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NEWS FEATURE: Opryland chaplain _ `married’ to his work
c. 1998 Religion News Service
NASHVILLE _ You might say Perry ``Red'' Michel is married to his work.
The retired Baptist minister not only serves as the Opryland Hotel chaplain, but he is also chaplain at Bridal Path Wedding Chapel here. Last year he married 528 couples, including...
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NEWS FEATURE: Moscow Jewish theater incorporates casino to survive
c. 1998 Religion News Service
MOSCOW _ If all goes according to plan, on Nov. 20 the audience for the Yiddish-language musical"L'Haim"at the Jewish Musical Theater will file out of the theater past people entering through a casino's metal detector on their way to an erotic show call...
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NEWS STORY: God wins in replay of famous atheist-believer debate
c. 1998 Religion News Service
MADISON, Wis. _ Does God exist?
Unbelieving philosopher Bertrand Russell and believing philosopher F.C. Copleston debated this perennial question in a famous debate 50 year ago on a BBC broadcast, and Wednesday night (Feb. 18) two prominent contempora...
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NEWS FEATURE: Americans get chance to match their angel images with the masters
c. 1998 Religion News Service
LOS ANGELES _ Americans _ some 75 percent according to a recent poll _ believe in angels. And now, thanks to the Vatican and the Chrysler Corp., they'll be able to match their mental images of heavenly beings with the representations of some of the worl...
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NEWS STORY: Muslims, Arab-Americans upset by new terrorism film
c. 1998 Religion News Service
LOS ANGELES _ American Muslims and Arabs are angry about an upcoming film they say dangerously stereotypes their communities as terrorist threats at a time when real terrorism already has them on the defensive.
In"The Siege,"a 20th Century Fox film st...
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NEWS STORY: Gay supporters in Maine take on anti-homosexual bias in name of faith
c. 1998 Religion News Service
LEWISTON, Maine _ When Sally Lowe Whitehead's husband Michael came out of the closet after 21 years of marriage and the birth of six sons and announced he was gay, she realized that it was only in telling her story that she could survive.
Today, six y...
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NEWS FEATURE: Israel’s religious Jews forming fledgling new environmental movement
c. 1998 Religion news Service
KIBBUTZ LOTAN, Israel _ It is near sunset and a group of Jews have gathered on the top of a huge sand dune in Israel's southern desert region to celebrate the beginning of the Jewish Sabbath.
But while most of their counterparts across Israel are utte...
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NEWS STORY: Historic church trial of Methodist pastor begins
c. 1998 Religion News Service
KEARNEY, Neb. _ Billing itself as the"Crossroads of the Future,"this small city of less than 25,000 people sitting in the center of Nebraska _ indeed, the center of the nation _ bids to become a crossroads for the United Methodist Church in its decades-...
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NEWS STORY: Trans-Israel Highway threatens biblical landscape
c. 1998 Religion News Service
JERUSALEM _ It's a quixotic battle by environmentalists to preserve Israel's biblical landscapes against what appears to be the insurmountable will of government, real estate developers and road-builders.
But in an eleventh hour move timed to the curr...
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NEWS FEATURE: Using music to build bridges of peace
c. 1998 Religion News Service
JERUSALEM _ For centuries, peoples of many faiths have invoked the ancient biblical and liturgical admonition to pray for the"peace of Jerusalem."But a young Russian-Israeli musician is turning the prayer into song.
For the past four years, Tzipris, a...
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