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NEWS STORY: Pope: The"river of human pain"is widening despite scientific advances
c. 1999 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY _ Pope John Paul II said Friday (Aug. 6) that despite impressive scientific advances, the"river of human pain"has widened in the 20th century because of war, drug addiction, AIDS, inequality and hedonism.
In a strongly worded message for...
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NEWS FEATURE: Abortion confession movement sparks criticism, church support
c. 1999 Religion News Service
PORTLAND, Ore. _ Standing at the altar in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary with child, next to a purple-robed priest solemnly looking on, Liane Wolters confessed to what no woman had publicly admitted in a Portland Roman Catholic church before: She...
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NEWS FEATURE: Fighting takes toll on Chechnya’s religious groups
c. 1999 Religion News Service
MOSCOW _ Mikhail Ivanov, a retired Baptist truck driver, talks proudly about how he lived in the Chechen capital of Grozny for 49 of his 73 years, working as a truck driver,"helping to build the city that they are destroying now." Ivanov, an ethnic Rus...
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NEWS FEATURE: Lawlessness threatens Russian mission work
c. 1999 Religion News Service
MOSCOW - When it comes to religious freedom in Russia, the world's attention is usually focused on government restrictions on minority faiths. But in volatile and lawless southern Russia, threats to religious freedom take the much more brutal form of mu...
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COMMENTARY: How peace happens
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is a pastor, writer and software developer living in Winston-Salem, N.C.)
UNDATED _"Peacemaking"was a touchy concept when I was coming of age in the 1960s.
If one talked of"peace,"people immediately took sides on Vietnam. Some considered...
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COMMENTARY: Catholic Church’s contraception ban is Achilles’ heel
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Frances Kissling is president of Catholics for a Free Choice.)
UNDATED _ Just after the Supreme Court recognized a woman's right to choose abortion 26 years ago, the Pregnancy Aid Center opened in College Park, Md., a Washington suburb, to help women...
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COMMENTARY: If the church ordained women would abortions drop?
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of"My Brother Joseph,"published by St. Martin's Press.)
UNDATED _ Suppose the Roman Catholi...
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COMMENTARY: Momma made me do it
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS.)
UNDATED _ I was so young _ barely 4 _ when the abuse began.
It came at the hands of my mother, the woman I expected to protect me. Instead, she looked at my long, flowing hair and something snapped. She ann...
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NEWS FEATURE: U.S. ministry aids Russian orphans make transition to adulthood
c. 1999 Religion News Service
ANDREYEVSKOYE, Russia _ Dima Himenkov is smiling.
A broad grin covers the 16-year-old's freckled face as he slides his queen deep into his foster father's territory on the chess board.
Nikolai Mironovich groans and throws up his hands. ``Dima always...
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NEWS FEATURE Nursing school professor links spirituality and health
c. 1999 Religion News Service
NEW HAVEN, Conn. _ Ann Ameling, a professor at Yale Nursing School, can recite a litany of professional reasons for starting a spirituality and health program in conjunction with Yale Divinity School.
But the true reason for her dedication to th...
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