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NEWS STORY: Thousands urge Clinton to ban late-term abortion procedure
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-Thousands of cheering anti-abortion activists, rallying here Monday on the 23rd anniversary of the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision, condemned President Clinton for his stance on abortion and urged him to approve a proposed legislative ba...
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NEWS STORY: Religious groups form anti-gambling coalition
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-In a rare show of unity on a public-policy issue, the liberal National Council of Churches and the conservative Christian Coalition said Wednesday they would work together to try to stop the spread of legal gambling in the United States...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Episcopal Church recovers most of embezzled funds
(RNS) The Episcopal Church in the United States has closed the book on the Ellen Cooke scandal, announcing all but about $100,000 has been recovered from the $2.2 million embezzled by its former trea...
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Bishops: `Global economy has moral dimensions’
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Following is the text of"A Catholic Framework for Economic Life,"approved here Tuesday (Nov. 12) by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops:
As followers of Jesus Christ and participants in a powerful economy, Catholics in the Uni...
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TOP STORY: POPE, CAREY CONCLUDE TALKS: Catholics, Anglicans remain divided over thorny issues
c. 1996 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY _ Anglican Church leader Archbishop George Carey and Pope John Paul II remained at an impasse after two days of talks over fundamental issues that have divided their churches, including women's ordination, gay marriages and the primacy, or...
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COMMENTARY: Gay marriage ruling signals divorce of law and morality
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson...
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NEWS STORY: Intermarriage continues to bedevil Reform Judaism
c. 1996 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Though the lay leadership of Reform Judaism has overwhelmingly rejected a proposal that would have encouraged the movement's rabbis to officiate at interfaith weddings, it hardly puts the issue to rest for the country's largest Jewish denomina...
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COMMENTARY: Sometimes it takes the wisdom of age to preserve a legacy
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) In the film,"The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,"the movie's protagonist (masterfully played by Cicely Tyson) waits expectantly for a young man to emerge who will help deliver African-Americans from racial oppression.
As the years go by,...
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