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• Killer confessed in church: prosecutors | During the March 14 Sunday service, 21-year-old Glen Miles rose to confess to a murder in front of the Holy Rock congregation, according to Cook County prosecutors (Chicago Sun-Times)
  
  
• Bishop in Mass. puts abuse suits on hold | The new head of the Springfield Diocese said Wednesday clergy sex abuse lawsuits and complaints will be put on hold for six weeks while church attorneys try to reach a settlement with lawyers for alleged victims (Associated Press)
  
  

Religious freedom:

• Martyrs in Vietnam | On the eve of Easter celebrations in Vietnam, what our organization had been announcing but the international community has been ignoring took place (Daniele Capezzone and Matteo Mecacci, The Washington Times)
  
  
• Christians demonstrate against Caritas housing | group of angry Christians demonstrated outside the Lahore Press Club on Wednesday against the Caritas Housing Scheme, whose officials they alleged were looting the poor (The Daily Times, Pakistan)
  
  
• Bishop arrested in China reported freed | Authorities freed a Catholic bishop in China after 10 days, a religious news agency said (Associated Press)
  
  

Religion & politics:

• Kerry meets with D.C. archbishop | Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has questioned Kerry's support for abortion rights, which contradicts church teachings (Associated Press)
  
  
• Church should leave Kerry alone | If Communion is ever refused to Kerry, it should also be withheld from any of those bishops and archbishops who covered up the sins of their priests against innocent children and from any cardinal who still refuses to utter a word of censure against his criminally complicit brothers in the hierarchy (Dick Ryan, Newsday)
  
  
• Bush: America's Ayatollah | Some people might consider the president's rhetoric religious drivel and others might find it stirring, but whatever it is, it cannot be the basis for foreign policy, not to mention a war (Richard Cohen, The Washington Post)
  
  
• Christians count in Korean elections | The role of Christians in local politics was questioned last Easter weekend when people who had gathered to worship in the streets of downtown Seoul were suspected of carrying a political message (The Korea Herald)
  
  

Church & state:

• Petition for Christianity in the Constitution | Around three quarters of a million citizens from the 25 member states of an enlarged EU have signed a petition calling for a reference to Christianity to be made in the Constitution (EU Observer)
  
  
• Red flag raised on peace pole | Accepting this seemingly harmless gift could still leave the city wide open to problems from other groups looking to donate and post messages at City Hall. Better to say no thank you and play it safe. (Editorial, Independent, Huntington Beach, Ca.)
  
  
• A soap opera with sobering overtones | The long-running Westminster School District Board of Trustees soap opera nearby offers some lessons that can be instructive in Newport-Mesa, not just to deal with possible future conflicts but in such current issues as the nature of invocations at local City Council meetings (Joseph N. Bell, Daily Pilot, Newport Beach, Calif.)
  
  
• Justice Department joins Muslim head scarf lawsuit | In what one supporter called "a ground- breaking step," the Justice Department has been allowed to join a lawsuit supporting a Muslim girl suspended for wearing a head scarf to school (The Oklahoman)
  
  

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