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• Also: School board upset over clinic visit | The city school board ordered an investigation into an after-school program run by the YMCA in which some middle school students were taken to visit a Planned Parenthood clinic. New Hampshire Right to Life, an abortion opponent, is now asking for equal time with the seventh and eighth grade students, as well (Associated Press)
  
  
• Fight gay acts in schools—Orombi | "Acts of homosexuality and lesbianism have infiltrated our schools, especially secondary schools. I have personally joined the war against the vice and I want you to join me," Archbishop Henry Orombi has said (The Monitor, Uganda)
  
  
• A more candid approach to sex-ed | Montgomery board approves lessons on homosexuality (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Controversial chaplain plan still in the works | The Iowa State athletics council has begun the process of drafting a recommendation for university president Gregory Geoffroy regarding a proposal to make a chaplain available to Cyclone football players (Des Moines Register, Ia.)
  
  
• Christian colleges to fill 40% from merit list | The managements of Christian educational institutions will follow the Government's merit list to fill 40 per cent of the seats in their self-financing professional colleges this year, the Inter-Church Council for Education said here on Tuesday (The Hindu, India)
  
  

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Marriage:

• Religious leaders stir controversy over Muslim, Christian marriage | But settle on neutral grounds on tribal marriage (The Ghanaian Chronicle)
  
  
• Study: Religion plays a role in couples' fidelity | Research shows that religious couples are 2.5 times less likely to be unfaithful in marriage than non-religious couples (Daily Herald, Provo, Ut.)
  
  

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Media:

• Sony unit, Church of England hold talks | Sony Computer Entertainment spokeswoman Nanako Kato declined to give details of the talks and said more time may be needed for an agreement because the problem was complex (Associated Press)
  
  
• 'House of Payne' goes right to comedy's edge | Serious subjects are good fodder on Tyler Perry's new TBS show (Los Angeles Times)
  
  

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Exhibits and history:

• New Field exhibit takes on Darwin detractors | Museum event details his life, examines his discoveries and champions the science (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• 2,000-year-old Holy Land works on show | The "Cradle of Christianity" show is on view at Emory University's Michael C. Carlos Museum from Saturday through Oct. 14 (Associated Press)
  
  
• Jamestown Christian relics on display | As a conservative Christian event starts, Jamestown officials highlight an exhibit on the church's role (Daily Press, Hampton Roads, Va.)
  
  
• France's leading lady | Relics from her 1431 execution are a forgery. Will we ever know the real Joan of Arc? (Smithsonian)
  
  

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Other articles of interest:

• Religion and the threat effect | Research shows that the more secularists there are living near evangelicals, the more politically conservative those evangelicals will be. Might the secular start developing this same kind of tribalism? (Paul Waldman, The American Prospect)
  
  
• Postal prayer | Letter with "eye-opening Jesus" has caught the attention of the Better Business Bureau (KELO, Sioux Falls, S.D.)
  
  
• History's greatest liar | Pope Benedict XVI explores the identity of Jesus Christ (Lisa Fabrizio, The American Spectator)
  
  
• An industry of mutual degradation | A bishop confronts pornography's corrosive influence (G. Tracy Mehan, III, The American Spectator)
  
  

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