David Briggs
David Briggs is an author at Religion News Service.
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NEWS FEATURE: West Bank Monastery Dispute Centers on Russian Revolution Split
By David Briggs — March 21, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service JERICHO, West Bank _ The road to Jericho taken by an Orthodox nun at the center of an international dispute over a Holy Land monastery leads to a two-room trailer surrounded by an orchard of grapefruit and lemon trees. Inside one room of the trailer is a table dominated by […]
NEWS FEATURE: West Bank Monastery Dispute Centers on Russian Revolution Split
By David Briggs — March 21, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service JERICHO, West Bank _ The road to Jericho taken by an Orthodox nun at the center of an international dispute over a Holy Land monastery leads to a two-room trailer surrounded by an orchard of grapefruit and lemon trees. Inside one room of the trailer is a table dominated by […]
NEWS FEATURE: Church in Cuba Edges Toward More Confrontational Role
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HAVANA _ A smirking man lounged with three young women in the tropical heat along the massive steel doors separating the seminary from the bustling craft market in Old Havana. As visitors approached, he would say, “You like these girls,” and the women would smile on cue. To one priest, […]
NEWS FEATURE: Cuban Catholicism _ Coming Out of the Cold
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HAVANA _ They come to the Havana Cathedral from throughout the city: the 86-year-old woman who never stopped attending through years of being pelted by eggs and public insults and the 16-year-old acolyte who was changed by a nun’s visit from an atheist to someone for whom the Roman Catholic […]
NEWS FEATURE: Cuban Catholicism _ Coming Out of the Cold
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HAVANA _ They come to the Havana Cathedral from throughout the city: the 86-year-old woman who never stopped attending through years of being pelted by eggs and public insults and the 16-year-old acolyte who was changed by a nun’s visit from an atheist to someone for whom the Roman Catholic […]
NEWS STORY: Opposition to Chief Wahoo is Growing
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ A powerful coalition of religious groups is joining the struggle against Chief Wahoo _ the logo for the Cleveland Indians baseball team _ overcoming long-held fears of opposing the popular secular icon. Mayor Michael R. White’s opposition to the caricature was revealed last week. But the moral groundwork […]
NEWS FEATURE: Catholic Church Tests Combining Communion, Confirmation
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ Baptism. First Communion. Confirmation. The passage to adulthood followed by generations of Roman Catholics is being challenged by two dozen area churches interested in returning to the early Christian practice of combining the sacraments of first Communion and confirmation in a single rite. Bishop Anthony Pilla has given […]
NEWS FEATURE: Cloistered Nun Finds Divine Inspiration for Her Artwork
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ Her world was the galleries of New York, the Art Institute of Chicago and journeys to Mexico to paint themes of revolution and learn the style of Central American muralists. Then, in the act of taking Communion at St. Peter’s in Rome, she discerned a different calling. And […]
NEWS FEATURE: Methodist Bishop’s Life Replicates Biblical Story
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ Lilie Lee had been barren for seven years and had nearly given up hope of having a child when a Baptist pastor asked her to approach the altar and bring her dream before God. She prayed with all her heart, and less than a year later, unto her […]
NEWS FEATURE: Blessing the Animals to Celebrate St. Francis
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ Sir Rodney of Dangerfield, a 7-year-old bassett hound with a placid mug, kept his sniffer in full gear as the Rev. Douglas H. Koesel sprinkled holy water over him on the front steps of St. Mark Catholic Church. On the other side of the semicircle was Boo Boo […]
NEWS FEATURE: Helping the Preacher Preach His Best
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ The typical priest may give more than 600 sermons a year. Three on Sunday, one daily, and that’s not counting all those baptisms, weddings and funerals. So how can an aging, shrinking priesthood, pressed with responsibilities from overseeing schools to making sure the light bill gets paid, give […]
NEWS FEATURE: Prison Accorded `Cathedral Status’ for Jubilee Mass
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ They came in with their game faces, two dozen women in blue uniforms with the practiced indifference of prisoners, their steely gazes set forward. They were followed by some 25 male inmates, betraying even less emotion and a greater attitude of toughness, clad in orange or white jumpsuits […]
NEWS FEATURE: Computer Games Bring Fun _ and Education _ to Sunday School
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ You are 12 years old. Sunday school may not be the first place you would choose to spend your time. But you’re here. So what would you rather do: sit around a table for 75 minutes listening to a teacher read Bible lessons out of a book, or […]
NEWS FEATURE: Church in Cuba Edges Toward More Confrontational Role
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HAVANA _ A smirking man lounged with three young women in the tropical heat along the massive steel doors separating the seminary from the bustling craft market in Old Havana. As visitors approached, he would say, “You like these girls,” and the women would smile on cue. To one priest, […]
NEWS FEATURE: Computer Games Bring Fun _ and Education _ to Sunday School
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ You are 12 years old. Sunday school may not be the first place you would choose to spend your time. But you’re here. So what would you rather do: sit around a table for 75 minutes listening to a teacher read Bible lessons out of a book, or […]
