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COMMENTARY: After bombs and carnage, a lover’s lament
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Adam Tilove grew up in suburban Philadelphia and graduated from Emory University in Atlanta in December 1994. He now lives in the Israeli town of Herzliyah, near Tel Aviv.)
HERZLIYAH, Israel (RNS)-My flight to Israel left Newark International Airport...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Postal Service introduces stamp commemorating Hanukkah
(RNS)-The U.S. Postal Service unveiled the first of a new series of ``Holiday Celebrations'' postage stamps Tuesday (March 5)-a colorful stamp commemorating Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Li...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Abortion opponents offended by Clinton veto threat
(RNS)-Abortion opponents said Wednesday (Feb. 28) they are offended that President Clinton is asking Congress to soften a bill that would ban a controversial late-term abortion procedure except in c...
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TOP STORY: VATICAN AMBASSADOR: Flynn reaches settlement in campaign finance inquiry
c. 1996 Religion News Service
ROME (RNS)-Raymond Flynn, U.S. ambassador to the Vatican and former Boston mayor, has avoided a potentially troubling civil lawsuit by agreeing to repay his former mayoral campaign committee $12,500 in personal expenses he acknowledges were improperly s...
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TOP STORY: JUDAISM IN AMERICA: Synagogues reward Jewish families willing to relocate
c. 1996 Religion News Service
LOWELL, Mass.-"WANTED,"said the ad, published in a regional Jewish newspaper."$2,500 reward. Pioneering families to revitalize the Jewish community in Lowell." With car-dealer flair and Wild West drama, a rabbi here is beckoning Jews to a new frontier,...
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COMMENTARY: Finding the simple pleasures in life
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of"Turn Toward the Wind"and the publisher of Religion News Service.)
(RNS)-For some it comes as an epiphany, a sudden realization that the stuff of life has outpaced the substance.
Others move toward it gradually, g...
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COMMENTARY: Honor your father and mother: Protect them from cults
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
(UNDATED) Eighteen years ago this month the catastrophe known as"Jonestown"took place in a Guyana jungle. On orders from the Rev. Jim Jones, the People's T...
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TOP STORY: MINISTRY OF MARY: Visions of Mary inspire faith and skepticism
c. 1996 Religion News Service
EATON TOWNSHIP, Ohio _ The pilgrimage began two years ago, when a handful of Catholics stopped their car to pray.
Maureen Sweeney, a member of the nondenominational Missionary Servants of Holy Love, said the Virgin Mary spoke to her, as she had hundre...
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NEWS ANALYSIS: RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION: Mission impossible? Religious persecution panel faces formidab
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ The mission of a new U.S. State Department committee sounds noble indeed: recommending policies to help religious believers around the world who suffer persecution because of their faith.
But putting that plan into action, some religious...
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NEWS STORY: State Department names religious freedom advisory committee
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ The U.S. State Department Tuesday (Nov. 12) formally announced the formation of a special advisory committee to study religious persecution around the world and recommend U.S. foreign policy responses.
The panel is comprised of 20 members...
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