CALIFORNIA

Evangelist decries diversity
The Modesto Bee
"A Pentecostal preacher, addressing a Modesto audience on the National Day of Prayer, spoke out against interfaith unity and the separation of church and state."

Clergy In Crisis: Hotline callers claim diocese misled them
The Sacramento Bee
"When Dolores Sharp Nelson called the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento last month to report being abused by a priest years earlier, she thought she would be talking to a counselor."

ILLINOIS

Illinois Muslims Support Islamic Charity
The Associated Press
"BRIDGEVIEW - Janaan Hashim doesn't care what federal prosecutors say about the Benevolence International Foundation. She doesn't believe the Islamic charity has ties to Osama bin Laden and terrorists who tried to get their hands on nuclear weapons."

Nauvoo Reborn
The Salt Lake Tribune
"NAUVOO -- It was almost impossible for curious visitors getting their first peek inside the reconstructed Mormon Nauvoo Temple this week to resist the building's tactile enticements."

Flying Angel of Nauvoo Usurped by Trademark Moroni
The Salt Lake Tribune
"Every detail of the historic Nauvoo Temple was reconstructed meticulously with one exception: the flying angel weather vane that graced the top of the 19th century Mormon edifice."

MASSACHUSETTS

SJC to hear cult case appeal
The Boston Herald
"The state's highest court will hear an appeal from an Attleboro couple who are members of a religious sect and have been jailed for refusing to reveal the whereabouts of a baby they say was never born."

NEW YORK

Teen Sentenced for Burning a Temple
The Associated Press
"OSWEGO - A teen-ager was sentenced to three to nine years in prison Friday for burning down a Sikh temple in anger over the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks."

TENNESSEE

16 Muslims Sue Whirlpool Plant
The Associated Press
LAVERGNE - Sixteen Muslims have filed a religious discrimination lawsuit claiming managers at a Whirlpool plant yanked scarves off women's heads and followed workers into restrooms to make sure they weren't praying.

UTAH

Journalist Now Off the Hook in Polygamy Case
The Salt Lake Tribune
"A free-lance writer who had claimed journalistic privilege to avoid testifying in the child-rape case against polygamist Tom Green was released from her subpoena Thursday by Juab County Attorney David Leavitt."

VIRGINIA

Muslims seek property taken in post-9/11 raids
The Associated Press
ALEXANDRIA — Hundreds of boxes of evidence seized from Muslim organizations and homes in northern Virginia during government raids in March are still awaiting review by investigators, court records show.

WASHINGTON

Breathing-in-peace tour: Noted teacher brings Vipassana Meditation to classes in the U.S.
The Seattle Times
"NEW YORK — Have you heard the one about the lawyer who attained mental peace? If that sounds like a question begging for a bad punch line, brace yourself: It's merely the reality of Vipassana Meditation. Attorneys are doing it, CEOs are flocking to it, violent criminals are being reformed at this very moment by practicing a set of breathing exercises that is said to clear the mind."

WYOMING

Wyoming Group Attacks Plan To Sell Historic U.S. Site to LDS
The Salt Lake Tribune
Wyoming opponents of Rep. Jim Hansen's bill to sell the federally owned Martin's Cove handcart disaster site to the LDS Church are engaged in "Mormon-bashing, plain and simple," the Utah congressman and church members claim.

Sponsor of Martin's Cove sale says foes are 'Mormon bashing'
The Associated Press

Battle over Martin's Cove is heating up
Deseret News
"The battle over future ownership of a 1,600-acre historical parcel of federal land in Wyoming heated up this week, with a Utah congressman accusing detractors of the sale as Mormon bashers and opponents who paid for an eight-page insert in the Casper daily newspaper this week decrying his bill as "religiously politically favored legislation.""
NOTE: Deseret News is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon)

BELGIUM

EU adds Kurds, Sikhs, Japanese doomsday cult to terrorist list
AFP
BRUSSELS - The European Union expanded its terrorist blacklist Friday to include Kurdish separatists in Turkey, Sikh militants in India, and a Japanese cult that poison-gassed the Tokyo subway in 1995.

EU Widens Terrorist Group List
The Associated Press

ENGLAND

Muslim guilty of inciting racial hatred
BBC News
"A Muslim who distributed leaflets in London calling for a holy war against Jews has narrowly escaped jail. Iftikhar Ali stood in Whitechapel High Street in the East End handing out adverts for a talk by the Muslim political organisation Al Mahajiroun."

GERMANY

Students tell of crazed gunman
news.com.au
"The teenager who shot dead 17 people, including himself, in one of the world's worst school massacres was a loner with a fascination for Satanism and the occult."

INDONESIA

Indonesia arrests Islamic militant chief
BBC News
"The leader of an Indonesian militant Islamic group has been arrested following allegations that it was involved in a massacre of at least 12 Christians in the Moluccan islands last weekend."

MEXICO

LDS, Mexico presidents talk about education
Deseret News
"Education can empower people to break the bonds of poverty, a message President Gordon B. Hinckley brought to his meeting with Mexican President Vicente Fox in Mexico City this week."

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