Monthly Archives: April 2007
Divorced Parents Battle Over Son’s Circumcision
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — April 30, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ A Washington state man who converted to Judaism wants his 12-year-old son to do the same. That requires circumcision _ something the mother adamantly opposes. The divorced couple has been battling over the issue for three years, including whether the boy wants to undergo the procedure. So […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — April 30, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Gay Bishop to Enter N.H. Civil Union With Partner (RNS) Openly gay Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson said he and his longtime partner will register under New Hampshire’s new civil union law for gay couples when it takes effect next year. “My partner and I look forward to taking full […]
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By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — April 30, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ A Washington state man who converted to Judaism wants his 12-year-old son to do the same. That requires circumcision _ something the mother adamantly opposes. The divorced couple has been battling over the issue for three years, including whether the boy wants to undergo the procedure. So […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — April 30, 2007
Gay Bishop to Enter N.H. Civil Union With Partner (RNS) Openly gay Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson said he and his longtime partner will register under New Hampshire’s new civil union law for gay couples when it takes effect next year. “My partner and I look forward to taking full advantage of the law,” Robinson […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — April 27, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Religion Important, but So Is Nation, Europe’s Muslims Say (RNS) Muslims in three major European cities were just as likely as non-Muslims to identify strongly with the country in which they live and sometimes even more so, according to a new Gallup Poll. Conducted between November 2006 and February 2007, […]
400 Years Later, Evangelicals to `Rededicate’ Jamestown for Christ
By Laura Turner — April 27, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) A number of prominent evangelicals will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the first English settlers landing in Virginia by holding services “rededicating the land for Christ” on Sunday (April 29). The event, dubbed The Assembly 2007, is separate from the scores of others _ including a visit from Queen […]
Oregon Couple Protests War by Deducting Money from Taxes
By Nancy Haught — April 27, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ The Rev. John Schwiebert, 68, and his wife, Pat, 62, are conscientious objectors to war. As such, they have refused to support the U.S. military by withholding all or part of their federal income tax since 1977. They do not object to paying taxes, however, and for […]
Oregon Couple Protests War by Deducting Money from Taxes
By Nancy Haught — April 27, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ The Rev. John Schwiebert, 68, and his wife, Pat, 62, are conscientious objectors to war. As such, they have refused to support the U.S. military by withholding all or part of their federal income tax since 1977. They do not object to paying taxes, however, and for […]
New Look at the Quran Ignites Debate on Wife-Beating
By Jeff Diamant — April 27, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service NEWARK, N.J. _ A new rendition of the Quran, which has a gentler take on marital relations than usually seen in English translations, has hit a nerve among Muslims. The controversy is over both a single verse and the qualifications of the Muslim woman who translated the new version, “The […]
COMMENTARY: Israel Is Real Because …
By James Rudin — April 27, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) There is a small crowded shop in Jerusalem that offers customers a wide assortment of lettered T-shirts. Some shirts display the faces of famous rock stars. Other brightly colored shirts feature comic-strip characters or witty bon mots. Yet the best selling T-shirt has only three words imprinted across its […]
Top 10 Religious Right Power Brokers
By RNS Blog Editor — April 26, 2007
GOP Candidates Wooing 10 Influential Religious Conservatives RNS’s Daniel Burke and Adelle M. Banks identify the top political power brokers of the religious right in this week’s full text article, linked above. Quote: Most of the people on this “top 10” list have already been courted by GOP presidential candidates, though none except Sekulow is […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — April 26, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service U.S. Immigration Officials Discriminate Against Muslims, Study Says (RNS) U.S. immigration officials discriminate against Muslims when processing citizenship applications, according to a New York University Law School think tank. Since 9/11, increased security checks of citizenship applications “have illegally delayed the processing of thousands of applications from Muslim, Arab, Middle […]
Study: Hispanics Transforming Nation’s Religious Landscape
By Adelle M. Banks — April 26, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) About half the nation’s Hispanics _ including many who are Roman Catholic _ consider themselves to be charismatics or Pentecostals, creating a new confluence of streams in American Christianity. “Simply put, Latinos are transforming the nation’s religious landscape,” said Roberto Suro, director of the Pew Hispanic Center, one of […]
Spring Is Here and Faith Is on the Air
By Shona Crabtree — April 26, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Three upcoming documentaries about topics ranging from Jehovah’s Witnesses to Mormons to atheism will air nationwide this spring on PBS. Although made independently, each film argues for the relevance of its subject in the United States, both historically and today. In “The Mormons,” Helen Whitney depicts how a once […]
10 Minutes With … Michael Apted
By RNS Blog Editor — April 26, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) “Give me a child until he is seven, and I will give you the man,” is the Jesuit motto director Michael Apted used as the baseline for his 1964 documentary “Seven Up!” Originally planned as one installment, the controversial documentary looked at 14 7-year-old boys growing up in the […]
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