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TOP STORY: AFTERMATH OF APARTHEID: Searching for the truth in a hate-scarred land
c. 1996 Religion News Service
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (RNS)-Wellington Moluli wore sunglasses in the dark sanctuary of the Central Methodist Church in downtown Johannesburg. Twig-thin with a slight tremor, Moluli spoke haltingly as he described his time in solitary confinement as...
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Newsday religion writer wins Pulitzer Prize
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-When the 1995 Pulitzer Prizes were handed out Tuesday (April 9) religion was a big winner.
Newsday religion writer Bob Keeler won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting for a year-long look at a Roman Catholic parish on Long Island, Columbia Univ...
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TOP STORY: THE CHURCH IN TRANSITION: World Council of Churches leader on a mission of ecumenism
c. 1996 Religion News Service
NEW YORK (RNS)-It's unlikely that the Rev. Konrad Raiser, the soft-spoken general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), will ever become a household name.
But the 58-year-old Raiser, a tall, slim former university professor and pastor to f...
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COMMENTARY: A resurrection in Cleveland
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Dick Feagler is a columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer)
CLEVELAND (RNS)-John Adams High School, my late lamented alma mater, has gone to God.
God got a real bargain. Five thousand dollars down and a balance of $94,000 delivered about a square m...
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Churches raise a stink about too-fragrant worshipers
c. 1996 Religion News Service
SAN FRANCISCO (RNS)-On bended knee and with folded hands, Christians traditionally worship their God. Many also come to church bearing unwelcome gifts of overpowering personal fragrance-Chanel No.5, Obsession, White Shoulders or Brut.
Now, in the dawn...
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COMMENTARY: Try a V-chip on the Bible
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Installing V-chips in televisions to filter out objectionable programming is the latest idea to protect youngsters from programs containing violence and sex.
Politicians-including President Clinton-may favor installing the device, but the V-ch...
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Federal investigators seek links in burnings of black churches
c. 1996 Religion News Service
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS)-Federal officials say they have found no evidence of any widespread conspiracy behind the many suspicious fires that have destroyed black churches across the South recently, although one investigator says some of the fires are ``l...
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TOP STORY: THE TEMPLETON PRIZE: Campus Crusade founder wins $1 million prize
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Bill Bright, who founded Campus Crusade for Christ 45 years ago and turned it into an evangelical ministry in 165 countries, won the 1996 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion Wednesday (March 6). The prize is valued at more than $1 million.
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A look at two ecumenical initiatives
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-These are the major ecumenism proposals to be acted on before the end of 1997:
Nine denominations, organized into a group called the Consultation on Church Union, plan to form a Church of Christ Uniting (COCU). Highlights of the plan com...
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TOP STORY: THE CHURCH IN TRANSITION: New spirit of ecumenism taking hold among U.S. churches
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-United Church of Christ minister Tim Downs remembers the day he suggested to a friend-the pastor of a neighboring Lutheran church in New England-that the two bring their congregations together for a joint Holy Communion service.
The idea seemed...
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