Monthly Archives: February 1998
COMMENTARY: There’s a biblical parallel with Iran’s Khatami
By James Rudin — February 27, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the National Interreligious Affairs Director of the American Jewish Committee.) UNDATED _ CNN, the Cable News Network, recently aired an interview with Mohammad Khatami, the president of Iran. It was Khatami’s first extended appearance in the Western media and he used the opportunity to say a few […]
NEWS PROFILE: Making Scripture available to `the average person’
By Adelle M. Banks — February 20, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Two hundred years ago, a man named Thomas Nelson wanted to put books into the hands of the common people of Scotland. Now, the company still bearing his name is a key player in an American industry striving to make Bibles and other Christian literature more accessible to […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — February 19, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service Religious groups continue to urge diplomacy to end Iraq crisis (RNS) Religious leaders against new U.S. military attacks on Iraq are continuing to express their opposition in letters to President Bill Clinton and statements to the media. Tuesday (Feb. 17), the leaders of the United Church of Christ (UCC) and […]
NEWS PROFILE: Faith, family inspire popular `painter of light’
By RNS Blog Editor — February 19, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Like a modern American Renoir, Thomas Kinkade is a”painter of light”whose cozy, flower-laced cottages invite onlookers to crawl inside their warmly lit windows for a romantic evening before the radiant hearths imagined within. Images of Kinkade’s idyllic Victorian villages and inspirational landscapes”account for more sales than any other […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — February 13, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service Judge bars video distribution of film in religious copyright dispute (RNS) A federal judge in Virginia has barred distribution of the video version of”Devil’s Advocate”until the film’s maker, Warner Bros., resolves a copyright dispute with sculptor Frederick Hart over Hart’s allegation the film illegally used an image of his work […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — February 13, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service Vatican orders inquiry of former Vienna archbishop (RNS) In response to rising anger among Austrian Catholics, the Vatican on Thursday (Feb. 12) launched a formal investigation of former Vienna Cardinal Hans Hermann Groer amid fresh allegations of sexual misconduct. Groer was forced to retire in 1995 after nine years as […]
Wednesday News Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — February 13, 1998
c. 1997 Religion News Service Scientology paid government $12.5 million to settle IRS dispute (RNS) The Church of Scientology has paid the U.S. government $12.5 million as part of a 1993 settlement with the Internal Revenue Service establishing the controversial group’s tax-exempt status.”Bottom line, the document (settlement) is a peace treaty. The war (with the […]
COMMENTARY: An excess of holiday expectations produces dangerous anxieties
By RNS Blog Editor — February 13, 1998
c. 1997 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) UNDATED-The psychiatrist who lives in my apartment building tells me the long holiday season, which begins at Thanksgiving and extends until after New Year’s Day, is his busiest time of the year. His office is filled with […]
Nuns on the ‘Net: Cloistered sisters join cyberspace craze
By RNS Blog Editor — February 13, 1998
c. 1997 Religion News Service (Ed. note: Photo to accompany this article is available from RNS Stock. To receive free software for downloading photos, call 800-767-6781.) UNDATED-Sister Mary Martin and Sister Ann rise at 5:30 each morning, meditate, and eat a simple breakfast in silence. For the cloistered nuns on an isolated hilltop in Ortonville, […]
NEWS FEATURE: Church marches to reclaim drug-infested neighborhood
By Bart Worden — February 12, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ It’s 7 p.m. on a raw January night in the Bronx and the Rev. John Jenik is gathering his flock in the parking lot of Our Lady of Refuge Church for their monthly prayer vigil. Instead of turning into the sanctuary, however, they head out beyond the […]
NEWS STORY: Argue leaving National Association of Evangelicals post
By RNS Blog Editor — February 6, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ The Rev. Don Argue, president of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), plans to resign his post this spring to become president of Northwest College, an Assemblies of God school in the Seattle suburb of Kirkland, Wash. The Rev. Leonard Hofman, NAE chairman, described Argue’s departure as”unexpected but […]
NEWS STORY: Aging ex-priests ask better treatment for a reluctant church
By RNS Blog Editor — February 6, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service BOSTON _ A dispute between a former Roman Catholic priest and his archdiocese in Boston has mushroomed into a national movement for aging priests who left the priesthood in the turmoil of the 1960s and who now say the church has denied them pension benefits they had been told to […]
NEWS STORY: Political dissidents buoyed by pope’s pilgrimage to Cuba
By RNS Blog Editor — February 4, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service SAN MIGUEL del PADRON, Cuba _ Maritza Lugo is under the surveillance of government agents. Her husband, Rafael Ibarro Roque, is serving a 20-year sentence on what she says is a trumped-up charge. But in the wake of Pope John Paul II’s history-making five-day tour of Cuba, during which he […]
Friday News Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — February 2, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service WCC delegation urges no attack on Iraq (RNS) A World Council of Churches delegation that recently visited Iraq has warned against a renewed U.S. military assault against Baghdad, saying such a course would only intensify the suffering of the Iraqi people. The delegation urged churches to lobby their respective governments […]
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