social issues
NEWS STORY: World Jewish population plummeting, study says
By Elaine Fletcher — January 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service JERUSALEM (RNS)-The Jewish population is plummeting around the world-with the exception of Israel, Germany, Canada and Panama-according to a demographic”State of the Jewish World”report issued during the World Jewish Congress annual convention held this week in Jerusalem. Only 13 million Jews are alive today worldwide-meaning that the community has not […]
COMMENTARY: What’s so bad about men?
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — January 24, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of the recent book”Real Choices”and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today and other publications.) (RNS)-It’s not every day you get to see a photo of a woman folding a man up and pushing him into a […]
NEWS STORY: Thousands urge Clinton to ban late-term abortion procedure
By Adelle M. Banks — January 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-Thousands of cheering anti-abortion activists, rallying here Monday on the 23rd anniversary of the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision, condemned President Clinton for his stance on abortion and urged him to approve a proposed legislative ban on a controversial procedure. The annual march, held on the Ellipse in sight […]
NEWS STORY: Religious groups form anti-gambling coalition
By Carl Anderson — January 18, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-In a rare show of unity on a public-policy issue, the liberal National Council of Churches and the conservative Christian Coalition said Wednesday they would work together to try to stop the spread of legal gambling in the United States.”When the Christian Coalition and the National Council of Churches […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Episcopal Church recovers most of embezzled funds (RNS) The Episcopal Church in the United States has closed the book on the Ellen Cooke scandal, announcing all but about $100,000 has been recovered from the $2.2 million embezzled by its former treasurer. The total loss to the church was $422,094, including […]
Bishops: `Global economy has moral dimensions’
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Following is the text of”A Catholic Framework for Economic Life,”approved here Tuesday (Nov. 12) by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops: As followers of Jesus Christ and participants in a powerful economy, Catholics in the United States are called to work for greater economic justice in the face […]
TOP STORY: POPE, CAREY CONCLUDE TALKS: Catholics, Anglicans remain divided over thorny issues
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ Anglican Church leader Archbishop George Carey and Pope John Paul II remained at an impasse after two days of talks over fundamental issues that have divided their churches, including women’s ordination, gay marriages and the primacy, or supreme authority, of the pontiff. The meetings, which ended Thursday […]
COMMENTARY: Gay marriage ruling signals divorce of law and morality
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson via e-mail at 71421.1551(at)compuserve.com.) UNDATED _ Few were surprised that a Hawaii […]
NEWS STORY: Intermarriage continues to bedevil Reform Judaism
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Though the lay leadership of Reform Judaism has overwhelmingly rejected a proposal that would have encouraged the movement’s rabbis to officiate at interfaith weddings, it hardly puts the issue to rest for the country’s largest Jewish denomination. The tension between rabbis and congregants on the issue, in fact, […]
COMMENTARY: Sometimes it takes the wisdom of age to preserve a legacy
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) In the film,”The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,”the movie’s protagonist (masterfully played by Cicely Tyson) waits expectantly for a young man to emerge who will help deliver African-Americans from racial oppression. As the years go by, each would-be deliverer falls short in his quest. Finally, it is left to […]
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