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COMMENTARY: Momma made me do it

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS.) UNDATED _ I was so young _ barely 4 _ when the abuse began. It came at the hands of my mother, the woman I expected to protect me. Instead, she looked at my long, flowing hair and something snapped. She announced her inte...
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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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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 ANALYSIS: Political nuns face more than physical danger

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1998

c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ The admission was a long time coming: Four former Salvadoran guardsmen said they had not acted alone in the killing of three North American nuns and a church worker 17 years ago. They took their orders from higher military authorities, they said. At the ti...
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COMMENTARY: Legal abortion faces a tougher future

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1998

c. 1998 Religion News Service (David Sarasohn is an associate editor at The Oregonian of Portland, Ore.) UNDATED _ If there were a poster girl for this week's 25th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision, it would be the woman interviewed by The New York Times who declared firmly that she was...
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NEWS FEATURE: Buddhist hospital chaplain breaks new ground

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1998

c. 1998 Religion News Service HERSHEY, Pa. _ The hospital bedside conversation was routine _ small talk meant to break the ice. It consisted of little more than chaplain J. Anthony Stultz asking patient Jeremy Bentley how his recovery from being struck by a car was going (well, Bentley replied), f...
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