Faith
NEWS FEATURE: Pressure mounting on dwindling Catholic priesthood
c. 1998 Religion News Service
WARREN, Ohio _ The Rev. Thomas Spisak had already plunged a kitchen knife through his chest and was a fraction of an inch from death when he reassured church workers checking on him on a recent Saturday afternoon that he was OK.
He was feeling a littl...
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NEWS FEATURE: Union leaders, workers plan Labor Day pulpit blitz
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ This Labor Day weekend, David Klein will have more on his mind than a backyard barbecue. Klein, a stagehand at a Chicago opera company, is cooking up a sermon he plans to preach in a local church Sunday (Sept. 6).
Klein is among the hundreds...
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NEWS STORY: Ministries, churches pledge aid to Promise Keepers
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Prominent evangelical ministries such as Campus Crusade for Christ as well as more than 1,000 churches nationwide are pledging to help support Promise Keepers as the men's organization faces a financial crisis.
Bill Bright, founder and presi...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Religious investor coalition won't endorse sweatshop agreement
(RNS) The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, an umbrella organization of religious agencies that hold stocks, has announced it will endorse a White House brokered agreement b...
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NEWS FEATURE: High-tech techniques fuel new prayer movement
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Before the Southern Baptists arrived in Salt Lake City for their annual convention earlier this summer, they had each Salt Lake Valley resident in their prayers.
Literally. Name by name.
Thanks to a blend of high technology, telephone list...
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NEWS PROFILE: Episcopal Church’s new presiding bishop faces daunting bridge-building task
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ As Bishop Frank T. Griswold III prepares to take his seat as head of the Episcopal Church, he is faced with daunting bridge-building and rebuilding tasks _ rebuilding his church's damaged relationship with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Am...
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NEWS STORY: Study could pose `wake-up’ call to black pastors
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ A ground-breaking study of U.S. black churches has found that many are suffering from financial challenges and congregations in denominations that emphasize tithing tend to have some of the most generous donors.
Walter Collier, lead research...
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NEWS STORY: Protestant bodies forge new plan for greater unity
c. 1998 Religion News Service
ST. LOUIS _ Leaders of nine of the nation's prominent mainline Protestant religious bodies have forged a proposal aimed at establishing greater church unity beginning by the year 2002.
For almost four decades, the groups have struggled to find ways to...
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NEWS STORY: Protestant bodies forge new plan for greater unity
c. 1998 Religion News Service
ST. LOUIS _ Leaders of nine of the nation's prominent mainline Protestant religious bodies have forged a proposal aimed at establishing greater church unity beginning by the year 2002.
For almost four decades, the groups have struggled to find ways to...
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NEWS STORY: Women clergy, for first time, invited to Promise Keepers conference
c. 1998 Religion News Service
PHILADELPHIA _ Promise Keepers, an evangelical men's ministry that has generally discouraged women from attending its meetings, has intentionally opened the doors of its 1998 regional clergy conferences to women.
Although only a sprinkling of women we...
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