Elizabeth Bryant
Elizabeth Bryant is an author at Religion News Service.
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NEWS FEATURE: French Epicureans Petition Pope to Absolve `Sinful’ Gourmandise
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service PARIS _ It is a raw, midwinter afternoon _ a time when most Parisians are at work or school, or napping off the country’s cherished two-hour lunch. Yet a steady stream of tourists and locals wander into the tiny Poilane bakery on Rue Cherche Midi, snapping up luscious pastries and […]
NEWS FEATURE: French Nuns, Pressing Ethical Investing, Meet Vatican Stone Wall
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service PARIS _ It was not divine inspiration, but worldly need that drove Sister Nicole Reille to seek salvation in the stock market. Two decades ago, the French Roman Catholic nun invested the money of her aging order of Sisters of Notre Dame, into the convictions they preached: Companies that did […]
NEWS STORY: Attacks on Synagogues Stir Uncomfortable Questions in France
By Elizabeth Bryant — October 25, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service TRAPPES, FRANCE _ A few blocks from the train station, past solid stone houses laced with autumnal trees, the blackened shell of the Trappes synagogue casts a grim shadow over this placid west Paris suburb. As a raw rain beats down, Michel Mimouni climbs over yellow police tape to point […]
NEWS STORY: Attacks on Synagogues Stir Uncomfortable Questions in France
By Elizabeth Bryant — October 25, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service TRAPPES, FRANCE _ A few blocks from the train station, past solid stone houses laced with autumnal trees, the blackened shell of the Trappes synagogue casts a grim shadow over this placid west Paris suburb. As a raw rain beats down, Michel Mimouni climbs over yellow police tape to point […]
NEWS ADVANCE: Pope’s Scheduled Spiritual Journey to Egypt Prompts Mixed Notices
By Elizabeth Bryant — February 19, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CAIRO _ The bells of St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church peal out oddly into a city night more accustomed to the clatter of horns and the wail of the muezzin’s call to prayer. On a recent evening, only about a dozen people are gathered inside the cavernous pink-and-white church in […]
NEWS ADVANCE: Pope’s Scheduled Spiritual Journey to Egypt Prompts Mixed Notices
By Elizabeth Bryant — February 19, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CAIRO _ The bells of St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church peal out oddly into a city night more accustomed to the clatter of horns and the wail of the muezzin’s call to prayer. On a recent evening, only about a dozen people are gathered inside the cavernous pink-and-white church in […]
NEWS STORY: Paris Judge Gives Yahoo Three Months to Block Nazi Items on Auction Site
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service PARIS _ In a victory for French anti-racist groups, a Paris judge has given American Internet company Yahoo three months to block all French access to Nazi-related items on its auction page or face a $13,000-a-day fine. The Monday (Nov. 20) decision by Judge Jean Jacques Gomez appeared to close […]
NEWS FEATURE: French Religious Leaders Dismayed Over Family Planning Proposals
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service PARIS _ Forty years ago, Elisabeth Gazengel had an abortion. Shunned and illegal in 1960s France, the procedure was also performed without anesthesia. Nonetheless, the then-20-year-old university student quietly put together donations from friends, found a willing hospital, and gritted her teeth. “I had the moral judgment of all the […]
NEWS STORY: French See Halloween As Another American Corruption
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service PARIS _ Halloween’s recent sweep into France stops at the doors of Sainte Colette des Buttes Chaumont. No grinning pumpkins or waxed autumn leaves brighten the sparse, ultra-modern Paris parish. Paper cutout witches and ghosts that dance across French store windows, school classrooms and bus stops are not welcome among […]
NEWS FEATURE: French Religious Leaders Dismayed Over Family Planning Proposals
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service PARIS _ Forty years ago, Elisabeth Gazengel had an abortion. Shunned and illegal in 1960s France, the procedure was also performed without anesthesia. Nonetheless, the then-20-year-old university student quietly put together donations from friends, found a willing hospital, and gritted her teeth. “I had the moral judgment of all the […]
NEWS STORY: French See Halloween As Another American Corruption
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service PARIS _ Halloween’s recent sweep into France stops at the doors of Sainte Colette des Buttes Chaumont. No grinning pumpkins or waxed autumn leaves brighten the sparse, ultra-modern Paris parish. Paper cutout witches and ghosts that dance across French store windows, school classrooms and bus stops are not welcome among […]
NEWS STORY: Paris Judge Gives Yahoo Three Months to Block Nazi Items on Auction Site
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service PARIS _ In a victory for French anti-racist groups, a Paris judge has given American Internet company Yahoo three months to block all French access to Nazi-related items on its auction page or face a $13,000-a-day fine. The Monday (Nov. 20) decision by Judge Jean Jacques Gomez appeared to close […]
NEWS FEATURE: Virgin Mary and Other Miracles Attract Believers in Egypt
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CAIRO _ Three days a week, the hopeful pack a tiny courtyard in the Convent of St. George, tucked behind the dusty cobblestone streets of Cairo’s Coptic Christian quarter. The barren housewife, the man troubled by spirits, the depressed teen-ager _ all await Abuna Farag, a frail Coptic priest with […]
NEWS FEATURE: Coptic Christian Studies Gain Ground in Egypt
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CAIRO _ Twice a week, 23-year-old Simon Soliman takes a break from his studies and plays teacher to foreign tourists and fellow Egyptians who flock to Cairo’s elegant, fourth century Hanging Church. Picking his way between ancient relics and 1990s scaffolding, the Ain Shams University student offers visitors a slice […]
NEWS FEATURE: Egypt’s Coptic Church Seeing Surge in Monastic Vocations
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CAIRO, Egypt _ Twelve-year-old Simon Nasef has already figured out his future career. He doesn’t want to be a firefighter. Or a policeman. Or a football player. He wants to be a monk. “I like it,” said the slight sixth-grader, who serves as an altar boy at his local Coptic […]
