Monthly Archives: February 2000
NEWS STORY: Bishop Makes Dramatic Plea for Sudanese; U.S. Is Listening
By RNS Blog Editor — February 19, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Just a week after a Sudanese military airplane bombed a Catholic primary school, killing 14 students and one teacher, Roman Catholic Bishop Macram Max Gassis, head of the Nuba diocese in which the bombing occurred told a U.S. audience it was an intentional “slaughter of the innocents.” “I […]
NEWS ADVANCE: Pope’s Scheduled Spiritual Journey to Egypt Prompts Mixed Notices
By Elizabeth Bryant — February 19, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CAIRO _ The bells of St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church peal out oddly into a city night more accustomed to the clatter of horns and the wail of the muezzin’s call to prayer. On a recent evening, only about a dozen people are gathered inside the cavernous pink-and-white church in […]
NEWS ADVANCE: Pope’s Scheduled Spiritual Journey to Egypt Prompts Mixed Notices
By Elizabeth Bryant — February 19, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CAIRO _ The bells of St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church peal out oddly into a city night more accustomed to the clatter of horns and the wail of the muezzin’s call to prayer. On a recent evening, only about a dozen people are gathered inside the cavernous pink-and-white church in […]
NEWS FEATURE: Evangelicals Debate Boundaries of Evangelism
By Yonat Shimron — February 17, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service APEX, N.C. _ When Mormons held an open house to celebrate their new temple in this suburb of Raleigh, a group of Southern Baptists stood at the exit ramp and passed out pamphlets titled “Are Mormon Temples Christian?” The answer, according to these Baptists, was no. And they were not […]
COMMENTARY: What Greed Hath Joined Together
By Dale Hanson Bourke — February 17, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS.) (UNDATED) It might be funny if I didn’t have children who have to grow up in this world. Tuesday night’s (Feb. 15) “Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire” brought American society to a new low, offering a mix of “The Price Is Right” […]
COMMENTARY: What Greed Hath Joined Together
By Dale Hanson Bourke — February 17, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS.) (UNDATED) It might be funny if I didn’t have children who have to grow up in this world. Tuesday night’s (Feb. 15) “Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire” brought American society to a new low, offering a mix of “The Price Is Right” […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — February 15, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Update: Methodist Same-Sex Decision Draws Mixed Reaction (RNS) A decision by a Western regional body of the United Methodist Church to decline formally charging dozens of clergy who participated in a same-sex union ceremony is drawing mixed reaction. And as the Methodists grapple with the latest decision on homosexuality, an […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — February 15, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Update: Methodist Same-Sex Decision Draws Mixed Reaction (RNS) A decision by a Western regional body of the United Methodist Church to decline formally charging dozens of clergy who participated in a same-sex union ceremony is drawing mixed reaction. And as the Methodists grapple with the latest decision on homosexuality, an […]
NEWS STORY: Charges Dropped Against Methodist Clergy in Lesbian Wedding Case
By Adelle M. Banks — February 12, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED)-A United Methodist investigative committee has decided not to bring formal charges against 68 clergy who participated in a 1999 California same-sex union ceremony for a lesbian couple. The committee of the California-Nevada Conference of the United Methodist Church decided not to certify the complaint concerning the Jan. 16, 1999 […]
NEWS STORY: Charges Dropped Against Methodist Clergy in Lesbian Wedding Case
By Adelle M. Banks — February 12, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED)-A United Methodist investigative committee has decided not to bring formal charges against 68 clergy who participated in a 1999 California same-sex union ceremony for a lesbian couple. The committee of the California-Nevada Conference of the United Methodist Church decided not to certify the complaint concerning the Jan. 16, 1999 […]
NEWS STORY: Griswold Defends Episcopal Church Against Traditionalist Attacks
By Adelle M. Banks — February 7, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold said Friday (Feb. 4) that denominational leaders are reacting with “extreme displeasure and concern” to the irregular consecrations of two American priests as bishops in a ceremony in Singapore, but he believes his church “is not a community mired down in conflict.” […]
NEWS STORY: Griswold Defends Episcopal Church Against Traditionalist Attacks
By Adelle M. Banks — February 7, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold said Friday (Feb. 4) that denominational leaders are reacting with “extreme displeasure and concern” to the irregular consecrations of two American priests as bishops in a ceremony in Singapore, but he believes his church “is not a community mired down in conflict.” […]
NEWS STORY: Pollster Gallup Sees a `Pick-and-Choose’ Religion
By Cecile Holmes — February 5, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The nation’s premier pollster says the spiritual quest percolating among Americans today might best be described as “religion a la carte.” Although a Canadian sociologist, Reginald Bibby, coined the term, it has been pollster George Gallup Jr. who has most thoroughly researched its application in the United States. At […]
NEWS STORY: Pollster Gallup Sees a `Pick-and-Choose’ Religion
By Cecile Holmes — February 5, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The nation’s premier pollster says the spiritual quest percolating among Americans today might best be described as “religion a la carte.” Although a Canadian sociologist, Reginald Bibby, coined the term, it has been pollster George Gallup Jr. who has most thoroughly researched its application in the United States. At […]
COMMENTARY: Speaking Out for Sexual Morality, Healing and Justice
By RNS Blog Editor — February 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Pamela K. Brubaker teaches Christian ethics at California Lutheran University.) (UNDATED) “Sexuality is God’s life-giving and life-fulfilling gift,” begins The Religious Declaration on Sexual Morality, Healing and Justice released on Jan. 18. More than 850 religious leaders from diverse religious communities endorsed the statement, which was published as a full-page […]
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