Judaism
Publicity-shy priests guide two Catholic papers
By RNS Blog Editor — March 20, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Two national Catholic newspapers sold last year to a group with ties to an obscure priestly order, the Legion of Christ, have moved from California to Connecticut. And the New Haven suburbs have become the U.S. base for the priests, familiarly known as the Legionaries, one of Catholicism’s rapidly growing […]
NEWS STORY: Abortion foes call for more debate
By Adelle M. Banks — March 19, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Leading figures in the anti-abortion movement have issued a statement outlining their opposition to abortion and challenging Americans to further debate on the divisive issue.”The America We Seek: A Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Concern”appears in the March 25 issue of National Review, a conservative opinion journal.”Our goal is simply […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION AND MONEY: What God giveth the IRS taketh away
By RNS Blog Editor — March 16, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service HARTFORD, Conn. (RNS)-Fed up with filling out tax forms? Try this: Join a religious order whose members take a vow of poverty. Priests, nuns, monks and brothers who take vows of poverty don’t pay taxes as long as they work for a church institution. They rely on their superiors for […]
COMMENTARY: Try a V-chip on the Bible
By James Rudin — March 15, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Installing V-chips in televisions to filter out objectionable programming is the latest idea to protect youngsters from programs containing violence and sex. Politicians-including President Clinton-may favor installing the device, but the V-chip won’t work because it’s another futile attempt to use technology to solve moral problems, something we can only […]
COMMENTARY: Signs of spring in Sarajevo
By Dale Hanson Bourke — March 14, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of Religion News Service and a member of the board of World Vision. She recently returned to the former Yugoslavia to see how life has changed since the Dayton Peace Accord.) SARAJEVO (RNS)-Snow lies like a soft blanket over the ruins of this battle-scarred city. […]
TOP STORY: JUDAISM: Jewish outreach joins the Exodus as a Passover topic this year
By Ira Rifkin — March 14, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-This Passover, Susan V. Gelmis-the daughter of a Catholic father and a Jewish mother who raised her as a Christian-will again host a Seder at her home in Berkeley, Calif. As always, she will make it a point to invite Jewish friends who have little connection to their religious roots. […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 12, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Ugandan Christian rebels go on killing spree (RNS)-Ugandan rebels seeking to establish a Christian theocracy in the central African nation have reportedly killed dozens of people in recent days, according to the Associated Press and Reuter news agency. Reports from Uganda placed the number of those killed as high as […]
TOP STORY: ASSISTED SUICIDE
By Carl Anderson — March 9, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-For many Americans, doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients has only begun to emerge as a high-profile public issue, on a par with abortion and capital punishment. But after two major legal developments this week upholding the”right-to-die,”professional ethicists are concerned that assisted suicide may soon become the law of […]
COMMENTARY: Killing jobs, destroying lives
By RNS Blog Editor — March 9, 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 at his e-mail address: agreel(at sign)aol.com. Check RNS Online for a photo of Andrew Greeley.) […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 8, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Evangelicals tackle issues of identity, unity (RNS)-The National Association of Evangelicals unveiled an”Evangelical Manifesto”this week, defining beliefs and detailing goals for unity among evangelicals in the coming century. David Melvin, vice president of the Illinois-based organization, said the manifesto aims to define evangelicals at a time when they are often […]
Pakistan blasphemy laws come under fire in Senate panel
By Kim Lawton — March 8, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws, which carry a mandatory death sentence, continue to foster a climate of violence and intolerance against Christians and Ahmadiyyah Muslims in the predominantly Sunni Muslim nation, human rights advocates told a Senate panel Wednesday (March 6). At a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee […]
TOP STORY: AFTERMATH OF TERROR: `It was important for me to come back here—and soon’
By Elaine Fletcher — March 8, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service JERUSALEM (RNS)-Last week, U.S. rabbinical student David Hoffman accompanied the bodies of two friends and bus bombings victims, Matt Eisenfeld and Sara Duker, home to burial in the United States. Within 24 hours he was on a plane headed back to Israel.”It was important for me to come back here-and […]
COMMENTARY: A squandered opportunity for leadership
By James Rudin — March 8, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (RNS)-During last October’s Million Man March in Washington, I heard several black Christian ministers suggest that Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan had”reformed”and become a”serious leader of Black America.” Any hope for Farrakhan to remake himself into […]
COMMENTARY: After bombs and carnage, a lover’s lament
By Jonathan Tilove — March 8, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Adam Tilove grew up in suburban Philadelphia and graduated from Emory University in Atlanta in December 1994. He now lives in the Israeli town of Herzliyah, near Tel Aviv.) HERZLIYAH, Israel (RNS)-My flight to Israel left Newark International Airport on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day. I liked to say that I […]
TOP STORY: THE TEMPLETON PRIZE: Campus Crusade founder wins $1 million prize
By Adelle M. Banks — March 7, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Bill Bright, who founded Campus Crusade for Christ 45 years ago and turned it into an evangelical ministry in 165 countries, won the 1996 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion Wednesday (March 6). The prize is valued at more than $1 million. Bright, 74, a former oil and specialty-foods executive, […]
