Politics
NEWS STORY: Farrakhan visit to South Africa stirring controversy
c. 1996 Religion News Service
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (RNS)-The view of sprawling low-hung shanties outside Farhad Hussen's Pretoria office window fades in and out of the choking canopy of cooking-fire smoke and drizzle.
Bent figures float across the expanse of mud, between the...
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NEWS STORY: Luce Foundation funds study of Abrahamic religions
c. 1996 Religion News Service
HARTFORD, Conn. (RNS)-The Hartford Seminary's center for the study of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations and the University of Hartford's center Judaic studies are joining in a major project to promote understanding among the faiths.
A $400,000, fiv...
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NEWS STORY: Nation’s largest Baptist university lifts ban on campus dances
c. 1996 Religion News Service
FORT WORTH, Texas (RNS)-Baylor University in Waco, Texas, the nation's largest Baptist-related school, will begin allowing on-campus dances this spring, a move that has upset some religious conservatives.
Robert B. Sloan Jr., the school's 46-year-old...
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NEWS STORY: Hillary Clinton announces Catholic-Orthodox relief effort in Bosnia
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-Hillary Rodham Clinton, honoring the work of 30 religious and secular humanitarian groups working in Bosnia, said Monday the federal government will help finance the first joint Roman Catholic-Orthodox Christian relief program in the fo...
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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).
Colorado's Catholic bishops distance church from Christian Coalition
(RNS)-Colorado's three Roman Catholic bishops have sent a letter to the 20...
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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 urges sacrifices to combat world hunger
(RNS)-Pope John Paul II said Thursday (Jan. 25) that hunger is a"great tragedy a...
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COMMENTARY: Yasser Arafat’s carefully calculated Big Lie
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
(RNS)-About 15 years ago the Palestine Liberation Organization leader, Yasser Arafat, began a propaganda campaign by describing Jesus as"a Palestinian." A...
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TOP STORY: BUDDHISM IN AMERICA: Buddhist Churches of America roiled by change, dissension
c. 1996 Religion News Service
SAN FRANCISCO (RNS)-Since it was established here 97 years ago, the Buddhist Churches of America has provided cultural shelter, and a religious center, to four generations of Japanese-Americans.
At the religious center has been Japan's Jodo Shinshu Bu...
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NEWS STORY: Appeals court rules Religious Freedom Restoration Act constitutional
c. 1996 Religion News Service
NEW ORLEANS (RNS)-City government said the old Spanish-style Catholic church that held only 350 worshipers was too beautiful to replace, even though the 1,300 families of St. Peter's in growing Boerne, Texas, were having to gather for Mass in a nearby m...
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Former Episcopal treasurer admits to embezzling more than $1.5 million
c. 1995 Religion News Service
(RNS)-The former treasurer of the Episcopal Church admitted Wednesday to a federal court in Newark, N.J., that she embezzled more than $1.5 million from the church and evaded income taxes on part of the stolen money.
Ellen F. Cooke, 52, who served as...
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