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Counting all victims of terrorism
An editorial from the Jerusalem Post
"Even if near-daily shelling of civilians in southern Israel with rocket and mortar fire doesn't count for him (Pope Benedict XVI), then surely the suicide bombing which took five lives in Netanya earlier this month was no less reprehensible than w...
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COMMENTARY: Quran Desecration Is Nothing New
c. 2005 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Although many Americans have recently come to learn about it for the first time, the desecration of the Quran is nothing new. Islam's sacred text has been desecrated for many years now, although not a single printed page of paper and ink was h...
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ESSAY: Death Penalty Fan Becomes Condemned Women’s Friend
c. 2005 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) I was a staunch supporter of the death penalty until I met my first death row inmate and the issue went from political to personal.
I first visited the maximum security women's prison in Gatesville, Texas, nine years ago. I went as a journal...
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ESSAY: Death Penalty Fan Becomes Condemned Women’s Friend
c. 2005 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) I was a staunch supporter of the death penalty until I met my first death row inmate and the issue went from political to personal.
I first visited the maximum security women's prison in Gatesville, Texas, nine years ago. I went as a journal...
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Schiavo, Pope John Paul II, Provide `Teachable Moment’ for Catholics
c. 2005 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) At a residential hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., the life of a 41-year-old Catholic woman hung in the balance as supporters mounted an unsuccessful bid to shield her from ``the culture of death.''
At the same day on the other side of the wor...
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COMMENTARY: Schiavo Agony and Death Presents a Mythical, Spiritual Moment
c. 2005 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) The media coverage of Terri Schiavo's long dying placed her on a vast public stage. Did the competing choruses from left and right help or undermine our understanding of what was really happening before our eyes?
Beneath this turmoil _ and b...
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NEWS STORY: Catholic Bishops Launch Holy Week Campaign to End Death Penalty
c. 2005 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ The nation's Roman Catholic bishops on Monday (March 21) launched a nationwide campaign against the death penalty, citing new evidence that support for capital punishment is slipping among Catholic faithful.
The new campaign, released dur...
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COMMENTARY: Pills Don’t Always Kill in Doctor-Assisted Suicide Attempts
c. 2005 Religion News Service
PORTLAND, Ore. _ Oregon's dirty little secret is getting out _ finally and just in time for the U.S. Supreme Court to contemplate the regulatory and pharmacological netherworld our assisted-suicide law has created. Our dirty little secret: The pills use...
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NEWS STORY: Patient Regains Consciousness After Doctor-Assisted Suicide Attempt
c. 2005 Religion News Service
PORTLAND, Ore. _ An Oregon man's attempt at doctor-assisted suicide last month took a bizarre turn when he woke from a coma nearly three days later and lived for two more weeks.
David E. Prueitt, 42, who had lung cancer, died at home of natural causes...
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COMMENTARY: Assisted Suicide Case Isn’t a States’ Rights Issue
c. 2005 Religion News Service
PORTLAND, Ore. _ Is Uncle Sam beating up on poor Oregon?
It makes for such a rip-snorting good story, full of bad faith and hypocrisy.
The sovereign state of Oregon approves doctor-assisted suicide. Then the self-proclaimed champions of states' righ...
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