Monthly Archives: February 1996
NEWS STORY: Advocacy group calls for mass rally on children’s issues
By Carl Anderson — February 2, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-The Children’s Defense Fund, backed by 350 national, state and local groups, called Thursday (Feb. 1) for a mass demonstration in Washington on June 1 to highlight children’s issues in the coming election campaign.”The moral litmus test of our country is whether our children get a fair start in […]
Global Religion Report
By RNS Blog Editor — February 2, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Following is a collection of international religion stories compiled by RNS staff, wire and denominational reports.) Tutu speaks out in support of homosexuals (RNS)-Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has spoken out in support of homosexuals, comparing discrimination based on sexual preference to the racial discrimination of apartheid. Tutu’s […]
NEWS STORY: Leaders mix politics and prayer at annual breakfast
By Adelle M. Banks — February 2, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-Over coffee and croissants, thousands of elected officials, diplomats and other leaders mixed politics, prayer and patriotism Thursday (Feb. 1) at the 43rd annual National Prayer Breakfast. Nearly 4,000 invited guests filled a Washington Hilton ballroom to overflowing to hear President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, Chairman of […]
TOP STORY: A PAPAL TRIP: Pope hopes to fortify church in Central America pilgrimage
By RNS Blog Editor — February 2, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS)-At the time of Pope John Paul II’s 1983 pilgrimage to Central America, the governments of Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador were more likely to spurn democratic principles than embrace them. As the pope prepares to return for the first time in 13 years, all three countries have […]
COMMENTARY: David, Deborah or Isaiah for president? What would the political gurus say?
By James Rudin — February 2, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (RNS)-The presidential primary season is upon us, and the political consultants, spin doctors, handlers and pollsters are covering the countryside like a plague of locusts. But no serious White House hopeful can afford to be without these […]
NEWS STORY: Evangelical group launches campaign backing Endangered Species Act
By Adelle M. Banks — February 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-Saying the environment is a creation of God that must be protected, a group of evangelicals announced Wednesday (Jan. 31) a million-dollar media campaign to urge Congress not to weaken the Endangered Species Act.”Human beings are called to be stewards of God’s gorgeous garden,”Ron Sider, president of Evangelicals for […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION AND PEACEMAKING: Episcopal bishop pushes for a U.N. of religion
By RNS Blog Editor — February 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service SAN FRANCISCO (RNS)-After Episcopal Bishop William Swing of California was invited to lead last year’s interfaith service on the 50th anniversary of the United Nations, he suffered a sleepless night musing about how little religions have done for world peace.”Their role is that every 50 years they come in and […]
National Religion Report
By RNS Blog Editor — February 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Following is a collection of domestic religion stories compiled from RNS staff, wire and denominational reports). Foster appointment as teen-pregnancy adviser under attack (RNS)-Anti-abortion groups are attacking President Clinton’s appointment of Dr. Henry Foster, Clinton’s failed surgeon general nominee, to head a a bipartisan task force to confront the problem […]
COMMENTARY: Sharing our surplus with the world
By Dale Hanson Bourke — February 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of”Turn Toward the Wind”and the publisher of Religion News Service. As a member of the board of the international relief agency World Vision, she recently traveled to the former Yugoslavia.) (RNS)-When I was a little girl, my mother urged me to eat everything on […]
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