FRIENDSWOOD, Texas   Parents of some junior high students are upset they weren't notified about a school presentation on Islamic culture, an omission that violated school district policy.
The parents' letter-writing campaign stems from a May 22 presentation at Friendswood Junior High, where two Muslim women gave a 30-minute presentation about Islamic life as part of a yearlong study of respect, tolerance and culture. The school is on Texas' Gulf Coast between Houston and Galveston.

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YUMA, Ariz  The city of Yuma is being sued by a church that was denied a permit to turn an old J.C. Penney Co. department store building downtown into a worship center.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court by the Alliance Defense Fund and the Center for Arizona Policy, acting on behalf of the Centro Familiar Cristiano Buenos Nuevas Christian Church.

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FINDLAY, Ohio  The American Civil Liberties Union has told a school district it will take legal action if administrators don't stop a group from handing out Bibles to students during class time.
Fifth grade students at the city's five elementary schools in March were allowed to leave class and escorted to sidewalks along the schools where they were given a Gideon Bible.
"The school crossed the line," said Carrie Davis, an ACLU attorney.