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• Iraqi Christians killed in ambush | Gunmen attacked a vehicle carrying Iraqi women who worked in the laundry at a U.S. military base, killing four of them (Associated Press)
  
  

The Bible:

• Is Good Book also a great book? | Who could argue that a book that has inspired hundreds of millions around the world isn't a repository of rich language, vivid imagery and compelling stories? (Dana Parsons, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• "The Gnostic Bible," edited by Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer | Behind the Gnosticism craze: A freedom-loving, feminist, gay-friendly anarcho Creator, or just another pompous ass telling us what to do? This massive collection has it both ways (Donna Minkowitz, Salon.com)
  
  
• Senior volunteers make Braille Bibles | Saginaw area church group, one of 215 work sites, has produced thousands of books in five languages (Associated Press)
  
  

Church visits to Cuba:

• Orthodox Christian leader and Castro meet | Bartholomew is the first Christian Orthodox patriarch to visit Latin America (Associated Press)
  
  
• Castro greets Christian Orthodox patriarch | Patriarch Bartholomew opens the first church since Cuban leader's 1959 revolution (Reuters)
  
  
• U.S. rejects church leaders' bid to visit Guantanamo | National Council of Churches leaders said on Wednesday the Pentagon had rebuffed their plea to send a small interfaith delegation to minister to detainees at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Reuters)
  
  

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