Monthly Archives: January 1997
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service Report: Chinese detain underground Catholic church leader (RNS) After 17 months in hiding, Roman Catholic Bishop Su Zhimin, a prominent leader of the underground church movement in China, has been detained by the government, a U.S.-based Catholic organization has reported. According to a spokesman for the Cardinal Kung Foundation in […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service Deborah Lyons, wife of Baptist leader, pleads guilty to arson (RNS) Deborah Lyons, wife of the president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, pleaded guilty Monday (Oct. 20) to first-degree arson in a case that led to controversy for her husband, the Rev. Henry J. Lyons and the nation’s largest […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service Seminary librarian fired over letter to SBC president (RNS) A librarian at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary was fired Sept. 26 apparently because he wrote a letter questioning the accuracy of remarks denominational president Tom Elliff made in a chapel address. Paul Debusman, 64, was dismissed from the Louisville, Ky., seminary […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service Orthodox Christian leader elevates status of U.S. bishops (RNS) Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has elevated the status of six American bishops of the Greek Orthodox and Carpatho-Russian Orthodox churches. Meanwhile, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America has released a memorandum intended to quiet growing unrest within the church over the leadership […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service `Nothing Sacred’ to last all season, gets Catholic support (RNS) Despite some highly visible criticism from a conservative Roman Catholic group, ABC says it has ordered a full season of the drama”Nothing Sacred.” The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights began campaigning against the one-hour drama before it premiered […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service Appeals court nixes Ohio ban of `partial-birth’ abortions (RNS) A three-judge federal appeals court panel has struck down Ohio’s first-in-the-nation ban of the late-term abortion procedure opponents refer to as”partial-birth”abortion. In a 2-1 ruling, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati Tuesday (Nov. 18) upheld a 1995 U.S. […]
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By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service Report: Moon’s Unification Church has few members, lots of businesses (RNS) Membership in the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church continues to decline, even as his multibillion-dollar religious empire continues to grow, The Washington Post reported in a series of in-depth articles on the controversial movement. In the Washington, D.C., […]
RNS News Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service United Church of Canada in uproar over moderator’s remarks (RNS) The United Church of Canada (UCC), the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, is in an uproar following comments by its top official, who said he did not believe Jesus was God, was bodily resurrected or is the only path to God. […]
Daily News Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service Disney’s Eisner calls notion of anti-Christian bent `ridiculous’ (RNS) Walt Disney Co. Chairman Michael Eisner called charges that his company promotes an anti-Christian agenda”ridiculous”and said a Southern Baptist-led boycott has not affected the entertainment conglomerate financially. When delegates to the June meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention voted to boycott […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service Pope addresses Vatican policies enroute to Brazil (RNS) Brazilians put the finishing touches on preparations for a visit by Pope John Paul II as the pontiff discussed Vatican policies on sainthood and anti-Semitism before arriving in the South American nation Thursday afternoon (Oct. 2). Enroute, the pontiff dashed the hopes […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service Atheists protest Promise Keepers, plan future (RNS) Members of American Atheists, gathered in Washington to demonstrate against Promise Keepers, are making plans to be more active in efforts to maintain a strict separation of church and state. Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists, told a Friday (Oct. 3) news conference […]
Religion News Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service Cuba to allow additional foreign Catholic priests and nuns (RNS) Cuba will allow an additional 57 foreign priests and nuns to enter the island nation to help the country’s small Roman Catholic leadership prepare for the January visit of Pope John Paul II. Some 28 priests and 29 nuns will […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service Protesters arrested at Army’s School of the Americas (RNS) Some 600 protesters, led by the Rev. Roy Bourgeois, a Roman Catholic priest and longtime political activist, were arrested Sunday (Nov. 16) when they trespassed on the grounds of the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Ga., demanding […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service Alabama official seeks to block enforcement of prayer ban (RNS) Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor has filed papers seeking to block enforcement of a portion of a federal court order banning state-sanctioned prayer in public schools. Pryor said he took the action so the state can appeal parts of U.S. […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service British Methodists, Anglicans look to re-start theological talks (RNS) Against the backdrop of two traumatic failures to heal the 18th-century breach between British Methodists and Anglicans, the Church of England’s general synod will be asked later this month to approve new, formal conversations with the Methodist Church of Great Britain. […]
