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Katrina:

• Hurricane Katrina changes the pace and face of giving | Charities see a broader spectrum of donors digging into their pockets, among them minorities and young people. They note that the Internet is making it easier to give. And they see more donors wanting to play active, roll-up-your-sleeves roles in helping (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Discovering poverty (again) | The leap from Katrina to broad generalizations about poverty involves considerable simplification (Robert J. Samuelson , The Washington Post)
• Hurricane Katrina hits three campus ministries in the US | InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's Southeast Regional Director says students are "shell-shocked" (Mission Network News)

Religion & politics:

• Wisconsin weighs ban on cloning | Both sides accused of verbal dishonesty in stem cell debate (Chicago Tribune)
• Boehner: Don't tie funding, hiring | Groups should not give up their rights, says Republican who chairs the House Education and the Workforce Committee (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
• Religious leaders endorse tax plan | Coloradans of faith have a new message coming from some pulpits, synagogues and mosques: Pass Referendum C on Nov. 1 (The Gazette, Colorado Springs)
• Also: Clergy coalition backs ballot measures | Religious leaders urge their flocks to show support (The Rocky Mountain News, Denver)
• Ontario's faith based initiative stirs debate | When is it proper for the government to dictate the rules by which adults of sound mind agree to resolve family disputes? (Fox News)
• Priest avows right to meddle in politics | It was not good enough for the federal Government to "cherry pick" its church leaders, listening only to those who supported its policies while dismissing their views when they disagreed, a leading Catholic priest said yesterday (The Australian)
• Belief in God embedded in national psyche | The most recent Pledge ruling is not a bid for freedom from religion. Rather, it gives religious extremists yet another excuse to light their torches and storm the gates of tolerance. (Charita Goshay, Canton Repository, Oh.)

Abortion:

• Group aims to help women heal after having abortions | Archdiocesan program started 21 years ago (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
• Remembering the unknown | Some say memorial provides comfort, others call it offensive (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)

Late-term abortion referrals not illegal in UK:

• Abortion provider under fire from chief medical officer | Call for new guidelines to cover late terminations (The Guardian, London)
• Charity cleared over late abortion advice | Britain's Chief Medical Officer cleared a charity of illegally sending women to Spain to undergo late abortions on Wednesday but criticized the service for being too willing to give out information about the service (Reuters)
• Late abortion referrals 'legal' | A charity that referred abroad a woman who was seeking a late abortion was not breaking the law, an inquiry says (BBC)

War & terrorism:

• Leave religion out of terror law, groups say | Courts should be able to convict people of terrorism even when there is no strong evidence of a political or religious motive for the crime, Canadian Muslim and Arab groups told a parliamentary panel reviewing the federal Anti-Terrorism Act yesterday (The Globe and Mail, Toronto)
• War protesters ask jurors to heed their consciences | Four left-wing Catholic war protesters who threw vials of blood inside a military recruiting center to object to the impending United States invasion of Iraq in 2003 likened their actions to those of historic figures like Susan B. Anthony and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (The New York Times)

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