Politics
CRECHE CULTURE: Manger scenes tell more than just the Christmas story
c. 1996 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ The scene might be the ruins of an old castle or an ancient temple. Sometimes it's a village, bustling with activity. It could be a cave, or a rich landscape of mountains and rivers and stars. At other times, it's a simple barn.
No matter ho...
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TOP STORY: MINISTRY OF MARY: Visions of Mary inspire faith and skepticism
c. 1996 Religion News Service
EATON TOWNSHIP, Ohio _ The pilgrimage began two years ago, when a handful of Catholics stopped their car to pray.
Maureen Sweeney, a member of the nondenominational Missionary Servants of Holy Love, said the Virgin Mary spoke to her, as she had hundre...
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TOP STORY: ADOPTION ETHICS: Adoptees searching for roots discover peace and pain
c. 1996 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND _ They approached the long table one by one, tentatively, as if answers lay somewhere among the pastel pamphlets or in the understanding faces of the volunteers.
``That's all I know,'' Steve Hoffert said, with an almost apologetic shrug. He...
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Religious groups fear `open season’ on tax-exempt status
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ When Colorado voters go to the polls next week, they may hold the tax status of churches, synagogues and mosques across the nation in their hands.
Up for grabs on the Colorado ballot is Amendment 11, an unprecedented initiative that would...
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TOP STORY: THE ETHICS OF VOTING: Hold your nose, pull the lever: For some, it takes two hands to vot
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ In rural Northern Virginia, Judie Brown has made the fight against abortion her personal crusade. An hour's drive away in inner-city Washington, D.C., Carol Fennelly is a veteran advocate for the homeless. The two women are activists on rad...
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TOP STORY: RELIGION AND POLITICS: What’s an evangelical? It depends on who you ask
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Margaret and William Young have a deep faith in Jesus and they believe they should share their faith with others. Margaret, an office manager, frequently listens to the popular evangelical radio program"Focus on the Family"hosted by psychol...
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NEWS STORY: PERSECUTION CONCERNS: U.S. condemns Iran for ongoing persecution of religious minorities
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Amid new reports of persecution against religious minorities in Iran, the U.S. State Department has called on the Islamic republic to grant full religious liberty to members of all faiths.
The State Department condemned a death sentence i...
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NEWS ANALYSIS: RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION: Mission impossible? Religious persecution panel faces formidab
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ The mission of a new U.S. State Department committee sounds noble indeed: recommending policies to help religious believers around the world who suffer persecution because of their faith.
But putting that plan into action, some religious...
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NEWS STORY: Rights group raises case of detained U.S. Christian in Vietnam
c. 1996 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Freedom House, a New York-based human rights group, has asked President Clinton to personally intervene in the case of an American woman who has been detained in Vietnam and accused of"illegal religious propaganda"for distributing pens with Ch...
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NEWS ANALYSIS: 105th congressional battles will take up where 104th left off
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ It all seems strangely familiar. From the White House, President Bill Clinton battles a Republican-dominated Congress over a balanced budget, abortion and welfare reform. Members of the religious right try to capitalize on political clout g...
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