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CBS Sportsline columnist Clay Travis, questioning Pat Robertson's claim. CBN officials insist that his one-ton leg press had several witnesses.

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International violence :

1. Timorese flock to churches | Thousands of traumatised East Timorese have flocked to morning church services in and around Dili as Australian-led international peace enforcers continue to arrive in the country (AAP, Australia)
   
   
2. In East Timor, refugees born of chaos, carnage and fear | Priests in white robes attempt to rescue and protect residents (The New York Times)
   
   
3. East Timor spirals into gang warfare | East Timor's president said he was assuming emergency powers over national security Tuesday after machete-wielding mobs torched homes and ransacked buildings in the capital and desperate residents scuffled over scarce food (Associated Press)
   
   
4. Strategic victimhood in Sudan | Darfur was never the simplistic morality tale purveyed by the news media and humanitarian organizations (Alan J. Kuperman, The New York Times)
   
   
5. Christians flee the east in wake of Bush's 'crusade' | George W. Bush wanted to turn Iraq into a laboratory for the new Middle East. Instead, Christians in neighboring countries fear the contagion of the uncontrollable forces that a superficial democratization has unleashed (Pierre Rousselin, Le Figaro, Paris, via Watching America)
   
   

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International religious freedom :

1. Azerbaijan 'flattened' sacred Armenian site | Fears that Azerbaijan has systematically destroyed hundreds of 500-year-old Christian artefacts have exploded into a diplomatic row, after Euro MPs were barred from inspecting an ancient Armenian burial site (The Independent, London)
   
   
2. Christian booked for 'blasphemous' SMS | Qamar David, a Christian, was arrested on Wednesday night after a travel agent, Khursheed Ahmed, complained that he had sent 'blasphemous' text messages to several people through his mobile phone (Daily Times, Pakistan)
   
   
3. Rome-approved Chinese bishop defies state church | A Chinese bishop approved by the Vatican but not by China's official state-backed Catholic church has defied authorities and officiated at a religious ceremony, a Hong Kong newspaper reported on Monday (Reuters)
   
   
4. A Chinese dissident's faith | Politicians, journalists and other citizens are having difficulty in coming to terms with an era in which religion has again become the driving engine of world politics. (Jim Hoagland, The Washington Post)
   
   
5. The clear and present danger of religious right in America | American diplomats everywhere work hard to push an agenda of democratic reforms and liberalism in other countries, while in their homeland people have difficulty promoting the humanist-liberal and secular values of democracy (Djoko Susilo, The Jakarta Post, Indonesia)
   
   
6. Tamil Nadu bills to repeal Jaya's laws | Two bills for repealing the controversial anti-conversion law and Tamil Nadu Essential Services Maintenance Act (Tesma), enacted by the previous Jayalalithaa government, were introduced in the Tamil Nadu Assembly on Monday without being opposed (PTI, India)
   
   

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