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• S. African anti-apartheid cleric Beyers Naude dies (Reuters)
  
  
• Three Christian pilgrims die, 18 wounded in Pakistan road accident | Pilgrims were going to a nearby city to attend a three-day fair dedicated to the Virgin Mary (Associated Press)
  
  
• Farewell 'Oom Bey' | Today we mourn the passing of another great South African, Beyers "Oom Bey" Naude, who did his share of the spadework that prepared the ground for our democracy to take root and flourish (Editorial, Cape Argus, Cape Town, South Africa)
  
  
• Oom Bey: 'His life is a shining beacon' (Mail & Guardian, South Africa)
  
  
• Beyers Naude, who fought apartheid, dies at 89 | Beyers Naude was an Afrikaner cleric who renounced apartheid, defied his church and became his nation's leading exponent of white resistance to racism (The New York Times)
  
  
• C.F. Beyers Naude dies; cleric opposed apartheid regime | C.F. Beyers Naude, 89, a ranking Afrikaner cleric who spent decades spouting biblical justifications for the South African apartheid regime and later was branded an ethnic traitor after he dissented with the government's racist policies, died Sept. 7 at a retirement home in Johannesburg (The Washington Post)
  
  

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People:

• The Good Baldwin | Stephen Baldwin comes to New York, comes to play, and comes out about his true ministry (Matt Labash, The Weekly Standard)
  
  
• Elfrieda Dyck, 87, Mennonite who helped thousands resettle, dies | Nurse who immigrated to Canada from Russia in the 1920's encountered the streams of Mennonites fleeing Soviet oppression (The New York Times)
  
  

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More articles:

• Baser Passions | Mel Gibson sanctifies his perverse obsessions (Chris Orr, The New Republic)
  
  
• Jesus is the new neighborhood watch on Western Blvd. | A 13-foot tall wooden sculpture of Jesus bearing a cross looms over Western Boulevard in front of Triangle Vineyard Christian Fellowship. Details of the statue's appearance are murky (The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.)
  
  
• Each day, utopian dreams fade away | Reality setting in for those longing for return of Heritage USA days (The Charlotte Observer, N.C.)
  
  
• Sunday-shopping opponents ready for plebiscite | Churches and some secular groups say year-round Sunday shopping would only benefit big box stores at the expense of small business and retail employees (MITV, Halifax, Nova Scotia)
  
  
• Americans are a generous lot | But Ted Turner wants people to give to world's needy, not to church (David Yount, Scripps Howard News Service)
  
  
• Shrinking population threatens an ancient faith | Zoroastrians debate inviting outsiders in (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Christian Coalition gambled, and lost | It turns out the Christian Coalition, long the leader of the fight against gambling in Alabama, has been fueled in part by money from out-of-state Indian casinos. Not directly, of course (The Birmingham News, Ala.)
  
  

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