Robert Nowell
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NEWS STORY: Minimal boycott by traditionalists at Anglican meeting predicted
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service YORK, England _ Anglican bishops opposed to the ordination of women will not mount a major boycott of worship services during the three-week Lambeth Conference, which opens July 18, predicts Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey. Reports in both the United States and England have quoted traditionalists as saying up to […]
NEWS STORY: Religious leaders mark human rights anniversary
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ The”terrible wrongs”done to Protestants during the Reformation were acknowledged by the Roman Catholic bishops of England and Wales in a statement issued Thursday (Dec. 10) to mark the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The bishops’ statement was one of a host of statements, ceremonies […]
NEWS STORY: Britain grants funding for Muslim schools
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service LONDON _ After years of campaigning by the nation’s 1.5 million-member Muslim community, the British government has agreed for the first time to provide state funding for Islamic schools. The decision, announced Friday (Jan. 9) by Education Secretary David Blunkett, was quickly welcomed by leaders of England’s Muslim organizations.”Such approval […]
NEWS STORY: Archbishop of Canterbury urges debt relief for new millennium
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service LONDON _ Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, spiritual head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, saying the poor of the world are getting poorer as a result of international economic policies, has called for using the coming millennium observances to”remove the chains of indebtedness”that continue to”enslave”Africa.”We have to draw attention to […]
NEWS STORY: Church of England to keep contemporary Lord’s Prayer
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service LONDON _ Efforts to exile to an appendix a modern-language version of the Lord’s Prayer used in the Church of England’s liturgy have been soundly defeated by the church’s general synod, the denomination’s top decision-making body. The modern-language version, drawn up by the International Consultation on English in the Liturgy […]
NEWS STORY: British, Irish bishops criticize intercommunion
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service LONDON _ The Roman Catholic bishops of Britain and Ireland, in their first joint doctrinal statement, warned Catholics they may not receive Holy Communion in Anglican and Protestant churches and told non-Catholics they are welcome at the Catholic communion table only in”grave”circumstances. The 80-page statement,”One Bread, One Body,”comes in the […]
NEWS STORY: Religious leaders urge World Bank to reform itself to aid poor
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service LONDON _ What has traditionally been described as the top-down approach of the World Bank met the bottom-up approach of the world’s religious communities at a two-day dialogue on poverty and development, Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey said Thursday (Feb. 13). Representatives of nine world faiths _ Baha’i, Buddhism, Christianity, […]
NEWS FEATURE: British churches battling bats in the belfry problem
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service LONDON _”Bats in the belfry”is the traditional way of describing someone who is more than a bit mad. But bats making their home in the belfries and other places of dark sanctuary in British churches are more than just a psychological problem _ they do real damage and can drive […]
NEWS STORY: British rabbi urges aggressive efforts at converting non-Jews
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service LONDON _ A leading English Reform rabbi has called on British Jewry to take an aggressive approach toward converting non-Jews to Judaism, replacing the faith’s more traditional attitude of, at best, reluctance, and, at worst, open hostility to Jewish proselytism. But that does not mean”a mass conversion campaign”or”Jews marching up […]
NEWS STORY: British religious groups seeks disestablishment of Church of England
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service LONDON _ A tiny but influential British religious group _ the Christian Socialist Movement _ that counts Prime Minister Tony Blair and four cabinet officials as members has called for the disestablishment of the Church of England. But the call has been _ at least for the time being _ […]
NEWS STORY: Vatican official warns Anglican bishops on gays
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service CANTERBURY, England _ Cardinal Edward Cassidy, the Vatican’s top ecumenical official, warned Anglican prelates that any change by Anglicans toward greater acceptance of homosexuals could do further damage to relations between Rome and Canterbury. Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, made his comments in a carefully […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: Anglican Communion endures despite divisions over homosexuality
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service CANTERBURY, England _ Once again _ as in 1978 and 1988 _ the prophets of doom got it wrong in predicting that seemingly unbridgeable gaps in culture and theology would split the Anglican Communion. In 1978, the schismatic issue facing the world’s Anglican bishops gathered for their once-a-decade Lambeth Conference […]
NEWS STORY: Anglican bishops take up Christian-Islam relations
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service CANTERBURY, England _ Sharp contrasts in the relations between Christians and Muslims in different countries were highlighted Monday (July 27) when the Lambeth Conference took up the question of Muslim-Christian relations at a plenary session of the three-week gathering of Anglican prelates.”The one reality is that both Islam and Christianity […]
NEWS STORY: Anglican bishops approve debt cancellation, find no consensus on euthanasia
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service CANTERBURY, England _ Sharp divisions on aspects of medical treatment for the terminally ill forced Anglican bishops at the Lambeth Conference Thursday (Aug. 6) to postpone, at least temporarily, any action on the emotional and morally charged issue of euthanasia. At the same time, however, the bishops, overcoming the First […]
NEWS STORY: Bishop sees little hope of consensus on gay issues at Anglican meeting
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service CANTERBURY, England _ The Anglican bishop heading the panel studying human sexuality during the Lambeth Conference says he sees little hope the communion can come to a consensus on the volatile question of the role of gays and lesbians in church and society.”I think that one of the things we […]
