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NEWS FEATURE: French Religious Leaders Dismayed Over Family Planning Proposals
c. 2000 Religion News Service
PARIS _ Forty years ago, Elisabeth Gazengel had an abortion.
Shunned and illegal in 1960s France, the procedure was also performed without anesthesia. Nonetheless, the then-20-year-old university student quietly put together donations from friends, fo...
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NEWS FEATURE: Vampires: No Neck Biting But Feeding on Others’ Energy
c. 2000 Religion News Service
LOS ANGELES _ Nicolas Strathloch begins his day early, around 6 or 7 a.m. He rises and showers, dresses in jeans, T-shirt and hiking boots, and drives to a print shop in northern Los Angeles, where he works as a foreman.
At lunch time, he often ventur...
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COMMENTARY: Surviving By Faith
c. 2000 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of five books and the mother of two children.)
(UNDATED) The sounds of the choir joined forces with the sight of the morning sun just as the voices rose in unison, ``I sing because I'm happy, I sing because I'm free.'...
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NEWS STORY: Thousands Rally Against Legal Abortion
c. 2000 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Marking the 27th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that legalized most abortions, thousands of anti-abortion protesters poured into the nation's capital Monday (Jan. 24) to mark the landmark decision with a call for its reversal."Roe...
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COMMENTARY: With a New Granddaughter, Who Could Ask for More?
c. 2000 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the Senior Interreligious Adviser of the American Jewish Committee.)
(UNDATED) What do you call a newborn child whose parents, Eve and Robbie, are both rabbis? The answer is simple: Emma Mollie Weiner, our first grandchild.
Because o...
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COMMENTARY: Surviving By Faith
c. 2000 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of five books and the mother of two children.)
(UNDATED) The sounds of the choir joined forces with the sight of the morning sun just as the voices rose in unison, ``I sing because I'm happy, I sing because I'm free.'...
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NEWS FEATURE: RU-486’s Debut Is Likely to Alter Abortion Debate
c. 2000 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ As supporters and opponents of legal abortion prepare to square off one more time to mark the Jan. 22 anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing most abortions, the Food and Drug Administration is quietly preparing to radical...
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NEWS FEATURE: RU-486’s Debut Is Likely to Alter Abortion Debate
c. 2000 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ As supporters and opponents of legal abortion prepare to square off one more time to mark the Jan. 22 anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing most abortions, the Food and Drug Administration is quietly preparing to radical...
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NEWS FEATURE: Catholic report gives managed care mixed ethical grade
c. 1999 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ The weeks are running out for 8-year-old Jason Martin. He has a deadly brain tumor, and one last hope _ a new cancer-fighting drug being tested several hundred miles away.
The Martins, a family of modest means, have health insurance through...
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Relief worker charged with vehicular manslaughter awaits trial
c. 1999 Religion News Service
TBILISI, Georgia _ An American Catholic Relief Services worker facing charges of vehicular manslaughter believes this week's papal visit to this former Soviet republic may help his case."I work for a Catholic organization and I would hope that it would be...
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