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Religious Groups Get Chunk of AIDS Money
By RITA BEAMISH, Associated Press (excerpts)

President Bush's $15 billion effort to fight AIDS has handed out nearly one-quarter of its grants to religious groups, and officials are aggressively pursuing new church partners that often emphasize disease prevention through abstinence and fidelity over condom use.

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Conservative Christian allies of the president are pressing the U.S. foreign aid agency to give fewer dollars to groups that distribute condoms or work with prostitutes.

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Among those winning grants were:

_Samaritan's Purse, which is run by [Billy] Graham's son, Franklin. It says its mission is "meeting critical needs of victims of war, poverty, famine, disease and natural disaster while sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ."

_Catholic Relief Services. It was awarded $6.2 million to teach abstinence and fidelity in three countries;
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_World Relief, founded by the National Association of Evangelicals. It won $9.7 million for abstinence work in four countries.

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