Faith
NEWS UPDATE: CHURCH FIRES: Clinton calls for emergency funds to fight church fires
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ As the number of suspicious fires at mostly black, Southern churches climbed to more than 40 in the last 18 months, President Clinton called Tuesday (July 2) for an emergency transfer of money to help combat the attacks.
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TOP STORY: THE METHODIST CHURCH: Congregations seek to make a difference with `Holy Boldness’
c. 1996 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND _ The Rev. Dennis O. Rinehart feels trapped.
As pastor of Otterbein United Methodist Church in Warren, Ohio, he watched his operating costs jump 250 percent when he traded rented school space for a church building.
Now, instead of writing...
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COMMENTARY: Standing together in the ashes
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.)
(UNDATED) In December 1955, Robert Graetz was an idealistic 27-year-old minister, fiv...
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COMMENTARY: Standing together in the ashes
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.)
(UNDATED) In December 1955, Robert Graetz was an idealistic 27-year-old minister, fiv...
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TOP STORY: RELIGION AND HISTORY: Historic Trinity Church in New York marks 300th year
c. 1996 Religion News Service
NEW YORK _ Nestled in the canyons of Wall Street, where narrow sidewalks bend in the shadows cast by buildings rising to spectacular heights, sits the unlikely progenitor of Manhattan's famed financial district _ the parish of Trinity Church.
From its...
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Bishops wrestle with role as teacher to U.S. Catholics
c. 1996 Religion News Service
PORTLAND, Ore. _ For three days last week, in various ways and differing contexts, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops wrestled with and acted on their calling to be teachers of the nation's 60 million Catholics.
Confronting a full agenda of internal church c...
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Bishops wrestle with role as teacher to U.S. Catholics
c. 1996 Religion News Service
PORTLAND, Ore. _ For three days last week, in various ways and differing contexts, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops wrestled with and acted on their calling to be teachers of the nation's 60 million Catholics.
Confronting a full agenda of internal church c...
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NEWS STORY: Euthanasia becoming key policy item for U.S. Catholic bishops
c. 1996 Religion News Service
PORTLAND, Ore. _ The nation's Roman Catholic bishops are stepping up their campaign against euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow states to ban the practice and urging Congress to take action.
Meeting this week...
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NEWS STORY: Euthanasia becoming key policy item for U.S. Catholic bishops
c. 1996 Religion News Service
PORTLAND, Ore. _ The nation's Roman Catholic bishops are stepping up their campaign against euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow states to ban the practice and urging Congress to take action.
Meeting this week...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Australian court declines to stop euthanasia law, but will hold hearings
(UNDATED) _ An Australian court has denied a request from opponents of the Northern Territory's euthanasia law to prevent the legislation from taking effect on July 1, but has...
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