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2. Indonesia to execute Christian militants on Saturday | Three Indonesian Christians on death row for leading a mob that killed Muslims during inter-religious violence in Central Sulawesi province are to be executed on Saturday, the Attorney General's office said. (Reuters)
   
   
3. Woman sentenced for Bible coke smuggling | There was more than Good News in Amy Duckworth's Bible. Duckworth, 28, was sentenced Monday to six months in prison for smuggling cocaine to her jailed husband inside two Bibles. (Associated Press)
   
   
4. Woman sentenced in charity scam | No prison time for addict who duped churches (Boston Globe)
   
   
5. Russian police hold two Hermitage heist suspects | Police have detained the husband and son of a museum curator on suspicion of stealing hundreds of artworks from Russia's world-famous Hermitage Museum, Interfax news agency said on Saturday (Reuters)
   
   
6. Thefts at Hermitage expose a `pattern' | Inside jobs plague Russian museums (Associated Press)
   
   
7. Christianity under siege in our caves | Since 1887, a cave on Davaar Island in Campbeltown Loch has featured a painting on one of its walls of Christ on the cross. Quite why one Archibald MacKinnon, a local teacher, executed this painting we will never know. It was discovered last week, though, that the painting had been defaced — an image of Che Guevara had been spray-painted over it (The Times, London)
   
   
8. Pastor's wife wants statements tossed | Attorneys for a minister's wife accused of killing her husband in their small-town parsonage asked a judge Wednesday to throw out her statements to police, claiming she was arrested illegally. (Associated Press)
   
   

Other articles of interest :

1. Beams reveal Archimedes' hidden writings | Previously hidden writings of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes are being uncovered with powerful X-ray beams nearly 800 years after a Christian monk scrubbed off the text and wrote over it with prayers (Associated Press)
   
   
2. Same stories, different beliefs -- what rapture! | How, in the 21st century, do we still have such an epic divide between people who believe that the Rapture may soon be upon us and others who think those folks are nuts? (Dana Parsons, Los Angeles Times)
   
   
3. Underwhelmed by it all | For the 12-to-24 set, boredom is a recreational hazard (Los Angeles Times)
   
   
4. Religion off the agenda in 'church of laughter' | For those who are curious about Christianity but disillusioned by the institutional Church, there is a novel solution - drop the religion (The Telegraph, London)
   
   
5. Mast workers barred from 'bat' church | When contractors arrived to put mobile phone mast equipment on top of a church where protesters believe bats are nesting, leading objector Audrey Booth sat down in front of the lorry and told them: "Thou shalt not." (Yorkshire Post)
   
   
6. Cemetery loses key fight | Chicago's plan to uproot a 157-year-old religious cemetery and demolish hundreds of suburban homes in the way of expanding O'Hare International Airport survived one of its last legal challenges Friday. (The Chicago Tribune)
   
   
7. Congress passes legislation on charitable giving, tax-law abuse | Under the legislation, donors age 70½ and older would be allowed to withdraw up to $100,000 from their individual retirement accounts tax-free if they give the money directly to a charity.
   
   
8. Iranian doctors say they cloned a sheep | Iranian doctors have overseen the country's first animal cloning—a lamb that died minutes after birth—and plan future experiments in genetics and stem cell research, a member of the team said Wednesday. (Associated Press)
   
   
9. Younger blacks absorb a wariness of marriage | As African-American teenagers in a Mission Hill conference room talk about their opinions of marriage, their comments reveal a dreary view of the institution. (Boston Globe)
   
   

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