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NEWS FEATURE: Sabbath vs. the millennium: Jews debate which to celebrate
c. 1999 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ For Jews, the"December Dilemma"usually means getting through Christmas without being overwhelmed by the holiday's pervasiveness. This year there's more: What to do about New Year's Eve and millennium madness.
That's because Dec. 31 falls on a...
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NEWS FEATURE: Sabbath vs. the millennium: Jews debate which to celebrate
c. 1999 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ For Jews, the"December Dilemma"usually means getting through Christmas without being overwhelmed by the holiday's pervasiveness. This year there's more: What to do about New Year's Eve and millennium madness.
That's because Dec. 31 falls on a...
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NEWS FEATURE: America’s favorite cowgirl reflects on the faith that sustained her
c. 1999 Religion News Service
ORLANDO, Fla. _ It was a decision that Dale Evans knew would affect her career, but to her, the answer was obvious.
She and her husband, cowboy legend Roy Rogers, were hosting an hourlong variety show for ABC at the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle. Evans w...
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NEWS REVIEW: TV show probes Mississippi school prayer dispute
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Prayers over a public school intercom were a normal part of the day for many students in Pontotoc County, Miss., until a woman named Lisa Herdahl came to town and argued their 50-year-old tradition was unconstitutional.
The battle between Herd...
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NEWS FEATURE: New TV show, biography put Pope John Paul II in media spotlight _ again
c. 1999 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Over the past two decades Pope John Paul II has become one of the most visible personalities in human history, thanks in part to the mass communication media.
During the next two weeks, this globe-trotting pope will be explored in two major...
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COMMENTARY: Catholic blasphemy?
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.)
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HOLIDAY FEATURE: As millennium ends, forces of good triumphs over cinematic evil
c. 1999 Religion News Service
UNDATED _"Guy cuts an avocado open and sees the Virgin staring at him,"a world-weary bishop observes in the upcoming"The Third Miracle.""It's the millennium coming, isn't it?" Sure feels like it.
After years of being pushed off-screen by secular stor...
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NEWS FEATURE: Movie thriller uses biblical"doomsday"codes to add spice to plot
c. 1999 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ When diabolical, power-crazed politicians threaten to take over the world, they typically turn to atomic bombs, computer viruses or financial extortion _ at least in Hollywood.
But when European Union head Stone Alexander wants to bring the...
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NEWS FEATURE: TV film explores controversy over groundbreaking Bible translation
c. 1999 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ The Rev. Luther Weigle, the late dean of Yale Divinity School, had dreamed of a symbol of Christian unity _ a new Bible that could be embraced by all.
But the Revised Standard Version, whose translation committee he chaired in the 1940s, tur...
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NEWS FEATURE: PBS documentary looks at 50 years of Israel-Arab relations
c. 1999 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ The Public Broadcasting System's new documentary,"The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs,"opens and closes with a camera shot of the same tree _ the tree framing five decades of history compacted into five hours of television.
As the tree sw...
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