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COMMENTARY: Impressions From a Weary Traveler
By James Rudin — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the senior interreligious adviser of the American Jewish Committee.) (UNDATED) Recently my wife, Marcia, and I drove from New York City to Champaign-Urbana, Ill., to attend her high school reunion, and from there we motored down to Sanibel, Fla., for a brief vacation. Zooming along for 2,200 […]
COMMENTARY: Iran’s Show Trial
By James Rudin — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the senior interreligious adviser of the American Jewish Committee.) (UNDATED) Ten innocent Iranian Jewish men were recently convicted of spying for Israel and sentenced to prison terms from 4 to 13 years in length. The defendants included shopkeepers, Hebrew and English teachers, and a part- time rabbi […]
NEWS STORY: Renegade Orthodox group targets minority faiths in former Soviet republic
By Christa Brown — October 26, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service TBILISI, Georgia _ Lying in a hospital ward here with blurred vision and a bruised body, Fati Tabagari described in calm, level tones how she and her 13-year-old son were beaten Oct. 17 by a mob of renegade Orthodox Christians. Tabagari, a 40-year-old housewife, was among 20 Jehovah’s Witnesses hospitalized […]
NEWS FEATURE: Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue: a steep and difficult climb
By RNS Blog Editor — February 12, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service ROME _ Cardinal Edward Cassidy, who heads the Vatican’s Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, likens the ecumenical dialogue between Anglicans and Roman Catholics to climbing a mountain. In the early stages, he says, you are scaling the foothills, which is easy. But as time goes on you reach […]
NEWS FEATURE: Skateboard ministry reaches troubled kids
By Bart Worden — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service NEWPORT, Del. _ A year ago, 15-year-old Fritz Dallago was poised for a ride on the fast-track to nowhere. He had adopted the all-black Goth look; he idolized Marilyn Manson; he had a bad attitude and little respect for authority, making life difficult for his aunt who was raising him. […]
NEWS FEATURE: Site of Jesus’ outreach to gentiles readied for tourists
By Elaine Fletcher — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service TEL HADAR, Israel _ For hundreds of years, Christian pilgrims have journeyed to the area near Capernaum on the western side of the Sea of Galilee to celebrate the miraculous feeding of the multitudes where the New Testament says Jesus fed 5,000 Jews with just five loaves of bread and […]
NEWS STORY: American Baptists oust four gay-friendly congregations
By Adelle M. Banks — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Four churches that have welcomed gays and lesbians are no longer welcome in the American Baptist Churches USA, but a fifth has been allowed to remain in the mainline Protestant denomination. In a two-day meeting in Des Moines that began Sunday (June 20), the denomination’s General Board voted on […]
NEWS FEATURE: Serb-American: `I feel like my lover is killing my mother’
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News SERVICE BELGRADE, Yugoslavia _ As a U.S. citizen born and bred in Yugoslavia and now once again living here, Father Srboljub Bulic is in anguish over the NATO bombing. “I feel like my lover is killing my mother,”said Bulic, borrowing a line from an emigre Serb artist who recently returned from […]
NEWS STORY: Pope, Iranian president hold historic meeting in `spirit of Assisi’
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ Pope John Paul II held a historic meeting Thursday (March 11) with President Mohammad Khatami of the Islamic Republic of Iran as some 200 Iranian dissidents shouted protests on the fringes of the Vatican city-state. Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls described the 25-minute meeting in the pope’s private […]
NEWS STORY: Muslim group concerned by `Touched by an Angel’ Sudan episode
By Ira Rifkin — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ A Muslim-American watchdog group says it fears Sunday’s season-opening episode of the popular CBS-TV show”Touched by an Angel”featuring a story line focusing on slavery in Sudan amounts to thinly disguised anti-Muslim propaganda and political partisanship. The one-hour show depicts a fictional senator who must choose between confronting allegations […]
NEWS STORY: European agency to keep tabs on `dangerous sects’ urged
By Ira Rifkin — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ The Council of Europe’s parliamentary body has recommended creation of a central Europe clearing house to keep tabs on”dangerous sects,”a move one religious freedom advocate said could serve as a pretext in some nations for expanding ongoing campaigns against minority faiths _ many of them imports from the […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service Majority of Americans want to simplify holiday celebrations (RNS) The vast majority of Americans feel the holidays have become too commercial and 58 percent say they have tried to simplify their holiday celebrations, a new poll shows. The poll of 1,015 adults across the country was commissioned by the Center […]
NEWS FEATURE: Christian-Muslim tensions threaten Nazareth millennium festivities
By Elaine Fletcher — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service NAZARETH, Israel _ From the Anglican church compound on a hillside above this city, the black spire of the Basilica of the Annuciation rises like a compass needle directing pilgrims to one of the Holy Land’s most revered sites. For centuries, the site has beckoned Christians who regard it as […]
NEWS STORY: Greek Orthodox church opens new era as Demetrios moves to heal rifts
By Ira Rifkin — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ The new leader of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America said Friday (Sept. 17) his first task would be to heal the deep divisions in his church that grew out of the actions of his ousted predecessor.”The first thing to be done is for the people to […]
NEWS FEATURE: Cuba’s Catholic Church seeks to implement new freedoms at grassroots level
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service HAVANA _ Instead of going to a pharmacy or hospital, Julia Gonzalez turned to an old church in central Havana to try to obtain medicine to combat her circulatory problem. Government pharmacies, plagued by shortages, haven’t been able to fill her prescription for months, Gonzalez said. Other, better-stocked facilities cater […]
