Monthly Archives: March 1996
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Southern Baptist leader Charles Stanley’s wife drops divorce suit (RNS)-Television preacher and prominent Southern Baptist pastor Charles Stanley appears to no longer be in danger of losing his pulpit now that his wife has dropped a divorce suit against him. Anna Stanley filed for divorce nearly three years ago, but […]
NEWS FEATURE: Modern-day meditators rediscover ancient technique
By Bruce Nolan — March 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS (RNS)-Aimee Dominique walked slowly over the footpath in the semi-darkness, eyes down, hand over her heart, lost in thought. Gregorian chant and candlelight filled the room. Sally Gale walked a similar path a few feet away, to her enormous surprise weeping quietly but not self-consciously. Sister Adele Lambert, […]
NEWS STORY: Catholic Church vows fight against euthanasia
By Carl Anderson — March 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-U.S. Roman Catholic bishops will mount a campaign against assisted suicide comparable in scope and intensity to their fight against abortion, Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston said Wednesday (March 20). Law, chairman of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee for Pro-Life Activities, made his comments during a telephone […]
COMMENTARY: Worshiping the American dream
By RNS Blog Editor — March 21, 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)-Nearly 50 years ago, a book titled”The God That Failed”described how communism fell short of its egalitarian ideals. As seen through […]
TOP STORY: TRENDS AND RESEARCH: Do pollster’s religious beliefs affect his research?
By Alan Chambers — March 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service PRINCETON, N.J. (RNS)-The Gallup Poll, known worldwide as a barometer of public opinion, helps America pick its presidents and form its policies. Over the past four decades, however, the heir to the Gallup name has focused on a higher power as he has carved a niche for himself in the […]
COMMENTARY: Memories of two Seders, bitter and sweet
By James Rudin — March 20, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (RNS)-I always look forward to the Passover Seder and to the stories, prayers, foods and songs of this festive family meal. But when Passover begins on Wednesday evening (April 3), I will be looking back. The year […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION AND FOOD: A gourmet Seder reveals chef’s Jewish roots
By Corrie Mitchell — March 20, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VAIL, Colo. (RNS)-Why is this night different from all other nights? On this night we hold the Passover Seder at a posh ski resort in the Rockies. Like devoted Jewish cooks around the world, award-winning chef Jim Cohen will be in his kitchen Thursday, April 4, lovingly preparing a Seder, […]
COMMENTARY: One man works, another man begs
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — March 20, 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,”is active in the National Women’s Coalition for Life and is a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.) (RNS)-Six lanes go east and six go west, and they go and go; cars […]
Watchdog group says Texas church got political
By Ira Rifkin — March 20, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-A church-state watchdog group has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate Houston’s Second Baptist Church-an influential, 22,000-member Southern Baptist congregation-for allegedly engaging in partisan political activities in violation of the federal tax code. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said Tuesday […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 20, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Mayors: Hate crimes not major part of urban crime woes (RNS)-The U.S. Conference of Mayors said Tuesday (March 19) a survey of 172 of its member-cities showed hate crimes are not considered a major part of most cities’ crime problem.”Nearly half of the cities surveyed view hate crimes as a […]
Publicity-shy priests guide two Catholic papers
By RNS Blog Editor — March 20, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Two national Catholic newspapers sold last year to a group with ties to an obscure priestly order, the Legion of Christ, have moved from California to Connecticut. And the New Haven suburbs have become the U.S. base for the priests, familiarly known as the Legionaries, one of Catholicism’s rapidly growing […]
COMMENTARY: Lights are dimming in the city on a hill
By RNS Blog Editor — March 19, 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 at 71421,1551(at sign)compuserve.com.) (RNS)-Some people may be unnerved by Pope […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 19, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Supreme Court to hear abortion protest limits case (RNS)-The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday (March 18) to review a case challenging whether a judge may impose a 15-foot buffer zone to keep anti-abortion demonstrators away from health facilities where abortions are performed. The 15-foot buffer zone is being challenged as […]
NEWS FEATURE: A controversial church and the poorest people on earth
By RNS Blog Editor — March 19, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service MAPUTO, Mozambique (RNS)-A young preacher paces the stage of the dilapidated Xenon cinema in downtown Maputo as a stereo gently plays a version of”Onward Christian Soldiers.” Over the next hour the preacher urges the packed audience to give all to God.”Give your love to your enemies and give generously to […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION AND CULTURE: Is ET having a close encounter with the Holy Land?
By RNS Blog Editor — March 19, 1996
c. 1996 The Jerusalem Report (RNS)-On Sunday, January 8, 1995, Herzl Ksantini was relaxing at home with a buddy in a small farming community in central Israel.”It was an ordinary evening on our moshav (village),”he says,”until suddenly, at 9 p.m., the house began to shake. It was like an earth tremor.” Ksantini opened the front […]
