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With more than 150 questions, there's much more to this survey, and both Religion & Ethics Newsweekly and U.S. News & World Report will be looking more deeply at the numbers and what they mean, starting with this weekend's PBS broadcast (check local listings). Religion & Ethics Newsweekly's web site has posted the survey results (PDF | DOC), the questions (PDF | DOC), and the methodology (PDF | DOC).

Look out below
While Weblog rejoices in the Resurrection on Easter Monday, professionally it's is always a day of trepidation, since the world's mainstream media inevitably break out loads of religion stories. This year, with The Passion, marriage debates, and other major religion stories, it's almost unbearable. There are many important news stories below, including persecution against Christians in Indonesia, Vietnam, and China (hey, white evangelical folks, religious freedom abroad really is an important issue), ELCA abuse trial and settlements, and the religion angle of the Iraq hostages.

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Indonesian church attacked:

• Gunmen attack Indonesian church | Seven people have been wounded in a shooting at an Easter church service on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi (BBC)
  
  
• Seven hurt as gunmen attack Poso church | Two unidentified gunmen stormed into a church in the troubled region of Poso on Saturday night, firing a hail of bullets at a congregation attending an Easter sermon and injuring seven, including a four-year-old girl (The Jakarta Post)
  
  
• Elite police personnel arrive in Poso | More than 300 additional paramilitary police arrived in the religiously-mixed regency of Poso, Central Sulawesi, on Monday after an new attack on a church over the Easter weekend injured seven Christians (The Jakarta Post)
  
  
• Christians blast police over Easter shooting | The protest was swiftly staged by residents in the predominately Christian town of Tentena around one hour after the attack on Tabernacle Church in Kilo village, Poso Pesisir subdistrict, which injured seven people including a four-year old girl (The Jakarta Post)
  
  

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China :

• Communists seize 'underground' bishop | The Vatican has issued a forthright condemnation of the Chinese authorities after a Catholic bishop was seized from his home outside Beijing and thrown into a secret detention centre over Easter (The Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Chinese dissidents meet for Easter lunch | Only some in the group are Christians, but members use Christian holidays to disguise political forums as religious gatherings (Associated Press)
  
  
• Going global with God | Chinese Christians are hoping to spread their message to the Muslim world (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  

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Vietnam :

• Vietnam's Central Highlands in lockdown | Vietnam's Central Highlands remained sealed off Monday by police and security officials following protests by hundreds of ethnic minority Christians over Easter weekend (Associated Press)
  
  

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