freethought (atheist, humanist, agnostic)
Denominational Report
By RNS Blog Editor — February 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Following is a collection of news stories compiled from RNS staff, wire and denominational reports). Minnesota court will not review Lutheran pension suit (RNS)-The Minnesota Supreme Court will not review a lower court’s dismissal of a suit challenging the investment policies of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The court, […]
National Religion Report
By RNS Blog Editor — February 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Following is a collection of domestic religion stories compiled from RNS staff, wire and denominational reports). Foster appointment as teen-pregnancy adviser under attack (RNS)-Anti-abortion groups are attacking President Clinton’s appointment of Dr. Henry Foster, Clinton’s failed surgeon general nominee, to head a a bipartisan task force to confront the problem […]
NEWS STORY: Nation’s largest Baptist university lifts ban on campus dances
By Whitney Jones — January 30, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service FORT WORTH, Texas (RNS)-Baylor University in Waco, Texas, the nation’s largest Baptist-related school, will begin allowing on-campus dances this spring, a move that has upset some religious conservatives. Robert B. Sloan Jr., the school’s 46-year-old president, approved the dances Friday (Jan. 26), lifting a ban going back more than a […]
NEWS STORY: Hillary Clinton announces Catholic-Orthodox relief effort in Bosnia
By Carl Anderson — January 30, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-Hillary Rodham Clinton, honoring the work of 30 religious and secular humanitarian groups working in Bosnia, said Monday the federal government will help finance the first joint Roman Catholic-Orthodox Christian relief program in the former Yugoslavia. Clinton, at a meeting and reception in the White House East Room, called […]
Denominational Report
By RNS Blog Editor — January 27, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Following is a collection of news stories compiled from RNS staff, wire and denominational reports). Colorado’s Catholic bishops distance church from Christian Coalition (RNS)-Colorado’s three Roman Catholic bishops have sent a letter to the 200 Catholic priests in the state saying that the Christian Coalition’s Catholic Alliance does not represent”the […]
NEWS STORY: World Jewish population plummeting, study says
By Elaine Fletcher — January 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service JERUSALEM (RNS)-The Jewish population is plummeting around the world-with the exception of Israel, Germany, Canada and Panama-according to a demographic”State of the Jewish World”report issued during the World Jewish Congress annual convention held this week in Jerusalem. Only 13 million Jews are alive today worldwide-meaning that the community has not […]
National Religion Report
By RNS Blog Editor — January 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Following is a collection of domestic religion stories compiled from RNS staff, wire and denominational reports). Supreme Court allows $1.5 million judgment against Christian Scientists (RNS)-The Supreme Court Monday (Jan. 22) let stand a Minnesota appeals court’s $1.5 million damage judgment against four Christian Scientists, including the mother of a […]
NEWS STORY: Christian Right meeting in Memphis draws five GOP hopefuls
By Angela Waters — January 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service MEMPHIS, Tenn. (RNS)-Joined by five Republican presidential candidates, thousands of conservative Christians met in Memphis over the weekend for a two-day meeting designed to rally evangelical voters for the upcoming presidential primaries.”Our goal,”said Howard Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Caucus and one of many Christian Right leaders who spoke at […]
NEWS FEATURE: Proposed time change in Britain upsets Jews, Muslims
By Robert Nowell — January 17, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service LONDON (RNS)-Some Orthodox Jews and Muslims are objecting to a proposal to advance Britain’s clocks an hour and put the entire country on Central European Time. Such a move would make carefully planned religious observances-early-morning prayers and sabbath observances for Jews, and mid-day prayers for Muslims-more difficult, the groups say. […]
Denominational Report
By RNS Blog Editor — January 13, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Following is a collection of news stories compiled from RNS staff, wire and denominational reports). Evangelist: Church should provide certainties, not speculation (RNS)-Liberalism has failed to meet the needs of modern society and transform the secular culture, the Rev. Barbara Brokhoff told the United Methodist Church’s Congress on Evangelism recently.”The […]
COMMENTARY: Two religions, two geniuses, two accusations of heresy
By James Rudin — January 12, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (RNS)-It took 350 years, but Vatican authorities, with prodding from Pope John Paul II, have finally admitted the Inquisition “committed an objective error” in 1633 when it forced the astronomer Galileo Galilei to repudiate his “heretical” teachings, […]
Portrayals of Virgin Mary reflect cultural cross-currents
By RNS Blog Editor — January 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-In the Gospel of St. Luke, it is written: “In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. “The virgin’s name was Mary.” Mary-the humble […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Pope expresses anguish over violence in Africa (RNS) Pope John Paul II, in a brief appearance Wednesday (Oct. 30) before pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square, said the widening war in the central African nations of Zaire, Burundi and Rwanda is”an interminable tragedy.””It is anguishing to see how human beings who […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Court case raises questions about religious test for public office (RNS) Advocates of strict separation between church and state said Tuesday (Oct. 8) that a case pending before the South Carolina Supreme Court raises important questions about what constitutes a religious test for public office. The court heard oral arguments […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service African-American Muslim leader meets with Pope John Paul II (RNS) Imam Warith Deen Mohammed, leader of the nation’s largest mainstream African-American Muslim organization, and Pope John Paul II met for the first time Wednesday (Oct. 2) following the pontiff’s last regular weekly audience prior to his entering the hospital Sunday […]
