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EARTH DAY FEATURE: Rain forest shamans call for"earth-honoring"to save environment
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ In 1968, John Perkins lay dying of an intestinal infection in the remote depths of a rain forest in Ecuador. A Peace Corps volunteer, he had lost 35 pounds and was days away from the nearest hospital.
But through the intervention of an elder...
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NEWS FEATURE: Prenuptials are about more than money
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Batul Al-Saigh and her fiance, Mehmood Kazmi, trusted each other implicitly. But when Al-Saigh drew up her marriage contract as required by Islamic law, she put feelings aside. She stipulated that her husband would give her 5 percent of his in...
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NEWS FEATURE: Christians divorce at same rate as others but for different reasons
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Although traditional Christian teaching rejects divorce and stresses marital fidelity and family values are central to the religious conservatives' moral agenda, recent data show divorce strikes born-again Christians at about the same rate as...
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NEWS STORY: Louisiana debates new `covenant marriage’ law
c. 1997 Religion News Service
NEW ORLEANS _ Before last weekend, Shannon Mitchell, a 24-year-old bride to be, had never heard of state Rep. Tony Perkins. With the altar beckoning and the planning tempo for her September wedding quickening, she barely noticed a few newspaper stories...
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NEWS FEATURE: Former boxing champ Muhammad Ali still fighting _ this time prejudice
c. 1997 Religion News Service
ATLANTA _ At 55, Muhammad Ali is still called The Champ. He may have been slowed by Parkinson's disease, but he still has a powerful punch with the media and now he's taken on a new opponent _ fighting religious bigotry and intolerance.
On the media s...
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NEWS STORY: Catholic bishops reject Louisiana’s `covenant marriage’ law
c. 1997 Religion News Service
NEW ORLEANS _ Louisiana's Roman Catholic bishops have decided to withhold their support from the state's widely touted covenant marriage law, dealing the conservative effort to strengthen civil matrimony and discourage divorce a possibly fatal blow.
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NEWS FEATURE: Debating capitalism’s nature _ greed or creativity?
c. 1997 Religion News Service
NEW ORLEANS _ Here's a thought for corporate boards from Rabbi Michael Lerner, publisher of Tikkun magazine and progressive critic of American business:
What if every business were required to reincorporate itself every 20 years, and to stay alive had...
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COMMENTARY: What to make of The Citadel and other things frozen in time
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C., an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(at)interpath.com)
UNDATED _ In many ways The Citadel, the Charleston, S.C., military school, is an embarrassment to the...
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COMMENTARY: Two hours with `Mother’: a lesson in grace and compassion
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Sara Anderson Hsiao is a writer and publicist for World Vision, the Christian relief and development organization.)
UNDATED _ She must think I am someone else, I said to myself.
It was the eve of her 85th birthday, and Mother Teresa was spending tw...
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NEWS FEATURE: Sheila Kennedy: Marriage is a `sacred bond’ church can’t annul
c. 1997 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND _ Sheila Rauch Kennedy is sturdy and deliberate about the importance of telling the truth.
It was why she filed for divorce in 1991. Living a charade, she says, became too hurtful for everyone. And it was why she fought the Roman Catholic Ch...
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