(Aditi Bhaduri, Women's eNews) - After criticizing Muslim clerics in India for treating wives unfairly in disputes with their husbands, one activist is distributing a new marriage contract. Couples are slowly signing on.

(Steve LaBlanc, The Associated Press) - An activist group hoping to pressure the Roman Catholic church into dropping its long-standing prohibition barring women from the priesthood says it ordained three women on Sunday.

(Meera Selva, The Associated Press) - LONDON - The Church of England's ruling body has voted its support for women to become bishops without giving traditionalist supporters of male-only priesthood the concessions they had sought.

(Martin Beckford, The Telegraph) - UK- Members of the Church of England's ruling body will today stage an epic eight-hour debate on the introduction of women bishops after 13 new versions of the controversial proposal were put forward.

(BBC News.com) - Clergy members have written to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to say they will leave the Church of England if women bishops are ordained.

(Associated Press) - New decree says anyone involved in ordination ceremonies of female priests will be automatically excommunicated.

(Alexus Jones, Women's eNews) - The polygamous families in Texas remind Alexus Jones of her own experience as an abused wife. She was isolated and degraded by her husband's manipulation of the fundamentalist Christian view that he knew best and she came last.

(Swapna Majumdar, Women's eNews) - Amid the growing influence of fundamentalism around the world, Asian researchers say women in almost any affected religion--Christian, Muslim or Hindu--pay the price in eroded health and safety.

(Jennifer Dobner & Michael Graczyk, The Associated Press) - Mothers separated from their children as part of a wide-ranging abuse investigation within a polygamist retreat accuse state officials of misleading them before taking their children into custody.

(David Crary, The Associated Press) - Supporters of women's ordination will host what they are calling "an inclusive Mass" at a Methodist church in Washington, presided over by Catholic women — including two who were recently excommunicated.