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TOP STORY: CONFRONTING THE PAST: With sale of stolen art, Austria seeks absolution from Nazi past
c. 1996 Religion News Service
VIENNA _ While art dealers came by the hundreds seeking bargains, Fran Laufer traveled here from New York not to bid, but to bear witness to the cruel past that made this auction necessary."I came because I couldn't control myself,"said the Polish-born...
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NEWS STORY: LOOTED TREASURES: Auction of looted art leads Austria to face a sordid past
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) There are no seminal works by Picasso or Titian or Manet in the 874 lots to be auctioned next week in a Vienna museum. The paintings of bucolic landscapes and society portraits for sale depict the normal, bourgeois world in which many of the f...
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TOP STORY: An `angel’ who speaks from her own pulpit
c. 1996 Religion News Service
LOS ANGELES _ On television each Sunday night, she's Tess, the senior seraph on the CBS series"Touched By an Angel"who advises apprentice-angel Monica on how to best deliver God's guidance to needy and unsuspecting people.
But on Sunday mornings, the...
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TOP STORY: AFTER THE FALL: On the road from sin to redemption, Bakker discovers a new reality
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) A decade ago, when the PTL television ministry was at its peak, Jim Bakker was so busy raising money he hardly had time to read the Bible.
Now, after five years in prison and two years of introspection on a rented North Carolina farm, he con...
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TOP STORY: FAITH VS. FAME
c. 1996 Religion News Service
FAIRFAX, Va. _ Appearing before a crowd of some 4,400 screaming fans, Christian singer Steven Curtis Chapman tried his level best to remind people that they were there to glorify God and not him."The best part about tonight is not any of us that are sta...
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