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RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service House Majority Leader Dick Armey named Distinguished Christian Statesman (RNS) House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, has been awarded the Distinguished Christian Statesman award from the D. James Kennedy Center for Christian Statesmanship. The Washington-based center, which provides spiritual outreach to members of Congress and their staffs, annually honors a […]
NEWS STORY: Israeli government: Nazareth mosque, pilgrim plaza to be side-by-side
By Elaine Fletcher — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ A mosque and a millennial pilgrims’ plaza are to be constructed side-by-side on a strategic piece of vacant land in front of Nazareth’s Basilica of the Annunciation, an Israeli government panel decided Wednesday (Oct. 13). But rather than becoming a hoped-for symbol of Christian-Muslim friendship, the construction plan […]
NEWS FEATURE: From collaborator to reconciler: A Romanian cleric transformed
By Chris Smith — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service BUCHAREST, Romania _ With his long white beard, lean face and probing hazel eyes, Nicolae Corneanu looks like he could have emerged from one of the Byzantine-style frescoes covering the walls of Orthodox churches across this beautiful yet haunted land. Like many of his fellow Romanian Orthodox clerics, Corneanu made […]
COMMENTARY: Remembering Mississippi 35 years ago
By James Rudin — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the National Interreligious Affairs Director of the American Jewish Committee.) UNDATED _ In February 1964 I participated in a voting registration drive in Hattiesburg, Miss., that included rabbis, ministers and priests. For decades, the black residents of Forest County had been systematically prevented from voting in elections. […]
COMMENTARY: Wandering as a biblical model
By James Rudin — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) UNDATED _ Quick now. Pick one word that best describes many significant biblical events, and much of religious life and human existence. If we want to appear”ethically correct,”we would choose expressions like”mercy,””justice”or”compassion.”But that would be a lie […]
COMMENTARY: Being there: A learning center for street life
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 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.) UNDATED _ There is a vacant lot near my home where children and drug dealers gather to play basketball. Bordered on […]
NEWS DIGEST: RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service U.S. Catholic head says Israel bowing to extremists on Nazareth mosque (RNS) The president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops says Israel has bowed to”extremist demands”by agreeing to construction of a mosque near the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth. Bishop Joseph A. Fiorenza, head of the diocese of […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service Progressive Baptists pass resolutions on crime, AIDS, schools (RNS) The Progressive National Baptist Convention recently passed resolutions launching a campaign to end incarceration and killing of black youth, urging increased funding to fight AIDS in Africa, and supporting historically black colleges and universities.”The incarceration and killing of black youth has […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service Religious freedom panel urges more U.S. government support for issue (RNS) A State Department advisory panel on religious freedom has urged the White House and Congress to raise the issue’s profile, including providing adequate funding for a newly established independent commission to monitor religious persecution abroad. In its final report […]
RNS DAILY Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service Dismissal of four American Baptist churches on hold (RNS) The dismissal of four American Baptist churches that welcome gays and lesbians has been put on hold because regional groups of the denomination have requested an adjudicator consider the matter. The pastor of one of the affected churches said she received […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service International Roman Catholic-Orthodox dialogue to resume in Maryland (RNS) A Roman Catholic college and seminary in Emmitsburg, Md., will host the next meeting of the official international dialogue between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox church leaders. The talks are scheduled for June 6-15. The session will mark the first time […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service Adventists: No religious significance in the year 2000 (RNS) The Seventh-day Adventist Church, which has its roots in a failed prophecy about the second coming of Jesus, says the turning of the new Christian millennium has no religious significance.”The year 2000 has no particular prophetic significance,”the church said in a […]
COMMENTARY: `The Siege’ reveals a fault line in American popular culture
By James Rudin — December 16, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the National Interreligious Affairs Director of the American Jewish Committee.) UNDATED _ The film,”The Siege,”has been sharply criticized by some Islamic organizations who complained that the movie presents a distorted and unfair picture of Islam and Muslims. But the controversy actually reveals more about American popular culture […]
NEWS STORY: Murder of Sikh publisher in Canada laid to factional religious strife
By Douglas Todd — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service VANCOUVER, British Columbia _ The high-profile publisher of a Sikh newspaper was murdered Wednesday (Nov. 18) night in an attack police said they believe is part of an ongoing conflict between Sikh moderates and traditionalists. Tara Singh Hayer, publisher of The Indo-Canadian Times, was gunned down four days before crucial […]
Christian Scientists promote legal shields for faith-healers
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ In the early 1980s, in the wake of more than 50 children’s deaths, Indiana lawmakers pushed to eliminate protections for faith healers and require parents to provide medical care for their children. Four times the bill passed the Indiana House of Representatives, and four times it died in […]
