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COMMENTARY: A beach bum’s guide to great literature
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson...
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Gospel singer CeCe Winans `excited’ about first solo tour
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Christian singer CeCe Winans has shared most of her recording career with her brother, BeBe.
She's best known as the female half of BeBe & CeCe Winans, the decade-old brother-sister gospel/R&B team that's become one of the most celebrated duos i...
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NEWS FEATURE: India’s Zoroastrians live and die by ancient beliefs
c. 1996 Religion News Service
BOMBAY, India (RNS)-Soaring above luxury apartments in an exclusive section of Bombay, vultures swoop toward the Parsi Towers of Silence on Malabar Hill. It is time for another"burial"at the"vultures cemetery." Parsis, Indian followers of the ancient f...
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COMMENTARY: Interfaith marriage not made in heaven
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Eli Hecht is a member of Judaism's Lubavitch Hasidic sect. He is director of Chabad of South Bay in Lomita, Calif., and vice-president of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. He can be reached on via e-mail at rabbieh(at)aol.com.)
(RNS)-There wa...
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COMMENTARY: Born-again values have a place on playing field
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson...
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TOP STORY: THE AFTERMATH OF CHERNOBYL: A decade after Chernobyl, Jewish victims face uncertain futur
c. 1996 Religion News Service
TEL AVIV, Israel (RNS)-"My bones ache even as I am speaking,"exclaimed Alexander Kalentirsky.
A formidable man who once held a senior post with a high security clearance at a Moscow construction firm, 51-year-old Kalentirsky is not used to feeling ill...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Rwandan refugees killed in monastery in Zaire
(RNS)-At least 10 Tutsis, taking refuge in a French-run monastery in Zaire, have been killed by rival Hutus in an action reminiscent of the 1994 ethnic genocide in Rwanda, news agencies reported Thursday (...
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COMMENTARY: Lives of the saints, lifestyles of the stars
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of the recent book"Real Choices"and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.)
(RNS)-My friend Carolyn's icon of Mary of Egypt is completed, and on Su...
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COMMENTARY: What Catholic vote?
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and sociologist at the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center. His home page on the World Wide Web is at http://www.greeley.com. Or send him e-mail at agreel(AT)aol.c...
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TOP STORY: RELIGION AND CULTURE: Ceremonial voodoo flags now are sought-after art
c. 1996 Religion News Service
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (RNS)-As barefoot toddlers, skinny dogs and squawking chickens dodged honking cars a few feet away, Edgar Jean-Louis stood solemnly in the doorway of his house and business in this Caribbean capital's impoverished Bel Air neighborh...
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