Faith
NEWS FEATURE: Mormons making inroads among Spanish-speaking Catholics
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WEST NEW YORK, N.J. _ In the small fifth-floor apartment of Cruzita Castro, elders Mike Haugen and Richard Western huddled over Spanish-language versions of the Book of Mormon, following along while Castro slowly read a passage.
For years, the 67-year...
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NEWS FEATURE: Greek Orthodox holiday sheds light on evolution of religion
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ On clear, summer nights, according to Greek Orthodox tradition, the biblical prophet Elijah _ standing upright in a flaming chariot drawn by four horses _ can still be glimpsed roaring across the sky.
Indeed, in Greece and wherever Greek Ort...
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FEATURE STORY: New Jewish blessings for an impersonal God
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ In the ground-breaking new"Book of Blessings,"feminist poet and Hebrew translator Marcia Falk has created new metaphors for God that transcend the personal and human form in which God is normally addressed.
Gone, for example, is the traditio...
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Traditional blessings get a new sound
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Here are some comparisons of traditional Jewish blessings and those offered by poet Marcia Falk in her"Book of Blessings":
THE TRADITIONAL BLESSING UPON AWAKENING
I am grateful to You, living, enduring King, for restoring my soul to...
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NEWS STORY: Traditionalist bishop usurps Episcopal Church’s name and flag
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ A traditionalist Episcopal Church bishop has apparently gained legal control over the denomination's name and ecclesiastical flag, both of which lacked copyright protection.
Some church leaders see the move as an effort to hold the church ho...
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NEWS STORY: Episcopal Church approves historic agreement with Lutherans
c. 1997 Religion News Service
PHILADELPHIA _ The Episcopal Church Friday (July 18) approved its end of an historic intercommunion agreement with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) that will create pastor exchanges, common parishes and joint ministries.
The decision...
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Perhaps soil from Toussaint’s grave provided a miracle
c. 1997 RELIGION News Service
NEWARK, N.J. _ The Rev. Charles McTague, former chaplain at Port Newark, and a merchant seaman before he took his vows, has a personal story of what he considers to be a possible miraculous intercession by Pierre Toussaint.
In 1973, Newark Archbishop...
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NEWS FEATURE: Seeking sainthood for a 19th-century New Yorker
c. 1997 Religion News Service
NEW YORK _ Monsignor Robert O'Connell, pastor of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church on Barclay Street in Lower Manhattan, is not asking for a pocketful of miracles.
Just two will do to advance his cause: sainthood for Pierre Toussaint, born a slave...
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NEWS STORY: Alabama governor looking to fight feds over courtroom religion
c. 1997 Religion News Service
MONTGOMERY, Ala. _ Gov. Fob James say he is ready to take on the federal government if the federal courts tell a state judge he can't keep a wooden replica of the Ten Commandments in his courtroom.
If the federal courts remove the replica from the cou...
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NEWS STORY: Non-Orthodox worshipers attacked at Jerusalem’s Western Wall
c. 1997 Religion News Service
JERUSALEM _ Leaders of Israel's Conservative Jewish movement have urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to intervene between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews after ultra-Orthodox militants attacked Conservative and Reform worshipers early Wednesday (Jun...
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