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Poverty:

• Churches urge poverty focus | About 50 Australian non-government organisations, including World Vision, Oxfam and the Catholic Church, are assembling under the Make Poverty History banner, and planning to launch a grassroots campaign this month (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
• Whose jubilee? | Powerful names in Christendom join music moguls to mount a seductive campaign to cancel poor-nation debt—a plan more likely to benefit oppressors of the poor than the truly impoverished (Mindy Belz, World)

Politics:

• Hostettler, again | Congressman attempts to block court action, this time on Ten Commandments. Congress should not go there (Editorial, Courier & Press, Evansville, Ind.)
• Bishops renew their opposition to death penalty | America's Catholic bishops yesterday agreed to refocus and step up their opposition to the death penalty, while some prelates questioned omissions in a new document on priestly chastity that the bishops will vote on today (The Washington Times)
• Bush talks about faith at Hispanic prayer breakfast | In the past six weeks, Bush has been the main attraction at three prayer events (Associated Press)
• Onward, moderate Christian soldiers | It is important for those of us who are considered moderates to make the case that we have strongly held Christian convictions (John C. Danforth, The New York Times)
• How religion and politics can blend | Reasoned argument and compassionate listening offer ample opportunity for religious beliefs to play a public role without ruining public discourse and the political equilibrium (Editorial, The Christian Science Monitor)
• Accidents happen--in a context | What is the relationship between increased Christian evangelism in the U.S. Government and abuse of Muslims and the Qur'an? (Michael Wolfe, Beliefnet)

Education:

• 3 Montgomery schools to move graduation from church | Parents object to using religious sites as county wrestles with limited number of large venues (The Washington Post)
• A worldview in a week | Call it Christianity boot camp. Every year, thousands of evangelical Christian college students and teens from across the U.S. and Canada forgo traditional summer camps to immerse themselves in sessions that teach apologetics and Christian thought (The Washington Times)
• Waco warning | Is Baylor on a path to becoming a "formerly Christian school"? (World)

Air Force Academy:

• 'Religious bullying' at US academy | The sprawling campus of America's elite Air Force Academy is silent for the summer holiday, but the din surrounding its role as an alleged hot-bed of religious intolerance is only getting louder (BBC)
• On wings and prayers | How much religious intolerance is there at the U.S. Air Force Academy? (Vincent Carroll, The Wall Street Journal)

Frist defends remarks on Schiavo case:

• Frist plagued again by comments on Schiavo | The Senate majority leader denies that he attempted to diagnose the Florida woman after an autopsy's findings contradict his remarks (Los Angeles Times)
• Frist defends remarks on Schiavo case | He says he never made a diagnosis (The Washington Post)

Terri Schiavo:

• The Schiavo post-mortem | The autopsy changes nothing (Editorial, National Review)
• Blind man's love | The lesson of Terri Schiavo's autopsy (William Saletan, Slate)
• Don't hold your breath for this sorry excuse | Where are the apologies now that the autopsy showed no abuse of Terri Schiavo? (Daniel Ruth, The Tampa Tribune)

Life ethics:

• Conservative groups blocked Nevada birth control amendment | A provision that would have forced pharmacists to fill birth control prescriptions - regardless of moral objections—was cut out of a bill in the final days of the Nevada Legislature (Associated Press)

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