Judaism
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Foundations offer aid to help rebuild burned black churches (RNS)-More than $3 million in grants and pledges has been donated to a National Council of Churches fund designed to aid the more than 40 predominantly black churches that have been damaged or destroyed in the recent rash of suspicious fires. […]
NEWS STORY: Catholic bishops’ meeting opens with defense of political process
By Carl Anderson — June 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (PORTLAND, Ore.)-Bishop Anthony M. Pilla, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, opened the bishops’ annual spring meeting Thursday defending the church’s role in the political process and warning groups seeking to mobilize the Catholic vote that they must have respect for the social-justice principles of the church.”Any individual […]
NEWS STORY: Catholic bishops’ meeting opens with defense of political process
By Carl Anderson — June 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (PORTLAND, Ore.)-Bishop Anthony M. Pilla, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, opened the bishops’ annual spring meeting Thursday defending the church’s role in the political process and warning groups seeking to mobilize the Catholic vote that they must have respect for the social-justice principles of the church.”Any individual […]
NEWS STORY: Group faces uphill fight over Clinton abortion veto
By Adelle M. Banks — June 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va.-National Right to Life Committee officials say they face an uphill educational battle in seeking to reverse President Clinton’s recent veto of a bill banning a controversial late-term abortion procedure. According to a poll announced at the group’s annual meeting Thursday (June 20), more than 70 percent of U.S. […]
NEWS STORY: Group faces uphill fight over Clinton abortion veto
By Adelle M. Banks — June 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va.-National Right to Life Committee officials say they face an uphill educational battle in seeking to reverse President Clinton’s recent veto of a bill banning a controversial late-term abortion procedure. According to a poll announced at the group’s annual meeting Thursday (June 20), more than 70 percent of U.S. […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION AND CULTURE: Scientists close in on Etruscan mysteries using DNA tests
By RNS Blog Editor — June 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service MURLO, Italy (RNS)-In a country where a family’s lineage is often directly proportional to its status, the people of this Tuscan hamlet appear to take the top prize. A series of excavations, historical research and, most importantly, medical tests suggests that some of the families in this hilltop village may […]
COMMENTARY: From the ashes of hatred, we must rebuild the house of God
By James Rudin — June 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (RNS)-“They have set your sanctuary on fire, and profanely demolished the dwelling place of God’s Name to the ground. … Determined to destroy us once and for all, they have burned down every meeting place of God […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 20, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Oregon judge denies church’s request to destroy tape of jailed suspect (RNS)-An Oregon judge has denied the Catholic Church’s request to destroy a tape recording made secretly during a jailed suspect’s confession meeting with a priest. Lane County Circuit Judge Jack Billings said in a June 13 letter that the […]
BODY & SOUL: Soundbites from a talk-show moralist
By RNS Blog Editor — June 20, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Body & Soul is a regular column exploring the interplay between spirituality and psychology. Pythia Peay is the author of”Putting America on the Couch,”to be published by Riverhead Books in 1997.) (RNS)-Her manner is rude. She belittles those who turn to her for help. She lectures against the perils of […]
RNS Daily Digest
By Carl Anderson — June 19, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Reproductive rights issue snarls U.N. city summit (RNS)-A United Nations’ international conference on urban problems stalled on the thorny issue of women’s reproductive rights Thursday (June 13), in a dispute that threatened the signing of a global agreement aimed at making cities more livable in the coming century. The 113-page […]
NEWS FEATURE: PBS special focuses on search for God in America
By Adelle M. Banks — June 19, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Whenever Hugh Hewitt interviewed religious leaders on his California-based PBS television program, the phone switchboard lit up with responses from viewers. He knew he was on to something.”The people who move the world are the people who believe,”said Hewitt, co-host of”Life & Times,”a public affairs show on KCET-TV, the PBS […]
NEWS FEATURE: PBS special focuses on search for God in America
By Adelle M. Banks — June 19, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Whenever Hugh Hewitt interviewed religious leaders on his California-based PBS television program, the phone switchboard lit up with responses from viewers. He knew he was on to something.”The people who move the world are the people who believe,”said Hewitt, co-host of”Life & Times,”a public affairs show on KCET-TV, the PBS […]
TOP STORY: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: Fractured German Catholic community awaits historic papal visit
By RNS Blog Editor — June 19, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service BERLIN (RNS)-On the eve of a historic visit by Pope John Paul II to Berlin, pope-mania is breaking out. Commemorative memorabilia is on sale, TV talk-shows are filled with debates about religion, and city officials are still trying to figure out where to park the buses that will bring an […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 18, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Organizers of Million Man March say event is more than $66,000 in debt (RNS)-Million Man March organizers say they have more than $66,000 in unpaid bills from the Oct. 16 march led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. The Rev. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and other leaders instrumental in […]
TOP STORY: TENSIONS IN THE WEST BANK: Ancient Hebron a key site in saga of Israeli turmoil
By Elaine Fletcher — June 18, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service “And Sarah died in Qiryat Arba, that is Hebron, in the land of Canaan … and Abraham stood up from before his dead and spoke to the sons of Het, saying, I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying place with you […]
