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• Pastor suspended 20 days for marrying lesbians (AP)
• Van packed with church members crashes, killing 4 (AP)
• Man indicted in burning of NY Hasidic dissident (AP)
• Dutch populist Geert Wilders acquitted of hate speech (Reuters)
• Analysis: Mideast Christians struggle to hope in Arab Spring (Reuters)
• Jews, Muslims sue to block referendum on circumcision (Reuters)
• Belfast riots renew calls for Protestant-Catholic dialogue (The Christian Science Monitor)
• A Jewish legacy is vanishing in Belarus 70 years after Hitler (The Christian Science Monitor)

Pastor suspended 20 days for marrying lesbians (AP) Posted: 23 Jun 2011 04:25 PM PDT AP - A Methodist pastor was suspended Thursday for 20 days for officiating at a lesbian wedding, a modest victory for traditionalists in a growing rift over the role of gay and lesbian partnerships in the church.

Van packed with church members crashes, killing 4 (AP) Posted: 23 Jun 2011 12:55 PM PDT AP - A van full of church members heading home from a Bible class veered off a northeast Louisiana highway and hit a culvert, killing two adults and two children and sending seven others to a hospital, authorities said Thursday.

Man indicted in burning of NY Hasidic dissident (AP) Posted: 23 Jun 2011 12:25 PM PDT AP - An 18-year-old student from a Hasidic Jewish enclave has been indicted on an attempted murder charge in a fiery attack on a religious dissident.

Dutch populist Geert Wilders acquitted of hate speech (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jun 2011 09:38 AM PDT Reuters - Dutch populist politician Geert Wilders was acquitted of inciting hatred of Muslims in a court ruling on Thursday that may strengthen his political influence and exacerbate tensions over immigration policy.

Analysis: Mideast Christians struggle to hope in Arab Spring (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jun 2011 02:30 AM PDT Reuters - Middle East Christians are struggling to keep hope alive with Arab Spring democracy movements promising more political freedom but threatening religious strife that could decimate their dwindling ranks.

Jews, Muslims sue to block referendum on circumcision (Reuters) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 05:33 PM PDT Reuters - An unusual coalition of Jews and Muslims filed suit on Wednesday to block a November voter referendum seeking to ban male circumcision in San Francisco.

Belfast riots renew calls for Protestant-Catholic dialogue (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 10:44 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Rioting engulfed the Short Strand district of Belfast, Northern Ireland, Tuesday night, as pro-British loyalists and Irish republican residents of the area clashed for the second consecutive day.

A Jewish legacy is vanishing in Belarus 70 years after Hitler (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 03:51 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - For hundreds of years Jews lived in little towns called shtetls across Belarus, simple lives of wooden houses, dirt lanes, and Yiddish schools. Then 70 years ago, on June 22, 1941, Hitler’s men swept in and within a short period exterminated perhaps 800,000 of the Jews living there, 8 out of 10. Most survivors couldn’t bear to remain in their villages after the war, and they moved to big cities or abroad.

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