interfaith
COMMENTARY: Yasser Arafat’s carefully calculated Big Lie
By James Rudin — January 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (RNS)-About 15 years ago the Palestine Liberation Organization leader, Yasser Arafat, began a propaganda campaign by describing Jesus as”a Palestinian.” At first, I thought he was kidding. Surely, I naively believed, no one would swallow Arafat’s utter […]
COMMENTARY: Remembering the chief architect of modern Israel
By James Rudin — January 19, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (RNS)-In January 1896 the weekly Jewish Chronicle of London printed excerpts from a new booklet,”Der Judenstaat”or”The Jewish State,”whose author was even more fascinating than the provocative title of his work. The publication of Theodor Herzl’s 70-page volume […]
NEWS STORY: Religious groups form anti-gambling coalition
By Carl Anderson — January 18, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-In a rare show of unity on a public-policy issue, the liberal National Council of Churches and the conservative Christian Coalition said Wednesday they would work together to try to stop the spread of legal gambling in the United States.”When the Christian Coalition and the National Council of Churches […]
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, […]
Martin Luther King Jr.‘s search for a `beloved community’
By Adelle M. Banks and David E. Anderson — January 11, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-He is celebrated as a civil rights leader, a social reformer and a great orator, a towering figure of 20th-century pacifism and political leadership. But the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was also a theologian, a title often forgotten each Jan. 15, on the anniversary of his birth. Yet it […]
TOP STORY: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.: Martin Luther King Jr.‘s search for a `beloved community
By RNS Blog Editor — January 10, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-He is celebrated as a civil rights leader, a social reformer and a great orator, a towering figure of 20th-century pacifism and political leadership. But the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was also a theologian, a title often forgotten each Jan. 15, on the anniversary of his birthday. Yet it […]
Denomination Report
By RNS Blog Editor — January 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Following is a collection of news stories compiled from RNS staff, wire and denominational reports). Black churches want King’s assassination anniversary as day of prayer (RNS)-The Congress of National Black Churches plans to call for a day of reflection and prayer to mark the April 4 anniversary of the assassination […]
TOP STORY: RUSSIA AND RELIGION: A fight for souls in the former Soviet Union
By Tim Murphy — January 5, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service MOSCOW (RNS)-Just outside the walls of the Kremlin, an angry man yelled to a crowd of Russians that”foreign missionaries and Jews are destroying our fatherland.” Nearby, men sold audio tapes labeled”SS Marches”and”German Historical Songs.” The collapse of the U.S.S.R. and communism in 1991 brought religious freedom-and a renewed spirit of […]
COMMENTARY: Some lessons from the real world are better left unlearned
By James Rudin — January 5, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (RNS)-A recent survey of Protestant ministers in the United States presents some depressing news: Nearly 25 percent have reported being dismissed or forced to resign from their congregations. While no precise data is available for the Jewish […]
National Religion Report
By RNS Blog Editor — January 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Following is a collection of domestic religion stories compiled from RNS staff, wire and denominational reports). Study finds high number of clergy fired or forced to resign during career (RNS)-A national survey of Protestant clergy has found that an unusually high number-22.8 percent-say they have either been fired or forced […]
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 Administration asks Supreme Court to overturn church-state school ruling (RNS) The Clinton administration has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a 1985 ruling by the justices that set limits on how federally funded remedial education for needy students is provided to pupils in religious schools. In a brief filed on […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service White House says persecution panel will come at”appropriate”time (RNS) The White House said Thursday (Oct. 24) that it still plans to appoint a panel of top religious leaders to investigate and defend religious liberty abroad but left open the possibility the committee will not be formally put in place until […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Muslim Arab-Americans favor Clinton by wide margin (RNS) President Clinton holds a double-digit lead over Bob Dole among all Arab-Americans, with Muslim Arab-Americans favoring Clinton by a margin of more than 40 percentage points, according to the first-ever national survey of Arab-American voters. The survey, released Thursday (Oct. 10), showed […]
