Tim Murphy
Tim Murphy is an author at Religion News Service.
All Stories by Tim Murphy
TOP STORY: TIBETAN BUDDHISM: A sea change in Tibetan Buddhism’s links to the past
By Tim Murphy — April 2, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service DHARAMSALA, India (RNS)-When the Dalai Lama seeks insights into the future, he consults his oracle, a medium who wears an elaborate costume and headpiece that together weigh more than 100 pounds. The use of oracles, on the face of it, would appear to show that the mystical side of Tibetan […]
TOP STORY: UNIFICATION CHURCH: Moon church takes a low profile in India
By Tim Murphy — February 15, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service MOOLAVATTOM, India (RNS)-It is a small, obscure town in India’s southern state of Kerala, in the heart of one of the nation’s largest, most conservative Christian communities. Yet Moolavattom is where the Unification Church, founded in Korea in 1954 by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, has set up its southern […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION IN INDIA: Sunset falls on an ancient Jewish community
By Tim Murphy — January 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service COCHIN, India (RNS)-“There was no need for it to come to an end, but now the party’s over,”Lily Koder said as she stood looking down Jewtown, a narrow lane leading to one of Asia’s oldest synagogues. Koder’s father, Samuel, who started Cochin’s first electric company and ferry service, was a […]
TOP STORY: RUSSIA AND RELIGION: A fight for souls in the former Soviet Union
By Tim Murphy — January 5, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service MOSCOW (RNS)-Just outside the walls of the Kremlin, an angry man yelled to a crowd of Russians that”foreign missionaries and Jews are destroying our fatherland.” Nearby, men sold audio tapes labeled”SS Marches”and”German Historical Songs.” The collapse of the U.S.S.R. and communism in 1991 brought religious freedom-and a renewed spirit of […]
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