Hinduism
TOP STORY: RELIGION AND POPULAR CULTURE: `Too much pain here,’ says author of death penalty bo
By Bruce Nolan — January 17, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-As a child in the early 1950s, Helen Prejean drifted off to sleep bathed in the security of a middle-class Catholic home, lulled by the sound of her parents murmuring the rosary.”Catholicism,”she said,”was in our DNA.” As a nun 30 years later, her faith, profoundly reshaped, led her to live […]
COMMENTARY: A coming crisis in juvenile crime
By RNS Blog Editor — January 16, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson via e-mail: 71421,1551 at compuserve.com.) (RNS)-Though we have been fixated on the […]
TOP STORY: A NEW BIBLE TRANSLATION: In the beginning, there were many different words
By Julia Lieblich — January 11, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service BOSTON (RNS)-Everett Fox was 21 when he decided to translate the first book of the Hebrew Bible into English, and he approached the project with the audacity of a graduate student undaunted by King James. The grandeur of the 17th-century King James Version-translated by a team of 47 scholars-had made […]
NEWS STORY: Christian Coalition inflates membership data, adversary claims
By Carl Anderson — January 9, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-How big is the Christian Coalition, the conservative public-policy advocacy group that has become a major player in the nation’s political arena? The Coalition, founded by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson, claims 1.8 million “members and supporters,” up from 1.7 million at the time of its national Road to Victory […]
NEWS STORY: Christian Coalition inflates membership data, adversary claims
By Carl Anderson — January 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-How big is the Christian Coalition, the conservative public-policy advocacy group that has become a major player in the nation’s political arena? The Coalition, founded by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson, claims 1.8 million”members and supporters,”up from 1.7 million at the time of its national Road to Victory conference in […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Vatican criticizes anti-Cuba economic embargo law (RNS) The Vatican has challenged both the legality and morality of a U.S. law aimed at tightening the American economic embargo on Fidel Castro’s regime by penalizing foreign firms that do business with Cuba.”It is a law that involves extra-territorial application in a way […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Eds: note sexual content in 2nd item) Parents want a content-based television rating system (RNS) Parents want a TV rating system to tell them the content of a program _ its sex, violence and language _ rather than advice on whether the program is suitable for specific age groups, according […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Dissident Catholics to press reforms in pilgrimage to Rome (RNS) Dissident Catholic groups that have irked the Vatican with demands for women priests, gay rights and other progressive notions are preparing to become more nettlesome for the Roman hierarchy. Organizers from 10 countries, including the United States, announced on Monday […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Cathedral dean retires with tribute from a daredevil (RNS) From high above the altar of Manhattan’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine, a high-wire artist plans to pay a special New Year’s Eve tribute to the Rev. James Parks Morton, the church’s retiring dean. Philippe Petit is scheduled to perform”Crescendo”from […]
NEWS STORY: Vatican urges curb on explicit, deceptive advertising
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
STEVEN HEILBRONNER Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ The Vatican called on advertisers Tuesday (Feb. 25) to curb the use of explicit sexual material and deception in print and broadcast campaigns, and said governments should increase regulation of advertising. The recommendations, culled from several years of study and approved by Pope John Paul II, were […]
RNS Daily Digest
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Supreme Court rejects Mississippi appeal on school prayers (RNS) The Supreme Court on Monday (Nov. 4) rejected an appeal by the state of Mississippi seeking to reinstate a state law allowing student-led prayer in the state’s public schools. The justices, without comment, left intact lower court rulings that struck down […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Spain ranked `most sinful’ nation in industrialized world (RNS) Spain is the most sinful nation in the industrialized world, according to a new survey by a Swedish business journal. The journal, Svensk Export Strategi, ranked 19 leading industrialized countries according to the seven”modern deadly sins”of smoking, drinking, drugs, gambling, over-eating, […]
Daily News Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Canada to lead multinational force to help refugees in Zaire (RNS) Canada has agreed to lead a multinational military contingent to assist in humanitarian efforts for refugees in eastern Zaire. United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said Tuesday (Nov. 12) that the details are still being worked out, but more […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Naval Academy names its first professor of ethics (RNS) Nancy Sherman, a professor of ethics at Georgetown University, has been named to fill the newly created ethics chair at the U.S. Naval Academy, the Navy’s education institution that has been scarred in recent years by incidents of cheating, drug use […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Survey: TV preachers did little to help Dole campaign (RNS) In sharp contrast with the presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, the major television evangelists gave virtually no help to Republican contender Bob Dole in his 1996 quest for the presidency. A content-based survey by Stephen Winzenburg, professor […]
