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Finding Buddha’s birthplace, faith and fact converge
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-For a religion that asserts belief in a process of spiritual perfection over multiple lifetimes, the birthplace of a Buddhist might be considered an unremarkable thing.
But an international team of archaeologists announced in Nepal this week tha...
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Discovery of Buddha’s birthplace reveals more mysteries
c. 1996 Religion News Service
UNDATED (RNS)-For a religion that asserts belief in a process of spiritual perfection achieved over multiple lifetimes, the birthplace of a Buddhist might be considered an unremarkable thing.
But an international team of archaeologists announced in Ne...
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COMMENTARY: In a standing-room-only synagogue, there’s dancing in the aisles
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
(RNS)-As the sun began to set on a recent Friday evening, the wind- chill factor on Manhattan's West Side was minus 18 degrees. And even though bitter gust...
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TOP STORY: BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP: Did James, `the brother of the Lord,’ write the epistle attri
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Is a brother of Jesus the real author of a letter attributed to him in the New Testament?
Luke Timothy Johnson, a Catholic who teaches at Emory University's Candler School of Theology, is bucking conventional wisdom by proposing that James-calle...
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TOP STORY: RELIGION IN INDIA: Sunset falls on an ancient Jewish community
c. 1996 Religion News Service
COCHIN, India (RNS)-"There was no need for it to come to an end, but now the party's over,"Lily Koder said as she stood looking down Jewtown, a narrow lane leading to one of Asia's oldest synagogues.
Koder's father, Samuel, who started Cochin's first...
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NEWS FEATURE: Proposed time change in Britain upsets Jews, Muslims
c. 1996 Religion News Service
LONDON (RNS)-Some Orthodox Jews and Muslims are objecting to a proposal to advance Britain's clocks an hour and put the entire country on Central European Time.
Such a move would make carefully planned religious observances-early-morning prayers and s...
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Appeals court strikes down Mississippi prayer law
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-It's not often that Jay Sekulow of the conservative American Center for Law and Justice and Elliot Mincberg of the liberal advocacy group People For the American Way agree on a school-prayer issue.
But both men said Thursday they agreed with a f...
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TOP STORY: A NEW BIBLE TRANSLATION: In the beginning, there were many different words
c. 1996 Religion News Service
BOSTON (RNS)-Everett Fox was 21 when he decided to translate the first book of the Hebrew Bible into English, and he approached the project with the audacity of a graduate student undaunted by King James.
The grandeur of the 17th-century King James Ve...
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Portrayals of Virgin Mary reflect cultural cross-currents
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-In the Gospel of St. Luke, it is written:
``In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David.
``The virgin's name was Mary.''
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BODY & SOUL: Meet the new year by coming together in prayer
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Body & Soul is a regular column exploring the interplay between spirituality and psychology. Pythia Peay is the author of the forthcoming"Putting America on the Couch,"to be published by Riverhead Books.)
UNDATED _ The year will soon be over and a ne...
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