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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Leading African Anglican calls for united African church
(RNS) A leading African Anglican archbishop is calling for a single, united Anglican church for Africa.
Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane of Cape Town, South Africa, successor to retired Archb...
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COMMENTARY: Why good kids do bad things
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is author of ``Turn Toward the Wind'' and publisher of Religion News Service. She is the mother of two boys.)
UNDATED It hardly surprises us anymore when a kid from a poor, inner-city neighborhood goes astray. A steady diet of po...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1997 Religion News Service
Gore criticized for defense of"Ellen"TV show
(RNS) In a speech to the Hollywood Radio and Television Society, Vice President Al Gore supported the controversial television show"Ellen,"saying it forces America to look at sexual orientation more openl...
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NEWS STORY: Court strikes down clinic `floating bubble zone’
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday (Feb. 19) that abortion protesters may be kept outside a 15-foot"bubble zone"protecting clinic entrances and driveways, but may approach clients and workers on public property outside the zone.
In a...
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NEWS STORY: Religious leaders launch campaign to link environment, poverty issues
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ The Rev. R.T. Conley says that in 1969 he"couldn't get an audience"to listen to his concerns about a lead-smelting operation in his low-income West Dallas neighborhood. Numerous children _ including two of his own _ were born with cancer an...
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NEWS STORY: Muslim woman protests jailing of Christian husband
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Washington's first snow storm of the season came Thursday (Jan. 9), forcing school closings and numerous traffic delays. But outside the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Mona Ghalib and her protest were undeterred.
Ghalib, a 25-...
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COMMENTARY: Urban outcasts: the new Ninevites
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _"But Nineveh has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left. ... Should I not be concerned about that great city?"(Jonah 4:11).
In the spring of 1985, during a rather boring business session of a church conferen...
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NEWS FEATURE: Bracelets ask, What would Jesus do?
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ The bracelets are everywhere. If you want one, just ask.
Strap on a purple one, teal or rainbow stripe. But realize it comes with a daunting responsibility: You must live your life the way Jesus did.
Businessmen, grandmothers, young people...
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NEWS STORY: Belief in afterlife grows among Jews, Catholics
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ More Americans than ever before _ 81 percent _ say they believe in an afterlife, according to a sociologist at the University of Chicago.
But the Rev. Andrew M. Greeley, a Roman Catholic priest and columnist for RNS, who presented his findin...
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Key Mormon beliefs
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Key beliefs and doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon church, include:
_ The church"is Christian but is neither Catholic nor Protestant,"according to a statement issued by the Latter-day Saint...
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