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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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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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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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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Rwandan refugees killed in monastery in Zaire
(RNS)-At least 10 Tutsis, taking refuge in a French-run monastery in Zaire, have been killed by rival Hutus in an action reminiscent of the 1994 ethnic genocide in Rwanda, news agencies reported Thursday (...
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COMMENTARY: Father of the bride
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Eds: Robert Kirby is a Mormon humorist and columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune. Check RNS Online for his photo.)
(RNS)-My Mormon ancestors were polygamists, but lately I've been wondering how they could afford to get married more than once. I just fin...
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NEWS STORY: Conservative Jewish leaders condemn intermarriage
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-The united leadership of Judaism's Conservative movement has issued its strongest condemnation ever of interfaith marriage, urging Jewish parents and young people to recognize the threat that the growing number of Jews marrying non-Jews poses to t...
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NEWS STORY: Vatican enters fray over late-term abortions
c. 1996 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY (RNS)-The Vatican stepped into the politically charged debate over late-term abortions Friday (April 19), saying President Clinton's veto last week of a bill that would have barred the rare procedure was"shameful"and a"brutal act of aggress...
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Environment chief sees U.S. caught between flood and the rainbow
c. 1996 Religion News Service
PHOENIX (RNS)-Contending that divergent views on the environment have the nation caught"between the flood and the rainbow,"U.S. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt urged American religious bodies to join the fray over conservation laws and stand fas...
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NEWS STORY: California court says landlords cannot refuse to rent to unmarried couples
c. 1996 Religion News Service
SAN FRANCISCO (RNS)-In a long-awaited case pitting the Religious Freedom Restoration Act against state open-housing laws, the California Supreme Court ruled 4-3 Tuesday (April 9) that landlords may not refuse to rent to unmarried couples on grounds of r...
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