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NEWS ANALYSIS: The difference between cloning babies and cloning to heal
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Of all the nightmares spawned by the discovery by Scottish researchers that an apparently healthy sheep could be cloned from the genetic material of a single ewe, none was more vivid than the notion that some day soon cloned human babies would...
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NEWS REVIEW: Mother Teresa TV biography is a mediocrity
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ At some future Academy Awards ceremony perhaps, Oliver Stone's four-hour, cast-of-millions epic ``Mother Teresa'' will win Best Picture for its unflinching, Kitty Kelley-like profile of the saint-to-be and Jennifer Jason Leigh will cop Best Ac...
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NEWS STORY: Catholic bishops urge acceptance of gay orientation
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Steering clear of a debate about the origins of homosexuality, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops Wednesday (Oct. 1) extended to parents and families of gay and lesbian children an"outstretched hand"of support but reaffirmed church teaching saying...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1997 Religion News Service
Chavis Muhammad's ministerial standing suspended
(RNS) The ministerial standing of Benjamin Chavis Muhammad, who announced in February he had joined the Nation of Islam, has been temporarily suspended by the regional association of the United Church...
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Obedience a tough sell to a generation of choosers
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Eds: Check RSN Online for a photo of Andrew Greeley
(Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com...
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COMMENTARY: Clergy need to step up efforts to prevent domestic violence
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Marie Fortune, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and executive director of the Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence in Seattle, is the author of"Keeping the Faith: Guidance for Christian Women Facing Abuse (Harper...
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NEWS STORY: Charities urge renewal of religious worker visa law
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Religious and other nonprofit groups who work with the poor say the efforts the world applauded so highly when paying tribute to Mother Teresa are threatened if Congress doesn't act soon to renew a law governing immigrant religious workers...
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NEWS FEATURE: America’s top sculptor links biblical, modern themes
c. 1997 Religion News Service
LOS ANGELES _ The faces on George Segal's five sculpture-environments now on display at the Skirball Cultural Center and Museum are anonymous, even generic; the clothes are contemporary yet the subject matter is biblical _ an artist's meditation on the...
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COMMENTARY: During the holidays, the tension between religion and culture intensifies
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C., an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(at)interpath.com)
UNDATED _"Holiday stress"hadn't reached the Blue Ridge when 10 singers stopped recently for breakfast...
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NEWS FEATURE: Learning to cope with an `unbelieving partner’
c. 1997 Religion News Service
DICKERSON, Md. _ Yvonne Mulgrew, 40, rarely mentions God at home. She cannot discuss the subject she cares most about _ her evangelical Christian faith _ with the man she loves the most, her husband."It becomes extremely lonely,'' she said. ``I long to...
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