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Holy Week is always a busy religion week. And it's a particularly busy week over here with us both closing our May issue and taking Good Friday off. So while we've had a chance to grab the week's religion news, we couldn't put everything into our usual neat categories by the time the bell rang. But since you're enough of a news junkie to be reading this over your weekend, we hope you won't mind this inconvenience. (Take a page from Alan Jacobs and enjoy the serendipity that a less-categorized list like this can encourage.)

We'll clean this list up early next week. And then offer another heaping helping of hot linky goodness.

Index | Easter | Lent & Holy Week | Theology & the Resurrection | New gospels | Church life | AIDS | Zimbabwe | Abuse | Crime | Lawsuits | Grace Church | Anglicanism | Mormonism | Catholicism | John Paul II | People | Politics and politicians | Education | Homosexuality & same-sex marriage | Life ethics | Stem cells | Morality & psychology | Entertainment | Chocolate Jesus | Best of luck

Easter:

• Easter's meaning split is between the sacred and the secular | For some, it's all about the bunny (Houston Chronicle)
  
  
• Church sues state | The Relevant Church filed lawsuit after being denied use to the State Office Building for Easter Services (News10, Syracuse, N.Y.)
  
  
• Once the butcher for the world, now a quarter-acre lot | At one of the last of Chicago's classic slaughterhouses, Passover and Easter mean the lambs' days are numbered (The New York Times)
  
  
• Passover and the Passion | Why is this week different from all other weeks? It begins with Passover and ends with Easter. (James Carroll, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Faithful build a Second Life for religion online | This week, Second Life will feature Easter events and Passover celebrations, as well as the usual meditation meet-ups, Muslim prayers and legions of gatherings for spiritual freelancers (USA Today)
  
  
• Keeping Passover, Easter and a space to park | A confluence of religious holidays has created an unusually long stretch when some drivers can take a break from worrying about alternate parking rules (The New York Times)
  
  
• It must be Easter | It never fails, as Church-bashers remember to take the holy out of Holy Week. (Lisa Fabrizio, The American Spectator)
  
  
• Easter prime marketing time for skeptics | It's a predictable part of the Easter season: The period of reflection on the Crucifixion and Resurrection has become a popular time for marketers to roll out works — from the scholarly to the sensational — that challenge Christianity's core beliefs (Associated Press)
  
  

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Lent & Holy Week:

• Lenten obligation helps restaurants rake in the clams | Lent, the 40 days before Easter observed by Christians, can mean big bucks for fishy businesses (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Filipinos pray, bathe and crucify themselves at Easter | Although the Philippines is a predominantly Catholic country, with over 80 percent of its 87 million population estimated to be followers, tribal beliefs and local superstitions infuse Christianity in this Southeast Asian country (Reuters)
  
  
• Christians retrace Jesus' steps | Thousands of pilgrims retraced Jesus' footsteps Wednesday as they celebrated Holy Week at the sites where Christians mark his crucifixion, death and resurrection (Associated Press)
  
  
• Patriarch performs Holy Week rite | Hundreds of Greek Orthodox believers filled the courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's Old City to watch their patriarch wash the feet of followers as part of a Holy Thursday tradition. (Associated Press)
  
  

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April (Web-only) 2007, Vol. 51