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Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 8/01/2004 12:00AM
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Military casts Wicca in the shadows | As members serve their country, they also battle the military to accept their faith (Contra Costa Times, Ca.)
Divine inspiration | Contemporary Christian music comes into its own with sold-out concerts and pop-friendly stars (Florida Today)
Senate passes gay marriage ban | Prime Minister John Howard has won his fight to ban gay marriage, but faces a possible High Court challenge to the laws (The Australian)
Basilan court sentences to death 17 Abu Sayyaf members in Dos Palmas kidnapping | It was the first mass conviction of members of the Abu Sayyaf who have been kidnapping and killing Christians and foreigners in Mindanao for a decade (ABS-CBN, Philippines)
Leeds police order man off cross | Leeds police forced a hairstylist who dressed up as Jesus and drenched himself in fake blood to come down off a 14-foot-tall cross he set up in front of his hair salon on Monday (The Birmingham News, Ala.)
Cats, dogs give Christianity fun focus | Sam Talbert took a humorous approach to looking at Christianity through some familiar animalscats and dogs (Modesto Bee, Ca.)
Mistresses of their own destiny | Male adultery is an age-old theme in France, but infidelity for both sexes is now being flagged as the greatest of freedoms (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
Zao courts hardcore controversy | "The Funeral of God," which hit the streets last month, imagines what would happen if God decided that humanity had rejected him so completely that he chose to "go to sleep forever," leaving humans to fend for themselves (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
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