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2005 News Archive |
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August 2005 |
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August 1 |
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Prejudicial testimony
Young women at NNPCW event share tales of discrimination |
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August 2 |
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PDA sends $10,000 to famine-plagued Niger
Despite aid efforts, 3.5 million people in West African nation face starvation |
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August 4 |
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No room for hatred
A-bomb survivor devotes her life to a quest for peace and healing
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Radiating kindness
Retired pastor helps Korean victims of A-bomb attacks in Japan
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Second site
Members of hurricane-blasted church see God's direction in move to new location
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August 5 |
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Morass of misery
Future holds little promise for pastor killed in Guatemala mudslide
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No time for grieving
Widows of mudslide victims, war dead face desperate struggle to survive
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Invested in justice
Presbyterians attend committee meeting to support GA's Israel-Palestine action
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5 corporations selected for talks about ties to Mideast violence
Church assessing ethics of investments
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August 9 |
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Uneasy calm holding in Sudan
Church leaders join officials in plea for peace
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Voter registration low in Iraq
Ratification balloting on new constitution scheduled for Oct. 15
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Antiochan Orthodox quit NCC
Spokesman says council's liberal drift just 'got to be too much'
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Support for stem-cell research is growing, poll finds
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Officials of firms on 'engagement' list defend business practices in Israel-Palestine
Some express puzzlement; others are sticking to earlier statements
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Promotion -- by the book
New catalogue offers treasure trove of good reads for Presbyterian Women
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August 10 |
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Notes about people
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Knoxville College president fired
Trustees say Barbara Hatton managed by 'fear and intimidation' |
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August 11 |
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Louisville Sudanese mourn rebel leader
'Lost boys' pray that death of John Garang won't lead to resumption of long civil war
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Soul practitioners
Chinese Christian rural-health program trains healers of body and spirit
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August 12 |
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PC(USA) communicators challenged to 'inspire hope'
Unity is essential to church's global witness, Kirkpatrick tells fledgling organization
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Lutherans shift worship into gender-neutral
Some traditionalists disgruntled as Assembly gears down masculine imagery for God |
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August 15 |
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State of Kansas downgrades evolution teaching
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Lutherans maintain policies against same-sex unions, actively gay clergy
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August 18 |
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PC(USA) computers infested by 'worms'
Staff 'exterminators' cleaning up 650 machines at Louisville HQ |
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Barber-Scotia shuts on-campus housing
Financially strapped college looks to save money, restore accreditation
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WMD creating alumni organization for former Presbyterian missionaries
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Presbyterian Media Mission planning silver-anniversary celebration
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Lending a hand
Amity Foundation fights poverty in China with penny-wise 'micro-credit' program
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August 19 |
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Presbyterian school in Pakistan is being restored to former glory
Historic Forman College has been refurbished, renewed, re-Christianized |
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Seminary news |
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2 desert activists indicted for transporting illegals |
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Lutherans and Methodists are step closer to full communion
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Church communicators share vision of national network
175 agree to pool resources, energies to better convey good news of the gospel
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College news
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August 22 |
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Drifting toward catastrophe
Ex-missionary says A-bomb memorials reinforce grim lesson world still has not learned
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Malawians face starvation, church leader says
Presbyterian cites drought, flooding as causes of famine in his homeland
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Greek Orthodox elect new patriarch of Holy Land
Theofilos promises to annul all leases of church property to Israelis
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Pope urges youth to spurn 'do-it-yourself' religion
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Pontiff meets with Muslim, Jewish leaders
Benedict condemns terrorism, decries resurgence of European anti-Semitism
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August 23 |
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Notes about people
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Uninviting
Many Presbyterians are uneasy about personal evangelism, poll finds
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August 24 |
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H. William 'Bill' Peterson dies
Longtime church worker succumbs to pancreatic cancer |
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African church council streamlines itself |
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Church leaders lambaste Robertson for calling for Chavez assassination
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August 25 |
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Christian council, Presbyterians oppose Nigerian involvement in Islamic bank
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New U.S. restrictions on travel to Cuba raise hackles of religious organizations
PC(USA) among groups denied license renewals
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Theological Task Force proposes 'season of discernment' in PC(USA)
Group lifts up unity of church, calls for suspension of ordination-standards debate
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As criticism spreads, Robertson says assassination remark was misinterpreted
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Church of the future
Conference of Hispanic Presbyterian Men may shed light, heat on the 'frozen chosen'
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August 30 |
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Force wraps up a largely thankless task
What the proposed 'authoritative interpretation' would and wouldn't do
(See correction, Sept. 7, #05463)
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PC(USA) selling Mary Holmes campus
Pentecostal church to pay $9 million, use property for job-training center
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PDA appealing for $10 million in Hurricane Katrina relief
Disaster specialists traveling to affected areas to help survivors
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August 31 |
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Rabbis forbid razing of Gaza synagogues
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Unceasing fire
IRA's peace gesture hasn't stopped sectarian violence in Northern Ireland
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Becoming church
Can Presbyterians hope to broadly replicate conversion experience of Theological Task Force?
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