Monthly Archives: April 1996
Newsday religion writer wins Pulitzer Prize
By RNS Blog Editor — April 10, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-When the 1995 Pulitzer Prizes were handed out Tuesday (April 9) religion was a big winner. Newsday religion writer Bob Keeler won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting for a year-long look at a Roman Catholic parish on Long Island, Columbia University School of Journalism announced. And in the arts […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — April 10, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Report says gunfire kills a young person every 92 minutes in America (RNS)-Every 92 minutes a young person age 19 or under dies as a result of gunfire-most often murder-and gunfire is the second-leading cause of death for those age 10 to 19, according to a report by the Children’s […]
TOP STORY: THE CHURCH IN TRANSITION: World Council of Churches leader on a mission of ecumenism
By Carl Anderson — April 10, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS)-It’s unlikely that the Rev. Konrad Raiser, the soft-spoken general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), will ever become a household name. But the 58-year-old Raiser, a tall, slim former university professor and pastor to factory workers in Germany, may, more than most people, shape the […]
NEWS FEATURE: Religion fosters culture of prostitution, theologian says
By Karen Long — April 10, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-In the United States, the typical prostitute begins work at age 14. Along the Pacific Rim, where the governments of the Philippines and Thailand promote the sex trade under the guise of “tourism,” prostitution begins even earlier. For travelers who flock to the Asian sex industry, fear of AIDS has […]
COMMENTARY: HUMOR: A cranky commentary on the rites of spring
By Brendan Kirby — April 10, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Robert Kirby is a Mormon humorist and regular columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune.) (RNS)-Now that Easter Sunday has come and gone, I can’t resist asking an impertinent question. Why on this holiest of days do Christians choose to behave like pagans? The resurrection of Jesus is a central event […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — April 9, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Cardinal O’Connor uses Easter sermon to criticize euthanasia ruling (RNS)-Roman Catholic Cardinal John J. O’Connor of the Archdiocese of New York interrupted his joyous Easter Sunday (April 7) sermon celebrating the resurrection of Jesus to issue a somber warning about the dangers of assisted suicide. O’Connor, addressing a standing-room-only crowd […]
COMMENTARY: Living with integrity
By RNS Blog Editor — April 9, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson via e-mail at 71421.1551(AT)compuserve.com.) (RNS)-Presidential campaigns invariably raise questions about personal integrity, […]
TOP STORY: NATURAL DEATH AND ASSISTED SUICIDE: A father’s death: How God surprises us in dark
By RNS Blog Editor — April 9, 1996
c. 1996 Christianity Today (Wendy Murray Zoba is an associate editor of Christianity Today magazine.) (RNS)-One of the saddest essays I have ever read appeared in the New Yorker magazine in May 1995, written by a young man, Andrew Solomon, who was coming to terms with his mother’s death. She had been battling cancer-and lost. […]
COMMENTARY: Loathing Leona, but lusting for her luxury
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — April 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of the recent book”Real Choices,”is active in the National Women’s Coalition for Life and is a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.) (RNS)-I think I see what the problem is. We admire Mother Teresa, and we […]
NEWS STORY: Anti-hunger group seeks candidate support
By Kristen Campbell — April 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-People may not live by bread alone, but members of the Christian anti-hunger lobbying group Bread for the World hope congressional candidates may be elected by it. The 44,000-member ecumenical organization representing mainline Protestant, Catholic and evangelical congregations, has launched a campaign in which its more than 1,000 churches […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — April 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Agents removed from church firebombing investigations (RNS)-Two of the 100 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents have been removed from the investigations of firebombed black Southern churches because they attended so-called”Good Ol’ Boy Roundups”where racist acts occurred.”The successful prosecution of the people who set fire to these churches is […]
COMMENTARY: A resurrection in Cleveland
By RNS Blog Editor — April 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Dick Feagler is a columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer) CLEVELAND (RNS)-John Adams High School, my late lamented alma mater, has gone to God. God got a real bargain. Five thousand dollars down and a balance of $94,000 delivered about a square mile of school building, grounds and attached football […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — April 5, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service New York assisted-suicide ruling criticized (RNS)-Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston has called on the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the April 2 ruling of a federal appeals court that overturned New York state’s ban on assisted suicide for the terminally ill.”How horribly sad it is, in this season of new […]
TOP STORY: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN EUROPE: France emblematic of dissent in European Catholicism
By RNS Blog Editor — April 5, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service PARIS (RNS)-Two months ago the French Bishops’ Conference surprised many of the country’s 42 million Catholics when for the first time it appeared to reverse church policy by endorsing the use of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS. Progressives welcomed the decision as a step toward liberalizing church rules […]
Graham takes a cue from MTV
By Adelle M. Banks — April 5, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Evangelist Billy Graham hopes to reach his largest audience ever with a one-hour program aimed at viewers who would not normally watch religious programming.”The Billy Graham World Television Series”features a message from Graham intercut with fast-paced videos of Christian music celebrities and ordinary people in a one-hour program that will […]
