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• Also: Swift resolution to lawsuit best result for MSU | Nietzel handles investigation properly (Editorial, News-Leader, Springfield, Mo.)
  
  
• Catholic group sues UW regents, 4 officials | A Catholic group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison sued school officials on Thursday, claiming their policies discriminate against religious groups who want to qualify for student fees (Associated Press)
  
  
• Voters refuse to return Ten Commandments to city park | Boise, Idaho, officials agreed in 2004 to move 40-year-old granite monument to church grounds after Kansas preacher sought to erect anti-gay monument on city property (Associated Press)
  
  
• 2 abortion clinics want Fox's O'Reilly investigated | Kansas Supreme Court receives request that TV talk host, state attorney general be investigated over statements about abortion records (Associated Press)
  
  
• Reward offered in missionary's death | Atlanta police officials announced a reward on Thursday in the murder of a 72-year-old missionary who dedicated her life to helping homeless people (WXIA)
  
  
• Cross lawsuit vs. city tossed | The "three crosses" lawsuit against the city of Las Cruces was dismissed Thursday in federal court, but the plaintiff is vowing to appeal the decision (Las Cruces Sun-News, N.M.)
  
  
• Missionaries cleared of incitement charge | Two American missionaries charged with inciting people to violence in Ngong Town are now free (The East African Standard, Kenya)
  
  
• Church autonomy doctrine leads Florida court to dismiss workers' comp claim | A Florida state court of appeal yesterday held that under the church autonomy doctrine, civil courts may not review a Catholic Archdiocese's assertion that a workers' compensation claimant is an incardinated cleric and not an employee (Religion Clause)
  
  

Other stories of interest

• Red poppy 'less Christian' claim | The red poppy is a symbol of remembrance for fallen soldiers. A Christian lobby group has claimed the wearing of red poppies is "politically correct" and stifles debate (BBC News)
  
  
• U.S. firm's anti-gay e-mail sparks online fury | A U.S. landscaping firm has been inundated with hate mail after an e-mail it sent rejecting a client because he was gay was made public (Reuters)
  
  
• Bible saves man's life | A tiny Bible is being credited with saving a man's life.But this isn't a story about faith (WLTV, Jacksonville)
  
  
• Mommy, what's an evangelical? | There could be more than 100 million of them in America (Slate)
  
  
• A faith short of compassion | Social democrats embrace the discipline of markets tempered by the demands of human decency. And this is where we find common ground between secular social democracy and the social justice tradition of the Christian church (Kevin Rudd, The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  

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