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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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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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