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COMMENTARY: Religious right targeting"bad"women
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Carter Heyward is an Episcopal priest who lives in Boston and Asheville, N.C. She is a regular contributor to the RNS series, Voices of Women in Religion.)
UNDATED _ Just a few weeks ago, the Christian Coalition held its"Road to Victory"conference in...
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COMMENTARY: Women’s conference could point way for church unity movement
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Carol Fouke is the director of news services for the New York-based National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.)
HARARE, Zimbabwe _ A four-day festival marking the end of the Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women 1988-1998 o...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Two decades after Anita Bryant protest, Miami bars gay bias
(RNS) More than two decades after singer and conservative activist Anita Bryant led a successful campaign against gay rights, the Miami-Dade County commissioners have voted to ban discrimin...
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NEWS STORY: Politics of homosexuality taking center stage
c. 1998 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ The religious and political debate over homosexuality intensified this week with dueling full-page newspaper ads by conservative Christian and gay groups that feature contrasting ideologies on homosexuality, pitting stories about"ex-gays"ag...
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Another `re-imagining’ event marks end of `decade with women’
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Some 1,000 women _ and a few men _ marked the end of the World Council of Churches"Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women"with a second major"re-imagining"conference last month. But unlike the first gathering five years ago, cr...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Pope to visit St. Louis in January
(RNS) Pope John Paul II will visit St. Louis in January 1999 following a stop in Mexico, the vatican announced Friday (April 24).
John Paul's visit will be his fifth to the United States since becoming pope. The...
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NEWS STORY: New Jersey court hears knotty case over Scouts’ anti-gay rule
c. 1998 Religion News Service
TRENTON, N.J. _ The Boy Scouts' sexual mores went on trial Tuesday (Jan. 5) before the Supreme Court of New Jersey. For more than two hours in a Trenton courtroom, lawyers argued over whether the Boy Scouts can exclude homosexuals from leadership positi...
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COMMENTARY: It’s time to listen to Third World Christians
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Erich Bridges writes for the international bureau of Baptist Press, the official news agency of the Southern Baptist Convention.)
UNDATED _ Hurray for the bishops!
The Anglican bishops from Africa, Asia and Latin America, that is.
Tired of gettin...
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NEWS STORY: Former `ex-gays’ rebut argument homosexuality can be `cured’
c. 1998 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Former"ex-gays"gathered Friday (July 17) to rebut a series of ads that conservative groups placed in major newspapers arguing gays and lesbians could leave their homosexuality behind and become heterosexuals.
Tracey St. Pierre, a senior...
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NEWS STORY: Conservative supporters of gay `conversion’ ads denounce Wyoming killing
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Conservative religious groups known for their condemnation of homosexuality are adding their voices to those denouncing the brutal murder of a gay University of Wyoming student.
The killing of Matthew Shepard, who died Monday after being a...
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