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RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — December 23, 1996
c. 19) suspended indefinitely a ruling by a lower, Islamist-dominated court that an Egyptian professor, accused of insulting Islam, must divorce his wife. The legal battle between conservative Muslim lawyers and the more secular scholar and his wife has been watched around the world as a barometer of whether Muslim activists, intent on installing Islamic […]
TOP STORY: COSMETIC CHRISTIANITY: Preaching in pink: the religion of Mary Kay Cosmetics
By Julia Lieblich — December 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service DALLAS _ Mary Kay Cosmetics’ philosophy has always been:”God first, family second, career third”and founder and chairman emeritus Mary Kay Ash attributes the cosmetic giant’s success to its initial decision to “take God as our partner.” That unique mix of faith and facials, which continues to attract”spiritually strong”people promoting and […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Anglicans pledge aid to help renovate Bethlehem’s Manger Square (RNS) The Anglican Consultative Council, made up of leaders of the worldwide communion’s 36 provinces, has pledged its aid for a plan to renovate Bethlehem’s Manger Square, traditionally believed to be the site of Jesus’ birth. The restoration is being undertaken […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 4, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Jesus seminar to discuss its future at upcoming meeting (RNS) For more than a decade, the Jesus Seminar _ a group of religion and biblical scholars that has popularized the scholarly search for the historical Jesus _ has deconstructed the text of the New Testament Gospels in an attempt to […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 30, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Buddhist monk urges end to `land mines of the heart’ (RNS) A Cambodian Buddhist monk and a prominent Lutheran pastor joined Monday (July 29) in calling for a total ban on the production, export and use of anti-personnel land mines.”We come here to pray for peace and a world free […]
PHOTO ESSAY: Glimpsing Nazi Germany through lens of sport
By RNS Blog Editor — July 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Olympic competitions have always been a platform to display the pride and ambitions of a nation. As the games continue this week in Atlanta, a photo exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum looks back to the Olympic games of 60 years ago in Berlin, when the international […]
TOP STORY: SPORTS, DEITY AND THE STATE: Ancient Olympics an imperfect homage to human perfection
By RNS Blog Editor — July 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The race had been won and the radiant runner, at the peak of his power and prowess, sprinted into the sacred space before an ancient altar of Zeus to claim his prize _ not gold, but a crown of olive branches freshly gathered from a holy grove believed to […]
TOP STORY: THE BUSINESS OF RELIGION: Catholic Church’s aggressive marketing reaps rewards
By RNS Blog Editor — July 17, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ It has a recognizable name. Revenues have jumped 400 percent in four years and companies come begging for exclusivity rights. Business is so brisk that it’s planning to tap the Internet to expand its market reach. With results like these, who needs a miracle? Certainly not the […]
NEWS FEATURE: Olympic religion: Let the preaching begin
By Adelle M. Banks — July 10, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) As athletes descend upon Atlanta for the Summer Olympics eyeing medals of gold, silver and bronze, teams of religious people are setting their sights on more timeless values. Inside the Olympic Village, 38 chaplains are ready to provide scriptural studies, prayer services and one-on-one chats with athletes of faiths […]
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 […]
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 […]
TOP STORY: AFTERMATH OF WAR: Family planning becomes politically charged issue in post-war Croatia
By RNS Blog Editor — June 14, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service ZAGREB, Croatia (RNS)-A patchwork collage of multi-color maps of Croatia and posters of wet, wide-eyed babies checker the walls and windows of the Croatian Population Movement’s (CPM) Zagreb office.”Have one more child,”reads one poster with a smiling preschooler in army fatigues flashing the two-finger victory sign.”These black fields show where […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
