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NEWS FEATURE: Baptist moderates looking to shift funding away from national church
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ At least two moderate-dominated state conventions _ Texas and Virginia _ in the conservative-controlled Southern Baptist Convention are looking beyond national church agencies for places to invest their mission dollars.
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COMMENTARY: Welcome to the new millennium
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ As we anticipate the year 2000, all of us would like to believe the new century will be better than this one, which has produced two world wars, Nazism, Fascism, Communism, the Holocaust, nuclear weapons, and endless regional conflicts.
The last 100 years...
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Baptist leader forgiven by church, but credibility still at stake
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ As members of the National Baptist Convention, USA, returned home after a tumultuous annual convention, questions lingered about the eroded credibility of their controversial president, the Rev. Henry J. Lyons, and its possible effect on the denomination.
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Baptist leader forgiven by church, but credibility still at stake
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ As members of the National Baptist Convention, USA, returned home after a tumultuous annual convention, questions lingered about the eroded credibility of their controversial president, the Rev. Henry J. Lyons, and its possible effect on the denomination.
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NEWS FEATURE: Hunter harassment law challenged on religious grounds
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ As a University of Pennsylvania veterinary student, Gloria Binkowski risked expulsion over her opposition to the school custom of breaking the legs of animals to provide budding vets with practice fractures.
Now, Binkowski's strongly held beliefs concernin...
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NEWS STORY: Evangelical press group’s censure of World magazine withdrawn
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ A report by an Evangelical Press Association (EPA) ethics committee involving controversial stories by World magazine has been invalidated because the ad hoc panel contained no association members.
The EPA _ which acknowledged it made a"major error"by vi...
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NEWS STORY: UCC body strips Chavis of clergy status
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ A regional panel of the United Church of Christ (UCC) stripped Benjamin Chavis Muhammad of his clergy standing Thursday (April 24) saying the controversial civil rights activist has joined"another faith"by joining the Nation of Islam."He is a member of the N...
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NEWS STORY: Summit meeting may spur more volunteers than needed
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ A panoply of the prominent and the powerful _ including three U.S. presidents, former first lady Nancy Reagan, and talk show host Oprah Winfrey _ will gather in Philadelphia next week (April 27-29) to encourage Americans to step up and volunteer, putting a s...
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Powerful, poor gather to celebrate life of Mother Teresa
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ A microcosm of the world _ its powerful, its impoverished, and just plain people in between _ mingled Friday (Sept. 12) in Calcutta to say their final Godspeed to Mother Teresa, the tiny nun whose ministry confronted, comforted, and challenged their lives.
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NEWS STORY: Court dismisses suit against religious lobbying agency
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ A federal district court judge has dismissed a suit against a group of well-known mainline Protestant religious leaders over the radical reorganization of Interfaith/IMPACT, the generally liberal Capitol Hill religious lobbying agency.
Judge Stanley Sporki...
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