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Plus: Jewish groups vs. the Presbyterian Church (USA), designer babies in the U.K., China reportedly detains 100 Christian leaders, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 7/01/2004 12:00AM
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Fraud:
Church group employee arrested for embezzlement | A 29-year-old Springdale man has been arrested in connection with the alleged embezzlement of $335,000 from the Fayetteville District Office of the United Methodist Church (Northwest Arkansas Times)
Cash-for-prayers in schools | At the Nairobi City Council , a church leader was accused of offering prayers for cash. In the Gusii region, sources say church leaders are doing the same in schools (School and Career, Nairobi, Kenya)
Abuse:
Springfield Diocese settles lawsuit on sexual abuse | Men said that abuse occured in Granite (Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.)
Judge won't hold cardinal in contempt | A judge declined Tuesday to hold Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony in contempt of court and deferred a decision on whether to compel the cardinal's testimony about alleged child molestation by a priest he once supervised (Associated Press)
Diocese wins ruling in lawsuit | The Catholic Diocese of Erie has won a second straight court ruling in a defamation suit filed against Bishop Donald W. Trautman and retired Bishop Michael J. Murphy (Erie Times-News, Pa.)
Bishop begins Austria abuse probe | A Vatican-appointed bishop has begun investigating alleged sexual impropriety at an Austrian seminary (BBC, video)
Priest criticized for Christ comparison | A mother who attributes her son's drug-related serious illness and life punctuated by imprisonment to sex abuse by a Salesian priest criticized the accused Catholic cleric yesterday for comparing his case to that of a wrongly accused Jesus Christ (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
Homosexuality:
Delegates, ticket differ on gay marriage | Democratic convention delegates generally are more open to the prospect of gay marriage than are John Kerry and John Edwards, their presumed nominees for the presidential ticket (Associated Press)
After gay parents split up | Custody can fall into a legal gray area when nontraditional families dissolve. Courts haven't kept up with social and technological changes (Los Angeles Times)
Gay pair seeks Canada's first same-sex divorce | Two Toronto women who were among the first same-sex couples to marry in Canada are now seeking what may be the first Canadian same-sex divorce (The New York Times)
Also: Canada gets 'first' gay divorce | One of the first gay couples married in Ontario has filed what is believed to be Canada's first same-sex divorce (BBC)
Also: Couple launches Canada's first same-sex divorce (Reuters)
Alter girl | "I gave up the homosexual lifestyle four years ago" (Masha Gessen, The New Republic)
Amish in the City:
Reality show turns Amish into TV stars | Television is not part of the traditional Amish world. But the Amish are now part of television, like it or not (Associated Press)
No Amish were harmed in the making of this show | The show is neither innovative nor particularly well-made. It has its emotional moments, scattered through the tedium like the occasional volunteer cornstalk in a field of oats (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Film:
'Passion of Christ' for Christians only in Malaysia | No Muslims are allowed to see it (Reuters)
Screenwriter stirs up Christian controversy in Egypt | Film polarizes audiences with rare, honest look at national minority (The Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon)
Music:
Jr. Jay-Zs for Jesus | Christian hip-hop exists in the Bay Area -- you just haven't heard it. Yet. (East Bay Express, Emeryville, Ca.)
Gospel rock | Faith, rock and souvenirs at Spirit West Coast at Laguna Seca Recreation Area (Monterey Herald, Ca.)
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