Politics
TOP STORY: THE VATICAN AMBASSADOR: Vatican ambassador in dispute over campaign funds
c. 1996 Religion News Service
ROME (RNS)-Lawyers for Raymond Flynn, U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, expressed optimism Friday (Feb. 2) that a legal dispute involving campaign expenses he allegedly failed to reimburse while mayor of Boston would be settled next week.
Flynn added th...
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NEWS STORY: Activists map strategy to counter Religious Right in upcoming election
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-Some 200 Protestant and Roman Catholic pastors, theologians and church-based community activists began gathering here Thursday (Feb. 1) to map an alternative strategy to the Religious Right in the 1996 election campaign."The old categor...
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NEWS STORY: Advocacy group calls for mass rally on children’s issues
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-The Children's Defense Fund, backed by 350 national, state and local groups, called Thursday (Feb. 1) for a mass demonstration in Washington on June 1 to highlight children's issues in the coming election campaign."The moral litmus test...
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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.)
Tutu speaks out in support of homosexuals
(RNS)-Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has spoken out in support of h...
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NEWS STORY: Leaders mix politics and prayer at annual breakfast
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-Over coffee and croissants, thousands of elected officials, diplomats and other leaders mixed politics, prayer and patriotism Thursday (Feb. 1) at the 43rd annual National Prayer Breakfast.
Nearly 4,000 invited guests filled a Washing...
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TOP STORY: A PAPAL TRIP: Pope hopes to fortify church in Central America pilgrimage
c. 1996 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY (RNS)-At the time of Pope John Paul II's 1983 pilgrimage to Central America, the governments of Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador were more likely to spurn democratic principles than embrace them.
As the pope prepares to return for the...
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COMMENTARY: David, Deborah or Isaiah for president? What would the political gurus say?
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
(RNS)-The presidential primary season is upon us, and the political consultants, spin doctors, handlers and pollsters are covering the countryside like a...
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TOP STORY: RELIGION AND PEACEMAKING: Episcopal bishop pushes for a U.N. of religion
c. 1996 Religion News Service
SAN FRANCISCO (RNS)-After Episcopal Bishop William Swing of California was invited to lead last year's interfaith service on the 50th anniversary of the United Nations, he suffered a sleepless night musing about how little religions have done for world...
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National Religion Report
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Following is a collection of domestic religion stories compiled from RNS staff, wire and denominational reports).
Foster appointment as teen-pregnancy adviser under attack
(RNS)-Anti-abortion groups are attacking President Clinton's appointment of...
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COMMENTARY: Sharing our surplus with the world
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of"Turn Toward the Wind"and the publisher of Religion News Service. As a member of the board of the international relief agency World Vision, she recently traveled to the former Yugoslavia.)
(RNS)-When I was a little...
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