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• Lawmakers defy church pressure on DC gay marriage (AP)
• Time ripe for peace with Philippine Muslim rebels: Clinton (AFP)
• Ex-pastor Ted Haggard holds home prayer meeting (AP)

Lawmakers defy church pressure on DC gay marriage (AP) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 04:41 PM PST AP - The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington wants the city to change its proposal to legalize same-sex marriages to exempt the church from the law, but so far city council members aren't budging.

Time ripe for peace with Philippine Muslim rebels: Clinton (AFP) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 07:15 AM PST AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday the time was ripe for the Philippines to finally seal a peace deal with the country's largest Muslim separatist group and end a 30-year insurgency.

Ex-pastor Ted Haggard holds home prayer meeting (AP) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 01:27 AM PST AP - Former evangelical pastor Ted Haggard says a well-attended prayer meeting at his home wasn't the start of a new church, but a sign of his resurrection three years after he was forced to resign amid a sex scandal.

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