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• Cage defiler for life, demand church leaders | Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ) executive director Paul Mususu and Zambia Episcopal Conference (ZEC) secretary general Ignatius Mwebe said the Penal code should be amended to provide for life sentence for defilers (The Times of Zambia)
  
  

Catholicism:

• Vatican accepts end to Cardinal Sin | Manila archbishop resigns (The Manila Times)
  
  
• Also: Philippines' Cardinal Sin retires (BBC)
  
  
• Richmond, Va., Bishop Walter Sullivan resigns | Liberal bishop recently turned 75 (Associated Press)
  
  

Other articles of interest:

• David vs. Goliath | Wal-Mart Stores has seen the light. The world's biggest retailer has discovered Christian-themed merchandise is one of the fastest-growing categories around (Forbes)
  
  
• Preaching parrot on the wing | A fire-and-brimstone preaching parrot is on the lam and his southern Alberta owner is praying for the bird's return (Canadian Press)
  
  
• Embattled Scouts struggle to maintain funding, ideology | The Boy Scouts now are newly embroiled in a culture war with local governments and charities over gay rights, religion, and morality (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• New Knott's ride puts an old chapel in motion | A final service at the Church of Reflections will be held Oct. 5 before the pews, stained-glass windows and steeple are torn out, moved and reassembled across Beach Boulevard on a site just northeast of Knott's replica of Independence Hall (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Cell-tower plan trips up sale of nuns' land | But for an unbuilt 100-foot cross, the Bernardine Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis would have found a way by now to save the 40-room stucco mansion they have owned since 1947 (The New York Times)
  
  

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