Touched By an Angel - Angels Abroad [VHS]
Religious strife in Northern Ireland and injustice in the Sudan are  the dilemmas to be tackled by the angels in this double-episode tape. First,  in "Life Before Death" (episode 616), the Irish-born Monica (Roma Downey)  goes to Belfast to collect a mixed group of teens to bring them to the  United States to build a home together and, hopefully, a bridge of  communication and understanding between the two groups. The effort gets off to a rocky start except for a budding romance between a Catholic boy and a  "Prod" girl. In "Such a Time as This" (episode 603), Lindsay Crouse plays a senator who ran for all the right reasons, but now finds herself politically  compromised during a reelection bid. When her young son and idealistic  husband (Joe Spano) get caught up in the angels' mission to bring attention to Sudanese slaves in Africa, the senator finds herself torn between doing  the right thing and angering her political backers, thus jeopardizing her  career.--Kimberly Heinrichs