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2006 News Archive |
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March 2006 |
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March 1 |
BOP grants apportionment
of 3.6 percent for 2006
Board also approves 4 percent raise
in disability benefits, elects officers
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Kenyan raid on media properties
condemned by church, civic leaders
3 journalists arrested and held
on charges of publishing ‘rumors’ |
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March 2 |
Vigils scheduled to mark 100 days
since peacemakers’ abduction in Baghdad
Interfaith events will feature
prayer
for safe delivery of 3 CPT hostages |
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March 4 |
Spahr not guilty of misconduct
in performing same-sex marriages
She was exercising her ‘right of conscience’
when she married lesbian couples, PJC rules |
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March 6 |
Interfaith experts to lead
conference on religious pluralism
New York event marks 100th
anniversary of U.S. Waldensian group |
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Anglican communion could rupture
over gay clergy, archbishop warns
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March 7 |
Colombian human-rights activist
once again is subject of death threats
Warnings follow Avilez
from Barranquilla to Bogota
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The church is ‘slow’ to recognize
equality of women, WARC leader says
International Women’s Day
is a celebration and a call to action |
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Only 3 of 4 peacemaker-hostages
appear on new tape on Al-Jazeera
CPT colleagues wonder why
American Tom Fox wasn’t on broadcast
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March 8 |
Jim Andrews dies in traffic accident
Longtime stated clerk helped
bring about Presbyterian reunion
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March 9 |
PC(USA) a founder of new fair-food alliance
Group’s first aim: pressure McDonald’s
to improve farm labor wages, conditions
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PC(USA) joins Washington rally
in support of family planning bill
‘This program is not just about abortion,
as some would say. It is about health care' |
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2nd college-ministry ‘summit’ is in the works
Pre-Assembly event will focus on
making the campus a ‘Space for Grace’ |
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March 10 |
Pentecost Offering seeks art
demonstrating 'that very spirit'
Contest for high school artists
offers top prize of $500 |
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Religion Communicators Council
names winners of '06 Wilbur Awards
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Churches to demonstrate solidarity
with Christians in the Holy Land
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Churches' help urgently needed
in southern Sudan, author says
'Someone has got to get into the trenches with the sufferers of ... war' |
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March 13 |
Making church an inalienable rite
'06 Multicultural Conference
aims to be family-friendly |
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Religious communities mourn
U.S. peace activist killed in Iraq |
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March 14 |
Christian peace activists say they'll stay in Iraq
Group is undaunted by
American member's torture and murder |
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Anglicans retreat on Israel divestment,
but U.S. Jewish group isn't satisfied |
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Reformation Museum in Geneva
is next-door to Calvin's cathedral
‘Exactly where the Reformation was voted in 1536' |
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Notes about people |
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March 15 |
2006-2008 budget cuts will total $9.15 million
Detterick says smaller GAC
is 'part of a longer trend in the church' |
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College news |
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Theological Task Force members
offer reflections on their final report
Long-awaited document is on its way
to 217th General Assembly for approval |
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Peruvian parents fret about children
living in shadow of filth-spewing smelter
‘This is our town. We live here.
Where would we go?' |
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March 16 |
Expectations, reality parted ways
in Joining Hearts & Hands campaign
‘Paradigm shift' in denominational giving
has 'changed the flows' of contributions |
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2 new Web sites offer splashes of diversity
Cyber offerings highlight multicultural,
Asian-American ministries |
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March 17 |
Ex-captive taking steps against
genocide and slavery in Sudan
‘The whole world is talking about Sudan.
But nothing gets done. Just talk, talk, talk.' |
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Pittsburgh minister under scrutiny
for performing same-sex marriage
Presbytery investigating committee
has until August to file its report |
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March 20 |
105 members of Congress question
restrictions on religious visits to Cuba
Letter argues that travel
fosters 'greater religious freedom' |
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PC(USA) invests $1 million in Oikocredit
Foundation backs international program
that makes small-business loans to poor people |
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One plus one equals one
2 Seattle churches join, conceive
ecclesiastical life with 'entirely new DNA' |
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March 21 |
Seminary news
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March 22 |
Kidnappers free Upper Room editor in India |
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March 23 |
Group backs bill calling for
U.S. effort to stabilize Congo
Senate legislation advocates
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investments' in democracy, peacemaking |
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Rescue of 3 hostages brings joy,
renewed sorrow that 1 didn't make it
'They've been checked out by the doctors,
and they're skinny but fine' |
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March 24 |
Students devote spring break
to 'practical love' in New Orleans
Thousands of young people
bridging Gulf between faith and action |
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New Web site, E-I-E-I-O
Rural ministries offers
online resources, stories and information |
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Presbyterians urged to pray for
McDonald's, Florida farm workers
Special observance scheduled to augment
tomato pickers' latest 'truth tour' |
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African church leader says Darfur
can't wait 6 months for U.N. troops
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Lutherans urge world community
not to cut off aid to Palestinians |
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Sharing in survival
Indonesians trade disaster experiences
with counterparts on the Gulf Coast |
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Atlanta pastor is 4th candidate
for moderator of General Assembly
Joan S. Gray is seasoned leader,
authority on polity, governance |
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March 27 |
Cable car planned to improve
access to Jerusalem's Western Wall |
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Memorial service scheduled
for former clerk Jim Andrews
April 5 event will celebrate
life and work of longtime PC(USA) servant |
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Women of Faith Award winners named
6 honored for service exemplify
ethnic diversity of PC(USA) |
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March 28 |
Israel/Palestine issues to loom large at GA
Numerous measures would rescind, refine
controversial 2004 divestment action |
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Afghanistan won't execute
Christian convert from Islam
Sharia court relents
in wake of worldwide storm of protest |
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Networks (r)eject UCC ad,
calling it 'too controversial'
ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox are skittish
about references to race, homosexuality |
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Storm tossed Florida church
has new building, new lease on life
'By God's grace,' First PC
of Punta Gorda survives, revives |
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March 29 |
Marchers back farm workers
Presbyterians join tomato harvesters
at Louisville stop on 'Truth Tour' |
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March 30 |
PC(USA) mission workers
investing in Thai believers
Christian leaven beginning to spread
through predominantly Buddhist country |
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Outnumbered but surviving
Conference of Waldensian Church
taps into heritage as religious minority |
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March 31 |
NCC president urges communicators
to take on challenge of 'false religion' |
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Redwoods Presbytery files appeal
of Spahr's same-sex-marriage acquittal
Case goes next to PJC of the Synod of the Pacific |
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