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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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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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NEWS STORY: Clinton calls on clergy to speak out against racism
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Heeding a call Wednesday (June 12) from President Clinton, religious leaders from across the country said they plan to speak out from the pulpit against racism and offer aid to African-American churches destroyed by a string of arsons throughout t...
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NEWS STORY: Clinton calls on clergy to speak out against racism
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Heeding a call Wednesday (June 12) from President Clinton, religious leaders from across the country said they plan to speak out from the pulpit against racism and offer aid to African-American churches destroyed by a string of arsons throughout t...
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TOP STORY: THE CHARISMATIC EXPERIENCE: Spirited Toronto flock shakes, rattles, rolls—and howls
c. 1996 Religion News Service
TORONTO (RNS)-The visiting pastor from England rolled on the floor, face flushed, hair mopped with sweat, as three women prayed over him, shouting and ululating and waving their arms.
A contingent from Mexico was called forward for prayer, and one by...
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TOP STORY: RELIGION IN AMERICA: Catholics immersed in a centuries-old baptismal ritual
c. 1996 Religion News Service
LOS ANGELES (RNS)-Converts to Catholicism are increasingly being baptized by immersion, an historic shift by the church back to ancient ways of initiation.
The change is taking place so gradually that many Catholics are unfamiliar with the splashy rit...
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TOP STORY: RELIGION IN AMERICA: Catholics immersed in a centuries-old baptismal ritual
c. 1996 Religion News Service
LOS ANGELES (RNS)-Converts to Catholicism are increasingly being baptized by immersion, an historic shift by the church back to ancient ways of initiation.
The change is taking place so gradually that many Catholics are unfamiliar with the splashy rit...
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