• Bible Bender of the Day: Two organizations in the Philippines provide voters with guidance from the Bible on how to select their national leaders.
  
  
• Israel continues to debate a proposal to begin each school day with a reading from the Bible. An opinion in Ynetnews, Israel, argues that the Bible is too boring to be included in the curriculum.
  
  
• The Christian News Wire defends the Bible Literacy Project as a valuable resource to high school students, providing them with an overview of the Bible's impact on Western culture.
  
  
• Religious leaders reacted today to the news that the ACLU will be allowed to continue its lawsuit against North Carolina's practice of refusing witnesses in court to take an oath over any other religious text besides the Bible. Leaders sent a letter to one of the judges declaring North Carolina no longer a Bible Belt but rather a “Bible-Talmud-Quran, Veda-Dhammapada-Guru Granth Sahib-Kitabiiqan Belt state.”
  
  
• A school district in Fort Smith, AK considers introducing the Bible as part of a course on history and literature in schools. Advocates of the proposal will have to determine how such a program will be funded, if other religious text will share such funding, and how the curriculum could be monitored to ensure that it remains secular. The school district in Murrieta, CA avoided some of those concerns by offering a world-religions course.
  
  
• Mixing Bible with local African traditions is common practice in Africa.
  
  
• "American Liberals Using Religion to Push their Agendas on Americans," says one contributer to the American Chronicle.