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COMMENTARY: When piety becomes a cover for selfishness
By RNS Blog Editor — January 9, 1996
c. 1995 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)-As a minister, I often encounter people who feel it necessary to impress me with their piety. They seem to feel […]
TOP STORY: RUSSIA AND RELIGION: A fight for souls in the former Soviet Union
By Tim Murphy — January 5, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service MOSCOW (RNS)-Just outside the walls of the Kremlin, an angry man yelled to a crowd of Russians that”foreign missionaries and Jews are destroying our fatherland.” Nearby, men sold audio tapes labeled”SS Marches”and”German Historical Songs.” The collapse of the U.S.S.R. and communism in 1991 brought religious freedom-and a renewed spirit of […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service White House says persecution panel will come at”appropriate”time (RNS) The White House said Thursday (Oct. 24) that it still plans to appoint a panel of top religious leaders to investigate and defend religious liberty abroad but left open the possibility the committee will not be formally put in place until […]
NEWS STORY: Vatican urges curb on explicit, deceptive advertising
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
STEVEN HEILBRONNER Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ The Vatican called on advertisers Tuesday (Feb. 25) to curb the use of explicit sexual material and deception in print and broadcast campaigns, and said governments should increase regulation of advertising. The recommendations, culled from several years of study and approved by Pope John Paul II, were […]
RNS Daily Digest
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Lutheran, Episcopal churches ready vote for full communion (RNS) A joint committee of leaders from the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America have readied the final text of an historic agreement that will bring the nearly 8 million members of the two denominations into full communion.”This committee […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service NCC urges renewed push for universal health care (RNS) The nation’s moral and religious leaders must renew the push for universal access to equitable health care, participants at a National of Council of Churches conference were told. Reform of the nation’s health care delivery system, including proposals for universal access […]
TOP STORY: UNCOVERING THE TOMB OF JESUS: Archaeologist expects new findings on tomb of Jesus
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Restoration work within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem may lead to new evidence that the site is really where disciples laid the crucified body of Jesus, a British archaeologist says. The claim that the rock tomb is the place where Jesus was buried has been […]
CRECHE CULTURE: Manger scenes tell more than just the Christmas story
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ The scene might be the ruins of an old castle or an ancient temple. Sometimes it’s a village, bustling with activity. It could be a cave, or a rich landscape of mountains and rivers and stars. At other times, it’s a simple barn. No matter how it’s depicted, […]
NEWS STORY: Rights group raises case of detained U.S. Christian in Vietnam
By Kim Lawton — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Freedom House, a New York-based human rights group, has asked President Clinton to personally intervene in the case of an American woman who has been detained in Vietnam and accused of”illegal religious propaganda”for distributing pens with Christian crosses on them. Man Thi Jones, a 54-year-old nurse from Sacramento, […]
BACKGROUNDER: HEBRON
By Elaine Fletcher — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service HEBRON, West Bank _ Thousands of years after the biblical patriarch Abraham purchased a family burial ground in this ancient Canaanite town, the”Cave of Machpelah”_ or”Cave of the Patriarchs”as it is often called _ is probably the world’s most bitterly disputed cemetery. It is also the religious soul of the […]
COMMENTARY: Surprises of Christmas herald a light that never fades
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.) UNDATED _Christmas is all about surprises. Our pagan ancestors were surprised each year when […]
COMMENTARY: Of pots and pans, shoe polish, and death.
By James Rudin — January 1, 1995
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) UNDATED _ Imagine that your country is suffering under harsh military occupation. The authorities have just ordered you and your family, including children, to report to the local train station tomorrow morning. If you resist in any […]
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