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** MEDIA ADVISORY ** MEDIA ADVISORY ** MEDIA ADVISORY **

This week’s edition of the PBS newsmagazine program RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY (distributed Friday, November 17 at 5 p.m., check local listings) will feature the following reports:

* Cover Story: “Men in Church” — Judy Valente explores the reasons for the decline in the number of men regularly attending church services and what some Christian congregations are doing to address this issue.

* Profile: "E.O. Wilson" — Bob Abernethy talks with distinguished biologist E.O. Wilson about his advocacy for an alliance between science and religion to help protect the world’s vanishing species and explores reaction to this proposal with prominent Southern Baptist minister Dr. Richard Land.

* News Feature: "U.S. Catholic Bishops Meeting Update" — Reverend Thomas J. Reese from the Woodstock Theological Center in Washington, D.C., discusses the implications of votes by the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops to adopt guidelines for ministry to gay men and women, and to consolidate their national office.

To request a transcript of these reports, send an e-mail to schultzm@religionethics.org or go to the program Web site at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics where the transcript and streaming video of each story will be available after 8:30 p.m. on Friday.

For information, contact:
Mary Schultz
Director of Communications
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
202-216-2394
schultzm@religionethics.org

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