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Fighting crime :

1. Guarding God's house | Churches want to keep 'open arms,' but times call for security measures (The Dallas Morning News)
   
   
2. Pastor's plan pits Bible vs. bullet holes | Tired of asking the law to clean up his southeast-side neighborhood, Pastor Paul Taylor's going to try a little Gospel instead (Kevin Leininger, The News-Sentinel, Ft. Wayne, Ind.)
   
   
3. Churches can help stop crime | The $3 million initative to help a coalition of church groups promote faith-based anti-violence programs is laudable (Editorial, Toronto Sun)
   
   

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Time's 100 people who shape our world:

1. Rick Warren on Archbishop Peter Akinola | The Strength of a Lion (Time)
   
   
2. Jesse Helms on Bono | "I knew that he was genuine" (Time)
   
   
3. Christine Gorman on Pernessa Seele | Her best weapon is faith (Time)
   
   
4. Matt Ridley on John Jones | The judge who ruled for Darwin (Time)
   
   
5. Peggy Noonan on Pope Benedict XVI | The new pontiff finds his voice (Time)
   
   

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Missions and ministry :

1. Skepticism about charities | Nine in 10 Americans do not believe charities use their donations honestly, according to the latest Harris Interactive poll, but they give money anyway (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, sub. req'd.)
   
   
2. SBC missionaries agree to guidelines, will return to the field | Southern Baptist missionaries Wyman and Michelle Dobbs will be allowed to return to their work in West Africa after telling the International Mission Board's overseas leadership they are committed to following the IMB's five levels of partnership and planting indigenous Baptist churches (Baptist Press)
   
   
3. Also: IMB official reverses decision to fire African missionaries | International Mission Board officials have reinstated Wyman and Michelle Dobbs, the missionary couple who had faced termination for establishing a "baptistic" church in the West African nation of Guinea (Associated Baptist Press)
   
   
4. Rwanda shall rise again—Meyer | Renowned world Evangelist Joyce Meyer, has assured Rwandans that Rwanda shall rise again. (The New Times, Rwanda)
   
   

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Other stories of interest :

1. Televangelist couple at center of debt controversy | The people who ran Affordable Homes Limited said it was just about to take off when Kenneth and Gloria Copeland suddenly backed out and left tens of thousands of dollars of debt (WFAA, Dallas)
   
   
2. Archaeologists discover unusual network of burial chambers in Rome | Archaeologists repairing a Roman catacomb have discovered an unusual network of underground burial chambers containing the elegantly dressed corpses of more than 1,000 people, a Rome official said (Catholic News Service)
   
   
3. A town explodes in joy | "God is good. He's still a miracle-working God," United Church Community Minister Frances Seen said last night on hearing the two miners trapped underground for five days were alive (The Mercury, Tasmania, Australia)
   
   
4. After two days, missing teen found | Just before daybreak Friday, Daniel Myers set off through the woods, carrying only his Bible. (The Tribune-Democrat, Johnstown, Pa.)
   
   
5. ACLU challenges Ky. funeral protest law | Portions of a new Kentucky law intended to prevent protesters from disrupting funerals for soldiers killed in Iraq are unconstitutional, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a federal lawsuit filed Monday (Associated Press)
   
   
6. One man's Jesus | Rick Miller sticks a thorn in Christianity (The Ottawa Citizen)
   
   
7. Aboriginal leaders, church in feud over memorial seat | A row has erupted over the fate of a memorial seat to the Aboriginal activist Mum Shirl (The Sydney Morning Herald)
   
   
8. Inherit the wind | The ultimately secular brand of Protestantism that is fading away has been the essential, if ironic, infrastructure for the toleration of other more strongly held religious beliefs in America, beliefs that would otherwise clash and burn with each other and with toleration itself (Mark Alan Hughes, Philadelphia Daily News)
   
   

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