Ethics
NEWS FEATURE: Starving kids images raise money _ and ethical questions
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED It's a holiday season standard. An emaciated little girl in a tattered dress stares into the camera, and TV viewers are told they can either spend a few dollars a month to feed her or think of her on Christmas crying herself to sleep.
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COMMENTARY: Revisionist, historical Thanksgiving: both overdrawn and exaggerated
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ Poor Thanksgiving. Even this beloved and most American of holidays is currently a battleground between"politically correct"historical revisionist...
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BACKGROUNDER: WEIGHING THE RIGHT TO DIE: How will the Supreme Court rule?
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ The ``right-to-die'' question to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday (Jan. 8) is not whether Oregon can permit doctor-assisted suicide, but whether Washington, New York and other states can continue to ban the practice.
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BACKGROUNDER: WEIGHING THE RIGHT TO DIE: Supreme Court to consider new definition of personal freedo
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ For most of human history in the West, a life was not one's own. A human being belonged to king or country and, above all, to God.
On Wednesday (Jan. 8), the U.S. Supreme Court will consider a challenge to that notion, as it hears arguments...
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COMMENTARY: Christmas amid our economic anxieties
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ A"macro"view of the American economy requires a loftier perch than most of us can obtain. But at ground zero, our mutual economic adventure looks like this:
On the Friday after Thanksgiving, the parking lot at Target started to fill at 7:30...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1997 Religion News Service
Psychological study examines well-being after abortions
(RNS) A psychological study has found that the well-being of women who have abortions is dependent most on what their emotional state was before they became pregnant rather than religion or race....
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FEATURE STORY: Oregon Catholic Church takes new tack in fight against suicide law
c. 1997 Religion News Service
PORTLAND, Ore. _ The Roman Catholic Church led the fight against doctor-assisted suicide in 1994 _ and learned a tough political lesson.
Priests preached from the pulpit, Catholic leaders sent impassioned letters to members, and Catholic groups gave h...
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NEWS FEATURE:“The Fonz,“propelled by Jewish faith, campaigns for children
c. 1997 Religion News Service
ATLANTA _ Henry Winkler is best known for his role as"the Fonz,"the 50s-style anti-hero and gentle delinquent on the 1970s hit sitcom"Happy Days." Today, Winkler is a different kind of hero. At 51, the successful actor, producer and director has shed t...
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NEWS STORY: Cardinal offers"unconditional"aid to women with unwanted pregnancies
c. 1997 Religion News Service
LONDON _ Roman Catholic Cardinal Thomas Winning, the archbishop of Glasgow,has promised any woman _ anywhere _ facing an unwanted pregnancy unconditional practical and financial aid if she refuses to have an abortion."Today, I issue an open invitation t...
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NEWS FEATURE: Sharing the word through `God’s cookie business’
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ In a way, you could say Bill Heiland has shared his faith with millions around the world during the past decade. But he's neither an evangelist nor a pastor _ he runs what he calls"God's cookie business." Heiland is the founder of Evangelisti...
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