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4. PCUSA to cut 75 staff, 55 missionaries
About 15 percent of the employees at the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) headquarters were laid off this week. And about 18 percent of the denomination's 307 missionaries also lost their jobs. Several offices—particularly those involved in public policy matters, such as the Criminal Justice, Environmental Justice, and Corporate Witness programs—are to be closed altogether.

5. Another major American Baptist section votes to sever ties
The American Baptist Churches USA denomination continues to disintegrate. (Earlier coverage here.) In the latest development, delegates from the American Baptist Churches of the Pacific Southwest voted 1,125 to 209 to leave.

Quote of the day:

"Akinola has the strength of a lion, useful in confronting Third World fundamentalism and First World relativism."

—Rick Warren on the Anglican archbishop of Nigeria, whom Time's current issue names one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

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War and terrorism :

1. Iraqi Christians seek asylum here | Three men captured near Los Indios, claim Middle East mayhem (The Brownsville Herald, Tex.)
   
   
2. 'In the hands of God' | For chaplains in Iraq, the constant battle is the fear, loneliness and tedium that can test a soldier's faith (The Washington Post)
   
   
3. Pope prays for world to be free from wars | Pope Benedict XVI prayed Monday for the world to be freed from wars and terrorism as he visited a shrine dedicated to love (Associated Press)
   
   
4. Crusaders, lies and videotape | Where on the globe will you find people possessed of a religious zeal and political power-lust who are willing, even eager to kill in the name of God? In Washington, D.C.? In Los Angeles? In Boston? How about Tehran, Baghdad, Riyadh and Amman? (Mona Charen, The Washington Times)
   
   
5. Ultimate solution | Islamic clerics have decided "the final solution," the triumph of Islam over Christendom is near (Herbert London, The Washington Times)
   
   

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Save Darfur rally :

1. Thousands rally in support of American aid to Darfur | Thousands of people urged Americans and the Bush administration to do more to help end the ethnic and political conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan (The New York Times)
   
   
2. Thousands urge Bush to do more in Darfur | The organizers' permit anticipated 10,000 to 15,000 people would rally, one of several in U.S. cities this weekend against what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitarian disaster (Associated Press)
   
   
3. Divisions cast aside in cry for Darfur | Mall rally highlights growing concern (The Washington Post)
   
   
4. Thousands rally to stop the violence in Darfur | Washington protesters urge Bush to push for a stronger multinational peacekeeping force (Los Angeles Times)
   
   
5. Divisions cast aside in cry for Darfur | Mall rally highlights growing concern (The Washington Post)
   
   

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