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NEWS FEATURE: Chaplains’ school: teaching soldiers to assist the sermonizing
By Adelle M. Banks — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service COLUMBIA, S.C. _ In a few brief hours under the pines of a training field at the Army’s Fort Jackson, Pfc. Matt Slyder learned some of the most violent _ and some of the most pacific _ aspects of military life. With dabs of green, black and brown paint camouflaging […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service “Holiday Season of Conscience”urged to end sweatshop abuses (RNS) Charles Kernaghan, the man who forced Kathie Lee Gifford to stop sweatshop production of her clothing line, wants Americans”to shop with a conscience”next Christmas by buying from companies that have joined a campaign to end sweatshop working conditions. At a meeting […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service Expert: Expect Russian provinces to curb religious freedom (RNS) A Moscow-based religious freedom expert says religious expression in Russia is likely to be further limited, despite President Boris Yeltsin’s recent veto of proposed legislation favoring”traditional”Russian religions over other faiths. Lawrence A. Uzzell, Moscow representative of the London-based Keston Institute, which […]
COMMENTARY: Abandoning bricks-and-mortar for freedom can cost stability
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion Writer (Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C., an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(at)interpath.com) APEX, N.C. _ With imagination and shared labor, hardy souls rush to turn a large classroom at Apex Middle School into church. Accoutrements of worship arrive in minivans, the vehicle […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service Assault charges against Schuller dropped (RNS) Federal prosecutors agreed Wednesday (Aug. 13) to drop misdemeanor assault charges against televangelist Robert Schuller for his role in a dispute with a male United Airlines flight attendant. During an appearance Wednesday in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y., Schuller pleaded innocent to the charges, […]
NEWS FEATURE: Indians, pagans, anthropologists tussle over 9,200-year-old bones
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service KENNEWICK, Wash. _ A battle is raging here on the banks of the Columbia River over the right to venerate, study, or bury forever, a 9,200-year-old skeleton known as Kennewick Man. The combatants are Native American religionists, who claim the bones as the sacred remains of an ancestor who deserves […]
NEWS STORY: Ruling could boost religion defense in drug cases
By RNS Blog Editor — May 31, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service SAN FRANCISCO (RNS)-An unusual federal appeals court ruling in a drug smuggling case allows Rastafarians to argue that they should legally be able to use marijuana for religious reasons. The ruling from the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco orders a Montana federal judge to retry drug […]
NEWS FEATURE: Tortured nun begins hunger strike
By Julia Lieblich — April 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-Sister Dianna Ortiz began a bread-and-water fast Monday to pressure the Clinton administration to release information about possible U.S. government involvement in her 1989 abduction, rape and torture in Guatemala. Sitting through cold, rainy nights in a makeshift encampment in front of the White House, the Roman Catholic nun […]
National security adviser makes late-night visits to protesting nun
By Julia Lieblich — April 16, 1996
c. 1996 Religion New Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-National Security Adviser Anthony Lake left the White House at about 10:30 last Wednesday night (April 10) and walked across the street to Lafayette Square, where a handful of homeless men were weathering the cold. For the third time that week, he stopped at an encampment of umbrellas covered […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — April 9, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Cardinal O’Connor uses Easter sermon to criticize euthanasia ruling (RNS)-Roman Catholic Cardinal John J. O’Connor of the Archdiocese of New York interrupted his joyous Easter Sunday (April 7) sermon celebrating the resurrection of Jesus to issue a somber warning about the dangers of assisted suicide. O’Connor, addressing a standing-room-only crowd […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Grahams to receive Gold Medal on National Day of Prayer (RNS)-Evangelist Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth, are scheduled to receive the Congressional Gold Medal on May 2, the National Day of Prayer. The joint meeting of Congress will be held at 2 p.m. in the Capitol Rotunda to honor […]
TOP STORY: ISLAM IN BOSNIA: From the ashes of war, Islamic awareness rises in Bosnia
By RNS Blog Editor — February 20, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service GORAZDE, Bosnia (RNS)-On the east bank of the River Drina, Mufti Muhammed Effendic, leader of Gorazde’s Islamic community, inspects the latest repairs on the minaret of Sinanbeg Sijercic Mosque. The new minaret is an ungainly construction of steel poles and twisted wires with a loudspeaker perched precariously at its top. […]
COMMENTARY: A beginner’s guide to meditation
By RNS Blog Editor — February 14, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Aaron Zerah is an interfaith minister in Santa Cruz, Calif.) Blessed is the one who does not walk In the counsel of the unrighteous … But delights in the teaching of the Divine. And on this teaching meditates day and night. Such a one is like a tree planted by […]
NEWS STORY: Four American Baptist churches expelled over gay outreach
By Ira Rifkin — January 11, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Four San Francisco Bay-area American Baptist churches have been expelled from their regional jurisdiction because of their outreach to homosexuals. Delegates at a special meeting of American Baptist Churches of the West, one of 34 regional jurisdictions of the 1.5 million-member mainline Protestant American Baptist Churches in the USA, voted […]
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 […]
