Kim Lawton
Kim Lawton is an author at Religion News Service.
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NEWS STORY: Kerry Advisers Say Campaign Fell Short On Religion, Urge Greater Party Effort
By Kim Lawton — November 13, 2004
c. 2004 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly WASHINGTON _ Operatives hired to give Sen. John Kerry guidance on religious issues say the campaign fell short in linking the presidential candidate’s political vision to deeply held religious values and in mobilizing faith-based voters. “You don’t get what you don’t work for,” Mara Vanderslice, the Kerry campaign’s director […]
NEWS FEATURE: Book Attacks Papacy’s `Structures of Deceit’
By Kim Lawton — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Kim A. Lawton is managing editor of the PBS television show “Religion and Ethics Newsweekly.” A version of this story first appeared on the program.) (UNDATED) In the provocative new book “Papal Sin” (Doubleday), author Garry Wills charges that the modern Roman Catholic hierarchy _ from the papacy on down […]
NEWS FEATURE: Book Attacks Papacy’s `Structures of Deceit’
By Kim Lawton — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Kim A. Lawton is managing editor of the PBS television show “Religion and Ethics Newsweekly.” A version of this story first appeared on the program.) (UNDATED) In the provocative new book “Papal Sin” (Doubleday), author Garry Wills charges that the modern Roman Catholic hierarchy _ from the papacy on down […]
NEWS FEATURE: Joan of Arc: ambiguous but potent symbol in pop, religious culture
By Kim Lawton — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Kim A. Lawton is managing editor of the PBS television program Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly.) UNDATED _ Was she a saint or a sorceress? A feminist? The original Protestant? A lesbian, or maybe a transvestite? A military genius? A schizophrenic? Or a prophet, perhaps, whose ultimate message would only be […]
NEWS FEATURE: The popularity of angels remains strong
By Kim Lawton — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Everyday, in an upstairs room in her home in Bethesda, Md., Linda Rose Levenberg enters the angelic realm. With New Age music playing softly in the background, she sits cross-legged in meditation in front of a bamboo altar she has assembled herself. On the altar are incense, bells, […]
NEWS FEATURE: Palau crusade preaches hope amid Hong Kong’s uncertain future
By Kim Lawton — April 15, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service HONG KONG _ Less than three months before the British colony of Hong Kong is set to return to Chinese sovereignty, U.S. evangelist Luis Palau preached a message of hope this weekend to tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents facing an uncertain future. During a four-day evangelistic crusade ending […]
NEWS STORY: Jewish leaders lend support to campaign against Christian persecution
By Kim Lawton — March 19, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Putting aside sometimes deep religious differences, leaders of several influential Jewish advocacy groups Tuesday (March 18) added their voices to the growing grassroots campaign on behalf of persecuted Christians around the world.”Jews have a special feeling based on our own experience,”said Warren Eisenberg, director of the International Council […]
NEWS FEATURE: Conservative Christians split on China trade status
By Kim Lawton — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Their goal is the same: ending the religious repression suffered by millions of evangelical Protestants and Catholics in China. But as Congress gears up for its annual debate over granting trade privileges to China, conservative Christians are discovering that moving from principle to policy remedies can be a […]
NEWS STORY: Relief groups pressure U.S. to send food aid to communist North Korea
By Kim Lawton — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Private relief groups are urging the U.S. State Department to put moral concerns ahead of geo-political maneuvering by sending emergency food assistance to help avert a looming famine in communist North Korea.”Food aid should never be used as a weapon of diplomacy in a famine when thousands of […]
NEWS STORY: Religiously, Congress looks a lot like America
By Kim Lawton — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The 105th Congress, now getting down to business, may not look like America in terms of class, race or gender, but when it comes to religion, members are fairly representative of the nation, according to a new survey of congressional religious affiliations. While religious affiliation is not an […]
NEWS FEATURE: Undue burden? Diverse faiths say court case jeopardizes religious freedom
By Kim Lawton — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The congregation of St. Peter the Apostle Roman Catholic Church in Boerne, Texas, has been growing at a rapid pace in recent years _ so much so, in fact, that on any given Sunday, parishioners no longer fit in the 230-seat stone church that was built in 1923. […]
NEWS STORY: Deng’s death unlikely to bring new freedoms, activists say
By Kim Lawton — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The death of Chinese communist leader Deng Xiaoping, architect of the brutal 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators, is unlikely to open the way for immediate improvements in China’s record on human rights and religious freedom, according to U.S. human rights activists. China’s official news agency reported Deng died […]
NEWS STORY: High Court hears arguments in landmark religious freedom case
By Kim Lawton — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday (Feb. 19) in a landmark church-state case that religious groups across the theological spectrum believe could have far-reaching implications for freedom of religion. At issue is the constitutionality of the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which mandates that governments […]
NEWS STORY: Court strikes down clinic `floating bubble zone’
By Kim Lawton — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday (Feb. 19) that abortion protesters may be kept outside a 15-foot”bubble zone”protecting clinic entrances and driveways, but may approach clients and workers on public property outside the zone. In a split opinion, the justices upheld two of three provisions in a federal […]
NEWS STORY: Religious freedom declining in Russia, expert warns
By Kim Lawton — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Freedom of worship in Russia is under increasing threat at both the federal and regional levels, according to a Moscow-based human rights observer.”Russians have less religious freedom today than they did three years ago. Unless current trends are reversed, I predict that they will have still less religious […]
