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Proposed legislation in Britain would prohibit more than one embryo implantation at a time in women under 40.

4. Why the U.S. sanctions on Sudan for Darfur took so long and don't go so far
It probably won't surprise you that the answer has to do with the war on terror. "Sudan has become increasingly valuable to the United States since the Sept. 11 attacks because the Sunni Arab nation is a crossroads for Islamic militants making their way to Iraq and Pakistan," the Los Angeles Times reported Monday. "That steady flow of foreign fighters has provided cover for Sudan's Mukhabarat intelligence service to insert spies into Iraq, officials said."

5. Another clergy spouse murder?
On Friday, Mary Winkler was told she'd only have to spend seven days in prison for killing her husband, a Church of Christ pastor, in March 2006. The judge sentenced Winkler, who shot her husband in the back with a 12-gauge shotgun, to 210 days, but with time served and the time she'll spend in a mental health facility, it works out to just one more week in prison.

Two days later, the pastor of a Clinton African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Boston was allegedly stabbed to death by her husband.

In related news, recent studies suggest that capital punishment works as a deterrent to murder.

Quote of the day
"I have become much more spiritual. God has given me this new chance. … My spirit or soul did not like the way I was being seen and that is why I was sent to jail. … God has released me."

—Paris Hilton, who says she is reading the Bible, along with The Secret, The Power of Now, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal. She was quoted by ABC's Barbara Walters, whom Hilton called from jail Sunday. (How could this not be the quote of the day?)

Aw, shucks
All the praise is nice, folks. (Really. Thanks.) But what I was really trying to get at is this: What would you change about the Christianity Today Weblog?

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Priest abducted in Philippines :

• Italian priest abducted in Philippines | Gunmen abducted an Italian Roman Catholic priest who was on his way to a remote village to celebrate Sunday Mass in the southern Philippines, police said (Associated Press)
  
  
• Philippines widens search for kidnapped priest | The Philippine military used helicopters and spy drones on Monday and sought the help of U.S. intelligence to widen the search for Muslim rebels who kidnapped an Italian Catholic priest in the south of the country (Reuters)
  
  
• Pope urges release of all world's kidnap victims | Pope Benedict appealed on Sunday for the release of all kidnap victims around the world on the day an Italian priest was snatched by Muslim rebels in the Philippines (Reuters)
  
  
• Italian priest kidnapped | Renegade MILF group in Zambo blamed (The Philippine Inquirer)
  
  

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