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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.)
Episcopal Church leaders ask prayers for Bosnia peacekeepers
(RNS)-Leaders of the Episcopal Church are asking Americans to pa...
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TOP STORY: WORLD RELIGION: Jewish political insider wages ardent fight for Christian religious liber
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-Michael Horowitz has maneuvered around Washington political circles for nearly 15 years. A former Reagan administration official and current senior fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute think tank, Horowitz has worked on issues ra...
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COMMENTARY: Remembering the chief architect of modern Israel
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
(RNS)-In January 1896 the weekly Jewish Chronicle of London printed excerpts from a new booklet,"Der Judenstaat"or"The Jewish State,"whose author was even...
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TOP STORY: THE CHECHEN REBELLION NEWS ANALYSIS:Chechens fortified by mystical approach to Islam
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Chechen separatists face overwhelming odds in their fight against the better-equipped and far larger Russian military machine. Yet they persist, taking hostages on land and at sea and displaying a seemingly reckless willingness to die for their ca...
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Pope likely to wait on Jerusalem visit until after peace talks begin
c. 1996 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY (RNS)-Pope John Paul II is likely to wait until after peace talks begin next year on the status of Jerusalem before visiting the holy city, an Israeli government minister said Wednesday following a Vatican meeting with the pontiff."From my...
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COMMENTARY: Finding the simple pleasures in life
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of"Turn Toward the Wind"and the publisher of Religion News Service.)
(RNS)-For some it comes as an epiphany, a sudden realization that the stuff of life has outpaced the substance.
Others move toward it gradually, g...
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TOP STORY: RELIGION AND POPULAR CULTURE: `Too much pain here,’ says author of death penalty bo
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-As a child in the early 1950s, Helen Prejean drifted off to sleep bathed in the security of a middle-class Catholic home, lulled by the sound of her parents murmuring the rosary."Catholicism,"she said,"was in our DNA." As a nun 30 years later, he...
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NEWS STORY: Black churches form corporation to aid members
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-Five of the nation's largest black church groups have announced the creation of a company that will help businesses sell a variety of consumer products and services to congregation members while earmarking part of the profits to help Af...
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TOP STORY: THE MIDDLE EAST: Palestinian pacifists preach a message of harmony
c. 1996 Religion News Service
AL KHADER, West Bank (RNS)-When Hussein Ibrahim Issa dreams, he sees a swimming pool between the olive terraces on the hillside below his elementary school. He imagines Muslim, Christian and Jewish children learning together in a harmony of Arabic and...
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COMMENTARY: A coming crisis in juvenile crime
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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