• The American Civil Liberties Union will proceed with a lawsuit challenging North Carolina courts' practice of refusing to allow people of non-Christian faiths to swear religious oaths using any text other than the Christian Bible.
  
  
• A Philadelphia man was shot dead by police officers trying to apprehend him after he broke into city hall, scrawled religious messages on the wall and stole a Bible and a serrated cake knife.
  
  
• A new audio Bible featuring the voices of Hollywood figures such as Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington, and Cuba Gooding Jr. was nominated for an NAACP award (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). Another audio Bible is in production that will feature the voice of Jim Caviezel as Jesus (as he did in Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ), along with Richard Dreyfuss, Marissa Tomei and others.
  
  
• Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of the evangelist Billy Graham, shares her thoughts with the Washington Post on what the Bible has to say about gender equality.
  
  
• Colorado Springs, CO will host a summit in February that will explore the Bible message on homosexuality.
  
  
• The Bible League continues its mission in Sri Lanka to organize Bible study groups across the country despite escalating violence.
  
  
• The creators of Loaded Bible 2: The Blood of Christ talk about their satirical comic book that depicts the apocalypse.
  
  
• The Bible is growing in popularity among young Swedes according to a new poll.
  
  
• Bibleworld, a mobile classroom, travels around Scotland promoting the Bible as the Word of God.
  
  
• Readers of Escanaba Daily Press, MI engage in a conversation over the Bible's take on premarital sex.