Monthly Archives: April 2007
Examples of Prayers for Pagan Prayer Beads
By Kimberly Winston — April 11, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service A “Daily Elemental Rosary Prayer” by Tirgereh On the Charm: The day has begun, the time of resting at end as I gather and prepare to go forth I take this time to pray and remember: it is not alone do I wander it is not alone do I search […]
Alabama Church Arsonists Sentenced to Prison
By Val Walton — April 11, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _ Three former Birmingham college students are headed for federal prison cells after a judge Monday (April 9) ordered them to serve sentences ranging from seven to eight years for a series of rural church fires last year. U.S. District Judge David Proctor sentenced Matthew Cloyd, 21, and […]
COMMENTARY: Committing to Community
By Tom Ehrich — April 11, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service DAVIDSON, N.C. _ I asked the six families preparing to baptize their children: What was their best experience as children growing up in churches? “Community,” nearly all said. They cited church friends, feeling safe and loved, being allowed to help, not needing to compete, belonging without having to earn their […]
Vienna Hopes Language Classes Will Help Integrate Muslim Women
By Sheila Lalwani — April 11, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service VIENNA _ It is the end of another grueling class as teacher Elisabeth Grimus-Bohm stands before a makeshift table of 10 women sitting in tiny chairs. She assigns one last exercise to her students: Say your name, what year you were born and introduce your neighbor. The women shift in […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — April 10, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Pope Says `Nothing Positive’ Happening in Iraq VATICAN CITY (RNS) Speaking from the main balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday (April 8), Pope Benedict XVI offered a global survey of natural and man-made disasters, including military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and called on Christians to be “apostles of […]
`Forgive Me … Whomever’: The Internet Is the 21st Century Confessional
By RNS Blog Editor — April 10, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Food was becoming an obsession bordering on worship, and the addict wanted to confess. But not to a priest or a minister. The distraught person went to the computer. “I have lost friends, jobs and opportunities because I put my addiction first. … I have destroyed the perfectly good […]
Cadets Learn Islam as Part of `Winning the Peace’
By RNS Blog Editor — April 10, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service JERSEY CITY, N.J. _ The lights in a Jersey City mosque flickered at dawn and more than a dozen West Point cadets stirred in sleeping bags scattered across the prayer room. As Imam Hussein Wahdan began the melodious call to prayer in Arabic, bearded men filed past the cadets, kneeled […]
A Chaplain’s Work is Never Done …
By Kevin Eckstrom — April 9, 2007
Our friends over at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life posted Marcia Nelson’s story about the ongoing work of military chaplains against the shortage of chaplains in the armed services …
RNS Clips: Resurrection: Real or Metaphor?
By Kevin Eckstrom — April 9, 2007
The Dallas Morning News has Dan Burke’s story on the resurrection as real historical event or metaphor for something else …
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — April 7, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service European Court Clears Hurdles for Scientologists BERLIN (RNS) A European Court of Human Rights ruling against Russia this week could strengthen the ability of the Church of Scientology to claim official legal status throughout Europe. According to the court, the church had filed its complaint against the Russian government after […]
Jesus on the Big Screen
By Kevin Eckstrom — April 7, 2007
Those sage theologians over at Entertainment Weekly have put together a list of their 12 favorite silverscreen Jesuses (Jesi?). Leading the list, perhaps not surprisingly, is Jim Caviezel from Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. With one caveat: FINAL JUDGMENT Since Passion, Caviezel’s career has been less than heavenly. Maybe he needs to make […]
Trek Through Africa Leads to Physical and Spiritual Scars, and Hope
By Charles Honey — April 7, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The rebel soldier with an AK-47 slung over his shoulder glared at Erik Mirandette with deadly eyes. He wanted money. So did the mob of more than 100 angry people crowding around the young man from Kentwood, Mich., stuck on a mountain in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This […]
Groups Say `Fundamentalist’ Safety Drill Was Improper
By Jeff Diamant — April 7, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. _ A public safety drill at a New Jersey school has caught the ire of several conservative Christian groups and pastors around the country who are charging local police and school officials with anti-Christian bias. The groups are demanding formal apologies because mock gunmen in the drill […]
As the War Goes On, So Does the Work of Military Chaplains
By Marcia Z. Nelson — April 6, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service CHICAGO _ Once you’ve seen the brutal face of evil, says the Rev. Robert Barry, you start looking for the tender face of God. Barry is an Air National Guard chaplain who spends his summers working with injured soldiers at Landstuhl military hospital in southern Germany, where American military personnel […]
Faith Groups Step Up Campaign for Clean Water
By RNS Blog Editor — April 6, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ A fledgling coalition of religious groups is trying to show Americans that for too many people worldwide, retrieving clean drinking water isn’t as easy as turning on the kitchen tap. With more than 1 billion people in developing countries lacking readily available safe drinking water and 2.6 billion […]
