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Quote of the day
"There's not one major electronics manufacturer who isn't trying to target this space."

—Dan Stark, head of Stark Raving Solutions, on the growing "house of worship technology" market, quoted by CNet.

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Sudan :

1. Groups rally against genocide | "Save Darfur: Rally to Stop Genocide" is sponsored by a coalition of 150 religious and human rights groups, including American Jewish World Service, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the National Association of Evangelicals, the National Council of Churches and the American Society for Muslim Advancement (Newsday)
   
   
2. Bush raises pressure as Darfur deadline nears | President George W. Bush announced new sanctions on Thursday against people suspected of aiding genocide in Sudan's Darfur region, as peace talks in Nigeria neared a deadline and 160 religious and human rights groups prepared for a massive Washington rally on Sunday (Reuters)
   
   

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Religious freedom and interfaith relations:

1. West Bank: Islamic clerics want to close YMCA | An attempt by Muslim clerics to close a YMCA branch office in the West Bank has exposed growing tensions between the Holy Land's dwindling Christian community and the new Palestinian government led by Hamas (The Telegraph, London)
   
   
2. Pakistan: Where Christianity faces a fight to survive | Christians in Pakistan live under the threat of persecution, death, and have suffered waves of violence directed against them and their churches (The Telegraph, London)
   
   
3. Islam-West relations focus of prayer for peace session | Islam's stormy relations with the West became the main topic yesterday at the 20th annual International Prayer for Peace conference at Georgetown University (The Washington Times)
   
   
4. Moroccan model | Evangelical Christians and Muslims are two groups rarely mentioned in the same sentence, but Monday night, Ahmed Abaddi, official in charge of Islamic affairs in Morocco, addressed a dozen evangelicals during a private dinner in Fairfax (The Washington Times)
   
   
5. Book is extremely wrong about British Muslims | Ziauddin Sardar  reviews From Rushdie to 7/7, by Anthony McRoy (The Independent, London)
   
   
6. A clash of beliefs in Riverside | When Christians denounce Islam at a community college gathering, debate turns into shouting matches (Los Angeles Times)
   
   
7. BJP to oppose anti-conversion bill | Two years into next polls, leaders fear losing public support (The Telegraph, Calcutta, India)
   
   
8. Polish parade accused of promoting anti-Semitism | Poland was again forced on to the defensive over its attitude towards Jews yesterday after the Simon Wiesenthal Centre complained of the "anti-Semitic tenor" of a Good Friday procession (The Telegraph, London)
   
   
9. Rajasthan bans another book | "Content hurts feelings of particular community" (The Hindu, India)
   
   

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First Amendment :

1. Ruling restricts shunning practices | Amish store ordered to serve ex-Amish (Associated Press)
   
   
2. Palm Beach County backs off plan to limit size of 'mega churches' | Thou shalt not reign in the size of the house -- or gymnasium or daycare -- of the Lord, Palm Beach County commissioners decided Thursday (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
   
   

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