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Updated Sunday, September 22, 2002
	Ecumenical News Service

Proposed law in Belarus threatens minority churches religious, leaders say ....
Leading-edge stem-cell bank stirs debate for UK church leaders, ethicists ....
Churches in Sri Lanka mobilise for peace in advance of historic talks ....
Nigerian bishops march on legislature to protest against mass poverty ....

	World Council of Churches

WCC Central Committee charts course for the future ....
Central Committee Documents ....
Special Commission on Orthodox participation in the WCC ....
Woman Lutheran Bishop Quits World Council of Churches Post Over Orthodox Deal
Ecumenical Team says global trade interests dominate Earth Summit .....
First group of ecumenical accompaniers begin work in Palestine and Israel ....
Regular reports from the accompaniers

	Orthodox Christian World News

Archbishop Demetrios to preside at Ground Zero/St. Nicholas site Memorial Sept. 14th ....
Head of Russian Orthodox Church calls upon USA to cancel military pperation against Iraq ....

	Zenit Vatican News

World Council of Churches struggling on 2 fronts ....
Ukrainian authorities keeping a closer eye on Catholic priests
Underground Bishop of Qiqihar arrested in China
A vocation office not just for future priests and religious

	Keston News Service
Turkmenistan: Orthodox Church journal banned. ....
Russia: Fifth Catholic priest denied entry. ....
Belarus: One quarter of Hindu community in prison. ....

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Russian Orthodox News: World Council of Churches makes an historical decision to allow the Orthodox to improve their witness in this organisation ....
The Mormon church and evangelical faiths grew during the past decade while more liberal Protestant denominations shrank, according to a new census of US religions conducted by a Roman Catholic research group .....
An increasing number of young people in the Pacific island of Samoa are committing suicide as tensions within their families and society lead them to despair. Samoan society is under strain under the onslaught of modern culture....