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• Vietnamese priest accused of plot | Vietnamese police have accused a prominent dissident Catholic priest of disseminating propaganda intended to undermine the communist government, officials and state media said Monday (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: Vatican delegation going to Vietnam | The visit is part of periodic talks between both sides, but this appointment follows by a few weeks a meeting at the Vatican between Pope Benedict XVI and Vietnam's prime minister (Associated Press)
  
  
• Vatican's soccer tourney kicks off | Priests and seminarians from several soccer-loving countries took to a field near the looming dome of St. Peter's Basilica Saturday for the first match of the Clericus Cup, a tournament fielding 16 teams from Catholic institutes in Rome (Associated Press)
  
  
• NFL seeks to trademark 'Big Game' phrase | League wants to protect Super Bowl image, but Stanford and Cal have already taken action to oppose move (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Fighting HIV with faith | "There is someone in our midst called Mary who is HIV positive," boomed the voice from one of the many loudspeakers at Uhuru Park, Nairobi. "Mary, the Good Lord wants to cure your illness and end your suffering. Please, step forward." (The East African, Kenya)
  
  
• Ink for the soul | At least one tattoo artist estimates that religious art makes up 20 percent of tattoos (San Antonio Express-News, Tex.)
  
  
• Deliverance from evil? | Universal Church of the Kingdom of God comes to town with controversial reputation (Nashville Post)
  
  
• And on the seventh day, it snowed | On which day did God create the wintry mix? (John Kelly, The Washington Post)
  
  
• A terribly inconvenient conversion | How San Francisco writer, activist and lifelong atheist Sara Miles unexpectedly found God (San Francisco Chronicle)
  
  
• The Klan is still dead | Both the KKK and its foes hype the Klan's strength, but evidence is weak (David J. Garrow, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Defined by our religion | It often says more about our traditions than our faith (Janice Byrd, The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Give up giving up | This is going to sound odd coming from a religious person, but I've never quite seen the point of Lent (Gordon Cheng, The Daily Telegraph, Australia)
  
  

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