Monthly Archives: October 2004
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 22, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Muslim Political Action Committee Gives Kerry `Qualified Endorsement’ (RNS) A political action committee representing major U.S. Muslim advocacy groups has given a “qualified endorsement” to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. The American Muslim Taskforce-Political Action Committee (AMT-PAC), which is affiliated with an umbrella organization representing the American Muslim Alliance, Council […]
NEWS STORY: Bush Poised to Increase Share of Jewish Vote
By RNS Blog Editor — October 22, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service TAMARAC, Fla. _ The Kings Point retirement community is home to some 8,000 people, almost all Jews. That’s more than the Jewish population of 13 states; more Jews than in Arkansas, Mississippi, West Virginia, Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas combined. Come Nov. 2, there is little doubt that Jews at […]
NEWS STORY: Bush and Kerry Scolded by Denominational Brethren
By Adelle M. Banks — October 22, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Members of a particular denomination used to be proud when they shared a religious affiliation with a president or presidential candidate. But the scoldings President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are receiving from fellow United Methodists and Roman Catholics illustrate that’s not necessarily true this election season. “What’s […]
NEWS STORY: Republican Party and Vatican Divided by War in Iraq
By RNS Blog Editor — October 22, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The Vatican and the United States were close allies during the 1980s Cold War. Republican President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II seemed to campaign shoulder-to-shoulder to combat abortion and Soviet Communism, especially in the pontiff’s homeland of Poland. Republicans thought they continued to have the inside track […]
COMMENTARY: Jefferson’s Wall Could Be Crumbling
By RNS Blog Editor — October 22, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin, the America Jewish Committee’s Senior Interreligious Adviser, is Distinguished Visiting Professor at Saint Leo University.) (UNDATED) I was a third-grader at Maury School in Alexandria, Va., when I first encountered religious bigotry and the liberating beliefs of Thomas Jefferson. There were 30 youngsters in my class, and on […]
NEWS STORY: Republicans Target the Amish in Battleground States
By RNS Blog Editor — October 21, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) It has been said that the Old Order Amish pray Republican even if they don’t vote Republican. But with the presidential race remaining tight in the final days before the Nov. 2 election, GOP campaign organizers in battleground states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania are hoping to turn Amish […]
NEWS STORY: Gay Episcopal Bishop Expresses `Regret,’ Won’t Bless Gay Unions
By Kein Eckstrom — October 21, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) An openly gay Episcopal bishop whose consecration was criticized by an Anglican church panel said Wednesday (Oct. 20) he is “deeply sorry” for the disarray his election has caused and will adopt a personal moratorium on blessing same-sex unions. “I do feel regret, a deep and abiding regret, that […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 21, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Jews Angered by Presbyterian Meeting With Hezbollah Leaders (RNS) The Presbyterian Church (USA), already under fire from Jewish groups for considering financial divestment from Israel, has stirred anger again for sending a delegation to the Middle East that met with Hezbollah, a Lebanese guerrilla group that the United States characterizes […]
NEWS STORY: Bush Makes Inroads With Help of Black Christian Conservatives
By Jonathan Tilove — October 21, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Amid mounting hostility in the black community, President Bush stands to markedly increase _ even double _ his share of the black vote Nov. 2, a new poll suggests. The Bush years, a sour economy and the war in Iraq appear to have driven younger blacks into a […]
RNS Weekly Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 20, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Spitting on Christians Decried in Israel JERUSALEM (RNS) The Israeli government has vowed to crack down on religious Jews who insult and spit at Christians. In a stern statement issued Tuesday (Oct. 12), Interior Minister Avraham Poraz condemned recent incidents in which Jewish seminary students, many of them Americans studying […]
NEWS STORY: Bishops at Odds Over Homosexuality Express Hope for Future
By RNS Blog Editor — October 20, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service LONDON _ Two bishops, one an American supporter of gay rights within the Anglican Communion and the other an African critic of such efforts, appeared at a forum Tuesday to explain their differences and express hope for a unified future for their international denomination. “It is the body of Christ,” […]
NEWS STORY: Top Episcopal Bishop Won’t Impose Panel’s Demands on Gay Bishops and Unions
By Kein Eckstrom — October 20, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The top bishop of the Episcopal Church said Tuesday (Oct. 19) he cannot impose a moratorium on either gay bishops or same-sex unions, two demands made by a top-level Anglican church panel. Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold said he has no power to stop a diocese from electing a gay […]
NEWS STORY: Evangelistic Tracts to Flood Pentagon
By Adelle M. Banks — October 20, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The American Tract Society has developed a closer relationship with the Pentagon, with plans to supply its chaplains’ office with hundreds of thousands of evangelistic pamphlets in the next year. “My general goal is to get as many tracts in circulation as I can,” Dan Southern, president of […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 20, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Reagan’s Daughter Sues Salvation Army Over Speaking Engagement (RNS) Patti Davis, the daughter of the late President Ronald Reagan, has filed suit against the Salvation Army, claiming her views supporting stem cell research led to a canceled speaking engagement. In a suit filed earlier this month (October) in New York […]
COMMENTARY: It’s Time for the Politicians to Listen to Us
By Tom Ehrich — October 20, 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) We have spent the past many months listening to politicians. It is time they listened to us. Here is what I hope they […]
