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NEWS STORY: Bartholomew: Crimes against the natural world are"sin”
c. 1997 Religion News Service
SANTA BARBARA _ The urgency of the environmental crisis converged with religion's concern for the eternal over the weekend, as scientists, theologians, business and political leaders gathered here with Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew to pursue moral and...
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Obedience a tough sell to a generation of choosers
c. 1996 Religion News Service
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(Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com...
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COMMENTARY: Clergy need to step up efforts to prevent domestic violence
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Marie Fortune, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and executive director of the Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence in Seattle, is the author of"Keeping the Faith: Guidance for Christian Women Facing Abuse (Harper...
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NEWS STORY: Charities urge renewal of religious worker visa law
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Religious and other nonprofit groups who work with the poor say the efforts the world applauded so highly when paying tribute to Mother Teresa are threatened if Congress doesn't act soon to renew a law governing immigrant religious workers...
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NEWS FEATURE: America’s top sculptor links biblical, modern themes
c. 1997 Religion News Service
LOS ANGELES _ The faces on George Segal's five sculpture-environments now on display at the Skirball Cultural Center and Museum are anonymous, even generic; the clothes are contemporary yet the subject matter is biblical _ an artist's meditation on the...
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NEWS FEATURE: Learning to cope with an `unbelieving partner’
c. 1997 Religion News Service
DICKERSON, Md. _ Yvonne Mulgrew, 40, rarely mentions God at home. She cannot discuss the subject she cares most about _ her evangelical Christian faith _ with the man she loves the most, her husband."It becomes extremely lonely,'' she said. ``I long to...
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COMMENTARY: NOW hates Promise Keepers because NOW doesn’t keep its promises
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Frances Coleman is editorial page editor for the Mobile (Ala.) Register.)
UNDATED _ Warning: A ``stealth political group'' is prepared to descend on Washington.
That's what the president of the National Organization for Women calls the Christian me...
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Abortion sidelined at Democratic convention
c. 1996 Religion News Service
CHICAGO _ Supporters and opponents of legal abortion are pressing their conflicting cases at the Democratic National Convention, but the volatile issue _ still the most divisive in the nation's culture wars _ is creating barely a ripple among the party...
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COMMENTARY: A word in favor of friendship _ and against gay marriage
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Eli Hecht is vice president of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. He is the director of Chabad of South Bay in Lomita, Calif., and has been involved in counseling and outreach programs for more than 25 years.)
(UNDATED) Friendships come in man...
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COMMENTARY: A chance for common sense to cool America’s gambling fever
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Robert F. Drinan is a Jesuit priest, former member of Congress and professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center).
(WASHINGTON) For more than a century, gambling was banned throughout the United States. But today, there are only two states _ U...
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