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NEWS FEATURE: Author says religion should be restored to rightful place in classroom
c. 1995 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Is it a problem best left to Congress or to the classroom teacher?
Lawmakers this year may consider two constitutional amendments that seek to protect and promote religious expression. A proposal by Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., would prevent what he...
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TOP STORY: THE VATICAN AMBASSADOR: Vatican ambassador in dispute over campaign funds
c. 1996 Religion News Service
ROME (RNS)-Lawyers for Raymond Flynn, U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, expressed optimism Friday (Feb. 2) that a legal dispute involving campaign expenses he allegedly failed to reimburse while mayor of Boston would be settled next week.
Flynn added th...
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NEWS STORY: Activists map strategy to counter Religious Right in upcoming election
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-Some 200 Protestant and Roman Catholic pastors, theologians and church-based community activists began gathering here Thursday (Feb. 1) to map an alternative strategy to the Religious Right in the 1996 election campaign."The old categor...
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NEWS STORY: Vatican book on sexuality may bolster"parental rights"drive
c. 1996 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY (RNS)-The"parental rights"movement in the United States has gained an unintended assist from the Roman Catholic Church.
In a new book on human sexuality, the church advises parents to become more involved in their children's education, to...
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NEWS STORY: Christian Right meeting in Memphis draws five GOP hopefuls
c. 1996 Religion News Service
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (RNS)-Joined by five Republican presidential candidates, thousands of conservative Christians met in Memphis over the weekend for a two-day meeting designed to rally evangelical voters for the upcoming presidential primaries."Our goal,"sa...
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TOP STORY: AN ACT OF FAITH: Memphis mother crusades against city’s sex trade
c. 1996 Religion News Service
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (RNS)-Carolyn McKenzie has learned to follow faith's footprints.
Faith led her as an Army nurse through the emotional land mines of Vietnam.
Years later, faith guided her in a hospital as her baby son nearly died of bacterial meningit...
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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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NEWS SIDEBAR: People of faith: How they voted
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Here's a rundown of exit polls and other post-election surveys of how Americans voted by religion in the 1996 presidential election.
RELIGIOUS CONSERVATIVES
CLINTON: 26 percent
DOLE: 65 percent
PEROT: 8 percent
Source: Voters News...
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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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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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