Race & Ethnicity
Bush Says Hispanic Evangelicals Key to Immigration Reform
By Adelle M. Banks — June 16, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Leaders from both sides of the political aisle thanked Hispanic evangelicals Friday (June 15) for their push for comprehensive immigration reform and urged their continued support as the Congress reopens debate on the controversial issue. “I thank you for making comprehensive immigration reform your top priority,” President Bush […]
10 Minutes With … Daniel Smith-Christopher
By Nancy Haught — June 7, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ Daniel Smith-Christopher came here recently to confess that his heroes have always been coyotes. With apologies to Willie Nelson, Smith-Christopher, a theology professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, says it’s coyotes _ not cowboys _ that he admires. Smith-Christopher is talking about “polleros,” a Spanish […]
COMMENTARY: Darfur Genocide Draws Unusual Coalition to Sunday Rally
By RNS Blog Editor — April 29, 2006
c. 2006 Newhouse News Service (UNDATED) It’s hard to know just what will be happening in Darfur on Sunday (April 30). We do know, from the reports of just about anybody in that western section of Sudan, that what was always a hideous situation is deteriorating, that the fighting and killing and raping is spreading […]
Challenged to Forgive After Losing Her Family in Rwanda Massacre
By RNS Blog Editor — April 5, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) “Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.” Immaculee Ilibagiza says that biblical prayer, taught by Jesus, haunted her during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. As she relates in her memoir, “Left to Tell,” released in February, Ilibagiza was a 22-year-old university student visiting her […]
New view of Judas; Rwandan genocide survivor finds forgiveness
By RNS Blog Editor — April 5, 2006
In Tuesday’s RNS report Stacy Meichtry analyzes how new views of Judas reflect new views of evil: Every great story deserves a great villain. For Christians who consider the Easter story one of the greatest ever told, there are few evildoers out there who match the sinister nature of Judas Iscariot. Rarely, however, have opinions […]
Pastor Shows the Way to Romanian Immigrants
By RNS Blog Editor — January 7, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ Elegantly dressed women fill the pews on the right, heads covered in gauzy scarves. Men in suits take the left. Some whisper to themselves. Others pray aloud or wail in the singsong language of Romania. And in a throne-size chair up front sits the immigrant who takes […]
COMMENTARY: U.S. Suffers From Africa Attention Deficit Disorder
By RNS Blog Editor — August 16, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Today’s pictures are from Niger, but they could be from lots of places in Africa, and from lots of times during recent decades. These children with the matchstick legs, and the eyes bigger than their fists, could have been from Biafra, a runaway province of Nigeria, in the 1970s, […]
COMMENTARY: The Ethereal Girl’s Cheap Grace
By RNS Blog Editor — September 23, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) As Madonna soared out of Israel on her private jet earlier this week, she left behind her trademark trail of controversy and chaos. Secular Israelis were intoxicated by her five-day trip to the Holy Land; Orthodox Jews were repulsed. Palestinians protested. And Israeli police arrested two of her brawling […]
COMMENTARY: Victory in Kosovo
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.) UNDATED _ The NATO victory in Kosovo is one of the decisive events of […]
COMMENTARY: Beware the pride of demographic victimization
By RNS Blog Editor — February 22, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.) UNDATED _ There is a new kind of pride. Sociologists might call it the […]
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