Monthly Archives: June 2000
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 13, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Political Training Center to Be Launched for Muslims (RNS) A leading Muslim advocacy group will inaugurate a first-of-its-kind political training center for American Muslims, signaling the growing clout and influence of the Muslim community across the country. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, which monitors anti-Muslim bias and lobbies on behalf […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 13, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Political Training Center to Be Launched for Muslims (RNS) A leading Muslim advocacy group will inaugurate a first-of-its-kind political training center for American Muslims, signaling the growing clout and influence of the Muslim community across the country. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, which monitors anti-Muslim bias and lobbies on behalf […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 10, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Catholic Family Radio Network Faces Financial Woes (RNS) A year after taking to the nation’s airwaves with Catholic-friendly programming, the Catholic Family Radio Network may go off the air if investors cannot come up with more funding. The San Diego-based network was launched in January last year with great fanfare, […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 10, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Catholic Family Radio Network Faces Financial Woes (RNS) A year after taking to the nation’s airwaves with Catholic-friendly programming, the Catholic Family Radio Network may go off the air if investors cannot come up with more funding. The San Diego-based network was launched in January last year with great fanfare, […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 9, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Judge Roy Moore Wins Primary Race for Alabama Chief Justice (RNS) An Alabama judge who became famous for his decision to post the Ten Commandments in his courtroom has won a Republican primary for chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. Judge Roy S. Moore, who sits on the Circuit […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 9, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Judge Roy Moore Wins Primary Race for Alabama Chief Justice (RNS) An Alabama judge who became famous for his decision to post the Ten Commandments in his courtroom has won a Republican primary for chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. Judge Roy S. Moore, who sits on the Circuit […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 8, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Vatican Gives Approval to Bishops’ Guidelines for Catholic Colleges (RNS) A plan to tighten control of the country’s 230 Catholic colleges and universities has received official approval from the Vatican, the nation’s Catholic bishops announced Wednesday (June 7). The controversial document, “Ex corde Ecclesiae,” gives the church greater control over […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 8, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Vatican Gives Approval to Bishops’ Guidelines for Catholic Colleges (RNS) A plan to tighten control of the country’s 230 Catholic colleges and universities has received official approval from the Vatican, the nation’s Catholic bishops announced Wednesday (June 7). The controversial document, “Ex corde Ecclesiae,” gives the church greater control over […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 7, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Christian Scientists Plan to Build $50 Million Boston Library (RNS) The Christian Science Church announced plans Monday (June 5) for a 75,000-square-foot, $50 million library dedicated to its founder, Mary Baker Eddy. The church said the library will be built on the campus of its Boston headquarters and $25 million […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 7, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Christian Scientists Plan to Build $50 Million Boston Library (RNS) The Christian Science Church announced plans Monday (June 5) for a 75,000-square-foot, $50 million library dedicated to its founder, Mary Baker Eddy. The church said the library will be built on the campus of its Boston headquarters and $25 million […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 6, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Atheists’ President Hopes O’Hair Case Conviction Brings Closure (RNS) The president of American Atheists said the jury decision convicting a man of extorting money from group founder Madalyn Murray O’Hair and two of her children is a “major step forward” toward closure in the case of their disappearance in 1995. […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 6, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Atheists’ President Hopes O’Hair Case Conviction Brings Closure (RNS) The president of American Atheists said the jury decision convicting a man of extorting money from group founder Madalyn Murray O’Hair and two of her children is a “major step forward” toward closure in the case of their disappearance in 1995. […]
NEWS FEATURE: Modern Army Continues to Struggle With Combat Ethics
By Benjamin Wood — June 3, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The story, a cruel morality play, will haunt him forever. On a combat sweep through rural hamlets of South Vietnam, U.S. Marines accidentally wounded a 4-year-old child, torn by shrapnel from a hand grenade. James Webb, then a 23-year-old company commander: “My medic came up to me carrying […]
COMMENTARY: A Sense of Humor, A Sense of Life
By Frances Kennedy — June 3, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of “My Brother Joseph,” published by St. Martin’s Press.) (UNDATED) It is hard even to imagine what could be scandalous in a culture that gives a […]
COMMENTARY: A Sense of Humor, A Sense of Life
By Frances Kennedy — June 3, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of “My Brother Joseph,” published by St. Martin’s Press.) (UNDATED) It is hard even to imagine what could be scandalous in a culture that gives a […]
