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TOP STORY: ELECTIONS ‘96: Foes and advocates of abortion rights differ on Dole move
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-In the end, Sen. Bob Dole pleased almost no one.
Dole Thursday (June 6) reaffirmed his loyalty to the GOP platform, which calls for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion. But the Republican presidential hopeful also demanded t...
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NEWS FEATURE: “City of Joy"priest continues quiet work among the poor
c. 1996 Religion News Service
CALCUTTA, India (RNS)-In his classic 1985 work,"City of Joy,"author Dominique Lapierre profiled Polish priest Stephan Kovalski, who set out to live among the poorest of Calcutta's poor.
But Kovalski's real identity is the Rev. Francis Laborde, who, mo...
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NEWS FEATURE: Film explores tensions within Southern Baptist world
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Inspired by stories of his mother's recent challenges at the Southern Baptist Convention's oldest seminary, a California filmmaker has produced a documentary on the denomination and its views on women pastors."Battle for the Minds,"a documentary t...
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NEWS FEATURE: Film explores tensions within Southern Baptist world
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Inspired by stories of his mother's recent challenges at the Southern Baptist Convention's oldest seminary, a California filmmaker has produced a documentary on the denomination and its views on women pastors."Battle for the Minds,"a documentary t...
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COMMENTARY: When you wish upon a store
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
(RNS)-A charismatic cult is on the rise, threatening the moral integrity of America. I speak of the Cult of Disney.
Do not misunderstand me. I'm no latte...
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Hare Krishna: A modern offshoot of an ancient movement
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-The Hare Krishna sect is a modern offshoot of a 16th-century Hindu devotional movement. The sect traces its theology to the Bhagavad-gita, a 5,000-year-old Sanskrit text, and worships the Hindu deity Lord Krishna as the"supreme personality of the...
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COMMENTARY: One family’s loss of unexpected life
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.)
(RNS)-We have been blessed in our marriage with two beautiful daughters. We were unaw...
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COMMENTARY: Remembering my father, with sadness and joy
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, of Sudbury, Mass., is the author of nine books. The following commentary, suitable for Father's Day, is taken from his latest book,"Invisible Lines of Connection: Sacred Stories of the Ordinary,"published by Jewish Lights Publis...
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TOP STORY: SOUTH AFRICA: Once backer of apartheid, South African party now espouses family values
c. 1996 Religion News Service
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (RNS)-A few days after it announced it was withdrawing from the coalition government formed with the African National Congress, the National Party and its leader, F.W. de Klerk, uttered a message central to its new opposition...
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Portraits of compassion in words and pictures
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-In boldface below is caption information for six photographs by Phil Borges. Following each, in quotes, are comments by the Dalai Lama on the nature of compassion that accompany Borges' portraits, in"Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion,"a ne...
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