Plus: Vonette Bright, a homeschool lawsuit, and a dearth of other religion stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 7/01/2004 12:00AM
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They see open churches but find closed doors | Lay group in Weymouth looks for a home (The Boston Globe)
Buildings:
Fuller Seminary expansion proposed | $80 million plan includes housing, mixed-use chapel (Pasadena Star News, Ca.)
Mission of restoring Great Stone Church is accomplished | The 17-year project retrofits what remains of the 200-year- old Orange County structure (Los Angeles Times)
Arabs in U.S.:
Arab Americans report abuse | U.-Mich. study finds nearly 60 percent fear for families (The Washington Post)
Feds warn county about limits on mosque | Sarasota County Commission ruled in February that the mosque could be no taller than 40 feet a restriction not placed on 14 other houses of worship approved by the county since 2002 (Associated Press)
Resolution on Islam questioned | Dearborn Heights councilman says it will foster unity, but critics wonder about timing (The Detroit News)
Fraud:
Charges: Two scam artists can't stop scamming | Middle-aged couple allegedly continues to push phony investment schemes (Mobile Register, Ala.)
Church says 'weeping' statues are fakes | The Catholic Church has officially declared the oil-seeping and "bleeding" artefacts at the Inala Vietnamese Catholic Centre as fakes (The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, Australia)
Television:
'Amish in The City': Hollywood's urban desert | The first, two-hour episode of "Amish in the City" is, in fact, harder on the six city kids with whom the five Amish youth are forced to live in a vast, postmodern nightmare house in the Hollywood Hills (The Washington Post)
Man of God who fell from grace | The rise, fall, and rise of Clark Taylor, our first tele-evangelist (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
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