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** MEDIA ADVISORY ** MEDIA ADVISORY ** MEDIA ADVISORY **This week’s edition of the PBS newsmagazine program RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY (distributed Friday, December 22 at 5 p.m., check local listings) will feature the following reports:
* Perspectives: "A Look Back at the Year 2006” — Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Baghdad bureau chief for The Washington Post and the author of “Imperial Life in the Emerald City,” Laurie Goodstein, national religion reporter at The New York Times and Kim Lawton, correspondent and managing editor of RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY, join host Bob Abernethy for a roundtable studio discussion of the past year's top news stories impacting the faith community.
* Feature: "Partners in Care" — Lucky Severson explores how “Partners in Care,” an initiative created by Maryland National Guard Chaplain William Sean Lee to support vets in need, is helping a divorced mom who served in Iraq to rebuild her life with the aid of the local faith community.
* News Feature: “Virginia Episcopal Church Breakaway” — Kim Lawton reports on the historic vote by eight congregations in the Virginia Diocese of the Episcopal Church to break away the U.S. denomination over its ordination of a gay bishop.
To request a transcript of these reports, send an e-mail to
rosenbleethl@religionethics.org or go to the program Web site at
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics where the transcript and streaming video of each story will be available after 8:30 p.m. on Friday.
For information, contact:
Lynn Rosenbleeth
Publicist
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
202-216-4404
rosenbleethl@religionethics.org*****
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