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Sudan:

• In Sudan crisis, a duty to intervene? | Americans are pained by a crisis more easily deplored than fixed (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Saying no to killers | What would you do if you were caught in the middle of a genocide? (Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times)
• World opens its eyes to tragedy of Sudan | First the men ventured out to fetch water and scavenge for firewood. They were shot dead. Then it was the turn of women and young girls. They were raped (The Times, London)

Social justice:

• Sub-Saharan Africa poverty grows | Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region where the number of people living in abject poverty has grown over the past 20 years, says a United Nations report (BBC)
• Christians fail to help 'the least' | There is a cacophony of voices about abortion, homosexuals and family values coming from many in that group. What bothers me as a Christian is I hear no voices from them concerned about the poor, the homeless, the starving children and the elderly (Doris Greenleaf, The Forum, Fargo, N.D.)

Life ethics:

• When one is enough | Having learned that I was pregnant with triplets, I asked, Do I have to have all of them? (Amy Richards, The New York Times)
• Iran's parliament approves abortion bill | Iran's conservative-dominated parliament approved a draft bill Tuesday that would allow abortion in the first four months of pregnancy if the woman's life is in danger or the fetus is malformed (Associated Press)
• Schiavo's parents cite her faith in right-to-die case | A papal statement on people in a vegetative state requires that she be kept alive, they say (Associated Press)
• Earlier: Parents argue for Terry Schiavo's life | The parents of a brain-damaged woman at the center of a right-to-die case contend her end-of-life wishes remain unresolved and that she has "the right to change her mind" about life support (Associated Press)
• 'Designer baby' ruling expected | A decision on relaxing "designer baby" rules to allow more screening and selection of embryos is expected from the regulator on Wednesday (BBC, video)

Law:

• Hating the crime, hating the criminal | Hate is not nice. Everybody knows that. But trying to define and eliminate hate with legislation is not as easy as the busybodies think it is. You could ask Tony Blair (Wesley Pruden, The Washington Times)
• Right-wing politicians want to ban Islam | Central members of Kristiansand Progress party claims Hitler's Mein Kampf and the Koran are one of the same, and they want Islam banned in Norway (Nettavisen, Oslo)

Politics & religion:

• The Issues: Faith-based charities | Comparing the Bush and Kerry positions on giving government funds to social programs run by religious groups (CBS Evening News)
• Warner helped the Rev. Moon | Senator's office says he arranged for meeting space in March (The Washington Post)
• A mighty fortress is his God | President Bush's form of American Evangelicalism enjoys massive popular appeal and, arguably, influences policy (Johnathan Steinberg, The Miami Herald)
• The meaning of intolerance | To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith (Maggie Gallagher)
• Mumba has conned God, charges Sata | Vice-President Nevers Mumba is a greedy conman who has conned God, charged Patriotic Front president Michael Sata yesterday (The Post of Zambia)
• Kirchner reconciles with Church | The Catholic Church and Argentine President Nestor Kirchner Tuesday reconciled some of the ill words that have passed between them (UPI)

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