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• Third Day, keeping the faith | Say, what was a Christian rock band like Third Day doing opening for Southern boogie kings Lynyrd Skynyrd? (The Washington Post)
  
  

The Passion:

• High passions | Normally critical of the Catholic artistic tradition, Orthodox Christians have found much to admire in Mel Gibson's controversial new film (The Moscow Times)
  
  
• Explaining The Passion | Egyptians, Muslims and Christians alike, flocked to view Mel Gibson's blockbuster The Passion of the Christ (Al-Ahram, Cairo)
  
  

Watch your tongue:

• Half a second, that's all it takes to spot a liar | A new way of spotting a liar has been devised by a psychologist who has discovered that it takes longer to tell a lie than it does to tell the truth (The Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Hey — pssst! Did you hear all about … | Gossip is the spark that ignites bad things (Terry Pluto, The Beacon Journal, Akron, Oh.)
  
  

Abuse:

• Church settles abuse claims | The Diocese of St. Petersburg will pay 12 men between $20,000 and $250,000. Smaller sums will be paid to their wives (St. Petersburg Times, Fla.)
  
  
• Diocese settles claims of sex abuse by priest (The Tampa Tribune, Fla.)
  
  
• Fla. diocese reaches sex abuse settlement | The Roman Catholic Diocese of St. Petersburg paid more than $1 million to settle lawsuits filed by a dozen men who said they were sexually abused by a priest, their attorney said Thursday (Associated Press)
  
  

More articles:

• Religion news in briefs | Catholic voters split between Bush and Kerry, Episcopal diocese cuts budget to offset contribution drop, City of Dearborn asked to close on Muslim holidays, Southern Baptists concerned over slow growth rate (Associated Press)
  
  
• 'Hinduness' with vengeance | Schools offer Indians way out of poverty, lessons in religious bias (San Francisco Chronicle)
  
  
• Bunnies, eggs obscure Easter's truth | The Christian claim of resurrection and new life for Jesus is far more powerful than many of the more popular symbols used to celebrate it (Steve Gushee, Palm Beach Post, Fla.)
  
  
• Man tries to rob Christian book store | A ringing door chime gave a Christian bookstore clerk and her young niece the opportunity to flee from an apparent armed-robbery attempt late Wednesday afternoon, authorities said (The Advocate, Newark, Oh.)
  
  
• Snake-handling preacher dies after bite from rattler | The pastor refused medical treatment after a venomous bite during Easter services (Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.—more extensive than earlier AP version)
  
  

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