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5. Is Christianity a casualty of war? | What doth it profit if you gain information from a tortured terrorist and lose your own soul? (Tony Campolo, Huffington Post)
   
   
6. Let us prey | Jack Abramoff and his deeply religious right-wing cronies express their "biblical worldview" by swindling Indian tribes and bribing legislators. Verily, mysterious are the ways of the Lord (Joe Conason, Salon.com)
   
   

Indiana House prayer:

1. Take time to reflect on prayer debate | Both sides in debate over legislative prayers need to reflect on questions the controversy has raised (Editorial, The Indianapolis Star)
   
   
2. A prayerful solution | Indiana state representatives proved Wednesday that a federal judge's order has not prevented any of them from praying before beginning their sessions (Editorial, The Journal Gazette, Ft. Wayne, Ind.)
   
   

Religious freedom:

1. NGO accuses RSS of 'forcible conversion' in Gujarat | A report by a Delhi-based voluntary organisation has accused the Gujarat government of collaborating with Sangh organisations in forcibly converting tribals to Hinduism in the Dang district of Gujarat (Rediff, India)
   
   
2. Housewife jailed for 'visions of Gabriel' | In an unusual display of doctrinaire religious thinking, Indonesian police have detained Lia Aminuddin on blasphemy charges, alleging she has profaned Islam (The Australian)
   
   

Life ethics:

1. Screening will pick up more diseases in embryos | Doctors may soon be able to screen embryos for thousands of individual genes that cause inherited disease, using a technique that has been refined by British researchers (The Times, London)
   
   
2. Abortion rights in Latin America | For proof that criminalizing abortion doesn't reduce abortion rates and only endangers the lives of women, consider Latin America (Editorial, The New York Times)
   
   
3. Human guinea pigs? | Ian Wilmut wants to experiment on the dying with embryonic stem cells--even though the treatments haven't been properly tested (Wesley J. Smith, The Weekly Standard)
   
   

Family:

1. Harem, scare 'em | Worrying about polygamy (Naomi Schaefer Riley, The Wall Street Journal)
   
   
2. Eight is not enough | Suddenly, large families are all over the silver screen (Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Wall Street Journal)
   
   

Education:

1. Government urged to end abstinence-only education | People have a "basic human right" to complete sexual health information, the paper said (The Washington Times)
   
   
2. Court considers unusual clash between creed, curriculum | Students from an evangelical day school are suing the prestigious University of California system, charging that it's biased against conservative Christian viewpoints (Associated Press)
   
   
3. Evolution case turns to petitions | School board's attorney doubts documents exist (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
   
   
4. Calvin announces new provost | Claudia Beversluis, currently the dean for instruction at Calvin, is being recommended as Calvin's seventh chief academic officer, and the first woman in the post after a nationwide search that attracted almost 60 nominees (press release, Calvin College)
   
   

Church life:

1. Leading Baptist group launches ad | Southern Baptist Convention, often known for what it opposes, runs a TV ad showing what it does (The Dallas Morning News)
   
   
2. Ugandan breaks ties with Virginia diocese | The battle over homosexuality in the Episcopal Church ratcheted up a notch yesterday when Anglican Archbishop Henry Orombi of Uganda officially broke relations with the Diocese of Virginia (The Washington Times)
   
   

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