Ted Parks
Ted Parks is an author at Religion News Service.
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NEWS STORY: Catholic “Encuentro’’ Meeting Underscores Church’s Diversity
By Ted Parks — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ Standing before a packed crowd Thursday (July 6) at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Bishop Francois X. Nguyen Van Thuan talked about the “defects” of Jesus _ qualities the Vietnamese prelate believes strike human logic as odd but actually underscore God’s love. President of the Vatican’s Pontifical […]
NEWS STORY: Mahony Throws His Weight Behind Amnesty for Illegal Migrants
By Ted Parks — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ Taking advantage of last week’s Encuentro 2000 call to respect all people, Cardinal Roger Mahony has thrown the weight of the church behind a controversial proposal to extend legal status to immigrants currently in the United States illegally. In a homily Sunday (July 9) concluding the four-day […]
NEWS STORY: Cuban Communist Party Official Addresses Church Leaders
By Ted Parks — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HAVANA _ In what church leaders view as a validation of their growing legitimacy, an official of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party addressed some 300 leaders of Cuban Churches of Christ gathered in Havana in early March. “This country also is … fighting … so that things […]
NEWS FEATURE: After Mitch: New Unity, New Houses, New Problems in Rebuilding Effort
By Ted Parks — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CATACAMAS, Honduras _ Looks like iguana for supper. Two youngsters sat cleaning an iguana outside one of the new houses of Colonia Donald Hawk on the outskirts of Catacamas, a dusty town where the paved roads end in the Honduran state of Olancho, about three hours northeast of the nation’s […]
NEWS STORY: Cuban Communist Party Official Addresses Church Leaders
By Ted Parks — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HAVANA _ In what church leaders view as a validation of their growing legitimacy, an official of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party addressed some 300 leaders of Cuban Churches of Christ gathered in Havana in early March. “This country also is … fighting … so that things […]
NEWS STORY: Research finds religious people don’t like religious TV
By Ted Parks — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service ANAHEIM, Calif. _ In a study commissioned by a Christian broadcasting network, a third of the viewers polled who consider themselves evangelical Christians said they don’t like religious television. The figure jumps to 60 percent for people who say they are religious but not evangelical. The results led the Total […]
NEWS FEATURE: Scholars Address Patterns, Problems in Evangelical Fund Raising
By Ted Parks — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service ANAHEIM, Calif. _ Scholars researching evangelical spending habits have found most North American evangelicals do not tithe _ a core stewardship principle for the movement _ and conservative Christian ministries need to be wary of the ethical pitfalls in fund raising practices. Overall, U.S. evangelical Christians on average miss the […]
NEWS FEATURE: Evangelist T.D. Jakes Tackles Breast Cancer in Stage Play
By Ted Parks — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service ATLANTA _ “Wrapping a sermon around a drama,” evangelist and best-selling author T.D. Jakes has taken on the issues of breast cancer and marital infidelity in a musical drama that premiered this week at the Atlanta Civic Center. “Behind Closed Doors,” co-authored by Jakes and writer Tyler Perry, opened to […]
NEWS FEATURE: After Mitch: New Unity, New Houses, New Problems in Rebuilding Effort
By Ted Parks — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CATACAMAS, Honduras _ Looks like iguana for supper. Two youngsters sat cleaning an iguana outside one of the new houses of Colonia Donald Hawk on the outskirts of Catacamas, a dusty town where the paved roads end in the Honduran state of Olancho, about three hours northeast of the nation’s […]
NEWS STORY: Research finds religious people don’t like religious TV
By Ted Parks — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service ANAHEIM, Calif. _ In a study commissioned by a Christian broadcasting network, a third of the viewers polled who consider themselves evangelical Christians said they don’t like religious television. The figure jumps to 60 percent for people who say they are religious but not evangelical. The results led the Total […]
NEWS FEATURE: Scholars Address Patterns, Problems in Evangelical Fund Raising
By Ted Parks — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service ANAHEIM, Calif. _ Scholars researching evangelical spending habits have found most North American evangelicals do not tithe _ a core stewardship principle for the movement _ and conservative Christian ministries need to be wary of the ethical pitfalls in fund raising practices. Overall, U.S. evangelical Christians on average miss the […]
NEWS FEATURE: Evangelist T.D. Jakes Tackles Breast Cancer in Stage Play
By Ted Parks — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service ATLANTA _ “Wrapping a sermon around a drama,” evangelist and best-selling author T.D. Jakes has taken on the issues of breast cancer and marital infidelity in a musical drama that premiered this week at the Atlanta Civic Center. “Behind Closed Doors,” co-authored by Jakes and writer Tyler Perry, opened to […]
NEWS STORY: Wedgwood Baptist Accepts Donation from Assailant’s Family
By Ted Parks — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service FORT WORTH _”It is good to know that God is with us even in the line of fire.” This is one of the few visible expressions of grief and faith scribbled by the church youth on the concrete floor at Wedgwood Baptist Church after the bloody night of Sept. 15, […]
NEWS STORY: Wedgwood Baptist Accepts Donation from Assailant’s Family
By Ted Parks — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service FORT WORTH _”It is good to know that God is with us even in the line of fire.” This is one of the few visible expressions of grief and faith scribbled by the church youth on the concrete floor at Wedgwood Baptist Church after the bloody night of Sept. 15, […]
NEWS STORY: Los Angeles clergy rally in `David vs. Goliath’ labor fight
By Ted Parks — September 3, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ Borrowing the underdog image of the biblical David, Los Angeles clergy have thrown in with union leaders and workers against the University of Southern California _ the”Goliath”clerics accuse of”a raw exercise of power”against university food and housing workers. On Tuesday (Aug. 31) more than 120 Los Angeles […]
