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2004 News Archive |
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May 2004 |
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May 3 |
28 national staffers lose jobs
2004-’05 budget cut by $4.6 million; 37 positions eliminated
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Van Kuiken ‘rebuke’ is overturned
Synod PJC says rule on same-sex rites is not a ‘flat prohibition’ |
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May 4 |
Stated clerk touts ‘Decade to Overcome Violence’
Global peace a fitting Pentecost theme, Kirkpatrick says |
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‘What happened to our fervor?’
Religious leaders urged to question ethics of globalization |
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Rwandan genocide remembered
Speakers at NCC event cite inaction of Washington, UN, churches |
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May 5 |
Northern Kansas Presbytery wins theological education prize
New award is named for presbyter-educator John B. Evans
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UMC leave gay policy intact, acquittal of lesbian pastor upheld
Methodists join Taco Bell boycott
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May 6 |
Celebrating the ‘browning’ of the church
Conference-goers dance to the new beat of multiculturalism
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Day 1 of moderator’s tour: sew stirring
Andrews hurriedly surveys ‘beautiful’ expressions of the gospel |
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May 7 |
Sudan ceasefire teeters amid calls for action to sustain hope |
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Stimson wins writing prize
Presbyterian Writers Guild honors magazine veteran |
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Budget cuts win final approval
28 workers will lose jobs under plan approved by GAC panel
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Moderator envisions more inclusive PC(USA)
Says church must ‘learn to do evangelism in a Presbyterian way’
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May 10 |
Laid-off Presbyterian Center staffers
28 people with a total of 348 years of service to the church |
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May 11 |
Glory be
Presbyterian Men get a warning: Lord’s Prayer can bring ‘trouble’ |
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May 12 |
Push comes to shove
Miners employed by U.S. firm assault, threaten Peruvian activists |
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Change of address
‘Lock box’ for donations, payments is hauled off to Pittsburgh
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22 organizing groups to share $175,000
Grants will support to congregation-based community programs
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May 13 |
Face to face with evil
Experts examine naming it and stopping it |
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Divided Methodists end meeting with vows of unity |
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Churches see challenge fostering reconciliation in Haiti |
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Northern Ireland's Protestant paramilitaries urged to disarm |
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Fighting eviction
New Jersey church defends neighborhood ministries in zoning case |
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May 14 |
Mothers and children Gather together
Presbyterian Women is committed to providing a program for kids |
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Not exactly childs’ play
Child-care needs at Assembly produce an annual headache |
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May 17 |
What the moderator knew
After searing Immokalee visit, tomatoes will never taste the same
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Clerk issues statement on Brown v. Board
Anniversary is a reminder that ‘we still have a long way to go’
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May 18 |
Holding fast
Religious groups to fast, pray while Yum! shareholders meet |
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May 19 |
Nearly two-thirds in U.S. use Internet for religious reasons |
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Where's the moderator? |
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Fearful Colombian asks for help
Presbyterian pastor wants U.S. Christians to write letters
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Sample letter to Colombia’s president |
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Higher education ‘summit’ in the offing
Conference may be step toward PC(USA) college-ministry association |
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May 20 |
Pope celebrates his 84th birthday with a new book on his life |
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WCC’s Kobia meets UN chief, criticizes U.S. policy in Iraq |
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May 21 |
Student essayists to vie for $100,000
Contest focus is ‘common ground’ between Christians, Jews
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Pentecost money helps needy children
Annual Offering has 2nd benefit: Young volunteer finds calling |
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Fire guts historic New York church
Pittsford church constructed in 1861 is almost a total loss
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May 24 |
Religious freedom tenuous in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. commission reports |
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Farmworkers spurn Taco Bell offer
Yum! proposal is quickly dismissed as a “hollow gesture” |
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Protesters rally at Yum! headquarters
Religious groups fast, pray in support of farmworkers |
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May 25 |
Big-game safari
For African children in need of learning, the stakes couldn’t be higher |
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May 26 |
Notes about people |
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May 27 |
Celebrating Margaret Flory
WCC chief joins Presbyterians in fete for mission pioneer
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Risky business
PC(USA) pondering Colombian’s request for ‘accompanier’
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Media advisory: the 216th General Assembly |
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Former denominational adminstrator dies at 81
Otto Finkbeiner was the “epitome of the ‘behind-the-scenes figure |
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May 28 |
More than a bad day
Pittsford pastor readies for Pentecost after fire destroys the church
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International Church leaders meet with Kofi Annan on Iraq
The religious community urges a greater role for the United Nations
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Correction
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