Monthly Archives: January 2005
NEWS STORY: Unsolved Murder of Family Divides Coptic Christians and Muslims
By RNS Blog Editor — January 26, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service JERSEY CITY, N.J. _ He says he has not yet made up his mind, but when Essam Fahim looks from the restaurant window to Journal Square below, a sadness in his face suggests he knows what he will do. He cannot stay because this is not the place he thought […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: Religious Leaders Focus on Poverty
By RNS Blog Editor — January 25, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) On Jan. 19, Roman Catholic Archbishop Harry Flynn of St. Paul-Minneapolis, and Bishop Peter Rogness of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America made a series of appearances on St. Paul’s West Side in an effort to bring poverty in the city into focus. “This is a very interesting neighborhood, […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: Religious Leaders Focus on Poverty
By RNS Blog Editor — January 25, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) On Jan. 19, Roman Catholic Archbishop Harry Flynn of St. Paul-Minneapolis, and Bishop Peter Rogness of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America made a series of appearances on St. Paul’s West Side in an effort to bring poverty in the city into focus. “This is a very interesting neighborhood, […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 25, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Take Case of Brain-Damaged Woman WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday (Jan. 24) declined to review a case involving Terri Schiavo, a brain-damaged woman whose right to life has been at the center of a 15-year legal battle. A Florida Supreme Court decision had […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 25, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Take Case of Brain-Damaged Woman WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday (Jan. 24) declined to review a case involving Terri Schiavo, a brain-damaged woman whose right to life has been at the center of a 15-year legal battle. A Florida Supreme Court decision had […]
NEWS STORY: Young Activists Energize Anti-Abortion March
By RNS Blog Editor — January 25, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Young people were some of the most vocal participants in the 32nd annual March for Life on Monday (Jan. 24). “A lot of teenagers have to face this choice later in life, so they decide now what they want to do,” said Cassie Feller, 15, of Parsippany, N.J. […]
NEWS STORY: Young Activists Energize Anti-Abortion March
By RNS Blog Editor — January 25, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Young people were some of the most vocal participants in the 32nd annual March for Life on Monday (Jan. 24). “A lot of teenagers have to face this choice later in life, so they decide now what they want to do,” said Cassie Feller, 15, of Parsippany, N.J. […]
NEWS FEATURE: Shortage of Kosher Hot Dogs and Other Meats Is Nothing to Relish
By RNS Blog Editor — January 25, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Call it the Case of the Missing Hot Dog. For the past 21/2 months, a severe shortage of Hebrew National franks and other kosher meats such as corned beef and salami has plagued delicatessens and supermarkets throughout the nation. “It’s terrible and it came at the worst possible time […]
NEWS FEATURE: Shortage of Kosher Hot Dogs and Other Meats Is Nothing to Relish
By RNS Blog Editor — January 25, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Call it the Case of the Missing Hot Dog. For the past 21/2 months, a severe shortage of Hebrew National franks and other kosher meats such as corned beef and salami has plagued delicatessens and supermarkets throughout the nation. “It’s terrible and it came at the worst possible time […]
NEWS STORY: Bush Begins First Day of Second Term at Cathedral Prayer Service
By Adelle M. Banks — January 22, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ President Bush started the first full day of his second term in church, gathering with religious leaders on Friday (Jan. 21) at the Washington National Cathedral for an interfaith prayer service steeped in spiritual guidance and songs of praise. Evangelist Billy Graham offered the opening prayer of the […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: Bush Inaugural Address Links Freedom With God
By Bruce Nolan — January 22, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) At the heart of George Bush’s energetic second inaugural promise Thursday (Jan. 20) to spread liberty around the world were two motives: because it will make America safer and because it is a God-given right of people everywhere. That second motive was one friends and critics listened for carefully. […]
NEWS FEATURE: Psychologists Say Rich Get Richer, But Not Happier
By Kevin Douglas Grant — January 22, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Will you be happier if you make more money? Psychologists say probably not _ assuming you aren’t poor, in which case a change in wealth can have a big impact on well-being. After attaining a certain earnings level _ some theorize that’s around $40,000 now in the United States, […]
COMMENTARY: Abraham is a Critical Bridge Among Muslims, Christians and Jews
By Hesham Hassaballa — January 22, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The air was hot, the desert vast, and there was no sign of life as far as the eye could see. The old man, with wife and infant son, had been traveling for miles when he decided to stop. Then suddenly, without saying a word, he turned and left. […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 22, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service In Bulgaria: No Tax on Sale of Church Candles (RNS) Patriarch Maxim, head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, has persuaded the government to see the light _ he’s won agreement to exempt the sale of church candles from the country’s Value Added Tax. The sale of candles is a lucrative […]
COMMENTARY: Prince Harry’s Nazi Costume Insults Those Who Died in Holocaust
By RNS Blog Editor — January 21, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) On Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous German Nazi death camp in Poland. The two sites, located three kilometers apart, have entered into the world’s lexicon as icons of radical evil and the Holocaust. More than 1.5 million Jews were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau, many in […]
