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• Churches' second life: Homes | Buyers seeking a unique home could be the saving grace for 24 churches for sale in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
  
  
• City courts religious conventions | Meeting an opportunity to lure lucrative events (The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.)
  
  
• Minnesota's teetotal taxis | The Twin Cities taxi issue is a rite of passage for both the Muslim community and its neighbors (Time)
  
  

Insurance:

• Insurance plan with church payday probed | State authorities are investigating a life-insurance sales program operated by prominent local minister Acen Phillips in which his religious organizations become beneficiaries when the faithful die. (The Denver Post)
  
  
• Church of Aarone's family pastor seems tied to $60 million in policies | Insurance linking pastor, figure in Aarone case eyed (Rocky Mountain News, Denver)
  
  
• Earlier: Insurance questions in Aarone case | Pastor's churches stand to collect from Lowe's policy (Rocky Mountain News, Denver)
  
  
• Regulators challenge Kentucky ruling favoring religion-based health plan | A Christian ministry that helps its members pay one another's medical bills won an important round in its legal battle with insurance regulators (The New York Times)
  
  
• Also: Ky. wants new Christian insurance ruling | Other states recognize Medi-Share as insurance and subject it to stricter regulations, attorneys for the Insurance Department argued in a motion filed Friday in Franklin Circuit Court (Associated Press)
  
  

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Amish :

• Traditional travel puts Amish at risk | When buggies and cars collide, the results can be deadly (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• After shooting, Amish school embodies effort to heal (The New York Times)
  
  
• Homemade headache | Amish market isn't exempt from food-safety laws, health inspectors say (The Columbus Dispatch, Mo.)
  
  
• Bullish on Amish-built | With 2-year wait list, St. Mary's modular-home factory doesn't need to advertise (The Washington Post)
  
  

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Other stories of interest :

• Mennonites may lose Canadian citizenship over 1920s glitch | Grandparents born 'out of wedlock' means their grandchildren's citizenship is illegitimate.(CBC)
  
  
• Defending the "e-word" | And odd interview with Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family (Your World With Neil Cavuto, Fox News)
  
  
• By Zeus! | After a break of 16 centuries, Greek pagans are worshipping the ancient gods again - despite furious opposition from the Orthodox church (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Woman's crusade against bar spawns free speech case | Anne Lemen just wants to say what she pleases about a Balboa Island restaurant and bar. A court has forbidden her to, and that sets up a dispute over prior restraint (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• U.S. highways lead to heaven and hell for drivers | While highways around the world boast billboards and roadside attractions, a drive through the U.S. heartland often adds religious signs and symbols to the mix (Reuters)
  
  
• Religion news in brief | Religious leaders meet with Rice; parents of convicted arsonist visit burned church in Panola; Methodists turn their Web site into social networking center; and other stories (Associated Press)
  
  
• Religion's role in America | How can people with different religious views, or no religious view, live together in the world, a nation or, for that matter, a neighborhood? (Dave Brown and Glen Hiemstra, The Seattle Times)
  
  

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