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• For slain missionaries, Iraq was just another place to help | Friends worried about Larry and Jean Elliott, but they simply would not hear of it (The Washington Post)
  
  

Terrorism:

• Radical Georgian ex-priest held | Georgian police have raided a church to detain a radical ex-Orthodox priest after a clash with his supporters (BBC)
  
  
• Madrid and the devil's comeback | We are not contending against flesh and blood (Uwe Siemon-Netto, UPI)
  
  
• Preaching violence | Ibrahim Hooper's claims are somewhere between disingenuous and just plain dishonest (Joel Mowbray, The Washington Times)
  
  

Crime:

• Utah mom accused of murder pleads innocent | The mother accused of homicide for not getting a Caesarean section that could have saved her unborn twin's life also faces a child-endangerment charge for the twin that survived (Associated Press)
  
  
• Ruling made in Gaines's death | Catholic priest accused of serving alcohol to University of Pittsburgh wide receiver can be tried for involuntary manslaughter (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Nun faces jail for drunk tractor driving | Polish Benedictine nun is facing jail for driving a tractor into a car while drunk outside her convent in southwestern Poland, police said on Friday (Reuters)
  
  
• Church stands by convicted member | The prosecution of an ex-policeman convicted of coercing sex from women has brought attention to an unlikely place: a large, liberal and feminist church congregation that offered to oversee his punishment so he could avoid going to prison (The Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore.)
  
  
• 'No crime' seen in man nailing himself to cross | The 23-year-old man apparently was attempting to commit suicide, but hadn't seen The Passion of The Christ (Bangor Daily News, Me.)
  
  

Euthanasia trial in New Zealand:

• Euthanasia trial opens in New Zealand | The trial of a former nurse charged with twice trying to kill her cancer-stricken mother opened in a New Zealand court Monday (Associated Press)
  
  
• Accused should not have cared for her own mother, court told | A former nurse on trial for attempting to murder her mother should not have been left to look after a terminally ill relative, the High Court in Wanganui was told yesterday (NZPA, New Zealand)
  
  
• Martin's surgeon admits deficiencies | The surgeon who operated on Lesley Martin's mother believed she had between six and 18 months to live, he told the High Court at Wanganui yesterday (New Zealand Herald)
  
  
• Lesley Martin murder trial to start today | Nearly five years after her mother's death, euthanasia campaigner Lesley Martin faces a jury today in the High Court at Wanganui as she stands trial for attempted murder (New Zealand Herald)
  
  
• NZ euthanasia advocate on trial (BBC)
  
  

Life ethics:

• Vatican condemns fertility treatments | The Vatican issued a broad condemnation Tuesday of fertility treatments such as in-vitro fertilization, calling the destruction of embryos in the process a "massacre of the innocents" (Associated Press)
  
  
• ACLU can pursue suit over 'Choose Life' tags | Organization can proceed with legal fight, judge says (The Tennesseean)
  
  
• Also: Tennessee officials lose bid to quash 'Choose Life' lawsuit | Federal judge refuses to throw out case, ruling ACLU has right to challenge specialty license plate (Associated Press)
  
  
• Abortion debate rides the nation's roads | "Choose Life" license plates are cruising along highways in 10 states—including Arkansas—and a dozen other state legislatures are considering them (Gannett News Service)
  
  
• Opera 'pro-life', not 'anti-abortion' | A Los Angeles Times music critic who wrote that a Richard Strauss opera was "pro-life"—meaning a celebration of life—was stunned to pick up the paper and find his review changed by a literal-minded copy editor to read "anti-abortion" (Reuters)
  
  

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