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NEWS STORY: Americans find common ground on dread topic _ death
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Americans of a wide range of faiths often find common ground on a topic they dread: Death.
A study conducted by American Health Decisions shows Americans fear being hooked up to machines at death, they don't talk about their fears, an...
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Diversity marks volunteers at archaeology dig
c. 1997 Religion News Service TEL REHOV, Israel _ As dawn comes, the wheat fields of nearby kibbutz Ein Ha Natziv and the mountains of Jordan to the east come alive with golden color. It is quiet here at Tel Rehov, a quiet broken only by the sound of picks and shovels, scraping the ea...
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TOP STORY: A THOROUGHLY IRISH TRAGEDY
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) The death of Michael Collins, the Irish revolutionary leader who is the subject of the current Neil Jordan film of the same name, is not only one of the great tragedies of the 20th century. It is also one of the great mysteries.
Collins was...
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COMMENTARY: Real charity means giving the poor spiritual help, too
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.)
(UNDATED) At the recent Republican National Convention, much attention was paid to th...
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COMMENTARY: A lesson in how a non-issue gets coverage, while a real story gets buried
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson...
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MEDIA REVIEW: INVASION OF THE DO-GOODERS: New trend for fall television: Saving lost souls
c. 1996 Religion News Service
PASADENA, Calif. _ On CBS' ``Touched by an Angel,'' you don't get just a spoonful of sugar to help the morals go down. You get it in large economy sizes.
Each week, as heavenly co-stars Roma Downey and Della Reese travel the country in search of lost...
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COMMENTARY: Unraveling the mystery of a `prophet of rage’
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.)
(UNDATED) One Wednesday evening, near the end of the weekly Bible study I run in my p...
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TOP STORY: SCIENCE AND RELIGION: Anatomy of a blessing: Thanking those who gave bodies to science
c. 1996 Religion News Service
NEW ORLEANS _ As memorial services go it was straightforward, brief _ soft music, dimmed lights and heartfelt verse that moistened the eyes of a few of the students in jeans and sweatshirts who had gathered among the anatomy lab's coffin-like stainless...
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COMMENTARY: Diary of a Congressional witness
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
(UNDATED) I recently presented testimony in Washington, D.C., before the House Judiciary Subcommittee that is considering a constitutional amendment on rel...
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TOP STORY: RELIGION IN AMERICA: Mormon families follow in the footsteps of their forebears
c. 1996 Religion News Service
NAUVOO, Ill. (RNS)-Tom and Linda Whitaker of Midway, Utah, and five of their six children have set forth on the same journey their beleaguered Mormon ancestors took 150 years ago, as they fled religious persecution and went searching for a promised land...
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