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• Religious leaders expose damning attitudes towards HIV/AIDS | African religious leaders admitted on Sunday that their own institutions were sometimes guilty of spreading the stigma attached to HIV/AIDS (UN Integrated Regional Information Networks)
  
  
• AIDS fight may be changed by religious care for orphans | A survey of 505 religious organizations operating in six African nations shows that 95 percent support orphans, working almost entirely without outside funds (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Faith-based organizations: Part of the solution or part of the problem? | Faith-based organisations have immense influence in their communities. However, this influence has not been fully exploited in the fight against HIV/AIDS (Health & Development Networks, Pretoria, South Africa)
  
  
• Condom supply to Africa hit by US abortion policy | The Bush administration's ban on funds to family planning clinics which offer abortion counseling is adversely affecting the supply of condoms to countries hit by HIV/Aids, it was claimed yesterday (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• US abortion rule 'hits Africa women' | The Global Gag Rule - introduced by the US two years ago - prohibits family planning assistance to any non-government group that performs or offers counselling on abortion (BBC)
  
  

Politics and law:

• Family values down the toilet | How can the GOP women endorse Schwarzenegger? (Robert Scheer, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Senate GOP to revive Pickering nomination | Republican leaders are pressed by conservatives furious over the demise of Miguel Estrada's judicial nomination after a six-month Democratic filibuster (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Wall between church & state is lawyers' con | With some exceptions, the legal theorists at the elite law schools of the country who support the "wall of separation" and their journalistic supporters are agnostics or atheists. Like any religious group, they want to establish their own religion, and they have done so (Andrew W. Greeley, New York Daily News)
  
  
• Reagan and Thatcher: 'linked by the Lord' | The extraordinary friendship between President Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher - seen by outsiders as an historic alliance of political soulmates - was viewed by Mr Reagan as evidence of divine intervention, according to letters he wrote to her (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Churches attack 'beast' Mugabe | Christian churches in Zimbabwe have demanded the repeal of oppressive media and security laws as nine reporters for the country's only independent daily were charged with violating the laws (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: Clergy vow campaign against Mugabe's rule (SAPA, South Africa)
  
  
• Tas priest says Parliament prayers outdated | A Tasmanian priest says he supports moves to do away with the Lord's Prayer in State Parliament (Australian Broadcasting Corp.)
  
  
• Should church be allowed to use hallucinogenic tea? | Religious leaders respond (Los Angeles Times)
  
  

Religion in the workplace:

• Workers' religion enforced by law | Employers may have to provide prayer-rooms for staff and allow religious holidays as part of radical new laws to prevent discrimination at work (The Scotsman)
  
  
• Religion in the workplace: Keep your faith, lose your job | Accommodating employees' reasonable religious practices entails only minimal adjustments by businesses (Charles Haynes, First Amendment Center)
  
  

Religion on the playground:

• Park playground's brick pavers lead to suit against state | Dan and Olga Buchanan wanted commemorative brick to say "Thank you Jesus, Daria & Evan Buchanan" (The Seattle Times)
  
  

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