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This year's Fez Festival of World Sacred Music was the fourth in a series that grew out of one man's response to the Desert Storm conflict in the Middle East.
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With The Workweek growing longer and employees feeling less certain of job stability, spirituality is gaining a larger than ever role in the workplace.
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Millennium pioneers
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When Pastor Jack Hayford's mother was terminally ill, his first response was to turn to prayer.
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"People want to believe their prisons work," says Jack Cowley, director of Innerchange Freedom Initiative at a Texas state prison.
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"We're Here To promote peace and let everybody know that in Memphis we're no longer racially divided," said Michael Moore.
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Churches often assume that members of the local community will know they are welcome to come to their public services.
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"Years Ago, When I began giving lectures, I was warned not to mention the word 'God,' says the founder of a cookie company.
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Two-thirds of the membership at North Presbyterian Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan, is made up of people who are mentally ill.
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"Doctors often shy away from this area completely.
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"Some children give in to the adversities in life and become violent, while others don't let life defeat them," says Sherry Baldwin, a counselor at Roberson Junior High School in North Carolina.
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Searching For Meaning and dissatisfied with simply receiving a bigger paycheck, executives around the country are turning to religion classes, including opportunities to study the Bible or the Torah.