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Travel:

1. A vow of poverty? Not for visitors to these convents | Some ex-convents are going decidedly upscale (The New York Times)
   
   
2. Highways to heaven | When one thinks about forces on religion, does the spirit of the open road come up for consideration? (Peter Steinfels, The New York Times)
   
   

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Other stories of interest:

1. Kony applies for asylum | The rebel Lord's Resistance Army leader, Joseph Kony has formally approached the Central African Republic government pleading for asylum (Daily Monitor, Uganda)
   
   
2. Keeping the faith | World Bank projects are usually free of words like "faith" and "soul." Most of its missions speak the jargon of development: poverty reduction, aggregate growth and structural adjustments. But a small unit within the bank has been currying favour with religious groups, working to ease their suspicions and use their influence to further the bank's goals (The Economist)
   
   
3. Canadian church group drops anti-Israel divestment program | Jewish groups are cautiously welcoming a decision by the United Church of Canada to drop an overt program of divestment in Israel in favor of "a pro-peace investment strategy for the Middle East" that aims for "a just peace in Palestine and Israel." (The Jerusalem Post)
   
   
4. E. coli death is state's first in 3½ years | As many as 30 people in the Longville area were sickened in the past six weeks. Officials say ground beef at church supper was likely to blame (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
   
   
5. Evangelism in fashion | Forever 21, a popular chain of cheap-chic clothes with stores throughout New York, is literally spreading the Gospel with every sale (The New York Sun)
   
   
6. Religion news in brief | Pope doesn't want to travel much, Dobson renews support for Mel Gibson, Gay Evangelical Lutheran pastor could be defrocked, and other stories (Associated Press)
   
   
7. When cutting isn't cruel | Why stop with girls? Why not rescue boys, too? That's the argument of the anti-circumcision movement (William Saletan, The Washington Post)
   
   
8. Cool Jesus | For more than two decades Cool Jesus has been right by my side. He's got a big toothy smile, he hates my Church, and he's always telling me I've got it all wrong. But he never tells me what's right (Rebecca Robinson, GodSpy)
   
   

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