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NEWS STORY: U.S. missionaries among casualties of Mitch aftermath
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Remnants of Hurricane Mitch, the deadly storm that swept through Central America over the weekend, are being pointed to as a possible cause for a plane crash in western Guatemala that killed 11 people, including 10 American missionaries and a Guatemalan pilot. Seven other Americans injured in the […]
COMMENTARY: Resurrecting the legacy of Mother Teresa
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 MSNBC (Joan Connell is editor of the Opinions section of MSNBC on the Internet.) UNDATED _ The mounds of ready-made, cellophane-wrapped bouquets that have come to symbolize popular sentiment over the death of Princess Diana are piling up again to mark the first anniversary of her death. But in war-torn Kosovo, a rough […]
NEWS FEATURE: Camp helps Polish Jews rediscover their roots
By Chris Smith — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service RYCHWALD, Poland _ Zbigniew Siwinski never understood why, as a boy, the Polish Catholic woman who raised him taught him Jewish folklore and Hebrew. It could be useful someday, she would say. But she never told him what he was too young to remember: Siwinski had been rescued from a […]
NEWS FEATURE: Remembering Eleanor Roosevelt _ `mother’ of U.N. human rights declaration
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Eleanor Roosevelt is remembered for many humanitarian contributions to the nation and to the world, but she is being remembered this year as the”mother”of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a touchstone for faith groups as they are increasingly involved in international human rights issues. Pope […]
NEWS PROFILE: Pastor on Clinton’s race panel: Can there be one America?
By Bart Worden — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Every Sunday the Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook tends to the spiritual needs of her flock from the pulpit of a storefront church in the South Bronx, a baseball’s throw from Yankee Stadium. By Monday, she’s usually on a plane headed for some far-flung city to help heal […]
NEWS STORY: What are the rules for breaking the rules
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service HARTFORD, Conn. _ What are the rules for breaking the rules? When it comes to sports, philosophers, theologians and ethicists appear to be as divided as the rest of the public. They do not even agree on what should be the fundamental principles guiding sports behavior, short of general condemnation […]
NEWS FEATURE: Religion camps come in all varieties
By Julia Lieblich — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service CARMEL, N.Y. _ A nun in a long gray robe, her head shaved bare, leaned over a small girl clinging to her last moments of sleep. The nun rubbed the child’s shoulder in silence. And the girl opened her eyes and looked quizzically at the bald figure welcoming her to […]
COMMENTARY: Forgiveness: the new growth industry
By James Rudin — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) UNDATED _ In case you haven’t noticed, today’s fastest growing industry is no longer high technology. Instead, it’s the rapidly expanding business of producing public forgiveness and apologies _ actions that can be beneficial but are sometimes […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service Robertson says gays’ flags invite God’s wrath on Orlando (RNS) Invoking the Bible, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson has warned Orlando, Fla., it may face God’s wrath in the form of hurricanes for having allowed homosexual groups to fly rainbow flags from city light poles in connection with”Gay Days”at Walt Disney […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service Religious broadcaster Hagee sues Postal Service, claims censorship (RNS) Texas pastor and religious broadcaster John Hagee has sued the U.S. Postal Service, claiming his ministry has been discriminated against by the service and its mailings have been”delayed, held and even censored.” The American Center for Law and Justice filed the […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service Religious leaders call for inquiry into Algeria massacres (RNS) An interfaith coalition of religious organizations is calling on the U.S. government to take an active role in helping to stop the massacres that have left more than 75,000 dead in Algeria during the past six years as Islamic fundamentalist try […]
COMMENTARY: Bringing the Third World home
By Dale Hanson Bourke — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS and serves on the board of World Vision International.) UNDATED _ Traveling to a developing country is often a life-changing experience. The sights, sounds and peoples of a country so foreign can up-end the way you look at your own situation and dramatically […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service Judge dismisses Orthodox lawsuit against Yale University (RNS) A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Yale University by four Orthodox Jewish students who said the school’s housing policy violated their religious requirements of chastity and modesty. But U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford, Conn., ruled Yale’s policy did […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — February 19, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service Rosalynn Carter urges greater attention to care of dying (RNS) Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has been named honorary chair of a new coalition aimed at improving the care of Americans who are dying. The coalition, called Last Acts, is made up of organizations representing religious groups, the medical community, […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: Mining the gold in the dark side
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service UNDATED _ In their book”Romancing the Shadow: Illuminating the Dark Side of the Soul”(Ballantine), psychotherapists Connie Zweig and Steve Wolf tell how to heighten self-awareness of the personal shadow. Often, said Zweig, we can see our shadow reflected in psychological”projections”_ strong reactions to people we interact with. A person may […]