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• Priest accused of murdering nun in 1980 | Holy Saturday slaying occurred in Mercy chapel
  
  
• Quiet cleric not well-known by his neighbors, colleagues (The Toledo Blade)
  
  
• Allegations renew nun's death case | Priest arrested in '80 slaying surfaced in ritual-abuse claim (The Toledo Blade)
  
  
• Ex-officer: Priest was suspected early in case | Retiree questions police inquiry of nun's slaying (The Toledo Blade)
  
  
• Area authorities no strangers to cult, ritual probes | The recent investigation into the 1980 murder of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl wasn't the first time authorities have come across the possibility of satanic rituals in northwest Ohio (The Toledo Blade)
  
  

Priest jailed for major embezzlement:

• Judge raps priest, jails him 7 1/2 years | He took and misused $5.1 million in church funds but has shown no remorse and is a disgrace, she says (The Straits Times, Singapore)
  
  
• I did no wrong, my conscience is clear | An exclusive interview with Joachim Kang (The Straits Times, Singapore)
  
  
• Priest jailed for embezzling $3m (BBC)
  
  
• The Joachim Kang fan club | Supporters of convicted priest posted his $1.2 million bail and pleaded for him (The Straits Times, Singapore)
  
  
• The Joachim Kang pan club | Some are disgusted, think he betrayed parishioners' trust, wish him defrocked (The Straits Times, Singapore)
  
  

Stealing Christian music:

• Praise God and pass the music files | Like other niche genres, Christian music is "disproportionately popular" on file-sharing services, said Eric Garland, chief executive of BigChampagne, because fans want to collect every song, and because they can't always find them at the mall (The New York Times)
  
  
• Gospel pirates | Illegal downloading as a faith-based enterprise (Editorial, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  

U.K. issues religious education guidelines:

• Religious education lessons 'to respect all faiths' | Pupils aged three to 19 in England will study Christianity at each stage, with other major faiths being looked at, but in less detail (BBC)
  
  
• Schools to teach UK's six main religions | Children should begin to learn about another religion alongside Christianity from the age of five, according to new government guidelines on teaching religious education published yesterday (The Independent, London)
  
  
• Humanism becomes one of the new gods of religious education | Humanism, attitudes to sexuality and the ethics of wealth are to be taught alongside Christianity and other faiths in the first national curriculum for religious education (The Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Religious education framework published (PA, U.K.)
  
  
• Ministers' guide on teaching religion | Atheism and other secular philosophies can be taught to children aged seven and up - if schools decide it is "appropriate", according to the first national religious education guidelines (The Journal, Newcastle, England)
  
  

United Methodist General Conference previews:

• Methodists to focus on lesbian minister | After three decades of disagreement over what the Bible says about homosexuality, the church trial of a lesbian minister has sharpened the debate for the United Methodist Church as it prepares for a national meeting that occurs once every four years (Associated Press)
  
  
• Gay issues on agenda for Methodists | General Conference may clarify wording (The Denver Post)
  
  
• Homosexuality to dominate Methodist convention | Over the next two weeks of deliberations, delegates from Methodist churches across the country will decide whether to change the church's Book of Discipline to allow gay ministers and perhaps bless gay unions (Morning Edition, NPR)
  
  

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