Monthly Archives: December 2004
NEWS FEATURE: With Faith and Trepidation, Ex-Soviet Jews Pursue Late-Life Circumcision
By RNS Blog Editor — December 31, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) In June, two months shy of his 59th birthday, Valeriy Kozlov did the unthinkable: He went under the knife for religious reasons. Kozlov, a Belarus native, followed the example of his friend Leonid Marder, a Russian emigre who was circumcised at age 66. Both resettled in Reisterstown, Md., a […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — December 31, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service World Health Organization: Rites Needed to Grieve Tsunami Victims (RNS) The World Health Organization said dead bodies from the South Asia tsunami do not present a major health risk, and families should be allowed to proceed with religious burial rites instead of having to endure mass cremations and graves. The […]
COMMENTARY: A New Year’s Resolution for Pundits
By RNS Blog Editor — December 31, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) In discussing news coverage of religion in 2004, a modified version of Winston Churchill’s famous words applies: Never in the history of reporting on religion has so large and consistent a distortion been imposed on so many by so few. Most religion writers are as seasoned to the human […]
COMMENTARY: Push for Israeli Divestment Is Always Wrong
By RNS Blog Editor — December 31, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) voted last July to “initiate a process of phased selective divestment in multinational corporations doing business in Israel.” Criticism of divestment came quickly from many Presbyterians including clergy and laypeople, progressives and conservatives. At a recent New York City interreligious conference […]
NEWS FEATURE: Sex Abuse Training Program Raises Eyebrows
By RNS Blog Editor — December 30, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ On a recent Wednesday evening at St. Anselm’s School in Brooklyn, more than 60 church volunteers, teachers and coaches sat quietly watching a video in a basement meeting room. Subway trains passed beneath the building, periodically rumbling the floor. Suddenly, the room let out a collective gasp. […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — December 30, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Israel, Palestinians Launch Joint Tourism Push for Pilgrims JERUSALEM (RNS) Israel and the Palestinian Authority plan to jointly market their region as a pilgrimage destination, Israel’s Ministry of Tourism announced Sunday (Dec. 26). Israeli Tourism Ministry Director General Eli Cohen and his Palestinian counterpart, Dr. Bajis Ismail, agreed on the […]
COMMENTARY: Conscientious Consumers Can Drive Manufacturing Market
By Heather Beaudoin — December 30, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (Tom Beaudoin is assistant professor of religious studies at Santa Clara University in California and the author of “Consuming Faith: Integrating Who We Are With What We Buy.”) (UNDATED) You won’t see this fact touted in any clothing ads, but more of us will soon be wearing Mexican jeans. Yet […]
NEWS STORY: New Catholic Catechism Hopes to Reach Adults
By RNS Blog Editor — December 30, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The Catholic Church in the United States is on the way to having its first national catechism since the old Baltimore Catechism that children memorized for 80 years. But this new one is aimed at adults _ specifically young adults who have left the church or are on the […]
RNS Weekly Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — December 29, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Faiths Offer Prayers for Victims of South Asian Earthquake, Floods WASHINGTON (RNS) As relief organizations collect aid for the South Asian victims devastated by Sunday’s (Dec. 26) earthquake and tidal waves, religious groups are holding services for families in the United States who have lost relatives in the disaster. The […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — December 29, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Faiths Offer Prayers for Victims of South Asian Earthquake, Floods WASHINGTON (RNS) As relief organizations collect aid for the South Asian victims devastated by Sunday’s (Dec. 26) earthquake and tidal waves, religious groups are holding services for families in the United States who have lost relatives in the disaster. The […]
COMMENTARY: Focus, Focus, Focus
By Tom Ehrich — December 29, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. An Episcopal priest, he lives in Durham, N.C. Visit his Web site at http://www.onajourney.org) (UNDATED) After Christmas ends in farewell to our older sons, it is time to sit with some unusually fine gift coffee and to think […]
NEWS FEATURE: Hindus Turn to Internet for Temple Prayers
By RNS Blog Editor — December 29, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ The online market for Hindu religious services is coming of age, with a plethora of Web sites now catering to the needs of the pious, offering them remote access to temples that have special significance on the Indian religious map. The Web sites offer devotees the chance […]
NEWS FEATURE: 2004 Saw Religious Films Break Into the Mainstream
By RNS Blog Editor — December 29, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) This was an extraordinary year for religion in film because: A. A film about the last hours of Jesus made in two dead languages _ Aramaic and Latin _ is the third-highest grossing movie of the year. B. Religious filmmakers broke traditional artistic boundaries to tell their stories in […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — December 28, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Survey: 44 Percent Favor Curtailing Civil Liberties for Muslims (RNS) Americans are almost evenly divided between those who believe that civil liberties for Muslim Americans should be restricted and those who do not, a national study has found. Forty-four percent of those surveyed by the Media and Society Research Group […]
NEWS STORY: Religious Relief Groups Mobilize Aid for Tidal Wave Victims
By RNS Blog Editor — December 28, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The earthquake and tidal waves that killed more than 23,000 people in South Asia have prompted a massive response by religious and humanitarian aid groups in what one official called one of the most catastrophic natural disasters on record. The 9.0 earthquake on Sunday (Dec. 26) _ centered about […]
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