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NEWS ANALYSIS: Conservatives split on religious speech amendment
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Rep. Ernest Istook, R-Okla., lined up the heavyweights of conservative Christian politics before reporters at the U.S. Capitol last month to have them declare their commitment to an effort to restore American religious liberty they believe...
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NEWS STORY: With pizza, relief groups find new way to dramatize humanitarian needs
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Religious and other supporters of increased U.S. spending on humanitarian assistance abroad have found a new way to dramatize their cause _ pizza.
At a Capitol Hill news conference Wednesday (April 16), the aroma of fresh pizza wafted fro...
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NEWS STORY: Critics still say religion badly covered, see some improvement
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ People of faith _ especially religious conservatives _ have long decried the way they are portrayed by the mainstream news media and often view journalists as stalking horses for secular society.
Religious conservatives, according to Mark...
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NEWS STORY: Istook, Southern Baptists agree on amendment language
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Overcoming longstanding divisions, a Southern Baptist agency and Rep. Ernest Istook, R-Okla., have worked out compromise language for a proposed constitutional amendment on religious liberty.
The Christian Life Commission, the Southern Ba...
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NEWS FEATURE: Ties unwinding between schools and Southern Baptist state conventions
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _"Blest Be the Tie That Binds"is a favorite hymn to celebrate Christian fellowship in Baptist circles. But the ties between some Southern Baptist-affiliated colleges and their state conventions are gradually unwinding, a casualty of the ongoing...
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NEWS STORY: Jewish leaders threaten to boycott Netanyahu over conversion bill
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ U.S. Conservative and Reform Jewish leaders _ angered by the Israeli parliament's preliminary OK of a bill giving Orthodox rabbis legal power over conversions to Judaism _ have threatened to boycott visits by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
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NEWS FEATURE: Critics chafe at Baha’i conservatism
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ The first 19 days of March are a special time for Baha'is, members of a worldwide religion with a liberal reputation based on its vision of the underlying unity of all faiths, the oneness of humanity and the harmony of science and religion.
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NEWS FEATURE: Despite some negative images, teens quietly go about doing good
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Sex, drugs, guns and gangs. The jeremiads and lamentations used by some adults to profile young people paint a depressing picture of a generation mired in violence and self-indulgence, fast going to hell in a handbasket.
But there's another...
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NEWS STORY: African Methodist Episcopal Church had $3.75 million deficit in 1996
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Leaders of the 3.5 million-member African Methodist Episcopal Church are working to reduce a national-level $3.75 million deficit brought about by problems left"unattended"in recent years.
Steps have already been taken that have cut the defi...
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COMMENTARY: Now let’s hear from liberals devoted to Scripture
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ How, I wonder, did"evangelical"come to mean"conservative"?
Evangelical should mean any Christian who believes in personal conversion, the authority of Scripture and the centrality of preaching, as opposed to ritual. But in these divisive tim...
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