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This week's edition of the PBS newsmagazine program RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY (distributed Friday, July 25 at 5 p.m., check local listings) with guest host Deborah Potter will feature the following reports:

• Perspectives: "2008 Campaign: Update on the Candidates and Religion" - Guest host Deborah Potter talks with Managing Editor Kim Lawton about the campaign's latest efforts to reach out to religious voters, including the candidates' upcoming joint appearance at best-selling author Rick Warren's Saddleback Church in California.
• Pediatric AIDS Corps - Fred De Sam Lazaro reports from Malawi on one attempt to address the shortage of doctors and nurses in African countries through the establishment of the Pediatric Aids Corps Program.
• Interfaith Wedding - Betty Rollin provides a behind-the-scenes look at how dual marriage celebrations of a Hindu-Sikh interfaith couple helps honor each of their families' different religious traditions.

SPECIAL NOTE: This week in One Nation:

Zogby International gives Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly exclusive data about how likely religious voters view several potential vice-presidential candidates, and managing editor Kim Lawton analyzes those numbers.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/blog/2008/07/kim-lawton-religious-voters-on.html

Also, bestselling author and megachurch pastor Rick Warren, who is hosting an August 16 forum with Barack Obama and John McCain, describes his political agenda.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/blog/2008/07/rick-warren-an-agenda-as-big-a.html

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

For information, contact:

Lynn Rosenbleeth
Publicist
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
202-216-4404
rosenbleethl@religionethics.org