Carrie Cassidy
Carrie Cassidy is an author at Religion News Service.
All Stories by Carrie Cassidy
Picture Emerges of Disturbed Gunman in Amish Shootings
By Carrie Cassidy — October 5, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service NICKEL MINES, Pa. _ While Marie Roberts prayed for her kids and other children at her weekly prayer meeting in this Lancaster County village, she had no idea her husband was preparing to destroy their community. Gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, apparently planned to molest and murder the Amish […]
Killer’s Neighbors, Family Struggle to Understand
By Carrie Cassidy — October 4, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service BART, Pa. _ It’s difficult for many to imagine that the man who opened fire in a one-room Amish schoolhouse on Monday (Oct. 2) is the same man who took his sons to soccer practice and his daughter shopping. Marie Roberts, the wife of gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV, said […]
NEWS FEATURE: Evangelical leaders urge 40-day fast to `pray America back to God’
By Carrie Cassidy — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ It may seem a hard sell: asking Americans to fast and pray for 40 days, not unlike Jesus in the wilderness. But Bill Bright, the evangelical Christian leader who founded Campus Crusade for Christ International, believes more than 2 million Americans will do just that beginning next month. […]
NEWS FEATURE: Another kind of Christian school alternative
By Carrie Cassidy — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service HARRISBURG, Pa. _ No controversial library books. No skirmishes over teaching evolution vs. creationism. No chance that birth control methods might be explained in health class. No debates over prayer’s place in the school day. These arguments for forsaking public schools for an alternative _ increasingly, for many parents, a […]
Guidelines seek proper balance for religion in government offices
By Carrie Cassidy — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service UNDATED _ In government workplaces, mixing religion and work is a tricky business. New guidelines on religious exercise and expression in the federal workplace attempt to negotiate this minefield. The 12-page guidelines were developed by a coalition of religious conservatives and liberals, ranging from the Christian Legal Society to the […]
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