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3. On the road to Jesus | Born-again bikers organize to share God's love (The Daily News Journal, Murfreesboron, Tenn.)
   
   
4. Honduras's mission possible: Integrating the church With HIV/AIDS efforts | In Honduras especially, church leaders are now trying to become part of the solution with stepped-up efforts that aim to slow HIV's spread and help the infected (Science)
   
   

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Church life:

1. A pastor who plagiarized finds a congregation willing to forgive | A disgraced former preacher who used sermons from other ministers and passed them off as his own is getting a second chance (The New York Times)
   
   
2. Demolition starts at historic Catholic church in East Village | Word spread quickly Thursday morning on Manhattan's Lower East Side: "They are demolishing St. Brigid's" (The New York Times)
   
   
3. Loophole blues | Divided Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) prepares for splits and property disputes (World)
   
   
4. Spreading the Word—fast | A new system makes church membership grow exponentially (Andrea Tunarosa, The Wall Street Journal)
   
   

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Catholicism:

1. Catholics face crisis over retired nuns | With tens of thousands of U.S. nuns over age 70, the Roman Catholic Church is facing a massive financial shortfall for the care of retirees in religious orders — a gap that over the long term dwarfs costs from the clergy abuse crisis (Associated Press)
   
   
2. Making a stand for women priests | Archdiocesan official quits, saying she was ordained (The Boston Globe)
   
   
3. Archbishop follows in St Patrick's steps | Ireland's leading Catholic clergyman is to become the first Archbishop of Armagh since the time of St Patrick to climb Croagh Patrick (BBC)
   
   

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Other stories of interest:

1. Congo's militia groups agree to disarm | The last two main militia groups in Congo's most troubled province agreed to disarm in exchange for amnesty and army positions, officials said Thursday as violence erupted in the capital reportedly killing seven people ahead of historic weekend elections (Associated Press)
   
   
2. Woman in doghouse over Jehovah's Witness sign | A British woman has been ordered by police to take down a sign on her garden gate which read "Our dogs are fed on Jehovah's Witnesses."(Reuters)
   
   
3. Prof: Science helps, not zealots | Lee M. Silver takes belief in nature, religion to task (The Capital Times, Madison, Wi.)
   
   
4. Falwell speaks mind | 'I don't believe we should herd them onto buses and take them to Mexico City' (The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Miss.)
   
   
5. Rod rules | Anti-spanking crusades have triggered bans around the globe and are taking aim at the U.S.—but some defenders of spanking say that many parents do it unbiblically (World)
   
   

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