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COMMENTARY: Betting on Bob
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson...
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NEWS FEATURE: Reform Jewish leaders increasingly concerned by interfaith marriages
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Reform Judaism-the faith's largest branch in North America with some 1.4-million members-has long been characterized by its liberal approach to interfaith marriages, accepting them as a fact of life in an open society.
Currently, about 60 percen...
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NEWS STORY: Abortion foes call for more debate
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Leading figures in the anti-abortion movement have issued a statement outlining their opposition to abortion and challenging Americans to further debate on the divisive issue."The America We Seek: A Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Concern"appe...
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TOP STORY: UNIFICATION CHURCH: Moon church takes a low profile in India
c. 1996 Religion News Service
MOOLAVATTOM, India (RNS)-It is a small, obscure town in India's southern state of Kerala, in the heart of one of the nation's largest, most conservative Christian communities.
Yet Moolavattom is where the Unification Church, founded in Korea in 1954 b...
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Religious leader proposes major initiative on girls’ education
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-The Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, general secretary of the National Council of Churches, is proposing an interfaith effort in the United States and abroad to promote education for girls, including training about sexuality.
Girls have a ri...
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TOP STORY: JUDAISM AND HISTORY: Rome’s ancient Jewish ghetto to be studied anew
c. 1996 Religion News Service
ROME (RNS)-How many more revelations could possibly be unearthed about one of the world's oldest Jewish communities whose past has been thoroughly picked over and examined?
Jewish leaders say that a private $50,000 grant to modernize their archives da...
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NEWS STORY: Evangelical group launches campaign backing Endangered Species Act
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-Saying the environment is a creation of God that must be protected, a group of evangelicals announced Wednesday (Jan. 31) a million-dollar media campaign to urge Congress not to weaken the Endangered Species Act."Human beings are called...
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TOP STORY: BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP: Did Jesus have brothers? Some scholars say yes
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Did Jesus have brothers?
Some prominent Catholic biblical scholars, bypassing centuries-old church doctrine that Mary was a lifelong virgin, say that indeed he did. The"brothers"of Jesus mentioned in the New Testament were probably siblings, the...
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NEWS STORY: World Jewish population plummeting, study says
c. 1996 Religion News Service
JERUSALEM (RNS)-The Jewish population is plummeting around the world-with the exception of Israel, Germany, Canada and Panama-according to a demographic"State of the Jewish World"report issued during the World Jewish Congress annual convention held this...
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COMMENTARY: What’s so bad about men?
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of the recent book"Real Choices"and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today and other publications.)
(RNS)-It's not every day you get to see a photo of a woma...
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