Culture
NEWS STORY: Religion finding its way on to prime-time television
c. 1998 Newhouse News Service
UNDATED _ First there was ``Touched by an Angel.'' And its ratings success begot ``Promised Land,'' which together begot others such as ``7th Heaven,'' ``Soul Man'' and ``Nothing Sacred.''
But it was when the self-proclaimed ``domestic goddess'' Rosea...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Leading African Anglican calls for united African church
(RNS) A leading African Anglican archbishop is calling for a single, united Anglican church for Africa.
Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane of Cape Town, South Africa, successor to retired Archb...
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RNS DAILY Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Interfaith group slams gay debate ads by conservative Christians
(RNS) An interfaith coalition of gay rights groups have banded together to condemn a highly visible national ad campaign by religious conservatives to convince homosexuals they can cha...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Holocaust victims, Swiss banks reach agreement
(RNS) Representatives of Swiss commercial banks and Holocaust survivors have reach an agreement under which the banks have agreed to pay $1.25 billion for assets lost during the Nazi era.
The agreemen...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Greek Orthodox Church denies report archbishop has been replaced
(RNS) Greek Orthodox Church dissidents Friday (Aug. 28) reported on their Web site that the embattled head of the church's American branch has been reassigned. A spokesman for Archbish...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Frugal Gourmet settles sex assault suit
(RNS) Jeff Smith, the ``Frugal Gourmet''and an ordained Methodist minister, avoided a civil trial set to begin next week in Tacoma, Wash., by reaching a settlement with his accusers on allegations he sexually...
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COMMENTARY: Learning about faith from Carl Sagan
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Robert A. Seiple is President of World Vision U.S., one of the largest privately funded Christian relief and development organizations in the world. He lives outside Seattle.)
UNDATED _ Are science and faith mutually exclusive?
For three years, I w...
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The long arms of Disney
c. 1997 Religion News Service
Here's a partial list of the holdings of the Walt Disney Co., which the Southern Baptist Convention voted to boycott June 18:
Theme parks/Vacation entertainment:
Disneyland, Anaheim, Calif.
Walt Disney World, Orlando, Fla.
Disney Cruise Li...
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COMMENTARY: March Madness is just that
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.)
U...
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NEWS FEATURE: Is Dolly a lamb of God or an act of forbidden science?
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Theologians and medical ethicists were as amazed and appalled as the rest of the world by news this week that a Scottish scientist had successfully cloned a sheep from the mammary cell of a ewe, creating a genetically identical animal without...
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