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Denomination Report
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Following is a collection of news stories compiled from RNS staff, wire and denominational reports).
Black churches want King's assassination anniversary as day of prayer
(RNS)-The Congress of National Black Churches plans to call for a day...
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NEWS STORY: Christian Coalition inflates membership data, adversary claims
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-How big is the Christian Coalition, the conservative public-policy advocacy group that has become a major player in the nation's political arena?
The Coalition, founded by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson, claims 1.8 million"member...
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COMMENTARY: Platoons to the rescue in an age of moral decline
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: RUSSIA AND RELIGION: A fight for souls in the former Soviet Union
c. 1996 Religion News Service
MOSCOW (RNS)-Just outside the walls of the Kremlin, an angry man yelled to a crowd of Russians that"foreign missionaries and Jews are destroying our fatherland." Nearby, men sold audio tapes labeled"SS Marches"and"German Historical Songs." The collaps...
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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.)
Brazil seeks to freeze assets of controversial evangelist
(RNS)-The government of Brazil has asked a state court in Sao Paulo...
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COMMENTARY: We have nothing to fear but God
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of"Turn Toward the Wind"and the publisher of Religion News Service.)
(RNS)-Americans are running scared.
They're scared of violence, even though crime, overall, is down. They're afraid of losing their jobs, even tho...
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TOP STORY: AN ACT OF FAITH: Memphis mother crusades against city’s sex trade
c. 1996 Religion News Service
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (RNS)-Carolyn McKenzie has learned to follow faith's footprints.
Faith led her as an Army nurse through the emotional land mines of Vietnam.
Years later, faith guided her in a hospital as her baby son nearly died of bacterial meningit...
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Eternal gridlock awaits millenial pilgrims in the eternal city
c. 1996 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY (RNS)-As ancient Rome prepares for the third Christian millennium, one thing is already clear. The celebration will be no Roman holiday-not for the guests and not for the hosts.
When Pope John Paul II, the putative master of ceremonies, r...
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BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY: Archaeologist claims to have found where Ark of Covenant once lay
c. 1995 Religion News Service
(RNS)-One of the great mysteries for biblical scholars and believers alike is exactly where the Ark of the Covenant stood in the temple King Solomon built in Jerusalem nearly 3,000 years ago.
The Ark of the Covenant itself-the wooden chest used to sto...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Administration asks Supreme Court to overturn church-state school ruling
(RNS) The Clinton administration has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a 1985 ruling by the justices that set limits on how federally funded remedial education for needy stud...
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