Monthly Archives: April 2004
NEWS DIGEST: Religion in Canada
By Ron Csillag — April 30, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Renegade Anglican Parishes Split VANCOUVER, British Columbia (RNS) Priests from four western parishes opposed to same-sex marriage rites have quit the Anglican Church of Canada nearly two years after the Diocese of New Westminster approved a rite of blessing for same-sex couples. The priests _ and the parishes they serve […]
NEWS STORY: Christian Religious Workers Reporting Israeli Visa Obstacles
By Michele Chabin — April 30, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ Donald Rogers, the Jerusalem-based country representative for Catholic Relief Services, needs to renew his Israeli visa and those of his family in the next few weeks. He’s praying it will go smoothly. “It’s been more difficult to get a visa the last couple of years,” says Rogers, whose […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — April 30, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service IRS Issues Election-Year Politicking Reminder to Churches WASHINGTON (RNS) The Internal Revenue Service has warned churches and other houses of worship they risk losing their tax-exempt status if they engage in partisan election-year politics. The IRS, in a routine advisory issued every four years since 1992, said religious groups are […]
NEWS FEATURE: As `Left Behind’ Series Winds Down, Final Book Off to Strong Start
By Cecile Holmes — April 30, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Just weeks after hitting bookstore shelves, the final book in the amazingly successful, 12-volume “Left Behind” series is “No. 1” on national best-seller lists. “Glorious Appearing,” the last progeny of a prodigious partnership between conservative minister the Rev. Tim LaHaye, and Christian writer Jerry Jenkins, was released March 30. […]
COMMENTARY: The Proper Study of Mankind: In Church, During Sermon
By Frances Kennedy — April 30, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (Eugene Cullen Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author of “Cardinal Bernardin’s Stations of the Cross,” published by St. Martin’s Press.) (UNDATED) The proper study of mankind, poet Alexander Pope observed long ago, is man. Noting […]
COMMENTARY: On Israel’s Birthday, Answering the Question `Is Israel Real?’
By James Rudin — April 30, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin, the American Jewish Committee’s senior interreligious adviser, is Distinguished Visiting Professor at Saint Leo University.) (UNDATED) There is a crowded shop in Jerusalem offering customers a wide assortment of lettered T-shirts. Some shirts prominently display faces of famous rock performers or movie stars. Other brightly colored shirts feature […]
NEWS STORY: Pentecostal Bishop Defends Himself Against Heresy Charge
By Adelle M. Banks — April 30, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) A Pentecostal preacher who has been declared a heretic by some of his clerical colleagues has reacted to their claim with a renewed commitment to his controversial doctrine known as “the gospel of inclusion.” The teachings of Bishop Carlton Pearson of Tulsa, Okla., were recently declared unorthodox and heretical […]
NEWS FEATURE: Archive Celebrates 350 Years of Jewish Women in America
By Holly Lebowitz Rossi — April 30, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service BOSTON _ By the year 1880, there was only one house in Santa Fe, N.M., that could boast running water and gas appliances. Those who might be surprised to learn that might feel even more so to learn that the woman who tended to that house was a Jew. Flora […]
NEWS STORY: `Faithful’ Catholics Gather at First Prayer Breakfast
By Kein Eckstrom — April 30, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ When 1,000 “faithful” Catholics packed a hotel ballroom for the first-ever National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Wednesday (April 28), noticeably absent was the man who could be the first Catholic president in 44 years. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., probably would have found few kindred souls […]
COMMENTARY: The Gods of Globalization
By Qanta Ahmed — April 30, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (Professor Akbar S. Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington, D.C., is author of “Islam Under Siege: Living Dangerously in a Post-Honor World,” published by Polity Press.) (UNDATED) In this uncertain and anxiety-charged world, we either take comfort in the traditional figures of our religions […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — April 30, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Religion News Service Wins `Best in Class’ Associated Church Press Award (RNS) Religion News Service received an Award of Excellence for “Best in Class” in the news service category of the Associated Church Press awards for 2003. RNS Senior Correspondent Adelle M. Banks won an Award of Merit for a […]
NEWS FEATURE: Key Findings on Survey of Music Piracy
By Adelle M. Banks — April 30, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Here are 10 key findings from the Survey on Music Piracy: _ 80 percent of teens have engaged in music piracy in the past six months. _ 77 percent of born-again teens have engaged in music piracy in the past six months. _ 8 percent of teens said both […]
NEWS STORY: When It Comes to Music, Christian Teens, too, Are Pirates
By Adelle M. Banks — April 30, 2004
c. 2004 Religion New Service (UNDATED) The Gospel Music Association has embarked on a campaign to counter music piracy after commissioning a study that found purchasers of Christian music are as likely as other teens to engage in the practice. Overall, the online survey of 1,449 teenagers found 80 percent of teenagers surveyed had engaged […]
COMMENTARY: The Struggle
By RNS Blog Editor — April 30, 2004
c. 2004 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., and a fellow of the George H. Gallup International Institute in Princeton, N.J.) (UNDATED) During my youth in the late 1960s […]
NEWS FEATURE: New Film Explores the Ethics of Cloning
By Angela Aleiss — April 30, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ The possibility of losing a child is every parent’s worst nightmare. But how far will parents go to bring that child back? In “Godsend,” a Lions Gate Films release opening April 30, the sudden and tragic death of 8-year-old Adam sends his parents into deep despair. In […]
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