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• The rich get poorer?:
  The Economist reports the wealth of high-net-worth individuals fell by 20% to US$33 trillion. #
• Forced to marry:
  British warning: Summer is forced marriage season. At least 5,000 women and girls are sent abroad to marry each year; Britain toughens its stand. (CSM) #
• Decline in US Catholic Nuns:
  U.S. Nuns Facing Vatican Scrutiny - NYTimes.com. Nuns in America have fallen from 180,000 in 1965 to 60,000 today. #
• New Swarm Example: Global Ants:
  BBC - Earth News - Ant mega-colony takes over world. Argentine ants are living in vast numbers across Europe, US, Japan. Read how. #
• Breaking: New Martyrs in Somalia:
  Compass Direct reports Islamic extremists have beheaded two young boys in Somalia because their Christian father refused to divulge information about a church leader, and the killers are searching Kenya’s refugee camps to do the same to the boys’ father. #
• Iran scraps death penalty for apostates:
  A member of Iran’s Parliament reportedly revealed last week that the country’s Parliamentary Committee has stricken the mandatory death penalty for those who leave Islam from proposals for an amended penal code. via Compass Direct News #
• New martyr in Mauritania:
  Compass Direct reports Islamic extremists killed US aid worker Christopher Leggett for spreading Christianity. #
• Reference Map of Iraq:
  Iraq - Reference Map (March 2009) is a free high resolution map of Iraq, in a printable PDF format. #
• Hacking Twitter: Seeking Truth:
  A Primer For Hacking Twitter has several scenarios for "forged events." In a future of forged photos and events, truth & trust will be even more important. #
• Searching for God on Google:
  Digital @ Leadership Network on 'religion surfers': 2 million daily seeking spiritual guidance on Google, Campus Crusade recruiting and training 5,000 online missionaries by 2010. #
• The dark underside of Chinese building boom in Africa – The Globe and Mail:
  The Globe and Mail: companies are ignoring safety and undercutting wages, hurting workers and driving out local competitors. #
• Did Jesus actually say these things?:
  The M Blog quotes Victor Choudhrie, a church planter in India, on the contrast between what Jesus told us to do (and did Himself), and what we do now. #
• An environmental plausible promise?:
  Can A Number Save The World? The environmental movement may have found its "plausible promise": 350 (as in carbon parts per million). Will a swarm gather? #
• How leaders learn to lead:
  studentlinc: Let Them Lead is a pithy little quote: "Students learn to become student leaders by leading something," not by attending regular "student leader" meetings. #
• American church deficits growing:
  Religion Today Summaries reports the gap between the budget and the actuals is growing: tithe is being hit by unemployment. Likely happening in other Western nations too, and will impact missions. #
• What the World Eats, Part I:
  Oldie but goodie: TIME has a wonderful illustrative photo essay of what life in various nations is like. #
• MySpace Generation Brides:
  Go for Sexy, Not Virginal (Newsweek): a telling analysis of trends in America. Is this true of other Western countries, too? #

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