President Obama is scheduled to meet with Netanyahu and Abbas in a rare trilateral conclave, progressive religious groups are gearing up for the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh, and the Love Boat captain is back on course. Catholics in North Carolina are being told not to pass the peace or drink from the Communion chalice for fear of spreading swine flu, a New Jersey diocese has sent evidence of a miracle to the Vatican and Jewish groups are protesting a plans to hold political caucuses in Iowa on a Saturday next year. New Hampshirites brought guns to protest the squelching of a “yoga for peace” gathering and 150,000 gay couples consider themselves married, according to the Census Bureau.

China has banned foreign tourists from Tibet, Vietnamese officials are accusing followers of Thich Nhat Hahn of “sabotaging” the government, and the fall of the monarchy in Nepal has left the country’s former “living goddess” without her pension. A British bishop says the Church of England should discared its “booted and suited” image.