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• Religion got us into these messes. Can it get us out? | Because religion speaks to something that all the logic in the world cannot: the hunger of the soul for spiritual guidance (Ken Wiwa, The Globe and Mail, Toronto)
  
  

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Business:

• Divine profits | The Christian-related entertainment culture is growing in popularity and growing the profits it creates (The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS)
  
  
• Fashion of the Christ! | Fashion was reborn and revived when The Anointed Upper Room Models graced the catwalk of the Upper Room Christian Entertainment Centre recently in Nashville, Mandeville (The Jamaica Observer)
  
  

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Zimbabwe:

• A humble African cleric fiercely protects his flock | A Roman Catholic archbishop has begun an all-out assault on the president of Zimbabwe, who has dismissed him as "an angry, evil and embittered little bishop" (The New York Times)
  
  
• Church body rapped | The Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe has come under fire from some of its members who are accusing the Christian umbrella organisation of meddling in partisan politics (The Herald, Harare, Zimbabwe)
  
  

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More articles:

• Pentecostalists attract Muslim asylum seekers | The Pentecostal Church has created a controversial revival movement among Muslim asylum seekers in the greater Oslo area. In the past six years 16,000 refugees have visited the white wooden church in Sandvika, a suburb in Bærum just west of the capital. Some asylum center leaders say the church is tricking their visitors (Aftenposten, Oslo)
  
  
• Defining stigma | The definition of stigma and what constitutes the phenomenon has emerged as an issue of contention within the Christian fraternity against what is accepted by political authority as the true working definition (Mmegi, Botswana)
  
  
• Scrolls' origins at issue | After a decade of excavations at the site where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, two Israeli archaeologists are ready to challenge the traditional view that the Essenes were members of a pious, ascetic sect who spent their days transcribing the famed biblical texts (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Athletics-religion mix can near a constitutional line | For some devoutly Christian coaches, faith can't be separated from their leadership (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Move boosts mainstream Protestants' media reach | Mainline Protestant churches have long lagged behind the televangelists who now dominate television and radio. But one Atlanta-based radio/television ministry has just made a bold move to help Protestants compete with the Benny Hinns and Pat Robertsons of the broadcast world (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  

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