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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Foundations offer aid to help rebuild burned black churches
(RNS)-More than $3 million in grants and pledges has been donated to a National Council of Churches fund designed to aid the more than 40 predominantly black churches that have been damaged o...
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NEWS STORY: Catholic bishops’ meeting opens with defense of political process
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(PORTLAND, Ore.)-Bishop Anthony M. Pilla, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, opened the bishops' annual spring meeting Thursday defending the church's role in the political process and warning groups seeking to mobilize the Cathol...
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NEWS STORY: Catholic bishops’ meeting opens with defense of political process
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(PORTLAND, Ore.)-Bishop Anthony M. Pilla, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, opened the bishops' annual spring meeting Thursday defending the church's role in the political process and warning groups seeking to mobilize the Cathol...
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COMMENTARY: From the ashes of hatred, we must rebuild the house of God
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
(RNS)-"They have set your sanctuary on fire, and profanely demolished the dwelling place of God's Name to the ground. ... Determined to destroy us once and...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Summit held on church arsons in wake of more fires
(RNS)-As the Christian Coalition held a summit Tuesday (June 18) to address potential solutions to arsons that have plagued black churches across the South, authorities were investigating fires that...
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NEWS FEATURE: PBS special focuses on search for God in America
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Whenever Hugh Hewitt interviewed religious leaders on his California-based PBS television program, the phone switchboard lit up with responses from viewers.
He knew he was on to something."The people who move the world are the people who believe...
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NEWS FEATURE: PBS special focuses on search for God in America
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Whenever Hugh Hewitt interviewed religious leaders on his California-based PBS television program, the phone switchboard lit up with responses from viewers.
He knew he was on to something."The people who move the world are the people who believe...
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TOP STORY: TENSIONS IN THE WEST BANK: Ancient Hebron a key site in saga of Israeli turmoil
c. 1996 Religion News Service
"And Sarah died in Qiryat Arba, that is Hebron, in the land of Canaan ... and Abraham stood up from before his dead and spoke to the sons of Het, saying, I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying place with you that I m...
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NEWS ADVANCE: Euthanasia, politics on Catholic bishops’ agenda
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-When the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops gather next week in Portland, Ore., the first state to legalize doctor-assisted suicide, they will use the setting to highlight the church's intensifying campaign against euthanasia.
The action is...
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NEWS ADVANCE: Euthanasia, politics on Catholic bishops’ agenda
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-When the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops gather next week in Portland, Ore., the first state to legalize doctor-assisted suicide, they will use the setting to highlight the church's intensifying campaign against euthanasia.
The action is...
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