Judaism
NEWS FEATURE: Bishop said to be within rights on excommunication order
By RNS Blog Editor — May 24, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS)-If Bishop Fabian W. Bruskewitz is mistaken, as some critics charge, he’s erred on the right side. That, at least, is the early assessment among leading Catholic scholars and Vatican cognoscenti who have watched the Lincoln, Neb., bishop launch a crusade to cleanse his diocese of dissent. Bruskewitz […]
COMMENTARY: Peace can bring out the worst in people
By RNS Blog Editor — May 23, 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)-Peace is tough. And there is ample evidence that the peace […]
NEWS STORY: Catholic liberals launch petition drive aimed at key changes in church
By RNS Blog Editor — May 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-A coalition of more than 20 liberal Roman Catholic organizations, taking a cue from church members in Germany and Austria, Wednesday (May 22) launched a drive to gather 1 million signatures over the next year in support of changes in church law, including a married priesthood, female ordination and […]
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 […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Religious, aid groups criticize Clinton’s new land mines policy (RNS)-Religious groups and humanitarian relief organizations have criticized President Clinton’s recently announced land mines policy, calling it a disappointment and too limited to save lives.”This policy does little more than reinforce the status quo,”said Julia Taft, president of InterAction, a Washington-based […]
TOP STORY: IN THE WAKE OF APARTHEID: After the bloodshed, former South Africa enemies walk side by s
By RNS Blog Editor — May 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service TOKOZA TOWNSHIP, South Africa (RNS)-Not long ago Wiseman Ndbele and Albert Mogaila came to Kumalo Street, in the center of this sprawling township east of Johannesburg, for only one reason: to try to kill each other. In the five years leading up to the country’s first multi-racial election in 1994, […]
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 […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Jewish National Fund rejects money from Messianic Jews (RNS)-After a outcry from its regional offices and several major donors, the Jewish National Fund, which raises money for reforestation and other land-related projects in Israel, reversed its decision to accept a $50,000 donation from two organizations that seek to convert Jews […]
RNS Daily Digest
By Carl Anderson — May 20, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Orthodox jurisdictions repair rift over church in Estonia (RNS)-The Russian Orthodox Church and its mother church, the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople, now Istanbul, Turkey, have restored ties and avoided a schism, according to church officials. Three months ago, the Russian Orthodox Church, the largest Orthodox denomination in the world, broke […]
TOP STORY: FATHERHOOD: Religious leaders examine issue of absent fathers
By Adelle M. Banks — May 20, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service HERNDON, Va. (RNS)-In 1960, about 7 million U.S. children lived in homes without a father. That figure now stands at nearly 23 million. At an”Interfaith Summit on Fatherhood”convened by the National Fatherhood Initiative, a 3-year-old advocacy group, Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders and others drew attention today (May 17) to […]
NEWS FEATURE: Books on ethics and values are flooding American bookstores
By Mark J. Seitz — May 18, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-From Hillary Rodham Clinton’s”It Takes a Village”to Jim Lichtman’s”The Lone Ranger’s Code of the West”to William J. Bennett’s”The Moral Compass,”books on ethics and values are flooding American bookstores, warning us that society is plummeting to perdition and begging us to mend our ways. Whether the authors are religious or secular, […]
TOP STORY: THE AFTERMATH OF CHERNOBYL: A decade after Chernobyl, Jewish victims face uncertain futur
By Elaine Fletcher — May 17, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service TEL AVIV, Israel (RNS)-“My bones ache even as I am speaking,”exclaimed Alexander Kalentirsky. A formidable man who once held a senior post with a high security clearance at a Moscow construction firm, 51-year-old Kalentirsky is not used to feeling ill or powerless. Ten years ago, he volunteered to supervise the […]
COMMENTARY: Where will Farrakhan lead and who will follow?
By RNS Blog Editor — May 17, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.) (RNS)-“Long live the spirit of the Million Man March!” The chant was heard in urban centers throughout the nation as hundreds […]
NEWS FEATURE: Book on synagogue bombing reveals rabbi’s bravery in exposing ‘50s racism
By Christine Harvey — May 16, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Though five years have passed since Melissa Fay Greene’s acclaimed”Praying for Sheetrock”earned the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, the author hasn’t been idle. Now she has produced”The Temple Bombing,”a look at the 1958 bombing […]
TOP STORY: ISLAM IN AMERICA: For Muslim voters in presidential race, party lines are nothing sacred
By Ira Rifkin — May 15, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-Ask Earl El-Amin about his choice for president and he’s quick to say that party labels have little to do with his selection process.”I’m not a Democrat or a Republican. I’m a Muslim. That means if the candidate is aligned with my religious beliefs, I vote for them,”said El-Amin, […]
