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RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 13, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Warner beats Christian conservative-backed foe in Virginia GOP primary (RNS)-Virginia Sen. John W. Warner won an overwhelming Republican primary victory Tuesday (June 11) in a vote that some have interpreted as a defeat for Christian conservatives. Warner, a three-term incumbent, garnered about 66 percent of the vote to defeat challenger […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 13, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Warner beats Christian conservative-backed foe in Virginia GOP primary (RNS)-Virginia Sen. John W. Warner won an overwhelming Republican primary victory Tuesday (June 11) in a vote that some have interpreted as a defeat for Christian conservatives. Warner, a three-term incumbent, garnered about 66 percent of the vote to defeat challenger […]
COMMENTARY: A summer of hatred spawned centuries of grief
By James Rudin — June 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (RNS)-Sometimes we can pinpoint a moment in history when the world was forever changed. Such a moment occurred 900 years ago, in May and June, 1096. Something terrible happened then in Europe that still affects the way […]
TOP STORY: ELECTION CROSSROADS: Religious-party gains show deep split on Israel’s future
By Elaine Fletcher — June 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service JERUSALEM (RNS)-It was like a tent-meeting revival-Israeli-style. A crowd of plainly-dressed men and women crowded into a large hall, stood up and publicly pledged their vote to the”holy Shas Party, and then were blessed by a charismatic rabbi who promised them long life, health and marital bliss. That kind of”down […]
COMMENTARY: Who’s calling who divisive?
By RNS Blog Editor — May 31, 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://www.greeley.com. Or contact him via e-mail at agreel(AT)aol.com.) (RNS)-The response of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops to the […]
ANALYSIS: TOP STORY: THE ELECTIONS IN ISRAEL Netanyahu victory could affect Israel’s ties with
By Ira Rifkin — May 31, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Benjamin Netanyahu’s apparent election victory in Israel could well lead to political and religious conflict between any right-wing government he is likely to form and a sizeable segment of the leadership of the American Jewish community. At least for now, the mainstream leadership of the American Jewish community-despite its generally […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 31, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Little Rock Methodists cancel event over bishop’s views on gays (RNS)-A United Methodist committee in Little Rock, Ark., has canceled a planned”intergenerational day of celebration”meant to bring young and old people together because the event’s invited preacher, retired United Methodist Bishop Leontine T.C. Kelly, has voiced support for gay rights. […]
COMMENTARY: When you wish upon a store
By James Rudin — May 31, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (RNS)-A charismatic cult is on the rise, threatening the moral integrity of America. I speak of the Cult of Disney. Do not misunderstand me. I’m no latter-day Scrooge who says”Bah, humbug!”to the amusements of contemporary society. Nor […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 30, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Russian panel rejects ban on foreign missionaries (RNS)-A committee of the State Duma, or lower chamber of the Russian Parliament, has rejected a call by the Russian Orthodox Church to ban foreign missionaries. The committee is at work on a new religion law to replace a 1990 statute. Many government […]
New book on the Holocaust stirs angry debate among scholars
By Kristen Campbell — May 29, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-To author Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, it seemed like common sense: The Germans who participated in the deaths of 6 million Jews in Germany were not a small or coerced group of killers. Challenging the work of his fellow scholars and invigorating the Holocaust debate with his first major publication,”Hitler’s Willing […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Aid groups join call for U.N. peacekeepers in Liberia (RNS)-A group of 13 religious and secular relief agencies have appealed to the U.S. government to take the lead in creating a United Nations peacekeeping force for war-torn Liberia.”The prolonged crisis in Liberia has forced nearly a third of the country’s […]
COMMENTARY: A high price for honor
By James Rudin — May 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (RNS)-The tragic suicide of the Navy’s top officer, Admiral Jeremy M. Boorda, raises disturbing questions about America’s love affair with the armed forces and about the meaning of the term”honor,”which is so much a part of the […]
TOP STORY: CHILDREN AND POLITICS: Childrens march puts familiar foes at odds
By RNS Blog Editor — May 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-Jane and Philip Hall will climb aboard a bus at midnight on June 1 in Florence, Mass., for a nine-hour trip to be part of a rally billed as an “historic stand for children.” The Halls say they have three aims-none of them political, at least not in the […]
NEWS FEATURE: India’s Zoroastrians live and die by ancient beliefs
By RNS Blog Editor — May 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service BOMBAY, India (RNS)-Soaring above luxury apartments in an exclusive section of Bombay, vultures swoop toward the Parsi Towers of Silence on Malabar Hill. It is time for another”burial”at the”vultures cemetery.” Parsis, Indian followers of the ancient faith of Zoroastrianism, believe fire, earth and water are sacred. Thus they will not […]
COMMENTARY: Interfaith marriage not made in heaven
By RNS Blog Editor — May 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Eli Hecht is a member of Judaism’s Lubavitch Hasidic sect. He is director of Chabad of South Bay in Lomita, Calif., and vice-president of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. He can be reached on via e-mail at rabbieh(at)aol.com.) (RNS)-There was once a man who had two wives. The younger […]
