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Persecution:

• India sentences man to death for slaying | Dara Singh sentenced to death, 12 others get life in prison (Associated Press)
  
  
• Indian court orders death for missionary murder (Reuters)
  
  
• Indian Christians 'satisfied' with sentence | But the All India Christian Council said the punishment would do little to end religious persecution in the eastern state of Orissa (AFP)
  
  
• Hindu hardliner sentenced to die for killing Australians in India (AFP)
  
  
• Killers of Australian missionary in India enraged by beef eating | A Hindu extremist convicted in the murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons said he committed the crime after seeing tribal Indians eat beef, which is forbidden by Hinduism, a report said (AFP)
  
  
• Eritrean children locked up for having Bibles, says Amnesty | The authorities in the east African country are persecuting a minority Christian church by subjecting 27 girls and 30 boys to "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Vatican rebukes Georgia, Orthodox Church | The Vatican issued an unusually strong rebuke to the former Soviet republic of Georgia and its dominant Orthodox Church on Saturday, after the government scrapped an accord guaranteeing religious freedom for Catholics (Associated Press)
  
  

Middle East:

• Dark days in Bethlehem | Under siege from all sides, Christians in the Holy Land have never been so beset. A report from the front (Newsweek)
  
  
• Israel's Christian soldiers | Citing Scripture, Evangelical Christians have taken up the cause of preserving Israel with a passion—no matter how many liberal Jews find their unlikely devotion unsettling (New York)
  
  
• Christians feel vulnerable in post-Saddam Iraq | Their main concern, as for all Iraqis, is the resultant insecurity. But Christians are also worried about a potential Islamization of Iraq (Reuters)
  
  
• Also: Post-Saddam: Iraqi Christians fear repercussions | The dictator protected them from fundamentalists, but now the community fears that intolerance may return to their country (NDTV, India)
  
  

Other religions:

• Pagans fight for divine rights of old Greek gods | The colorful Hellenes are viewed with interest by many in Greek society but largely ridiculed by the media (Scotland on Sunday)
  
  
• Breaking the Heathen stereotype | On the 27th of September, a number of people from the area will gather for Pagan Pride Day (Richard B. Culver, The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Of spindles and spirituality | The Church of Craft, a faith pieced together over the last three years like some sort of cosmic quilt, is looking for a permanent home, legal assistance to clarify their tax status as an official church, and the best place to buy googly eyes (The New York Times)
  
  
• Waiting for the messiah of Eastern Parkway | While he was alive, Rebbe Menachem Schneerson was the unifying leader of the Lubavitchers. Now, nine years after his death, some of his followers eagerly await his resurrection — and others see belief in a second coming as a curse on their movement (The New York Times Magazine)
  
  

Anglican breakup over gay clergy:

• Episcopal diocese rebukes gay stand | The Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida became one of the first in the nation Saturday to officially reject the national denomination's policies on homosexuality (The Orlando Sentinel)
  
  
• Also: Fla. Episcopal diocese rejects gay bishop (Associated Press)
  
  
• Region funds Episcopalians' move to divide | Financial roots of conservatives are here (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Infighting is wrecking Church's image, says archbishop | The Archbishop of York, Dr David Hope, read the riot act to the warring factions in the Church of England last night, warning them that their squabbling was destroying the Church's credibility (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  

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