Judaism
NEWS STORY: Clinton calls on clergy to speak out against racism
By Adelle M. Banks — June 13, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Heeding a call Wednesday (June 12) from President Clinton, religious leaders from across the country said they plan to speak out from the pulpit against racism and offer aid to African-American churches destroyed by a string of arsons throughout the South. In a speech Wednesday at the rededication of Mount […]
NEWS STORY: Clinton calls on clergy to speak out against racism
By Adelle M. Banks — June 13, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Heeding a call Wednesday (June 12) from President Clinton, religious leaders from across the country said they plan to speak out from the pulpit against racism and offer aid to African-American churches destroyed by a string of arsons throughout the South. In a speech Wednesday at the rededication of Mount […]
COMMENTARY: God knows who the arsonists are
By RNS Blog Editor — June 13, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Phillip Morris is an associate editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s editorial page.) (RNS)-Southern black churches are on fire again-30 in the past 18 months-and the combustion has little to do with an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, revival or the approaching millennium. The churches are going up because they […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 11, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service U.S. Supreme Court leaves Washington’s assisted-suicide ban in place (RNS)-The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday (June 10) that Washington state’s ban on doctor-assisted suicides can remain in effect while state officials prepare a challenge to a lower court ruling that the law is unconstitutional. In its action, the Court took […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 11, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service U.S. Supreme Court leaves Washington’s assisted-suicide ban in place (RNS)-The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday (June 10) that Washington state’s ban on doctor-assisted suicides can remain in effect while state officials prepare a challenge to a lower court ruling that the law is unconstitutional. In its action, the Court took […]
RNS Daily Digest
By Carl Anderson — June 8, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Bill to protest”religious communication”introduced in Congress (RNS)-Legislation to prevent prosecutors from using”privileged religious communication”against defendants-as was recently attempted in a tape-recorded confession in Oregon-has been introduced in Congress by Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.). King spokesman Dan Michaelis said the bill-which will be publicly unveiled at a New York news […]
RNS Daily Digest
By Carl Anderson — June 8, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Bill to protest”religious communication”introduced in Congress (RNS)-Legislation to prevent prosecutors from using”privileged religious communication”against defendants-as was recently attempted in a tape-recorded confession in Oregon-has been introduced in Congress by Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.). King spokesman Dan Michaelis said the bill-which will be publicly unveiled at a New York news […]
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 […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Red Cross suspending work in Burundi after three workers killed (RNS)-The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Wednesday (June 5) it is suspending its operations in strife-torn Burundi because of the slaying of three Swiss Red Cross workers from Switzerland. The workers were ambushed Tuesday (June 4) after […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Red Cross suspending work in Burundi after three workers killed (RNS)-The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Wednesday (June 5) it is suspending its operations in strife-torn Burundi because of the slaying of three Swiss Red Cross workers from Switzerland. The workers were ambushed Tuesday (June 4) after […]
NEWS FEATURE: “City of Joy”priest continues quiet work among the poor
By Tim Murphy — June 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service CALCUTTA, India (RNS)-In his classic 1985 work,”City of Joy,”author Dominique Lapierre profiled Polish priest Stephan Kovalski, who set out to live among the poorest of Calcutta’s poor. But Kovalski’s real identity is the Rev. Francis Laborde, who, more than 30 years after he eschewed the comforts of the West to […]
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 […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 5, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Black church burns in rural Alabama, adding to list of Southern fires (RNS)-Another black Southern church has burned, adding to the list of at least 25 other African-American churches that have been the victims of fire since January 1995. Agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 5, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Black church burns in rural Alabama, adding to list of Southern fires (RNS)-Another black Southern church has burned, adding to the list of at least 25 other African-American churches that have been the victims of fire since January 1995. Agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION IN RUSSIA: Orthodox clergy rally against Communist resurgence
By Sophia Kishkovsky — June 5, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service MOSCOW (RNS)-Gennady Zyuganov insists the Communist Party of Russia bears no responsibility for the crimes of the Soviet era, including the mass destruction of churches and the persecution of believers.”We’re not guilty of anything,”the stocky, balding Communist leader and presidential contender grumbled recently before an audience of rapt pensioners in […]