Carl Anderson
Carl Anderson is an author at Religion News Service.
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Violence Escalates in Sudan as Church Groups Urge Peace Talks
By Carl Anderson — October 15, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) A flare-up of violence in Sudan’s western Darfur region threatens to spiral out of control as international religious aid agencies press the Sudanese government and rebel forces to engage in substantive peace talks. Last week (Oct. 8) rebels associated with the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army killed three African Union peacekeepers […]
After Death of Garang, Sudan Faces Challenges in Avoiding War
By Carl Anderson — August 17, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The sudden death on July 31 of the charismatic John Garang, the southern Sudanese Christian and rebel leader who for 21 years fought the Muslim-dominated government in Khartoum and then became a peace-brokering icon of national unity, could have sent the oil-rich African nation into yet another round of […]
Churches Urge Calm, Continued Peace Efforts in Sudan
By Carl Anderson — August 5, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Church groups and international agencies are calling on the Sudanese government to continue to implement the country’s fragile _ and now imperiled _ peace process in the wake of the death of Vice President John Garang. Garang, a former southern Sudanese rebel leader who was installed as the country’s […]
Marilynne Robinson’s `Gilead’ _ In Praise of Ordinary Time
By Carl Anderson — May 28, 2005
c. 2005 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly (UNDATED) “A good sermon,” Marilynne Robinson writes, “is one side of a passionate conversation.” It has to be heard in that way. So, too, a good novel. It is a conversation between the novelist, the reader and _ as in the case of a sermon, perhaps, for some _ […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: New Pope Revives Dispute Over AIDS and Condoms
By Carl Anderson — April 28, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Even before Pope Benedict XVI was installed as the 265th pope, he was already under pressure from African AIDS activists _ including some in his own church _ to ease up on Catholicism’s strict ban on the use of condoms as a means of combatting AIDS. Catholicism, along with […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: In Sudan, `Between the Idea and the Reality … Falls the Shadow’
By Carl Anderson — November 16, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The government of Sudan and rebel groups in the nation’s troubled Darfur region, under political pressure from a looming United Nations Security Council meeting in Kenya this week (Nov. 18-19), have signed something of a peace agreement. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan warmly welcomed the Nov. 10 accords as […]
NEWS STORY: For War’s Religious Opponents, Mourning, More Organizing
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service (UNDATED) As they watched more than six months of efforts _ of prayers, protests and petitions to the world’s governments _ to stop the American-led military strike against Iraq explode over Baghdad on Thursday (March 20), religious opponents of the war said they were “profoundly saddened” and pledged to continue […]
NEWS STORY: Churches Pray, Continue to Debate Over War With Iraq
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service (UNDATED) As U.S. forces rolled toward Baghdad, religious leaders _ including some of President Bush’s staunchest supporters _ spoke out on the war, unified in their support for the armed forces but remaining divided over the morality of the military effort and apprehensive about its consequences. Among the president’s strongest […]
NEWS STORY: Bush Considering White House Liaison With Muslim Community
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ President-elect George Bush is considering appointing a White House liaison to the Muslim community, according to a report to be broadcast this weekend by “Religion and Ethics Newsweekly,” the PBS public affairs television show. “My understanding is that President Bush will actually consider a liaison to the Muslim […]
NEWS STORY: Religious Community Sharply Divided Over China Trade
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ As the House prepares to vote next week on establishing permanent normal trade relations with China, the U.S. religious community finds itself sharply divided on the issue _ sometimes along unusual lines. At issue is what works better _ a carrot or a stick _ in bringing about […]
NEWS STORY: Bush Considering White House Liaison With Muslim Community
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ President-elect George Bush is considering appointing a White House liaison to the Muslim community, according to a report to be broadcast this weekend by “Religion and Ethics Newsweekly,” the PBS public affairs television show. “My understanding is that President Bush will actually consider a liaison to the Muslim […]
NEWS STORY: Religious Community Sharply Divided Over China Trade
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ As the House prepares to vote next week on establishing permanent normal trade relations with China, the U.S. religious community finds itself sharply divided on the issue _ sometimes along unusual lines. At issue is what works better _ a carrot or a stick _ in bringing about […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: An uncertain church council faces an uncertain future
By Carl Anderson — November 15, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ As the festive installation service of the Rev. Andrew Young as the 20th president of the National Council of Churches began Thursday evening (Nov. 11), a small but symbolic hitch developed. Several leaders of the 35 member communions on hand at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. John […]
NEWS STORY: Bishops urge Catholics to link charity, justice in fighting poverty
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops ended their annual four-day fall meeting Thursday (Nov. 18) calling on people of faith to become involved in ending poverty and hunger and rejecting the”me-first”politics pervasive in contemporary culture and society.”Charity’s minimal demand is justice,”said Bishop Joseph Sullivan, auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn, N.Y., […]
NEWS STORY: Bishops urge end to Iraq sanctions, criticize Nazareth mosque plan
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops opened their annual fall meeting Monday (Nov. 15) calling for an end to the economic embargo of Iraq and criticizing plans to build a mosque near a historic Christian church in Nazareth. In the statement on Iraq, issued over the name of Bishop […]
