Baptists to flood Texas with Bible CDs by Easter (AP)

 
AP - The largest state Baptist group in the nation wants Christ's message of hope heard in every home in Texas — about 9 million of them — by Easter.

Moderate elected as Serbian patriarch (AP)

 
AP - Irinej Gavrilovic, a moderate who recently called for better ties with the Roman Catholics, was chosen Friday as the new head of the influential Serbian Orthodox Church.

Hawaii legislators seek to lengthen school year (AP)

AP - Stuck with the nation's shortest school year, Hawaii lawmakers will consider proposals for longer and more school days when this year's legislative session opens Wednesday.

Student stabbed at California high school (AP)

AP - A student has been stabbed inside a Catholic high school near Los Angeles, and the campus is on lockdown.

US evangelist

 
AFP - The White House on Thursday dismissed a comment by evangelical preacher Pat Robertson that Haiti's earthquake was retribution for the country swearing a "pact to the devil" as "utterly stupid."

Ex-Iran leaders: Professor killing

 
AP - Two former Iranian presidents on Wednesday condemned a bomb attack that killed a physics professor who had backed the nation's opposition leader, calling the remote-controlled blast an act of terrorism that could deepen unrest and violence.

Some fear Kan. ruling may spur abortion violence (AP)

 
AP - A judge's decision to allow a confessed killer to argue that he believes the slaying of one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers was a justified act aimed at saving unborn children has upended what most expected to be an open-and-shut first-degree murder case.