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Church and state:

• Mount Soledad cross case appeal by city dismissed | Fine is ruled moot: U.S. controls land (San Diego Union-Tribune)
  
  
• Appeals court moves Quran lawsuit ahead | A lawsuit filed by the ACLU and a Muslim woman seeking the use of the Quran or other non-Christian texts in addition to the Bible for courtroom oaths should be allowed to go forward, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday (Associated Press)
  
  
• New parliament chair drops call for God in EU constitution | Following the vote, Hans-Gert Poettering said one of his key priorities would be to boost a "dialogue between cultures", particularly between Christian and Muslim religions (EU Observer)
  
  
• Amnesty accuses Angola government of evictions | Human rights group Amnesty International on Monday accused Angola's government of forcibly evicting thousands of families since 2001, apparently at the request of the Roman Catholic church looking to reclaim land (Reuters)
  
  
• Daley to lend hand rebuilding church | 2006 fire ravaged Sullivan-Adler site (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Also: Pilgrim Baptist gets push from Daley | Not much progress made on church since fire (Chicago Sun-Times)
  
  
• Commissioners: Ten Commandments decision cost county, but raised awareness | Rutherford County will pay $50,000 for posting the Ten Commandments in its courthouse (The Daily News Journal, Murfreesboro, Tenn.)
  
  
• Also: Commissioner distributing biblical laws to anyone who wants them | A day after voting to pay up for wrongly placing the Ten Commandments in the County Courthouse, Commissioner Mike Sparks is working to post the biblical laws in homes and businesses around the county (The Daily News Journal, Murfreesboro, Tenn.)
  
  
• The First Amendment dilemma in the battle against Islamic terrorism | Is Congress here attempting to supplant the teaching of Islamic fundamentalism with a version of Islam that it finds more acceptable? Are there any First Amendment objections to it? (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
  
  
• Chavez's holy war | Chavez's Kulturkampf has manifested itself in publicly insulting any Catholic bishop questioning government policy (he once called Cardinal Rosalio Castillo Lara an "outlaw") and his efforts to diminish church influence upon education (Samuel Gregg, The Washington Times)
  
  

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Church property disputes:

• Church sues county over right to meet | Pastor told worship services forbidden at community center (Ocala Star-Banner, Fla.)
  
  
• Bedminster, church strike tentative deal | The Church of the Hills to expand, township to pay $150K under settlement (Courier News, Bridgewater, N.J.)
  
  
• Church files federal suit over DEP denial | Phillipsburg alliance church wants to build on land the state says is Highlands Act-restricted (The Express-Times, Easton, Pa.)
  
  
• Top court says: Clergyman, spare that tree! | The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Friday that, for now, the Rev. John-Michael Lavelle of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church could not order the oak and other trees felled (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
  
  

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