Hinduism
TOP STORY: SCHOOLS AND RELIGION: They’re taking their faith to school
By Adelle M. Banks — March 13, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service CONYERS, Ga. (RNS)-It’s 7:45 Monday morning at Heritage High School in Conyers, Ga., and from the home economics classroom come the sounds of hymns and prayers. Outside, throngs of students pass by with backpacks slung over their shoulders, apparently oblivious that worship is going on within the confines of this […]
TOP STORY: ASSISTED SUICIDE
By Carl Anderson — March 9, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-For many Americans, doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients has only begun to emerge as a high-profile public issue, on a par with abortion and capital punishment. But after two major legal developments this week upholding the”right-to-die,”professional ethicists are concerned that assisted suicide may soon become the law of […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 8, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Evangelicals tackle issues of identity, unity (RNS)-The National Association of Evangelicals unveiled an”Evangelical Manifesto”this week, defining beliefs and detailing goals for unity among evangelicals in the coming century. David Melvin, vice president of the Illinois-based organization, said the manifesto aims to define evangelicals at a time when they are often […]
TOP STORY: AFTERMATH OF TERROR: `It was important for me to come back here—and soon’
By Elaine Fletcher — March 8, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service JERUSALEM (RNS)-Last week, U.S. rabbinical student David Hoffman accompanied the bodies of two friends and bus bombings victims, Matt Eisenfeld and Sara Duker, home to burial in the United States. Within 24 hours he was on a plane headed back to Israel.”It was important for me to come back here-and […]
Two families, a dark night, a prison execution
By Bruce Nolan — March 7, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service ANGOLA, La. (RNS)-The Harveys arrived first last Thursday, having driven up the 120 miles from Mandeville, La., in their blue pickup. They pulled off the highway where it ended at the prison gates. Nearby, a dozen guards on beefed-up execution duty stomped about to keep warm in the soaking cold. […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Postal Service introduces stamp commemorating Hanukkah (RNS)-The U.S. Postal Service unveiled the first of a new series of “Holiday Celebrations” postage stamps Tuesday (March 5)-a colorful stamp commemorating Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights. The new stamp, featuring a contemporary image of the menorah and nine multicolored candles, was unveiled […]
COMMENTARY: Jumping the gun, so to speak, on TV violence
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — March 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of the recent book”Real Choices,”is active in the National Women’s Coalition for Life and is a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.) (RNS)-Coming soon to your home theater: ratings for TV shows. Entertainment industry executives, wary […]
Pope revises rules on papal elections that could alter outcome
By RNS Blog Editor — February 29, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS)-Pope John Paul II has revised the way the next pope will be elected, allowing cardinals voting in secret ballot to abandon two-thirds majority approval and resort to a simple absolute majority if a stalemate is reached. The revision, outlined in a papal document, could affect the outcome […]
COMMENTARY: A V chip? How about an E chip—for `Embarrassing?’
By Dale Hanson Bourke — February 29, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of”Turn Toward the Wind”and the publisher of Religion News Service.) (RNS)-With the rating system for television programs gaining momentum, even the Europeans are getting into the act. According to Variety, the European Union is considering legislation to fit TV sets in Europe with a […]
A waiting game for humanitarian aid to Cuba
By RNS Blog Editor — February 28, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-A multimillion-dollar shipment of insulin and antibiotics to stock the empty shelves of Cuban hospitals stands waiting in a Miami warehouse. When the supplies will arrive is anybody’s guess, now that the Clinton administration has tightened the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba and banned all direct charter flights to […]
Pope revises rules on papal elections that could alter outcome
By RNS Blog Editor — February 24, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS)-Pope John Paul II has revised the way the next pope will be elected, allowing cardinals voting in secret ballot to abandon two-thirds majority approval and resort to a simple absolute majority if a stalemate is reached. The revision, outlined in a papal document, could affect the outcome […]
TOP STORY: THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH: Heresy trial could be dividing line for Episcopalians
By Judy Peet — February 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service NEWARK, N.J. (RNS)-The Rev. Barry Stopfel, rector of St. George’s Church in Maplewood, N.J., a Newark suburb, opens his packages cautiously these days. He worries that his address is in the phone book and that his car is too accessible. He hopes his fears are unfounded, but given the quality […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — February 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Researcher finds changed attitudes on Roman Catholic priesthood (RNS)-Support for a married clergy and women priests has grown among Roman Catholic parishioners over the past three years, while support for the teaching authority of the pope has declined, according to the Rev. Thomas P. Sweetser, co-director of the Parish Evaluation […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — February 20, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Lost Luther manuscript returns to Germany (RNS)-A rare manuscript by Protestant reformer Martin Luther, thought to have been lost at the end of World War II, has been discovered at the Concordia Historical Institute in the St. Louis suburb of Clayton, Mo., and will be turned over to German government […]
COMMENTARY: In Northern Ireland, peace didn’t have a chance
By RNS Blog Editor — February 17, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and sociologist at the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center. His home page on the World Wide Web is at http://tekweb.com/greeley.html. Or contact him at his e-mail address: agreel at aol.com.) (RNS)-When the history is written of the most […]
