Monthly Archives: May 1996
Gospel singer CeCe Winans `excited’ about first solo tour
By Madi Alexander — May 24, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Christian singer CeCe Winans has shared most of her recording career with her brother, BeBe. She’s best known as the female half of BeBe & CeCe Winans, the decade-old brother-sister gospel/R&B team that’s become one of the most celebrated duos in pop music. And she’s the eighth of 10 children […]
COMMENTARY: A high price for honor
By James Rudin — May 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (RNS)-The tragic suicide of the Navy’s top officer, Admiral Jeremy M. Boorda, raises disturbing questions about America’s love affair with the armed forces and about the meaning of the term”honor,”which is so much a part of the […]
COMMENTARY: Peace can bring out the worst in people
By RNS Blog Editor — May 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and sociologist at the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center. His home page on the World Wide Web is at http://www.greeley.com. Or contact him via e-mail at agreel(AT)aol.com.) (RNS)-Peace is tough. And there is ample evidence that the peace […]
TOP STORY: CHILDREN AND POLITICS: Childrens march puts familiar foes at odds
By RNS Blog Editor — May 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-Jane and Philip Hall will climb aboard a bus at midnight on June 1 in Florence, Mass., for a nine-hour trip to be part of a rally billed as an “historic stand for children.” The Halls say they have three aims-none of them political, at least not in the […]
NEWS STORY: Catholic liberals launch petition drive aimed at key changes in church
By RNS Blog Editor — May 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-A coalition of more than 20 liberal Roman Catholic organizations, taking a cue from church members in Germany and Austria, Wednesday (May 22) launched a drive to gather 1 million signatures over the next year in support of changes in church law, including a married priesthood, female ordination and […]
NEWS STORY: Amnesty report: Health workers embroiled in human-rights abuses
By RNS Blog Editor — May 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-Doctors and nurses around the world have been killed or jailed by governments for refusing to participate in torture and other human-rights abuses, Amnesty International said in a report released Wednesday (May 22). The London-based human-rights organization said doctors have been coerced-sometimes by law- into assisting in amputations, inflicted […]
NEWS FEATURE: India’s Zoroastrians live and die by ancient beliefs
By RNS Blog Editor — May 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service BOMBAY, India (RNS)-Soaring above luxury apartments in an exclusive section of Bombay, vultures swoop toward the Parsi Towers of Silence on Malabar Hill. It is time for another”burial”at the”vultures cemetery.” Parsis, Indian followers of the ancient faith of Zoroastrianism, believe fire, earth and water are sacred. Thus they will not […]
NEWS FEATURE: Children of Holocaust survivors remember and weep
By David Finnigan — May 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service BURBANK, Calif. (RNS)-Adolf Hitler’s”final solution”focused not only on the physical extermination of Jews, but also on a nightmarish dream to wipe out all trace of Jewish life and culture. At a small hotel gathering here this past weekend (May 17-18) of about 130 Holocaust survivors and their grown children, the […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Religious, aid groups criticize Clinton’s new land mines policy (RNS)-Religious groups and humanitarian relief organizations have criticized President Clinton’s recently announced land mines policy, calling it a disappointment and too limited to save lives.”This policy does little more than reinforce the status quo,”said Julia Taft, president of InterAction, a Washington-based […]
COMMENTARY: The seductive power of little lies
By Dale Hanson Bourke — May 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the publisher of Religion News Service and author of”Turn Toward the Wind.”) (RNS)-When I asked the taxi driver for a receipt yesterday, he handed me a blank slip.”Could you fill it out?”I asked.”Most people like to fill in their own amount,”he said, shrugging.”They pick up a […]
TOP STORY: SPIRITUALITY: Listening for God in the silence of meditation
By Chris Smith — May 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-After working with the homeless and drug addicted for several years, Mike Little felt overwhelmed by frustration and cynicism. Then he learned about”centering prayer,”a modern method of tapping into the ancient Christian tradition of contemplation. Now, twice a day for 20 minutes, Little sits in silence, closes his eyes and […]
NEWS STORY: Federal officials defend handling of church arson probes
By Carl Anderson — May 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-The Clinton administration Tuesday (May 21) defended its handling of a string of suspicious arsons at African-American churches, saying it had more than 200 federal agents investigating the incidents. Federal officials who testified at a one-day House Judiciary Committee hearing also said that while they were”actively”investigating whether the church […]
TOP STORY: IN THE WAKE OF APARTHEID: After the bloodshed, former South Africa enemies walk side by s
By RNS Blog Editor — May 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service TOKOZA TOWNSHIP, South Africa (RNS)-Not long ago Wiseman Ndbele and Albert Mogaila came to Kumalo Street, in the center of this sprawling township east of Johannesburg, for only one reason: to try to kill each other. In the five years leading up to the country’s first multi-racial election in 1994, […]
COMMENTARY: Interfaith marriage not made in heaven
By RNS Blog Editor — May 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Eli Hecht is a member of Judaism’s Lubavitch Hasidic sect. He is director of Chabad of South Bay in Lomita, Calif., and vice-president of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. He can be reached on via e-mail at rabbieh(at)aol.com.) (RNS)-There was once a man who had two wives. The younger […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Jewish National Fund rejects money from Messianic Jews (RNS)-After a outcry from its regional offices and several major donors, the Jewish National Fund, which raises money for reforestation and other land-related projects in Israel, reversed its decision to accept a $50,000 donation from two organizations that seek to convert Jews […]
