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RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service Evangelical Lutheran Church in America speaks out on suicide (RNS) The Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has adopted a message encouraging its members to contribute to efforts to prevent suicide. The lengthy report, adopted Nov. 14, st...
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NEWS FEATURE: U.S. ministry aids Russian orphans make transition to adulthood

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service ANDREYEVSKOYE, Russia _ Dima Himenkov is smiling. A broad grin covers the 16-year-old's freckled face as he slides his queen deep into his foster father's territory on the chess board. Nikolai Mironovich groans and throws up his hands. ``Dima always wins,'' he sai...
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COMMENTARY: Victory in Kosovo

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.) UNDATED _ The NATO...
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NEWS FEATURE Nursing school professor links spirituality and health

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service NEW HAVEN, Conn. _ Ann Ameling, a professor at Yale Nursing School, can recite a litany of professional reasons for starting a spirituality and health program in conjunction with Yale Divinity School. But the true reason for her dedication to the project lies...
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COMMENTARY: Human pain has no half life

RNS Blog Editor | Aug 19, 1998

c. 1998 Religion News Service (Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of"My Brother Joseph, published by St. Martin Press.) UNDATED _ In an old photograph, the first president...
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NEWS STORY: Ambivalent America marks 25th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1998

c. 1998 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Partisans on both sides of the explosive abortion issue took their case to an increasingly ambivalent American public Thursday (Jan. 22) as the nation marked the 25th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing most abortions. In...
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RNS Daily Digest

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1998

c. 1998 Religion News Service Beliefs, caring attitude, good sermons draw church members (RNS) American churchgoers cite three significant factors in their choice of a church _ its beliefs and doctrine, how much people in the congregation care about each other, and the quality of sermons, acco...
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NEWS STORY: Catholic editor stunned by reaction to controversial abortion editorial

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1998

c. 1998 Religion News Service VANCOUVER, British Columbia _ The editor of Roman Catholic archdiocese of Vancouver's newspaper says he felt like he was hit by a truck when he ignited a continent-wide furor over an editorial in which he admitted part of him was"pleased"about the murder of a New York...
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NEWS STORY: Bullish stock market gave charities boost; future uncertain

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1998

c. 1998 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Most U.S. charities had a bumper year in 1997, according to new figures, but the rosy glow may already be evaporating as fund-raisers agonize over whether the erratic stock market will discourage donors. In 1997, with the stock market still soaring, don...
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NEWS STORY: Assisted suicide opponents go on the attack

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1998

c. 1998 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Congressional opponents, joined by Roman Catholic religious leaders, have launched the first volley of an attack on physician-assisted suicide in what could become a lengthy legislative battle over the same issues of morality and personal choice involved...
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