Faith
NEWS FEATURE: Former drug addict’s `Pensacola Awakening’ draws thousands
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ As a teen growing up in Huntsville, Ala., Stephen Hill spent more time taking drugs and committing crimes than doing homework.
Today, the former drug addict is on another kind of high _ a spiritual one. Hill, 43, is at the center of a reviva...
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NEWS FEATURE: Promise Keepers founder bares his soul in new book
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Lyndi McCartney won't reveal the grade she gave her husband, Promise Keepers founder Bill McCartney, before he realized he had put his family at the bottom of his priority list.
Now, she proudly gives Bill McCartney a"10." The long road...
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NEWS STORY: Meeting measures pluses, minuses on burned churches rebuilding effort
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ As the National Council of Churches (NCC) turns the focus of its Burned Churches Project to racial justice _ while continuing to help mostly black churches rebuild _ a three-day meeting this week of NCC officials, pastors of burned churches...
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NEWS STORY: Government report says nearly 200 arrested in church fires
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ A year of joint efforts by the U.S. Departments of Treasury and Justice has helped lead to the arrests of almost 200 suspects in the spate of fires over the past few years that destroyed or damaged houses of worship across the country.
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NEWS STORY: Progress reported in church burning cases
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ A new report by the federal government task force investigating the highly publicized rash of church burnings says that authorities have had a fair measure of success in arresting and charging suspects in the cases."The report shows that we...
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NEWS STORY: Traditionalist women criticize `radical feminism’
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ A group of traditionalist women from mainline Protestant, Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches Tuesday (Sept. 16) decried the impact of what they described as"radical feminism"on church and society.
The group, the Ecumenical Coalition on...
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NEWS STORY: Traditionalist women criticize `radical feminism’
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ A group of traditionalist women from mainline Protestant, Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches Tuesday (Sept. 16) decried the impact of what they described as"radical feminism"on church and society.
The group, the Ecumenical Coalition on...
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NEWS STORY: Black church leaders join fight against juvenile crime
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ A group of African-American religious leaders Tuesday (April 8) unveiled an ambitious nationwide program to fight juvenile crime, challenging businesses and all levels of government to support its efforts to reclaim the nation's inner citie...
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NEWS STORY: President, powerful join in prayer for the poor, need for civility
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ A bipartisan crowd of politicians, diplomats, church leaders and other prominent people, including President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, gathered Thursday (Feb. 6) for a morning meal of muffins and morality at the National Pray...
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NEWS STORY: North and South bishops agree to disagree
c. 1997 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY _ North and South American bishops, meeting at their first intercontinental synod, have agreed to disagree on a number of sensitive issues, ranging from Roman Catholic parish life to resolving the debt crisis afflicting poor nations.
Faci...
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