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5. Remember Darfur?
Following a damning United Nations report implicating the Sudanese government's role in having "orchestrated and participated in … large-scale international crimes" in Darfur, the U.S. envoy to Sudan says President Bush is planning to step up economic pressure on the country. "Sudanese companies will be subject to sanctions, and international transactions involving U.S. dollars will be blocked," the Associated Press reports.

Quote of the day
"It's not an ultimatum unless you think it is."

— Jan Nunley, spokeswoman for the Episcopal Church, who says the Episcopal House of Bishops is unlikely to respond definitively to a directive from Anglican Communion primates to bar gay bishops and same-sex union blessings. At the House of Bishops meeting that begins Saturday, "no definitive statement is expected, although they may have a business session," Nunley told USA Today. The attitude of Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, Nunley says, is, "Let's talk, let's wait. We'll see what happens."

If you missed it …
There wasn't much time between us posting this Weblog update and our last post, so you might not have seen it unless you're a very regular visitor to the site. Wednesday's update covered the NAE board's non-response to criticism over its work on global warming, Pope Benedict XVI's Sacramentum Caritatis, a couple of Christian higher education lawsuits, an important religious freedom decision, and many other stories.

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People :

• Oak Hills is losing its shepherd | Max Lucado was recently diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (San Antonio Express-News, Tex.)
  
  
• Blair's secret weapon in Paisley talks: religion | PM wooed DUP leader by swapping Christian texts (The Guardian, London)
  
  

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Church life :

• Who is permitted to worship? | Carlsbad church struggling with child molester's presence (San Diego Union-Tribune)
  
  
• Melded church wants its own home | Protestants plan to leave interfaith center but say ecumenical devotion won't dim (The Washington Post)
  
  
• "Church doesn't suck" | Some people say billboard is too much and they're offended (KBSD, Wichita)
  
  
• Church to remember turkey with silence | Taking time to remember a wild turkey may seem strange, but a church will hold a moment of silence this Sunday for what the pastor called a model member of his congregation (Associated Press)
  
  
• Churches opt for credit cards as IRS demands receipts | A confluence of spiritual and secular interests is driving a change in the way religious communities raise money. On the way out is the traditional practice of church members reaching into their pockets and dropping bills and change in the collection basket on the Sabbath. On the way in are options such as automatic deductions from bank accounts and paying by credit card (Religion News Service)
  
  

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