Monthly Archives: May 1996
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 29, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Treasury department releases seized Cuba-bound computers (RNS)-The U.S. Treasury Department late Friday (May 24) released some 374 Cuba-bound computers seized earlier this year from Pastors for Peace, a clergy and lay activist group that opposes U.S. policy toward Cuba. The computers, to be used in Cuba’s faltering health-care system, were […]
NEWS STORY: Bishops who brought heresy charges to take fight to Episcopal convention
By RNS Blog Editor — May 29, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service DALLAS (RNS)-A group of 10 Episcopal Church bishops who accused retired Bishop Walter Righter of heresy for ordaining a non-celibate gay man as a deacon said Tuesday (May 28) it has not yet ruled out whether it will appeal Righter’s acquittal by a church court. Instead, the group said it […]
TOP STORY: SOUTH AFRICA: Once backer of apartheid, South African party now espouses family values
By RNS Blog Editor — May 29, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (RNS)-A few days after it announced it was withdrawing from the coalition government formed with the African National Congress, the National Party and its leader, F.W. de Klerk, uttered a message central to its new opposition stance: Family values. What emerged from the collapse of the coalition, […]
New book on the Holocaust stirs angry debate among scholars
By Kristen Campbell — May 29, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-To author Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, it seemed like common sense: The Germans who participated in the deaths of 6 million Jews in Germany were not a small or coerced group of killers. Challenging the work of his fellow scholars and invigorating the Holocaust debate with his first major publication,”Hitler’s Willing […]
One man’s fight against child porn on the Internet
By RNS Blog Editor — May 29, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-It was a scene Kurt Vonnegut could have written. Barry Crimmins, a bearded, 42-year-old, left-wing political satirist from Lakewood, Ohio, was testifying before a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee investigating child pornography on the Internet. To make matters richer, he had been invited to testify by his newfound ally, the very […]
COMMENTARY: An anatomical argument for the existence of God
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — May 29, 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 magazine.) (RNS)-I found out the other day I have a pancreas. Not that I would have ever denied it; I know that the existence of […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Religious leaders warn against hate talk (RNS)-The rising tide of hate talk permeating the U.S. airwaves in particular and public discourse in general is endangering the nation, according to a group of religious leaders.”Our American public square is being systematically poisoned by the language of assault,”the fourth Maston Colloquium held […]
Portraits of compassion in words and pictures
By RNS Blog Editor — May 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-In boldface below is caption information for six photographs by Phil Borges. Following each, in quotes, are comments by the Dalai Lama on the nature of compassion that accompany Borges’ portraits, in”Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion,”a new book they co-authored, published by Rizzoli Press. 1. Tenzin Gyatso, 59 At […]
COMMENTARY: A beach bum’s guide to great literature
By RNS Blog Editor — May 26, 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.) (RNS)-Many of us vacation with our families, but […]
TOP STORY: BUDDHISM AND ART: Compassion visible: Portraits from Tibet
By RNS Blog Editor — May 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-When Seattle photographer Phil Borges focused his camera’s eye on the people of Tibet, he perceived many things. Suffering. A deep stillness. A capacity for laughter to coexist with tears. But above all else, engraved in Borges’ mind and in the photos he made is the Buddhist principle of compassion. […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Aid groups join call for U.N. peacekeepers in Liberia (RNS)-A group of 13 religious and secular relief agencies have appealed to the U.S. government to take the lead in creating a United Nations peacekeeping force for war-torn Liberia.”The prolonged crisis in Liberia has forced nearly a third of the country’s […]
NEWS STORY: Vatican appeals to Algerian Muslims for peace
By RNS Blog Editor — May 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS)-The Vatican expressed horror Friday (May 24) over the murder of seven French Trappist monks by Islamic extremists in Algeria and urged Muslims to unite against the violence that has gripped the country. French President Jacques Chirac’s essentially confirmed earlier the same day that the monks, who had […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 24, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Prosecutor won’t use confession given to Catholic priest (RNS)-An Oregon district attorney says he will not use a tape of a jailhouse confession given to a Roman Catholic priest by a murder suspect. Lane County prosecutor Doug Harcleroad said Wednesday (May 22) that he was”wrong to authorize the taping of […]
NEWS FEATURE: Bishop said to be within rights on excommunication order
By RNS Blog Editor — May 24, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS)-If Bishop Fabian W. Bruskewitz is mistaken, as some critics charge, he’s erred on the right side. That, at least, is the early assessment among leading Catholic scholars and Vatican cognoscenti who have watched the Lincoln, Neb., bishop launch a crusade to cleanse his diocese of dissent. Bruskewitz […]
TOP STORY: CHARITY AND POLITICS: Dole Foundation does good work with money some see as tainted
By Shaun Casey — May 24, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-“The needs are great; I don’t care where the money comes from,” says Paul Hearne, president of the Dole Foundation for Employment of People With Disabilities. The needs are great: There are 49 million people in the United States with a disability, at least two-thirds of whom are unemployed. […]
