Politics
RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Ugandan Christian rebels go on killing spree
(RNS)-Ugandan rebels seeking to establish a Christian theocracy in the central African nation have reportedly killed dozens of people in recent days, according to the Associated Press and Reuter news agency...
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COMMENTARY: Using clerical cloth as cover for espionage
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Rwanda's children witnessed genocide, survey finds
(RNS)-A United Nations survey has revealed that virtually every child in Rwanda witnessed violence in the 1994 genocide that still traumatizes them.
The U.N. Children's Fund surveyed 3,030 childre...
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COMMENTARY: Killing jobs, destroying lives
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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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Evangelicals tackle issues of identity, unity
(RNS)-The National Association of Evangelicals unveiled an"Evangelical Manifesto"this week, defining beliefs and detailing goals for unity among evangelicals in the coming century.
David Melvin, vice p...
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Pakistan blasphemy laws come under fire in Senate panel
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws, which carry a mandatory death sentence, continue to foster a climate of violence and intolerance against Christians and Ahmadiyyah Muslims in the predominantly Sunni Muslim nation, human rights a...
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TOP STORY: AFTERMATH OF TERROR: `It was important for me to come back here—and soon’
c. 1996 Religion News Service
JERUSALEM (RNS)-Last week, U.S. rabbinical student David Hoffman accompanied the bodies of two friends and bus bombings victims, Matt Eisenfeld and Sara Duker, home to burial in the United States. Within 24 hours he was on a plane headed back to Israel....
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COMMENTARY: A squandered opportunity for leadership
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
(RNS)-During last October's Million Man March in Washington, I heard several black Christian ministers suggest that Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan...
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COMMENTARY: After bombs and carnage, a lover’s lament
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Adam Tilove grew up in suburban Philadelphia and graduated from Emory University in Atlanta in December 1994. He now lives in the Israeli town of Herzliyah, near Tel Aviv.)
HERZLIYAH, Israel (RNS)-My flight to Israel left Newark International Airport...
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Bishop says peace possible between Mexico, Chiapas rebels
c. 1996 Religion News Service
LONDON (RNS)-Mexican Bishop Samuel Ruiz says he is confident peace is possible between the Mexican government and the Zapatista rebels who have been waging a two-year rebellion in the southernmost state of Chiapas."No one is now thinking in terms of a m...
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