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3. Nigerian Anglicans seeing gay challenge to orthodoxy | The Christian population of the developing world is standing up for orthodoxy in the face of increasing liberalism in the West (The New York Times)
   
   

People:

1. Murdered bishop gets Kenyan honour | President Mwai Kibaki has posthumously honoured an Italian bishop who was murdered in northern Kenya this year with one of the country's highest awards for public service (The Mercury, South Africa)
   
   
2. Haitian priest said to need U.S. doctor | A jailed Catholic priest who had been considered a potential candidate for Haiti's presidency may have cancer and should be released to seek medical treatment in the United States, his lawyer said Thursday (Associated Press)
   
   
3. Living with a true Mother | Raymond Arroyo on Mother Angelica, an unlikely woman who built an unlikely empire (National Review Online)
   
   
4. A man with a mission | From October 1771 until March 1816, Francis Asbury was a traveling evangelist in the American Colonies and fledgling United States. No American during that period is known to have traveled as widely as he (The Washington Post)
   
   

Other religions:

1. Religions stand to be counted | Non-Christian faiths such as Islam are the fastest growing religions in Victoria, a new report reveals (Herald Sun, Melbourne, Australia)
   
   
2. The hard sell | Jews consider proselytizing to fight assimilation (Naomi Schaefer Riley, The Wall Street Journal)
   
   
3. Muslim leader forges interfaith accord | Popular imam boosts Islam in Md., beyond (The Washington Post)
   
   

Spirituality:

1. 'Your body is a temple,' class urges | "PraiseMoves" marketed as a Christian alternative to yoga (The News-Dispatch, via South Bend Tribune, Ind.)
   
   
2. Rooney pipped by God in survey of under-10s | Forget holidays by the sea, computer games and religion. According to a survey of under-10s released today, "money and getting rich" is the top priority for the nation's children (The Guardian, London)
   
   
3. Peer into today's Aladdin's cave and try to detect a spiritual life | The opium of the masses was in fact the vitamin supplement of the poor, whether in terms of providing a code of values or practical help and a sense of moral worth to even the most disadvantaged (Michael Burleigh, The Times, London)
   
   
4. Philip Roth was wrong | How simplistic to blame our innate human aggression on religion (Robert Winston, The Guardian, London)
   
   
5. Trust in God … or Jamie | We live in an age of illusion where faith in just about anything has replaced rationalism (Mary Riddell, The Guardian, London)
   
   
6. Last of the true believers | Christianity in Britain tends to become a repository of presumed goodness and wisdom which has no, or at best a very distant, God, but owes a lot to Him (John Lloyd, Financial Times)
   
   

More articles of interest:

1. Christians strip to build a new Eden | In the beginning was the word of God and God never said anything about brassieres or boxer shorts. Thus was born Natura, America's first Christian nudist camp (The Times, London)
   
   
2. Amish struggle to adapt to tourism | They are unwillingly becoming one of most popular tourist attractions in the United States (BBC)
   
   
3. Zimbabwean evictees return, find no refuge | Many displaced when the government razed squatter camps are back, desperate and fearful (Los Angeles Times)
   
   
4. Jesus and the Gospel—What really happened? | Believe only the embarrassing (Alan F. Segal, Larry Hurtado, and John S. Kloppenborg, Slate)
   
   

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