Politics
COMMENTARY: A pope should be chosen without secrecy
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and sociologist at the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center. His home page on the World Wide Web is at http://www.greeley.com. Or contact him at his e-mail address:...
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TOP STORY: RELIGION AND CULTURE: Religion scholar Huston Smith graces PBS series
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-Scholar Huston Smith literally wrote the book on world religions. It can also be said that his life story reads as if it was lifted from the pages of his most enduring work.
Smith's"The Religions of Man"-first published in 1958 when h...
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Basketball flap: One man’s understanding of Islam
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED)-Basketball player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf's reluctance to stand for the national anthem says more about his experiences as an African-American than it does Islam, according to a leading scholar of the African-American Muslim scene."There is an atti...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Evangelical leader optimistic about New Era settlement
(RNS)-A spokesman for evangelical ministries hit last year by a scandal involving the now-bankrupt Foundation for New Era Philanthropy is optimistic that a settlement can be reached that will pr...
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At First United, black and white Baptists share a spiritual home
c. 1996 Religion News Service
NEW ORLEANS-It has been 30 years since that memorably dreadful day when Doris Viverito watched in shamed silence as the white deacons evicted a black woman who'd come to worship at Central Baptist Church.
She was in her 20s then and Central Baptist, a...
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NEWS FEATURE: Author says `integrity’ key to good citizenship
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-Stephen Carter is looking for a presidential candidate who will give the same speech to the business-oriented U.S. Chamber of Commerce and labor advocate AFL-CIO.
That, says the Yale University law professor and intellectual provocate...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Muslim leaders protest upcoming film depicting Islamic terrorists
(RNS)-U.S. Muslim leaders said this week that"Executive Decision,"an upcoming film from Warner Bros., is likely to inflame anti-Muslim sentiments by depicting terrorists who use the K...
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TOP STORY: TERROR IN ISRAEL: U.S. Jews harden their stand in wake of bombings
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-The recent wave of Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel has considerably hardened American Jewish attitudes toward the Middle East peace process.
Frustration has replaced optimism, and anger has replaced whatever sympathy there was...
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Christian groups promote prayer, pledges of purity
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Ever since the 1984 Equal Access Law allowed student-led religious clubs to meet in public schools, prayer meetings have been as legal an extra-curricular activity as pep rallies.
And a variety of Christian ministries and evangelical programs ha...
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TOP STORY: SCHOOLS AND RELIGION: They’re taking their faith to school
c. 1996 Religion News Service
CONYERS, Ga. (RNS)-It's 7:45 Monday morning at Heritage High School in Conyers, Ga., and from the home economics classroom come the sounds of hymns and prayers.
Outside, throngs of students pass by with backpacks slung over their shoulders, apparently...
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