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• Dara an envoy of death: Court | ''This is one of the rarest of rare cases and survival of an orderly society demands imposition of capital punishment,'' said judge (PTI)
  
  
• Dara Singh, an 'ambassador of death' | "The Manoharpur massacre speaks loudly that humanity is not yet fully civilized," says judge (The Hindu)
  
  
• Death for Dara Singh | "We will challenge all orders except in the case of Dara Singh," says lawyer (The Hindu)
  
  
• When is death sentence called for | Death sentence is not a rule, but an exception (The Times of India)
  
  
• Dara could still be dangerous | By making it clear that he would continue to fight against conversion till his last breath, he has again raked up a highly-emotive issue, on the eve of the general elections (Nageshwar Patnaik, Economic Times, India)
  
  
• Christian groups hail Dara's death sentence (Sify)
  
  
• 'Militant zeal' drove missionary killer | An Indian man sentenced to die for killing an Australian missionary wanted to "bury" Christianity, the judge who handed out the penalty has said (BBC)
  
  
• Staines killer wanted to 'bury' Christianity (AFP)
  
  
• Staines' family distraught over Dara's death sentence | "I didn't want to see the man put to death," said John Staines, elder brother of Graham Staines (AFP)
  
  

More on Graham Staines murder:

• Activists urge India to stem anti-Christian campaign | Groups such as the All India Christian Council, the All India Catholic Union and Prashant stress that the federal government in New Delhi and the state administration in Orissa must clamp down on the activities of "a fringe group" protesting the sentence on Singh (OneWorld.net)
  
  
• Stricture against former officer by Staines case judge | The trial court, which awarded death sentence to Dara Singh and life imprisonment to 12 others in the Graham Staines murder case yesterday, has passed strictures on J K Mohapatra, the then officer-in- charge of Anandapur police station for derailing the investigation (PTI)
  
  
• Widow keeps missionary's memory alive | The softly-spoken 52-year-old is carrying on her husband's good work, running his home for leprosy patients on a sprawling 36-acre campus in the town of Baripada (BBC)
  
  
• 'I am trying to live on' | Rather than taking revenge, Gladys would continue the good work of her late husband (Outlook, India)
  
  
• Enforce anti-conversion law, court tells Govt | The District and Sessions Judge, Khurda, M.N. Patnaik, who delivered the judgment in the Graham Staines case on Monday, has recommended strict implementation of the provisions of the Orissa Freedom of Religion Act, 1967 (Orissa.net)
  
  

Politics and law:

• Court bans religious gifts to classmates | Kindergartners and first-graders may not distribute to their classmates gifts that bear a religious message, according to a ruling by a federal appeals court (The Washington Times)
  
  
• California district scraps high school's Bible history class | Officials say course hadn't undergone public review or received approval from school board and that there were questions about whether it violated church-state separation (Associated Press)
  
  
• Critics sue N.M. school district over sculpture featuring crosses | The reasonable observer would perceive the three crosses to represent a specific religion, and therefore the basic tenets of that religion,' lawsuit states (Associated Press)
  
  
• Defender of faith—or assailant? | Group opposed to cross says it's protecting religion (Ventura County Star, Calif.)
  
  
• Christian Coalition turns to e-commerce | Group has signed up for a program called SharingCertificates.com, which sells gift certificates redeemable at a range of stores and other businesses and gives a share of the proceeds to the sponsoring group (Associated Press)
  
  

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