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• Earlier: Zimbabwe halts emergency food aid | The government of Zimbabwe has told international donors that it does not need emergency food aid this year, because it expects a bumper harvest (BBC)
  
  

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Sudan:

• U.N. official blames Sudan for violence | The United Nations' top human rights official charged Friday that Sudan established, armed and supported Arab militias that allegedly expelled more than a million villagers in Sudan's Darfur province and killed thousands. (Washington Post)
  
  

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Religion in India:

• India's Gandhi sweeps Hindu nationalists from power | "A … secular coalition led by Congress should take the oath in the next few days," party spokeswoman Ambika Soni said (Reuters)
  
  
• Caste aspersions | Is prejudice in India about religion or social standing? (Chloe Breyer, Slate)
  
  
• Larger Bench to define what constitutes essential part of a religion | A larger Bench of the Supreme Court will go into "what constitutes an essential part of a religion, with reference to a particular doctrine or religious practice followed by a particular community" (The Hindu, India)
  
  

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Indonesia:

• Indonesia goes Islamist? | Do elections portend the radicalization of a moderate Muslim state? (Paul Marshall, National Review Online)
  
  
• Three Christians arrested in Indonesia's Poso district | The Poso police chief, Abdi Dharma Sitepu, says the three were seized during a door-to-door search in the predominantly Christian town of Tentena in Central Sulawesi province (Radio Australia)
  
  

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U.S. Commission on Religious Freedom report:

• Nations cited for religious abuses | A watchdog organization on religious liberties recommended yesterday that six nations be added to a State Department list of the world's worst violators of religious freedom (The Washington Times)
  
  
• US religious group slams France for headscarf ban | A semi-official US religious freedom watchdog on Wednesday rebuked France and said it should "reassess" a controversial law banning certain religious garb in public schools, particularly Muslim headscarves (AFP)
  
  

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Global Christianity:

• S Korea's zealous Mid-East missionaries | South Korean Christian missionaries have begun targeting the Muslim world in an effort to win converts from Islam (BBC)
  
  
• Philip Jenkins 'takes five' | Tracking the global path of Christianity (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
  
  

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Sex and human trafficking:

• U.S. group battles sex trade in S.E. Asia | Christian organization gets federal funds (San Francisco Chronicle)
  
  
• Don't legalize | The Czech Republic proposes a Dutch solution to sex trafficking (Donna M. Hughes, National Review Online)
  
  

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Sexual ethics:

• When hello really means bi for now | More and more young women are trying out same-sex relationships. And the last thing they want is to be pinned down by labels (The Observer, London)
  
  
• Don't touch me there | How do you persuade teenagers there is value in virginity? Joanna Moorhead compares US-style moral pledges with British sex education, and finds few converts (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Virgins to campaign in Glasgow | A group of American virgins will jet into Glasgow next month to call on teenagers here to hold on to their virginity. (Glasgow Evening Times, UK)
  
  
• Teens told a silver ring and a vow of chastity are best way to combat sexual epidemic | Worried that their children are bombarded with words, clothes and pictures that "talk dirty", six mothers are plotting a revolution against a society seen to be saturated with sex. The women, two Britons and four American expats, from Surrey, will next month launch a very American solution to the "sexual epidemic" afflicting the nation's teens - a silver ring and a vow of chastity. (The Guardian, UK)
  
  

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