Monthly Archives: January 2006
COMMENTARY: We Can Still Overcome, With God’s Help
By Tom Ehrich — January 18, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) I was 10 when Rosa Parks sat down in a white man’s seat. I was a white Northerner bound for college and career when the civil rights movement transformed the Deep South and headed north. Education changed everything. I couldn’t get away with childhood politics. I had to think […]
With Gold-Lettered Teeth, `Jesus Man’ Preaches in Traffic
By RNS Blog Editor — January 18, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _ On a chilly Saturday afternoon, evangelist John Brown, also known as “Jesus Man,” holds a microphone to his mouth and melodically chirps out a sermon in a Jamaican accent as cars go by on Lakeshore Drive. “The reason why I’m here is because God put me here,” […]
Crowd Control Can Save Lives at Large Islamic Gatherings
By RNS Blog Editor — January 14, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) When more than 360 people were trampled to death Thursday (Jan. 12) during the hajj’s symbolic stoning of the devil near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, it was not the first time a large number of Muslims have died as they performed a religious ritual. Experts say mass religious gatherings always […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 14, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service U.S. Muslims Call for Hajj Tragedy Investigation (RNS) U.S. Muslim leaders are urging Saudi Arabia to allow an independent investigation into Thursday’s (Jan. 12) stampede near Mecca that killed at least 363 people performing an annual pilgrimage that is required of all Muslims. “There’s some anger,” said Edina Lekovic, a […]
The Forgotten Martin Luther King: Local Pastor: With optional trim to 800 words
By Kim Lawton — January 14, 2006
c. 2006 Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly MONTGOMERY, Ala. _ Martin Luther King Jr. led a nonviolent freedom movement and became a world figure. But he was first and foremost a pastor. “The pastor role was central to everything, virtually everything, that Dr. King achieved,” Lewis Baldwin, professor of religious studies at Vanderbilt University told the […]
Crowd control at religious events; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: local pastor
By RNS Blog Editor — January 14, 2006
Following Thursday’s stampede during the hajj in Saudi Arabia, RNS is transmitting an updated version of a story by Andrea Useem that first ran on September 6, after the stampede in Baghdad. A sidebar lists deadly stampedes at religious events: When at least 363 people were trampled to death near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday […]
Don’t bet on gambling and campaign contributions
By Tracy Gordon — January 13, 2006
Quote of the Day: Focus on the Family Chairman James Dobson “If the nation’s politicians don’t fix this national disaster, then the oceans of gambling money with which Jack Abramoff tried to buy influence on Capitol Hill will only be the beginning of the corruption we’ll see.” –Focus on the Family Chairman James Dobson, commenting […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 13, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Pope John Paul II’s Gunman Released From Turkish Prison VATICAN CITY (RNS) Mehmet Ali Agca, the gunman who shot John Paul II in St. Peter’s square in 1981, was freed from a Turkish prison Thursday (Jan. 12), completing decades of jail time for the assassination attempt and the 1979 murder […]
COMMENTARY: Time to Sing Happy 250th Birthday for `Wolfie’
By RNS Blog Editor — January 13, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) One of my most vivid childhood memories is my father’s huge collection of 78 rpm phonograph recordings. Classical music filled our home, and back then, I loved the big Russian orchestral pieces _ Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture,” Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” and Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade.” But in recent years _ […]
Christian Scientists Prepare to Battle Bird Flu With Prayer
By RNS Blog Editor — January 13, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ Nineteen-year-old Dan Johnson said he held in his pocket the key to preventing a bird flu pandemic. After watching television news reports warning of a potential outbreak, the University of Southern California sophomore picked up a copy of “Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures,” a […]
Catholic Bishops Urge Iraq Troop Withdrawal `Sooner Rather Than Later’
By Kein Eckstrom — January 13, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ America’s Catholic bishops on Thursday (Jan. 12) called for U.S. troops to leave Iraq “sooner rather than later,” and expressed concern that the war has drained funds from “pressing needs” at home and abroad. Bishop Thomas Wenski, writing for the bishops’ international policy committee, called for an “honest […]
Bishops urge Iraq withdrawal; Christian Scientists fight bird flu with prayer
By RNS Blog Editor — January 13, 2006
U.S. Catholic bishops have urged the withdrawal of troops in Iraq “sooner rather than later,” writes RNS associate editor Kevin Eckstrom in today’s report: America’s Catholic bishops said Thursday (Jan. 12) that U.S. troops should leave Iraq “sooner rather than later,” and expressed concern that the war’s costs have drained funds from poverty programs at […]
Bishop/victim speaks up
By Tracy Gordon — January 13, 2006
Quote of the Day: Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Gumbleton “I don’t have any animosity for him. I hope he’s praying for me in heaven.” -Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit, saying he harbors no ill feelings toward the priest, now dead, who molested him 60 years ago at a school in Detroit. Gumbleton […]
Iraqi Liberation and Women’s Rights
By RNS Blog Editor — January 12, 2006
Islam to Govern Iraqi Law, Women’s Rights This week’s full-text RNS article (linked above) looks at the introduction of Islamic law into the Iraqi constitution, and its impact on Iraqi women. Two views: “Muslim women are going to suffer if the civil courts are completely abolished,” said Annam Al-Soltany, a lawyer and a member of […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 12, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Bank to Offer Loans in Accordance With Islamic Law ANN ARBOR, Mich. (RNS) More than two years after it began offering Islamic-friendly products, a bank has formed a subsidiary to focus solely on serving Muslims, with plans to expand nationwide. University Islamic Financial Corp. raised $15.5 million in capital to […]
