Monthly Archives: June 1996
TOP STORY: RELIGION IN AMERICA: Mormon families follow in the footsteps of their forebears
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — June 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service NAUVOO, Ill. (RNS)-Tom and Linda Whitaker of Midway, Utah, and five of their six children have set forth on the same journey their beleaguered Mormon ancestors took 150 years ago, as they fled religious persecution and went searching for a promised land. At the break of dawn Monday (June 17), […]
NEWS STORY: Euthanasia becoming key policy item for U.S. Catholic bishops
By Carl Anderson — June 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops are stepping up their campaign against euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow states to ban the practice and urging Congress to take action. Meeting this week in Portland, Ore., the first state to pass legislation legalizing physician-assisted […]
NEWS STORY: Euthanasia becoming key policy item for U.S. Catholic bishops
By Carl Anderson — June 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops are stepping up their campaign against euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow states to ban the practice and urging Congress to take action. Meeting this week in Portland, Ore., the first state to pass legislation legalizing physician-assisted […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Australian court declines to stop euthanasia law, but will hold hearings (UNDATED) _ An Australian court has denied a request from opponents of the Northern Territory’s euthanasia law to prevent the legislation from taking effect on July 1, but has agreed to hear their case challenging the measure. A clergyman […]
NEWS STORY: Bishops criticize `punitive’ immigration bills
By Carl Anderson — June 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops Friday denounced proposed immigration legislation as”punitive,”saying it would target the poor and return refugees seeking political asylum back to their oppressors and possible death. In a statement adopted Friday (June 21) on the second day of the three-day spring meeting of the […]
NEWS STORY: Bishops criticize `punitive’ immigration bills
By Carl Anderson — June 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops Friday denounced proposed immigration legislation as”punitive,”saying it would target the poor and return refugees seeking political asylum back to their oppressors and possible death. In a statement adopted Friday (June 21) on the second day of the three-day spring meeting of the […]
NEWS STORY: Cult Awareness Network files under Chapter 7 of bankruptcy code
By Adelle M. Banks — June 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) _ Plagued by numerous lawsuits from religious groups, the Cult Awareness Network (CAN) filed under Chapter 7 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code Thursday (June 21) after the organization’s attempts to reorganize were denied by a federal bankruptcy judge, its executive director said. Cynthia Kisser, who runs the network from […]
NEWS STORY: Cult Awareness Network files under Chapter 7 of bankruptcy code
By Adelle M. Banks — June 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) _ Plagued by numerous lawsuits from religious groups, the Cult Awareness Network (CAN) filed under Chapter 7 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code Thursday (June 21) after the organization’s attempts to reorganize were denied by a federal bankruptcy judge, its executive director said. Cynthia Kisser, who runs the network from […]
NEWS STORY: Catholic bishops vote to ask Vatican to loosen rules on cremation
By Carl Anderson — June 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ Responding to the growing American funeral practice of cremation, the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops Friday (June 21) voted to ask the Vatican to allow Roman Catholic parishes to bring cremated remains into a church for the funeral Mass. The vote was 179-20 with one abstention. The bishops’ […]
NEWS STORY: Catholic bishops vote to ask Vatican to loosen rules on cremation
By Carl Anderson — June 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ Responding to the growing American funeral practice of cremation, the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops Friday (June 21) voted to ask the Vatican to allow Roman Catholic parishes to bring cremated remains into a church for the funeral Mass. The vote was 179-20 with one abstention. The bishops’ […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Foundations offer aid to help rebuild burned black churches (RNS)-More than $3 million in grants and pledges has been donated to a National Council of Churches fund designed to aid the more than 40 predominantly black churches that have been damaged or destroyed in the recent rash of suspicious fires. […]
NEWS STORY: Catholic bishops’ meeting opens with defense of political process
By Carl Anderson — June 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (PORTLAND, Ore.)-Bishop Anthony M. Pilla, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, opened the bishops’ annual spring meeting Thursday defending the church’s role in the political process and warning groups seeking to mobilize the Catholic vote that they must have respect for the social-justice principles of the church.”Any individual […]
NEWS STORY: Catholic bishops’ meeting opens with defense of political process
By Carl Anderson — June 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (PORTLAND, Ore.)-Bishop Anthony M. Pilla, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, opened the bishops’ annual spring meeting Thursday defending the church’s role in the political process and warning groups seeking to mobilize the Catholic vote that they must have respect for the social-justice principles of the church.”Any individual […]
NEWS STORY: Group faces uphill fight over Clinton abortion veto
By Adelle M. Banks — June 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va.-National Right to Life Committee officials say they face an uphill educational battle in seeking to reverse President Clinton’s recent veto of a bill banning a controversial late-term abortion procedure. According to a poll announced at the group’s annual meeting Thursday (June 20), more than 70 percent of U.S. […]
NEWS STORY: Group faces uphill fight over Clinton abortion veto
By Adelle M. Banks — June 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va.-National Right to Life Committee officials say they face an uphill educational battle in seeking to reverse President Clinton’s recent veto of a bill banning a controversial late-term abortion procedure. According to a poll announced at the group’s annual meeting Thursday (June 20), more than 70 percent of U.S. […]
