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Church and state:

1. Suit targeting missions funding dropped | A group opposed to restoring churches with public money said it may refile (The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Ca.)
   
   
2. Also: Lawsuit challenging mission restoration dropped | A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a $10 million, five-year program to restore and preserve California's deteriorating historic missions has been withdrawn, opening the door for Congress to begin funding it (McClatchy Newspapers)
   
   
3. US celebrates its most misread freedom | Many Americans, it seems, still don't understand what religious freedom entails (The Christian Science Monitor)
   
   
4. Estate owner wants to avoid $33,000 tax bill by making home a church | Longtime neighborhood activist Sonny Irons spent the past two decades building his $1.4 million waterside estate in Fort Lauderdale, but now he argues it's really a church and he shouldn't have to pay $33,000 in property taxes this year (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
   
   
5. Why the City should pay for St Paul's | Abdication of cultural leadership is part of a broader crisis of philanthropy (Tristram Hunt, The Guardian, London)
   
   

Religious freedom:

1. Egyptian church clash injures 12 | At least 12 people were injured in clashes in Upper Egypt when a group of Muslims attempted to stop Christians converting a house into a church (BBC)
   
   
2. Also: Youths try to halt church building in Egypt | Twelve people were wounded in the clashes in the village of el-Udaysaat near the southern town of Luxor, about 500 km (300 miles) south of Cairo (Reuters)
   
   
3. Dalit woman 'attacked' by Christian converts | A Dalit woman was allegedly assaulted by three Christian converts after she refused to embrace Christianity in Matiapada village. Her house was also set ablaze by them. Police on Tuesday arrested two persons in this connection (New India Press)
   
   
4. Also: Two arrested for forcing woman to convert | At least two persons have been arrested for allegedly assaulting a Hindu woman and setting her house on fire in Orissa after she refused to change her religion, police said Wednesday (IANS, India)
   
   

Education:

1. Bible studies class pushed for schools | Democrats' bill fuels grumbling by GOP (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
   
   
2. Moral science text in Christian management school in controversy | Controversy is brewing over a sketch in a moral science textbook of second standard students in Christian management run schools in Kerala, with the Sunni Students Federation (SSF) protesting over it, saying it portrayed Prophet Mohammed and was 'unIslamic' (UNI, India)
   
   

Intelligent Design:

1. In 'Design' vs. Darwinism, Darwin wins point in Rome | An article in the official Vatican newspaper called the recent court decision that intelligent design should not be taught as a scientific alternative to evolution "correct" (The New York Times)
   
   
2. Also: Vatican paper hits 'Intelligent Design' | The Vatican newspaper has published an article saying "intelligent design" is not science and that teaching it alongside evolutionary theory in school classrooms only creates confusion (Associated Press)
   
   
3. Revs. seek lessons from Dover | A seminar seeks to prepare pastors for intelligent-design debates near them (York Daily Record, Pa.)
   
   
4. Beliefs on Darwin's evolution vary from religion to religion | Many seem unenthusiastic about schools teaching intelligent design (Deseret Morning News, Ut.)
   
   
5. Have some faith in the kids | I heartily approved of the Dover ruling. But learning about intelligent design (especially as part of an ideas course) isn't going to prevent children from deciding for themselves, as adults, what to believe, or deprive them of opportunities (Los Angeles Times)
   
   

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