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COMMENTARY: Everyone’s a critic
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of"Turn Toward the Wind"and publisher of Religion News Service.)
(RNS)-"Never criticize, condemn or complain,"my father advised me regularly during my formative years.
Avoiding the"3Cs"was one of the foundations of...
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Conference to explore `challenge’ of being religious in America
c. 1996 Religion News Service
STAMFORD, Conn. (RNS)-Organizers of a major national conference to promote Christian-Jewish relations to be held here in October say they want to pose an alternative to"religious extremists,"whom they blame for fragmenting the country."We will be making...
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Reported anti-Semitic acts declined in 1995, Jewish group reports
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Last year saw the largest one-year decrease in reported acts of anti-Semitism that the nation has witnessed in a decade, a Jewish defense organization said Tuesday.
A total of 1,843 acts of violence, threats, harassment or vandalism directed aga...
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COMMENTARY: A beginner’s guide to meditation
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Aaron Zerah is an interfaith minister in Santa Cruz, Calif.)
Blessed is the one who does not walk
In the counsel of the unrighteous ...
But delights in the teaching of the Divine.
And on this teaching meditates day and night.
Such a one is like a tre...
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TOP STORY: MORALITY AND BEHAVIOR: Big ego, bad behavior: Scholar disputes linking low self-esteem, v
c. 1996 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND (RNS)-Enhancing self-esteem as an antidote to violent behavior is not only fruitless, it may even lead to aggression, a Case Western Reserve University psychology professor says.
In an article that contradicts some widely held ideas about ba...
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COMMENTARY: Religion has the power to heal physical and social ills
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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TOP STORY: VATICAN AMBASSADOR: Flynn reaches settlement in campaign finance inquiry
c. 1996 Religion News Service
ROME (RNS)-Raymond Flynn, U.S. ambassador to the Vatican and former Boston mayor, has avoided a potentially troubling civil lawsuit by agreeing to repay his former mayoral campaign committee $12,500 in personal expenses he acknowledges were improperly s...
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Denominational Report
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Following is a collection of news stories compiled from RNS staff, wire and denominational reports.)
Justice department investigating arsons at black churches
(RNS)-Attorney General Janet Reno said Thursday the Justice Department is investigating a...
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COMMENTARY: Who will speak for the world’s persecuted Christians?
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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Global Religion Report
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Following is a collection of international religion stories compiled by RNS staff, wire and denominational reports.)
Pope John Paul II returns to a transformed Central America
(RNS)-Pope John Paul II, who last visited Central America in 1983, retur...
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