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• Teacher sacked over religion row | Pupils at the predominantly Muslim school claimed he said most suicide bombers were Muslim (BBC)
  
  
• Ellis' conversion to Islam gets a broad response | Ellis said as far as city property is concerned, his name change would mean only an alteration to his portrait in City Hall (Macon Telegraph, Ga.)
  
  
• Reporting on Muslims while Jewish | Differing reactions to the author of a book on American Islam show the religion is anything but monolithic (Paul M. Barrett, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Tolerating intolerance is still this country's besetting sin | If the majority of Muslims truly want to integrate, they could start by kicking out the preachers of hatred from their mosques (Henry Porter, The Observer, London)
  
  

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Other stories of interest:

• Morality play | A Harvard researcher believes that humans have an innate sense of right and wrong, but others say morality is mostly learned (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Religious billboards along I-65 pulled after protests | Catholic League protested signs about Sabbath (News and Tribune, Jeffersonville, Ind.)
  
  
• 3 on mission trip die in Honduras crash | About 10 other people were also hurt near the village of Mal Pais, seven hours from the capital city of Tegucigalpa, says Honduras Outreach (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Also: Missionaries killed in Honduras bound by passion to help | Honduras Outreach organized the trip that included 28 people from four churches in Newnan and Cartersville (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Will Pope Benedict become a Mormon after he dies? | The Church says it cannot stem the tide of dead baptized in its own temples (Reuters)
  
  
• In Damascus, religions, cultures, and worlds collide | The 'Eternal City' is the original crossroads of commerce, culture, and religion (Good Morning America, ABC)
  
  
• As church shows its age, bard is still the rage | It is a familiar story in England, where hundreds of centuries-old churches, left largely devoid of worshipers by a modern trend toward secularism, need hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of repairs (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Ugandan warrior priestess laid to rest | Alice Lakwena, a Ugandan warrior priestess who led an insurgency in the 1980s and claimed to have spiritual powers to protect her fighters from bullets by anointing them with oil, was laid to rest at a funeral attended by several hundred followers (Associated Press)
  
  
• Bless this church | Welcome to the Universal Life Church. You are to be ordained at our Modesto world headquarters. Congratulations. And remember: do only that which is right (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Shuttered windows to the soul | We can know what people are prepared to say as a result of their religious beliefs, but what they understand by their words is another question (Andrew Brown, The Guardian, London)
  
  
• The benefit of doubt | Doubt is not paralysis. Certainty is. Doubt keeps the doors and windows open. Belief is one room with no way out. Don't look to have life explained to you, presented to you. Live the life that emanates from your interior greatness (John Patrick Shanley, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• With God on their team | A child growing up in 1940s Ireland soon learned that there were Catholic sports and Protestant sports. Play croquet and you were forever doomed (Frank McCourt, The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  

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