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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1997 Religion News Service
Metropolitan Community Churches condemn bombing
(RNS) The predominantly gay and lesbian Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches has condemned the Friday (Feb. 21) bombing of an Atlanta bar frequented by homosexuals."Once again we are...
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NEWS STORY: Canonization of Jew killed by Nazis prompts debate
c. 1997 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY _ She was born of one faith and enriched by another, a German Jew who converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of 31.
But 55 years after the death of Edith Stein, Catholics and Jews remain divided on the simple but profoundly emotional q...
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NEWS ANALYSIS: The difference between cloning babies and cloning to heal
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Of all the nightmares spawned by the discovery by Scottish researchers that an apparently healthy sheep could be cloned from the genetic material of a single ewe, none was more vivid than the notion that some day soon cloned human babies would...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1997 Religion News Service
Chavis Muhammad's ministerial standing suspended
(RNS) The ministerial standing of Benjamin Chavis Muhammad, who announced in February he had joined the Nation of Islam, has been temporarily suspended by the regional association of the United Church...
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NEWS FEATURE: Indians, pagans, anthropologists tussle over 9,200-year-old bones
c. 1997 Religion News Service
KENNEWICK, Wash. _ A battle is raging here on the banks of the Columbia River over the right to venerate, study, or bury forever, a 9,200-year-old skeleton known as Kennewick Man.
The combatants are Native American religionists, who claim the bones...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1997 Religion News Service
Christian artist Steven Curtis Chapman evangelizes at students' funeral
(RNS) Contemporary Christian singer Steven Curtis Chapman, a 1981 graduate of Heath High School in West Paducah, Ky., took on the role of an evangelist and encouraged Christia...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Christmas marked by prayer, protest and calls for peace
(RNS) Christmas celebrations around the world drew tens of millions of worshipers marking the birth of Jesus with a mix of prayer, protest and calls for peace.
From a Vatican balcony, Pope Jo...
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NEWS FEATURE: THE CUSTOMS OF RELIGION: Scholar casts a skeptic’s eye on religious practices
c. 1996 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Charles Panati can tell you why Muslims are teetotalers, Jews don't eat pork and some Christians experience a run of meatless Fridays.
``Food taboos _ of the kind that abound in Leviticus, chapter 11, and Deuteronomy, chapter 14 _ are the me...
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COMMENTARY: The truth shall make you odd
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of"Turn Toward the Wind"and publisher of Religion News Service.)
UNDATED _ It is more than ironic, I fear, that one of the lowliest births of recorded history is commemorated this time of year with Nativity sets craft...
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NEWS STORY: VATICAN DISAPPROVAL: Vatican accuses UNICEF of promoting abortion, withholds funds
c. 1996 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY _ Accusing the United Nations aid program for children of advocating abortion and distributing contraceptives to Third World women, the Vatican has decided to withhold its annual contribution for UNICEF activities.
UNICEF officials denied...
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