Monthly Archives: July 1996
TOP STORY: THIRD WORLD MISSION WORK: Robertson in Zaire: Big plans fail after advice is ignored
By RNS Blog Editor — July 13, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service KINSHASA, Zaire _ Experienced foreign missionaries and businessmen in this city of 4 million people perched on the banks of the Congo River have much advice for the uninitiated eager to save souls or make a buck in this nation where anarchy reigns supreme. They will tell you that nothing […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 13, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service House passes bill to make food donations for hungry easier (RNS) The House on Friday (July 12) passed legislation designed to make it easier for corporations to donate food to soup kitchens, food pantries and other groups helping the hungry and homeless. The legislation, the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food […]
COMMENTARY: A soft-spoken prelate makes remarkable proposals for change
By RNS Blog Editor — July 13, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. His home page on the World Wide Web is at http://www.agreeley.com. Or contact him via e-mail at agreelaol.com.) (UNDATED) Quietly and respectfully, John R. Quinn, archbishop emeritus of […]
TOP STORY: MAKING BABIES, UNMAKING A MARRIAGE: When a marriage ends, who gets kids conceived in a pe
By RNS Blog Editor — July 12, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ Legal and medical ethics experts doubt Donald Ezzone will win custody of his petri-dish produced twins. The 3-year-old twins, Marcus and Gina Ezzone, resulted from an in vitro process, using his sperm to fertilize eggs donated by his wife’s sister, Rebecca Greathouse. The eggs were then implanted in […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 12, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Canadian churches threaten Florida boycott over anti-Cuba law (RNS) A coalition of Canadian churches, humanitarian agencies, labor unions and activist organizations say they will launch a boycott of tourism to Florida this fall in an effort to persuade President Clinton to waive provisions of recently passed anti-Cuba legislation. The groups […]
NEWS STORY: NETANYAHU’S RISING POPULARITY: For American Jews, Netanyahu’s a winner
By Ira Rifkin — July 12, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Almost 62 percent of all U.S. Jews have a favorable opinion of new Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even though more than half said they would have voted for his opponent, Shimon Peres, according to a survey of the American Jewish community released Wednesday (July 10). The study, conducted […]
A guide to women’s spiritual renewal
By RNS Blog Editor — July 12, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service. (UNDATED) Hundreds of thousands of men have joined the Promise Keepers movement, a Colorado-based Christian organization established in 1991 to renew men’s commitment to their faith and their families. And now, women are getting into the act. Here’s a list of new women’s groups, independent of Promise Keepers, but designed […]
NEWS FEATURE: WOMEN AND PROMISE KEEPERS
By Adelle M. Banks — July 12, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Five years ago, Christian men drawn to the emerging Promise Keepers movement began attending mass rallies in stadiums across the country, making pledges to make their faith and families paramount in their lives. Now, it appears to be the women’s turn. In churches and sports arenas from Kansas to […]
COMMENTARY: Beware the `W”word
By James Rudin — July 12, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (UNDATED) Preachers of every faith have long employed a special vocabulary to do battle with their adversaries. The S-words, for instance _”sin,””secular,”and”Satan”_ have always been like laser-guided smart bombs in the clergy’s verbal attack arsenal. But the […]
NEWS FEATURE: CHURCHES REACHING OUT: Two churches bond as they build a new sanctuary
By RNS Blog Editor — July 12, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service GILLIAM, La. _ Terral Whetstone doesn’t remember exactly when the idea formed, this plan to burn the black congregation’s church. But the more he thought about it, the more this white man liked it. “The Lord just kind of led us into it,” Whetstone said. “We took up the challenge.” […]
TOP STORY: WHO OWNS HISTORY? Polish groups cast doubt on Holocaust scholar
By RNS Blog Editor — July 11, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON Amid all the horrors housed at this city’s U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is a three-story exhibit to human dignity known as “The Tower of Life,” more than 1,000 photographs of the Jewish residents of a small Polish village of Ejszyszki, taken before the Nazi terror forever changed their lives. […]
TOP STORY: WHO OWNS HISTORY? Polish groups cast doubt on Holocaust scholar
By RNS Blog Editor — July 11, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Amid all the horrors housed at this city’s U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is a three-story exhibit to human dignity known as”The Tower of Life,”more than 500 photographs of the Jewish residents of a small Polish village of Ejszyszki, taken before the Nazi terror forever changed their lives. Organized […]
NEWS UPDATE: Clinton praises efforts to rebuild burned houses of worship
By RNS Blog Editor — July 11, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ President Clinton praised religious groups, political leaders and the public for their response to the rash of church burnings, at ceremonies Wednesday (July 10) marking a new law that would stiffen federal penalties for such crimes.”I want to compliment all the religious organizations and other groups in this […]
COMMENTARY: The president as preacher
By RNS Blog Editor — July 11, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.) (UNDATED) About 10 years ago, Rep. William Gray, who now heads the United Negro College Fund, made what many thought to […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 11, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Formal unity talks urged for British Methodists and Anglicans (RNS) A new report by officials from the Church of England and the British Methodist Church has recommended that the two denominations enter into formal talks aimed at reuniting the two bodies, which have been separated since the 18th century. The […]
