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Church and state :

1. San Diego has 90 days to remove Mt. Soledad cross | Judge threatens fine to enforce '91 ruling (San Diego Union-Tribune)
   
   
2. Mizoram police grab children of satan-fearing cult | Police in the largely Christian state of Mizoram have taken 13 children away from their parents said to belong to a cult which believes attending school exposes students to satanic forces, an official said on Thursday (Reuters)
   
   

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Religious freedom :

1. U.S. finds religious freedom threatened worldwide | Two U.S. allies called 'of particular concern' for intolerance (CNN)
   
   
2. Vietnam, US spar on rights before trade talks | Vietnam, which hopes to be taken off a U.S. blacklist on religious rights to ease passage to the World Trade Organization, on Thursday rejected as "completely wrong" a report saying Hanoi had not done enough on freedom of faith (Reuters)
   
   

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Sudan :

1. An incomplete peace: Sudan's never-ending war with itself | When the civil war in southern Sudan ended in 2005, the West hoped Darfur would also become peaceful. Instead, the conflict there has escalated (The New York Times)
   
   
2. Aid agencies seek donations for Darfur | The World Food Program is so strapped for cash it has halved food rations for refugees in Sudan's wartorn Darfur region. Another U.N. agency has been forced to cut out measles vaccinations for children there (Associated Press)
   
   
3. On his watch | If peace negotiations are to succeed in Darfur, military action must be on the table (Editorial, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
   
   
4. Killing fields | Darfur needs peace "enforced at the end of a barrel" (Jan Egeland, The Wall Street Journal)
   
   
5. Responding to evil | Protesting about Darfur is unlikely to stop the carnage. But we still need to speak out against oppression. (Marc Gellman, Newsweek)
   
   

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Politics :

1. Churches champion migrants as Europe tightens laws | Working together or separately, Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox clerics have stepped up to defend immigrants in France, urge an amnesty for illegal immigrants in Britain and shelter asylum seekers in Belgium in recent weeks (Reuters)
   
   
2. Romney to address Mormon faith if he runs | Republican Gov. Mitt Romney, often questioned about how his Mormon faith would affect a potential presidential run, said Wednesday he envisions mimicking John F. Kennedy and explaining his religion to the public (Associated Press)
   
   
3. Landscape in Ala. governor's race shifts | Roy Moore isn't getting treated like a hero in the state's topsy-turvy race for governor. He trails Gov. Bob Riley by a 2-to-1 margin in the polls and an even wider margin in fundraising as they head toward the Republican primary for governor on June 6 (Associated Press)
   
   
4. The paranoid style | We're at a moment when crude conspiracy mongering is emerging from the belly of the American establishment. Case in point: Kevin Phillips's theocracy thesis (David Brooks, The New York Times)
   
   
5. They say he can talk with the dead | Associates of newly installed Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare say in recent years he has become deeply, even mystically, religious — prompting a popular rumour that he is able to talk to the dead (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
   
   

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China-Vatican relations :

1. Pope strongly condemns Chinese church | Pope Benedict XVI noted that its consecration of two bishops without Vatican approval was an offense punishable by excommunication (The New York Times)
   
   

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