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Time magazine has named “The 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America,” leaving out Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson but naming author Tim LaHaye of the Left Behind series, GOP Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and Michael Gerson, a White House speech writer. Catholic priest Richard Neuhaus, a convert from Lutheranism and founder of the New York–based religious journal First Things, was included.

Allan Boesak, a former church leader in the South African antiapartheid movement, has been pardoned after being convicted of diverting donations from development agencies to his own bank account.

Boesak, former president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, was pardoned by South African President Thabo Mbeki. Boesak is expected to be readmitted to South Africa’s Uniting Reformed Church, the BBC reported.