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8. Leap of faith: Workplaces embrace spirituality | Religion and spirituality are seeping into work settings across the country, often in ways that were taboo just years ago (The Arizona Republic)
   
   
9. For a divine economy, follow the Old Testament | Most of us assume the solution to problems with the economy lies in coming up with something new. But a group of Christian thinkers in Cambridge believe the answer lies in getting back to the economic model laid out in the Bible (The Sydney Morning Herald)
   
   

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People :

1. God, the Bushes, and Billy Graham | The 41st president of the United States pays homage to the world's most influential Protestant evangelist. Graham's largely unifying legacy is worth considering at a time when faith seems ever more divisive (Jon Meacham, Newsweek)
   
   
2. Serbian Orthodox Church head hospitalized | Patriarch Pavle, The 91-year-old leader of more than 7 million Orthodox Serbs was taken to a top military hospital in Belgrade "because of the general condition of his health, related to his age," the church said in a statement (Associated Press)
   
   
3. Towey resigns as White House faith-based initiative head | New post as president of St. Vincent College in Pennsylvania unrelated to other staff changes, officials say (The New York Times)
   
   

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Religion polls :

1. For almost all Americans, there is God | A new CBS News poll shows that almost all Americans believe in God or some higher power and more than half pray often and consider religion an important component of their daily lives (CBS News)
   
   
2. In God's presence | Poll find religious belief - if not observance - remains strong among Canadians (The Ottawa Citizen)
   
   
3. Mixing politics, religion bad idea in Canada, poll suggests | Canadians are becoming increasingly uneasy about mixing religion and politics and they'd be more likely to vote for a party lead by an atheist or a Muslim than an evangelical Christian, suggests a new poll (CanWest News Service)
   
   
4. Canadians believe in God, not church | Almost half of Canadians believe they have been in the presence of God and one in three say they have had a religious or mystical experience, reveals a new poll (CanWest News Service)
   
   

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Other stories of interest :

1. Evangelicals debate the meaning of 'evangelical' | At a time of heightened power for evangelical Christians, old fissures are widening, and new theological and political splits are developing (The New York Times)
   
   
2. Highway crash kills 58 Mexicans on Easter tour | Their bus, said to be going 70 mph, plunges off a dangerous road and into a ravine. A 7-year-old girl and two others survive (Los Angeles Times)
   
   
3. Christian theme riding high on a pigskin | Jerseys will carry Biblical names (Toronto Star)
   
   
4. How has Christianity changed? | As people flock to celebrate Easter and considering the rise of the so-called super churches in Africa, has Christian faith changed? (BBC)
   
   
5. Masons fall on hard times | Once a bedrock of U.S. culture, group faces aging, declining membership (The Dallas Morning News)
   
   
6. Lebanon, my Lebanon | Marjayoun, a small Christian village tucked in a rugged corner of Lebanon, is dying (Anthony Shadid, The Washington Post)
   
   
7. Balancing AIDS prevention | In 2003, Congress required that one-third of all US money spent on preventing AIDS overseas be used for promoting abstinence and fidelity. Ever since, there have been complaints that this was getting in the way of efforts to fight the disease (Editorial, The Boston Globe)
   
   

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