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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
New study says religious Americans continue as most generous
(RNS) Americans with religious affiliations continue to give higher percentages of their incomes to charities and to volunteer larger amounts of time to non-profit causes than do those w...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Court case raises questions about religious test for public office
(RNS) Advocates of strict separation between church and state said Tuesday (Oct. 8) that a case pending before the South Carolina Supreme Court raises important questions about what co...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Dissident Catholics to press reforms in pilgrimage to Rome
(RNS) Dissident Catholic groups that have irked the Vatican with demands for women priests, gay rights and other progressive notions are preparing to become more nettlesome for the Roman hie...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Eds: note sexual content in 2nd item)
Parents want a content-based television rating system
(RNS) Parents want a TV rating system to tell them the content of a program _ its sex, violence and language _ rather than advice on whether the program is...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Study: Reconstructionist Jews more observant as adults
(RNS) Members of Judaism's small Reconstructionist denomination are likely to be more religiously observant now than they were growing up and are attracted to the movement largely out of interes...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Report: Another exodus of Rwandan refugees from Zaire may be underway
(RNS) The United Nation's World Food Program (WFP) said Wednesday (Nov. 20) it has"strong indications"that tens of thousands of Rwandan refugees are heading through chaotic easter...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Archbishop Tutu suggests need for improved U.S. race relations
(RNS) Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who is leading the Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigating human rights abuses committed during the apartheid era in South Africa, said Sunday (Nov...
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NEWS STORY: Vatican urges curb on explicit, deceptive advertising
STEVEN HEILBRONNER
Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY _ The Vatican called on advertisers Tuesday (Feb. 25) to curb the use of explicit sexual material and deception in print and broadcast campaigns, and said governments should increase regulation of advertising.
The recommendatio...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Navy withdraws support of Promise Keepers-endorsed rally
(RNS) The U.S. Navy has withdrawn its sponsorship of a Promise Keepers-endorsed rally in Norfolk, Va., after the Anti-Defamation League raised concerns about church-state separation.
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Jewish group urges Israel not to amend conversion law
(RNS) The Council of Jewish Federations, the umbrella agency for local Jewish community federations across the United States and Canada, has urged Israel not to"risk dividing"the world Jewish com...
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