Monthly Archives: December 1999
NEWS FEATURE: The city of Jesus’ birth readies itself for the millennium
By Elaine Fletcher — December 8, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service BETHLEHEM, Palestinian Authority _ When Khalil Shokeh attended last weekend’s inauguration of this ancient city’s Bethlehem 2000 millennium festivities, he noticed that he was seeing his city in a light that was unfamiliar even to him, a native son.”Now, for the first time, thanks to all of this cleaning and […]
COMMENTARY: Parades, race and Jesus
By Tom Ehrich — December 8, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. An Episcopal priest, he lives in Durham, N.C.) DURHAM, N.C. _ Even though the Northerner in me is surprised by 70-degree days in December, I don’t complain as we stand along Main Street in short sleeves and watch […]
NEWS STORY: Religion journalists name Protestant Reformation millennium’s top story
By Ira Rifkin — December 2, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ The Protestant Reformation was selected as the top religion story of the second Christian millennium by members of the Religion Newswriters Association, who also voted the Holocaust the 20th century’s leading news event. In 1517, the rebellious German priest Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses condemning Rome’s practice […]
NEWS STORY: Supreme Court hears arguments on key church-state case
By Adelle M. Banks — December 2, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Should the government provide computers and other equipment to religious schools in an effort to treat all schoolchildren equally? Or does providing such materials violate the separation of church and state guaranteed by the First Amendment? The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday (Dec. 1) in the […]
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