Monthly Archives: July 2006
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 26, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service North American Muslims Call for Release of Israeli Soldiers (RNS) Muslim advocacy groups in the United States and Canada are urging the militant group Hezbollah to free two Israeli soldiers captured in a cross-border raid July 12 _ but added that the release should be preceded by a cease-fire and […]
Investors Hail Fraud Convictions of Arizona Baptist Foundation Execs
By Adelle M. Banks — July 26, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) With the fraud convictions of two executives of the bankrupt Baptist Foundation of Arizona, investors are expressing relief that a sad chapter in their lives has ended. Verdicts announced Monday (July 24) after a 10-month trial found William Crotts, the foundation’s former president, and Thomas Grabinski, its former general […]
Christian Groups Press for Middle East Ceasefire
By Carl Anderson — July 26, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) As the Israeli offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon entered its 13th day Tuesday (July 25), mainline Protestant and Roman Catholic leaders around the world continued to press the combatants _ and the Bush administration _ for an immediate cease-fire. But as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a […]
Muslim Professor Displays Islam’s Diversity
By Nancy Haught — July 26, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ Kambiz GhaneaBassiri is a Muslim. He has a doctorate in Islamic studies from Harvard University and teaches at Reed College here. He has one book to his credit and is halfway through writing his second, a history of Islam in the United States since Colonial times. He […]
COMMENTARY: Talking to Each Other Instead of Letting Others Speak For Us
By Tom Ehrich — July 26, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) I stood at the ticket counter and felt baffled. I didn’t want to pay first-run prices for sequels whose originals were dull, or for one last gasp of the Sandra-meets-Keanu franchise, or for a comedy ridiculing short people. The one film I wanted to see, “The Devil Wears Prada,” […]
Documentary Explores Evangelicals’ Missionary Work
By RNS Blog Editor — July 25, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ A new documentary film on the strategies behind one evangelical Christian missionary group shows the power of mass media and marketing to reach even the world’s most remote outposts. “The Tailenders,” which debuts July 25 on PBS, is a portrait of Global Recordings Network (GRN), an organization […]
New Exhibit Traces John Paul II’s Connections with Jews
By RNS Blog Editor — July 25, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service PITTSBURGH _ Look through the bedroom window, as Karol Wojtyla did as a young boy in the small Polish town of Wadowice, at an inscription on the side of the Church of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary: “Time flies, eternity waits.” Walk under a replica of the gate […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 25, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service American Muslims and Arab-Americans Rip Rice and Rumsfeld (RNS) The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee filed a federal lawsuit Monday (July 24) against Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, claiming that the two officials failed to protect American citizens in Lebanon. According to an ADC press release, […]
Gay Parents Voice Concerns About Rights
By Chris Lowney — July 22, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Like any other parent, Karen Bellavance-Grace cherishes the moments big and small: a walk with her sons, a visit with grandparents, a review of a stellar report card. But as a gay mother who adopted her children through the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, the Northampton, Mass., resident has […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 22, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Editors: Care Net is cq in 6th graf Study: `Pregnancy Resource Centers’ Link Abortion With Breast Cancer (RNS) A study of two dozen federally funded “pregnancy resource centers” that was requested by a Democratic congressman has concluded that the majority of them provide questionable information about the consequences of abortion. […]
Gay parents’ rights
By RNS Blog Editor — July 22, 2006
In Friday’s RNS report Mary Ellen Lowney reports on gay parents concerned about their rights: Like any other parent, Karen Bellavance-Grace cherishes the moments big and small: a walk with her sons, a visit with grandparents, a review of a stellar report card. But as a gay mother who adopted her children through the Massachusetts […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 21, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Report: Church-State Lines Not Always Drawn With Faith-Based Groups (RNS) An examination of the White House’s faith-based initiative has found that some organizations are not separating religious activities from federally funded services. At the request of two members of Congress, the U.S. General Accountability Office spent more than a year […]
Amid Conflict in Middle East, Tense Times for Interfaith Groups Here
By Omar Sacirbey — July 21, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Rabbi Stephen Julius Stein received a phone call this week (July 18) he’s not sure he would have received a few years ago. A Syrian-American friend called to say how sorry he was about the violent conflict now roiling the Middle East. Not sorry for any particular group, stressed […]
Many in Harm’s Way Question Government
By RNS Blog Editor — July 21, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service MAJD AL-KRUM, Israel _ When the shriek pierced the tranquillity of this mountainside Israeli Arab village a week ago (July 9-15), Hanza Farhat mistook it for the sound of a distressed airplane. Then the Hezbollah rocket crashed into the roof opposite the balcony where she was minding her young daughters. […]
Relocating to Israel, War or Not
By Jeff Diamant — July 21, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Ideally, they said, they would have picked another week for the biggest move of their lives. Still, 220 Jews with one-way tickets to Israel boarded an El Al plane Wednesday (July 19), and those interviewed said the past eight days of hostilities between Lebanon and Israel never […]
