Monthly Archives: July 1996
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 10, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Netanyahu’s visit prompts religious groups’ to press for peace (RNS) American religious groups marked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Clinton in Washington Tuesday (July 9) by urging Clinton to put pressure on Israel and the Palestinians to abide by the land-for-peace provisions of the Middle East peace […]
NEWS FEATURE: Olympic religion: Let the preaching begin
By Adelle M. Banks — July 10, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) As athletes descend upon Atlanta for the Summer Olympics eyeing medals of gold, silver and bronze, teams of religious people are setting their sights on more timeless values. Inside the Olympic Village, 38 chaplains are ready to provide scriptural studies, prayer services and one-on-one chats with athletes of faiths […]
TOP STORY: TWO FACES OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT: Among Christian conservatives, pragmatism wars with pri
By Ira Rifkin — July 10, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) In a restaurant near his Chesapeake, Va., office, the Christian Coalition’s Ralph Reed spent a recent lunch expounding on the politics of abortion, Bob Dole and the upcoming Republican convention, talking and eating with equal gusto.”Abortion is the most overrated issue in American politics today,”Reed said dismissively.”The liberal media […]
NEWS FEATURE: Bishops push policy concerns with GOP, Democrat platform committees
By Carl Anderson — July 10, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The Republican and Democratic parties should resist any effort to give support to same-sex marriages or other policies that would change the definition of the family, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops said Tuesday (July 9).”We oppose all policies and legislation which dilute the central place of family and marriage […]
TOP STORY: TWO FACES OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT: Among Christian conservatives, pragmatism wars with pri
By Ira Rifkin — July 10, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) In a restaurant near his Chesapeake, Va., office, the Christian Coalition’s Ralph Reed spent a recent lunch expounding on the politics of abortion, Bob Dole and the upcoming Republican convention, talking and eating with equal gusto.”Abortion is the most overrated issue in American politics today,”Reed said dismissively.”The liberal media […]
COMMENTARY: In the Texas desert, an icon weeps sweet tears of myrrh
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — July 10, 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”and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.) (RNS) The vast middle of this country is sometimes termed, by bicoastal bigwigs,”Flyover Land.”It’s the land you fly over on your way to somewhere […]
Romanian Orthodox and Catholics slam Jehovah’s Witnesses
By Carl Anderson — July 9, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Eds: Teoctist in graph 2 is cq (UNDATED)_ Orthodox Christians and Roman Catholics in Romania are speaking out against a decision by the Romanian government to allow an international gathering of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Bucharest this summer. Orthodox Patriarch Teoctist warned Orthodox believers to be on their guard against what […]
RNS Daily Digest
By Carl Anderson — July 9, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Archbishop of Canterbury decries”privatization of morality” (RNS) Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey has strongly criticized”the privatization of morality,”which he said is undermining society. Carey, the spiritual leader of the 70 million-member worldwide Anglican Communion, said one of”society’s greatest difficulties is the cultural tendency to regard morality as no more than […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: Presbyterians end contradictory assembly, reject gay ordination
By Carl Anderson — July 9, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) It was a telling moment Friday (July 5) at the General Assembly meeting of the Presbyterian Church (USA) when an emotional Rev. James Brown, who just a day before had been effectively fired as head of the denomination’s General Assembly Council, addressed his colleagues. The vote to approve Brown, […]
COMMENTARY: Honoring Calvin Klein
By RNS Blog Editor — July 8, 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.) (UNDATED) It would be nice to believe that […]
TOP STORY: GOD AND POLITICS: Bob Dole and the Christian bikers
By Shaun Casey — July 8, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service HATFIELD, Ark. _ “They don’t look like bikers,” said Herbie Shreve Jr., an Arkansan who has ridden thousands of miles this year on his motorcycle, including three 850-mile days. Shreve was talking about presumptive Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole and his wife Elizabeth. Here’s the connection, and admittedly it’s not […]
Romanian Orthodox and Catholics slam Jehovah’s Witnesses
By Carl Anderson — July 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED)_ Orthodox Christians and Roman Catholics in Romania are speaking out against a decision by the Romanian government to allow an international gathering of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Bucharest this summer. Orthodox Patriarch Teoctist warned Orthodox believers to be on their guard against what he called Jehovah’s Witnesses’ “heretical” beliefs. The […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Presbyterians reject General Council Assembly executive director (RNS) In a sign of grassroots discontent with denominational leadership, the executive director of the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s General Assembly Council has lost his bid for a second four-year term. In a surprise vote Thursday (July 4) in what was expected to be […]
COMMENTARY: Pundits ignore the power of Catholic voters
By RNS Blog Editor — July 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. His home page on the World Wide Web is at http://www.agreeley.com. Or contact him via e-mail at agreel(AT)aol.com.) (UNDATED) According to a study recently commissioned by the Pew […]
COMMENTARY: Pundits ignore the power of Catholic voters
By RNS Blog Editor — July 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. His home page on the World Wide Web is at http://www.agreeley.com. Or contact him via e-mail at agreel(AT)aol.com.) (UNDATED) According to a study recently commissioned by the Pew […]
