about Jesus sparks internal Jewish debate | Jews point fingers at one another over the way they have dealt with Gibson and argue over just how Jews should deal with Christian portrayals of the Jesus story in popular culture (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
  
  
• Gibson's test of sincerity | Critics of the unseen Gibson movie often sound as bad what they accuse their target of (Gregg Easterbrook, The New Republic)
  
  

Other religions:

• Dispelling the rumors | Think Wiccans worship Satan and hex people? Think again. (York Daily Record, Pa.)
  
  
• Earlier: The Bewitching Charms of Neopaganism | The movement rejects Christianity, but we may discover surprising openings for the gospel (Christianity Today, Nov. 15, 1999)
  
  
• Not so 'bright' | Atheists aren't more rational than religious believers (Dinesh D'Souza, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  

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