Monthly Archives: January 1996
Former Episcopal treasurer admits to embezzling more than $1.5 million
By RNS Blog Editor — January 25, 1996
c. 1995 Religion News Service (RNS)-The former treasurer of the Episcopal Church admitted Wednesday to a federal court in Newark, N.J., that she embezzled more than $1.5 million from the church and evaded income taxes on part of the stolen money. Ellen F. Cooke, 52, who served as the church’s top financial officer from 1986 […]
National Religion Report
By RNS Blog Editor — January 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Following is a collection of domestic religion stories compiled from RNS staff, wire and denominational reports). Supreme Court allows $1.5 million judgment against Christian Scientists (RNS)-The Supreme Court Monday (Jan. 22) let stand a Minnesota appeals court’s $1.5 million damage judgment against four Christian Scientists, including the mother of a […]
TOP STORY: JUDAISM IN AMERICA: Synagogues reward Jewish families willing to relocate
By Chris Smith — January 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service LOWELL, Mass.-“WANTED,”said the ad, published in a regional Jewish newspaper.”$2,500 reward. Pioneering families to revitalize the Jewish community in Lowell.” With car-dealer flair and Wild West drama, a rabbi here is beckoning Jews to a new frontier, urging them to settle in a city that he said is a worthy, […]
COMMENTARY: The murky waters of `parental rights’ legislation
By RNS Blog Editor — January 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.) (RNS)-It’s an idea that has some merit. But the real key to parental responsibility is morals, not laws. A bill called […]
NEWS STORY: Christian leaders urge new mobilization against religious persecution
By Kim Lawton — January 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-Leaders of more than 40 evangelical and Catholic organizations Tuesday (Jan. 23) urged the federal government to take up the cause of persecuted Christians around the world. At the same time, the leaders, representing churches, mission agencies and political advocacy groups, conceded that the Christian community itself has not […]
TOP STORY: ISLAM IN AMERICAL: In prisons, a declaration of faith often means conversion to Islam
By Ira Rifkin — January 24, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service STORMVILLE, N.Y. (RNS)-The Islamic holy month of Ramadan, said Imam Hasib Abdul-Haqq, the Muslim chaplain at Green Haven Correctional Facility here, is a time for patience, a time to develop the discipline that enables a person to accept his destiny. For Amir Ali Brathwaite, one of nearly 200 men who […]
COMMENTARY: What’s so bad about men?
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — January 24, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of the recent book”Real Choices”and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today and other publications.) (RNS)-It’s not every day you get to see a photo of a woman folding a man up and pushing him into a […]
NEWS STORY: Thousands urge Clinton to ban late-term abortion procedure
By Adelle M. Banks — January 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-Thousands of cheering anti-abortion activists, rallying here Monday on the 23rd anniversary of the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision, condemned President Clinton for his stance on abortion and urged him to approve a proposed legislative ban on a controversial procedure. The annual march, held on the Ellipse in sight […]
NEWS STORY: Vatican book on sexuality may bolster”parental rights”drive
By RNS Blog Editor — January 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS)-The”parental rights”movement in the United States has gained an unintended assist from the Roman Catholic Church. In a new book on human sexuality, the church advises parents to become more involved in their children’s education, to the extent of removing them from school if they are unhappy with […]
NEWS STORY: Christian Right meeting in Memphis draws five GOP hopefuls
By Angela Waters — January 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service MEMPHIS, Tenn. (RNS)-Joined by five Republican presidential candidates, thousands of conservative Christians met in Memphis over the weekend for a two-day meeting designed to rally evangelical voters for the upcoming presidential primaries.”Our goal,”said Howard Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Caucus and one of many Christian Right leaders who spoke at […]
TOP STORY: WAR AND PEACE IN BOSNIA: Sarajevo cardinal a staunch advocate of a multicultural Bosnia
By RNS Blog Editor — January 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service SARAJEVO (RNS)-It’s hard to find anyone in the government-held parts of Sarajevo with an unkind word to say about Bosnia’s Catholic Cardinal Vinko Puljic. Bosnian Muslims, Catholic Croats, Orthodox Serbs and Jews alike speak of”their cardinal”with hometown pride.”Monsignor Puljic will be pope one day,”says Hebib Sulejman Suky, a Muslim and […]
COMMENTARY: The Millionaire’s Rumble and gods in cleats
By RNS Blog Editor — January 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson via e-mail: 71421,1551 at compuserve.com.) (RNS)-The Super Bowl, otherwise known as the […]
Denomination Report
By RNS Blog Editor — January 20, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Following is a collection of news stories compiled from RNS staff, wire and denominational reports). Lutheran world body will not ease support for ordaining women (RNS)-The Lutheran World Federation will not drop its support of women’s ordination despite problems it creates for relations with the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches […]
NEWS FEATURE: Armenian Christian leader bridges church division
By RNS Blog Editor — January 20, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WORCESTER, Mass. (RNS)-Armenian Christians in America, divided into two church jurisdictions for more than 60 years by Cold War politics, are on the road to reunion under a charismatic new spiritual leader. Karekin I, elected in Armenia in April as the catholicos, or worldwide head of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox […]
NEWS FEATURE: Palestinian Christian cleric asks of Jerusalem, `Whose land is it?’
By Elaine Fletcher — January 20, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service JERUSALEM (RNS)-“Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds!” says the biblical prophet Micah. “At morning’s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud a […]
