Politics
A waiting game for humanitarian aid to Cuba
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-A multimillion-dollar shipment of insulin and antibiotics to stock the empty shelves of Cuban hospitals stands waiting in a Miami warehouse. When the supplies will arrive is anybody's guess, now that the Clinton administration has tight...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Lutherans in flap with China over Hong Kong assembly
(RNS)-China has asked the Lutheran World Federation to postpone its 1997 world assembly scheduled for Hong Kong because the meeting is to be held just one week after the British colony comes under...
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TOP STORY: JIM BAKKER: Televangelist takes to the pulpit in wake of conviction
c. 1996 Religion News Service
NEW ORLEANS (RNS)-Former televangelist Jim Bakker, bathed in a standing ovation from a nearly full church Sunday (Feb. 25), preached a new gospel of humility he said he learned in prison.
But Bakker, convicted in 1989 for bilking 116,000 followers out...
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NEWS STORY: Israel bombings draw condemnation from religious groups
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders affiliated with the U.S. Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East Monday (Feb. 26) condemned Sunday's two terrorist bombings in Israel that killed 25 and injured nearly 80 others.
A committee sta...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Clinton names his favorite preachers
(RNS)-President Bill Clinton has named a half-dozen pastors, including his Southern Baptist minister in Little Rock, Ark., and the Methodist cleric he hears most frequently in Washington, D.C., as his favorite prea...
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COMMENTARY: Religious Right is a misunderstood political force
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
Arab-American group decries accusations in wake of 1995 blast
(RNS)-Early reactions to the April 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City blamed Arabs or Muslims for the blast, accusations that"made visible the negative feelings against A...
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Pope revises rules on papal elections that could alter outcome
c. 1996 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY (RNS)-Pope John Paul II has revised the way the next pope will be elected, allowing cardinals voting in secret ballot to abandon two-thirds majority approval and resort to a simple absolute majority if a stalemate is reached.
The revision...
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TOP STORY: CHARITIES: Charities worry that flat tax would slash donations
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-The candidacy of Steve Forbes may be limping but the proposal that propelled him forward in the GOP presidential field-the flat tax-is alive and well and striking fear into the hearts of charitable groups that depend on tax-deductible d...
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Church groups balk at potential CIA use of clergy in covert operations
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-Religious groups expressed concern Thursday (Feb. 22) about a loophole in CIA rules that allows the U.S. spy agency to use clergy and missionaries for covert work overseas.
The rules forbid the CIA from hiring or establishing any inte...
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