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NEWS STORY: Muslim group, Nike reach accord on disputed logo
c. 1997 Religion News service
WASHINGTON _ The Nike sportswear company and an Islamic advocacy group have reached a settlement after several months of discussion over a controversial shoe logo some Muslims find offensive because it resembles the Arabic word for God.
Nike has apolo...
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NEWS FEATURE: Sunday dilemma for soccer families: play or pray
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Earlier this year, a Methodist pastor in Wauwatosa, Wis., noticed his congregation was shrinking: The choir director had to cancel performances because there weren't enough voices and Sunday school teachers saw drops in attendance.
The Rev....
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NEWS FEATURE: A dream redefined: Quadriplegic creates line of Christian jewelry
c. 1997 Religion News Service
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. _ Tracy Traylor dreamed of becoming an interior designer. But in 1988, while on spring break in her hometown of Laurel, Miss., an automobile accident left the Baylor University freshman a quadriplegic and in a coma.
It was 5 months be...
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Family planning vote shows House’s divided mind on abortion
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ It was billed as the first major showdown on abortion in the new Congress, but when the House of Representative finished voting Thursday (Feb. 13), each side on the bitterly contested issue could claim victory and lawmakers appeared as ambi...
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NEWS STORY: Confession fuels renewal of late-term abortion debate
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ In an article to be published next week, prominent abortion rights supporter Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, admits he"lied"when he said the controversial late-term procedure known as"par...
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NEWS STORY: Muslim woman protests jailing of Christian husband
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Washington's first snow storm of the season came Thursday (Jan. 9), forcing school closings and numerous traffic delays. But outside the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Mona Ghalib and her protest were undeterred.
Ghalib, a 25-...
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COMMENTARY: Urban outcasts: the new Ninevites
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _"But Nineveh has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left. ... Should I not be concerned about that great city?"(Jonah 4:11).
In the spring of 1985, during a rather boring business session of a church conferen...
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NEWS FEATURE: Porn publisher’s daughter decries smut, abuse
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Whoever coined the phrase"God works in mysterious ways"must have seen Tonya Flynt-Vega's story on the horizon.
Flynt-Vega _ the Flynt comes from her father, controversial porn publisher Larry Flynt _ keeps busy these days denouncing the very...
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NEWS FEATURE: Winans hit nerve with song opposing homosexuality
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ When Christian music artists Angie and Debbie Winans released their album"Bold"earlier this month, they didn't expect negative reactions.
But that's exactly what they got.
A death threat, successive telephone calls from gay and lesbian gro...
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NEWS STORY: Christian Coalition drops project aimed at aiding, recruiting minorities
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ The Christian Coalition has decided to drop its year-old Samaritan Project, an effort to assist minority communities with faith-based solutions to social problems while rallying blacks and others to the coalition's conservative causes.
As of...
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