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NEWS STORY: Religious broadcasters, rights groups reach `in principle’ pact
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ The National Religious Broadcasters have reached an agreement in principle with musical performance rights organizations to reduce the licensing fees for some Christian radio stations thereby encouraging them to play more music.
The compromi...
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Another `re-imagining’ event marks end of `decade with women’
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Some 1,000 women _ and a few men _ marked the end of the World Council of Churches"Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women"with a second major"re-imagining"conference last month. But unlike the first gathering five years ago, cr...
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NEWS STORY: Late composer Rich Mullins wins Dove Award as artist of the year
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Rich Mullins, the Christian composer who died in an auto accident in September, was named artist of the year on Thursday (April 23) at the 29th Annual Dove Awards."(Mullins) wrote from a deep well of integrity and he was utterly committed to t...
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NEWS SIDEBAR: It’s the poorest workers that draw religious support
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Observers say the partnership between religion and labor is likely to remain a limited one. They point out that religious activists tend to gravitate to union causes that involve workers who earn poverty-level wages.
The Rev. George Higgin...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Reformer picked as new Orthodox Church head in Greece
(RNS) A reformer has been chosen the new head of the Orthodox Church in Greece.
Metropolitan Christodoulos, 59, was elected archbishop of the Orthodox Church in Greece Tuesday (April 28) by the...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Pope, Yeltsin to meet in February
(RNS) Russian President Boris Yeltsin will meet with Pope John Paul II in Italy next month, apparently to see if the two leaders can improve the strained relations between the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic chu...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Pope to visit St. Louis in January
(RNS) Pope John Paul II will visit St. Louis in January 1999 following a stop in Mexico, the vatican announced Friday (April 24).
John Paul's visit will be his fifth to the United States since becoming pope. The...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Penthouse: article about Episcopal priest was unsubstantiated
(RNS) Penthouse magazine has issued a statement admitting it published unsubstantiated claims in a 1996 story that led to the defrocking of one Brooklyn priest and the firing of another a...
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NEWS FEATURE: Christian musicians making inroads in secular Hollywood
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ In an early scene in Robert Duvall's"The Apostle,"a song called"I Will Not Go Quietly"plays briefly on a truck radio. In less than 30 seconds, the sounds of the song sung by Steven Curtis Chapman drift away.
Likewise, at the end of the recen...
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NEWS SIDEBAR: A brief history of Thomas Nelson Publishers
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Here is a brief sketch of the history of the Thomas Nelson publishing firm:
1798: Thomas Nelson, 18, opens a second-hand bookshop in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Early 1800s: Nelson begins publishing classic literature, such as English preacher Jo...
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