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NEWS FEATURE: Women praying at Western Wall spark controversy in Jerusalem
c. 1997 Religion News Service
JERUSALEM _ Anat Hoffman has a dangerous hobby _ praying at the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism.
Hoffman, a Jerusalem city councilwoman, is a member of Women of the Wall, a group of 110 Jewish women who gather on the first day of each month...
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COMMENTARY: Leaving the comfort zone in search of the fires of faith
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C., an author and a former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(at)interpath.com.)
UNDATED _ This wasn't a throwaway announcement. The preacher was alerting his flock that change mi...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1997 Religion News Service
New Senate task force to focus on religious persecution
(RNS) Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., is organizing a Republican senatorial task force that will focus on religious persecution around the world.
The task force, which has not bee...
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COMMENTARY: Service should be a graduation requirement in every state
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is author of Turn Toward the Wind and publisher of Religion News Service.)
UNDATED _ The sun is just rising as we pull up in front of my son's school. Dozing beside me in the front seat, he suddenly sits straight up."Did we miss it...
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NEWS FEATURE: Biblical faith fuels a crusade for campaign finance reform
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Sitting in her cramped Capitol Hill office, Rep. Linda Smith, R-Wash., points to a Washington Post newspaper on her coffee table and shakes her head. On the front page are new revelations about President Clinton's role in authorizing overni...
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NEWS STORY: Campaign: No `sweatshop gifts’ during holiday season
c. 1997 Religion News Service
MADISON, Wis. _ As the holiday season approaches, a broad coalition of religious, human rights and labor groups is calling on American consumers to"shop with their consciences,"not their pocketbooks.
The Holiday Season of Conscience was kicked off h...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1997 Religion News Service
Russian Orthodox official says religion bill will eventually pass
(RNS) A Russian Orthodox Church official says a Russian law that would restrict the activities of all but a few specified"traditional"Russian religions will eventually be approved, de...
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NEWS STORY: Netanyahu to oppose anti-missionary bill
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced his opposition to a bill in the Knesset, or parliament, that would criminalize the possession of materials intended to induce religious conversion.
The bill has been opposed by evangeli...
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NEWS STORY: Demonstrators protest at Israeli embassy over anti-missionary bill
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Dan Murrill is an evangelical Christian who took time away from his salesman's job Monday (May 19) to stand outside the Embassy of Israel and both praise the Jewish state for being"God's chosen nation"and condemn it for a proposed law he fe...
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NEWS STORY: Drive launched for prayer amendment support
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Supporters of an amendment that would modify the Constitution's religion clauses have launched a campaign to gather 1 million signatures on a petition calling for its passage."We want to make it clear that we are no longer going to be treat...
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