Monthly Archives: June 2004
NEWS STORY: French Reopen Case into Murdered Monks
By Elizabeth Bryant — June 30, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service TIBEHIRINE, Algeria _ The seven French monks lived in a stone farmhouse fringed with pine and apple trees outside this small village, tucked into the soaring hills of northern Algeria. As Islamist violence tore the country apart, they cared for the sick and visited their Algerian neighbors. When the village […]
NEWS STORY: Pope Hopes for `Leap Forward’ in Catholic-Orthodox Relations
By RNS Blog Editor — June 30, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ Pope John Paul II welcomed the leader of the world’s 250 million Orthodox Christians to the Vatican on Tuesday (June 29) with an appeal for a “leap forward” in relations between the long-divided Catholic and Orthodox churches. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I came to Rome at the pope’s […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 30, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Mayors Create Network for Faith, Government Leaders to Aid Ex-Offenders (RNS) The U.S. Conference of Mayors has approved the creation of a “national re-entry consortium” that will bring government and religious leaders together to help people leaving prison readjust to society. A resolution calling for the consortium was proposed after […]
COMMENTARY: Where’s George Washington When We Really Need Him?
By Tom Ehrich — June 30, 2004
c. 2004 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. Visit his Web site at http://www.onajourney.org.) (UNDATED) Happy birthday, America! Where are Washington, Madison and Jefferson when we need them? Where I live, government is paralyzed by bickering among officials. […]
NEWS STORY: Poll Suggests Muslim Disfavor for Bush Could Swing Election
By Judilee King — June 30, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ A new poll by a prominent civil rights group suggests that support for President Bush among Muslim voters has eroded so swiftly that Muslim votes for Sen. John Kerry could swing the presidential election in key battleground states. Of the nearly 1,200 Muslim voters surveyed in June by […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 29, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service CAIR, NCC Praise Supreme Court Ruling on Detainees WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday (June 28) that “enemy combatants” and foreign nationals detained by the United States must be permitted to challenge their detention in U.S. courts. The rulings in two separate cases were applauded by religious groups […]
NEWS STORY: Palestinian Pastor Pushes Plight of Holy Land Christians
By RNS Blog Editor — June 29, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The Rev. Mitri Raheb recalled a lecture he recently gave in Chicago. After the talk, a man asked Raheb why he had converted to Christianity. The Palestinian Lutheran pastor considered the question. “It was like this man thought I had been converted by missionaries from the Midwest,” Raheb, […]
NEWS FEATURE: For New Junior Miss, Faith Is `Leading Factor’
By RNS Blog Editor — June 29, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service MOBILE, Ala. _ Some parents have trouble trying to tote young children to church. But young Shannon Essenpreis helped get her family focused on faith. Essenpreis, now 18, said she discovered Christianity at about the time she was a third-grader. “I actually wasn’t raised that way,” the new America’s Junior […]
COMMENTARY: Shadows on the Wall
By Byron Kaye — June 29, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (Les Kaye is the abbot of Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center in Mountain View, Calif., and author of “Zen at Work.” He is the founder of Meditation at Work, an awareness training program for businesses.) (UNDATED) If you didn’t know better, you might think that they had collaborated in a […]
NEWS STORY: Jakes’ Mega Fest Brings 100,000 to Atlanta
By Terry Byrne — June 26, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service ATLANTA _ With 100,000 registrants and tens of thousands of walk-ins expected, power preacher Bishop T.D. Jakes’ Mega Fest has taken over four giant downtown venues in Atlanta this week (June 23-26) for four days of fervent Christian worship mixed with an all-star entertainment lineup. Jakes regularly draws thousands of […]
NEWS FEATURE: Work Program Offers New Hope for Struggling Catholic High Schools
By Daniel Gonzalez — June 26, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service CHICAGO _ It’s 8 a.m. and about 120 students at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School here are chatting in the school’s cafeteria as they eat breakfast. Lourdes Orozco, a program coordinator at the school reads a few announcements and rattles off a list of students she needs to speak with. […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 26, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Dobson Says Prospects for Marriage Amendment `Not Good’ WASHINGTON (RNS) Focus on the Family founder James Dobson told journalists Friday (June 25) that he doesn’t think a proposed amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman has a good chance of passing on Capitol Hill. “The […]
RELIGION BESTSELLERS
By RNS Blog Editor — June 26, 2004
(Editor’s note: This list is compiled by Publishers Weekly magazine from data received from general independent bookstores, chain stores and wholesalers within the month of May. Copyright 2004 Publishers Weekly. Distributed by Religion News Service.) HARDCOVER 1. The Purpose-Driven Life, by Rick Warren. (Zondervan, $19.99) 2. Glorious Appearing, by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. […]
NEWS STORY: Departing Members of Review Board Urge Vigilance
By Kein Eckstrom — June 25, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Two years ago, Anne Burke was a self-admitted “passive Catholic” who lived in relative obscurity, save for her job as a justice on the Illinois Court of Appeals and wife of a Chicago alderman. But then she got a phone call from a Catholic bishop downstate who asked her […]
NEWS STORY: Reform Rabbis Denounce Bush on `False’ Weapons Claims
By Ron Csillag — June 25, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service TORONTO _ Reform rabbis meeting here for their annual conference condemned the Bush administration for using “false claims” of weapons of mass destruction to justify the war in Iraq and for failing to implement a plan to end “chaos” in the country. The Iraq resolution adopted by the 450 rabbis […]
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