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NEWS FEATURE: Arabs, Israelis Search For Coexistence Amid the Violence
By Elaine Fletcher — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HAIFA, Israel _ A fanciful sculpture of “The Little Prince” dances on the rooftop of a home in this mixed Jewish-Arab city neighborhood. Nearby, a colorful wall mural by a team of Jewish and Arab artists features the portraits of Aladdin and Winnie the Pooh, the universally loved heroes of […]
NEWS FEATURE: Arabs, Israelis Search For Coexistence Amid the Violence
By Elaine Fletcher — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HAIFA, Israel _ A fanciful sculpture of “The Little Prince” dances on the rooftop of a home in this mixed Jewish-Arab city neighborhood. Nearby, a colorful wall mural by a team of Jewish and Arab artists features the portraits of Aladdin and Winnie the Pooh, the universally loved heroes of […]
NEWS FEATURE: Egypt’s Coptic Church Seeing Surge in Monastic Vocations
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CAIRO, Egypt _ Twelve-year-old Simon Nasef has already figured out his future career. He doesn’t want to be a firefighter. Or a policeman. Or a football player. He wants to be a monk. “I like it,” said the slight sixth-grader, who serves as an altar boy at his local Coptic […]
NEWS FEATURE: Cloistered Nun Finds Divine Inspiration for Her Artwork
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ Her world was the galleries of New York, the Art Institute of Chicago and journeys to Mexico to paint themes of revolution and learn the style of Central American muralists. Then, in the act of taking Communion at St. Peter’s in Rome, she discerned a different calling. And […]
NEWS FEATURE: Arabs, Israelis Search For Coexistence Amid the Violence
By Elaine Fletcher — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HAIFA, Israel _ A fanciful sculpture of “The Little Prince” dances on the rooftop of a home in this mixed Jewish-Arab city neighborhood. Nearby, a colorful wall mural by a team of Jewish and Arab artists features the portraits of Aladdin and Winnie the Pooh, the universally loved heroes of […]
NEWS FEATURE: Arabs, Israelis Search For Coexistence Amid the Violence
By Elaine Fletcher — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HAIFA, Israel _ A fanciful sculpture of “The Little Prince” dances on the rooftop of a home in this mixed Jewish-Arab city neighborhood. Nearby, a colorful wall mural by a team of Jewish and Arab artists features the portraits of Aladdin and Winnie the Pooh, the universally loved heroes of […]
NEWS FEATURE: Church in Cuba Edges Toward More Confrontational Role
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HAVANA _ A smirking man lounged with three young women in the tropical heat along the massive steel doors separating the seminary from the bustling craft market in Old Havana. As visitors approached, he would say, “You like these girls,” and the women would smile on cue. To one priest, […]
NEWS FEATURE: Cloistered Nun Finds Divine Inspiration for Her Artwork
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ Her world was the galleries of New York, the Art Institute of Chicago and journeys to Mexico to paint themes of revolution and learn the style of Central American muralists. Then, in the act of taking Communion at St. Peter’s in Rome, she discerned a different calling. And […]
NEWS FEATURE: Egypt’s Coptic Church Seeing Surge in Monastic Vocations
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CAIRO, Egypt _ Twelve-year-old Simon Nasef has already figured out his future career. He doesn’t want to be a firefighter. Or a policeman. Or a football player. He wants to be a monk. “I like it,” said the slight sixth-grader, who serves as an altar boy at his local Coptic […]
NEWS STORY: Pope Calls for Reduction of Prison Sentences in Holy Year Gesture
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ Pope John Paul II called Friday (June 30) for a wholesale reduction in prison sentences throughout the world as a Holy Year gesture to encourage inmates “to regret the evil” they have done and seek redemption. The 80-year-old Roman Catholic pontiff made the appeal in a message […]
NEWS STORY: Young Evangelists Gather to Learn the Tricks of Graham’s Trade
By Yonat Shimron — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service AMSTERDAM, Netherlands _ Roger Hartmann, a 26-year-old furniture-maker from Germany, converted to Christianity after hearing the Rev. Billy Graham preach in Essen seven years ago. So when he heard that Graham was inviting young evangelists from all over the world to a conference designed to teach them how to spread […]
NEWS FEATURE: Four Centuries Later, Vatican Still Condemns Giordano Bruno’s Heresy
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service ROME _ Four hundred years after he died at the stake on orders of the Inquisition, Giordano Bruno remains a hero to free-thinkers and a heretic to the Roman Catholic Church. Pope John Paul II has called on the church to mark the start of the third millennium of Christianity […]
NEWS FEATURE: Religions Changing Attitudes on suicide
By Julie Wolfe — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Recently, The Rev. Charles Rubey, a priest with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago, talked with a mother whose son had committed suicide. The woman poured out her grief to him. But what made her anguish even more excruciating, Rubey said, was the insensitive way in which people […]
COMMENTARY: After the Spiritual Probing of High Holidays, the Joy of Sukkot
By James Rudin — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the senior interreligious adviser of the American Jewish Committee.) (UNDATED) The Jewish High Holidays of Rosh Hashana (New Year) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) demand intense introspection including a full day of fasting, and hours of prayer in the synagogue. The two holidays require profound spiritual […]
COMMENTARY: At U.N., Some Progress in Interfaith Understanding
By James Rudin — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the senior interreligious adviser of the American Jewish Committee.) (UNDATED) It was a dazzling scene. Nearly 2,000 religious leaders from around the world recently gathered in the United Nations General Assembly Hall in New York City for a four-day “Millennium Summit” Conference on Peace. Buddhists in orange […]
