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Rabbits to Rwanda and other gifts for those who have nothing
c. 1996 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ There are those who complain about the glut and the greed of the American celebration of Christmas, even as they prowl the malls and comb the catalogs to secure the perfect gift for the man, woman or child who has everything.
While mailboxes...
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Rabbits to Rwanda and other gifts for those who have nothing
c. 1996 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ There are those who complain about the glut and the greed of the American celebration of Christmas, even as they prowl the malls and comb the catalogs to secure the perfect gift for the man, woman or child who has everything.
While mailboxes...
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NEWS STORY: Interfaith meeting reignites rancor between Southern Baptists and Jews
c. 1996 Religion News Service
STAMFORD, Conn. _ Kitty Cohen is a Holocaust survivor from Israel; Philip P. Roberts is a Southern Baptist official who directs his denomination's interfaith witness activities. Put them in the same room to discuss a controversial Southern Baptist missi...
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TOP STORY: ANATOMY OF AN ATONEMENT: Free-form spirituality marks Farrakhan’s `Holy Day of Aton
c. 1996 Religion News Service
NEW YORK _ For two and a half hours Wednesday (Oct. 16), the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan stood in a bullet-proof glass enclosure in the shadow of the United Nations and preached fire and brimstone.
He expounded on Cain and Abel and the roots of...
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Peace prize for East Timor activists draws praise and blame
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) _ When a Roman Catholic bishop and an exiled political activist from East Timor were chosen to receive the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize world attention was focused on a long-simmering but long-ignored dispute _ the struggle by primarily Catholic E...
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NEWS STORY: Despite historic accord, Vatican-Israel relations far from smooth
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Three years after the Vatican and Israel agreed to establish diplomatic relations, efforts to extend that agreement to everyday reality remain hampered by painful Jewish memories of the past and the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Arabs...
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PERSPECTIVE: JEWISH POWER: In media and politics, Jewish power is real, but has its limits
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Author J.J. Goldberg has broken a time-honored Jewish taboo. He has dared to discuss openly the power that Jews have in American society, mere mention of which often prompts hyper-sensitive Jewish defense organizations to cry foul.
Americ...
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Quaker pastor: West remains deaf to the agony of Burundi
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ David Niyonzima, sitting in the quiet comfort of a breakfast meeting here thousands of miles from his native Burundi, studied the food on his plate as if the words he searched for might be there."You get the news,"he told a group of reporte...
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NEWS STORY: HUNGER IN AMERICA: U.S. has more hungry kids than any western nation, poverty group says
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Child poverty and hunger is more widespread in the United States than in any other industrialized nation and the government does less than any other country's government to pull its children out of poverty, Bread for the World said Wednesda...
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TOP STORY: THE YEAR IN REVIEW: The year in religion: A time to build up, a time to break down
c. 1996 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ In the world of religion and ethics, 1996 was a time of mending ties and breaking them, of bridges built and churches burned and safety nets unraveling for the poor.
Deep fissures _ social and sexual, ethnic and racial, political and theolog...
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