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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Lutheran, Episcopal churches ready vote for full communion
(RNS) A joint committee of leaders from the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America have readied the final text of an historic agreement that will bring the nearly 8...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Supreme Court rejects Mississippi appeal on school prayers
(RNS) The Supreme Court on Monday (Nov. 4) rejected an appeal by the state of Mississippi seeking to reinstate a state law allowing student-led prayer in the state's public schools.
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Pope creates a new diocese in East Timor
(RNS) Pope John Paul II, in an effort to sharpen the Vatican's influence in the struggle between Indonesia, the most populous Muslim nation in the world, and East Timor, a largely Roman Catholic territory occ...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Doctors: Religious belief contributes to healing
(RNS) A national survey of U.S. family physicians found that 99 percent of those polled believe religious belief contributes to the healing of their patients.
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Catholic Charities: Millions of families miss economic boom
(RNS) At a time when politicians were talking about national economic stability and the stock market was beginning its record-climbing ascent, millions of American families were seeking eme...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Survey: Americans have conflicting values about Christmas
(RNS) When asked by pollsters about how their neighbors and other Americans celebrate Christmas, most people _ 85 percent _ say others focus on the material rather than the religious or spiri...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Survey: TV preachers did little to help Dole campaign
(RNS) In sharp contrast with the presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, the major television evangelists gave virtually no help to Republican contender Bob Dole in his 1996 ques...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
NCC urges renewed push for universal health care
(RNS) The nation's moral and religious leaders must renew the push for universal access to equitable health care, participants at a National of Council of Churches conference were told.
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Catholic bishops urge intervention in East African crisis
(RNS) Despite the ambiguities of the situation, the international community should mount a swift and urgent response to the on-going humanitarian crisis in Africa's Great Lakes region, U.S. R...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Catholic Bishop Belo receives Nobel Peace Prize
(RNS) Declaring himself"a voice for the voiceless,"Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Belo of Indonesia-occupied East Timor received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, Tuesday (Dec. 10).
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