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Evicted Hindus ponder fate of sacred artifacts
c. 2008 Religion News Service
EPPING, N.H. _ Six Hindu men and a woman huddled together on a 20-degree January morning along a dirt road beside a series of posted ``NO TRESPASSING'' signs.
They had come to save their deity.
Having been evicted from their bucolic, 100-acre temple g...
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Photos Help Grieving Families Hold On to Lost Children
c. 2007 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Elizabeth McGuire will live forever in family photographs, a tiny girl with dark blue eyes and a full head of hair.
Her family recently gathered in their New Jersey home to watch a computer slide slow of the portraits _ all the McGuires have...
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After 25 Years, a Catholic Warrior Steps Aside
c. 2007 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ In her 25 years as head of Catholics For a Free Choice, some interesting epithets have been hurled at Frances Kissling. The kinds of names _ ``confused lionness'' and ``progressive heretic'' to offer a few _ that most people would like to a...
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After 25 Years, a Catholic Warrior Steps Aside
c. 2007 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ In her 25 years as head of Catholics For a Free Choice, some interesting epithets have been hurled at Frances Kissling. The kinds of names _ ``confused lionness'' and ``progressive heretic'' to offer a few _ that most people would like to a...
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Supreme Court Weighs Limits on Late-Term Abortions
c. 2006 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Supreme Court justices returned to the controversial issue of abortion Wednesday (Nov. 8), weighing arguments on whether a procedure critics call ``partial-birth'' abortion can be banned constitutionally.
U.S. Solicitor General Paul D. Cl...
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Excerpts From the Amish Die Botschaft Newspaper
c. 2006 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) The following is an excerpt from the Oct. 16 edition of the Amish newspaper Die Botschaft (``The Message''). It was written by Enos K. Miller, whose grandchildren, 8-year-old Mary Liz Miller and her sister Lena, 7, were killed in a shooting at...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 2006 Religion News Service
Pedophile Says Sex With Boys Is Sacred Religious Ritual
CLEVELAND (RNS) An admitted pedophile offered a bizarre defense this week to 74 charges of rape, drugs and pandering obscenity to minors.
Phillip Distasio, 34, told a Cuyahoga County judge We...
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Katrina `Mercy’ Killings Cross Line, Ethicists Say
c. 2006 Religion News Service
NEW ORLEANS _ Conditions were hellish: Electrical power knocked out by Hurricane Katrina. The hospital isolated; its medical staff exhausted, anxious and largely helpless. Profoundly sick patients deteriorating in unbearable heat.
But if a doctor and...
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Blogging abortion; arsonists posting to chat rooms
A blogger's abortion instructions concern activists on both sides of the debate, reports Dru Sefton: A feminist blogger has posted explicit directions online for a surgical abortion, in reaction to the new South Dakota law all but banning the procedure. In an interview, the blogger, a...
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Lying: no big deal?; Sharon’s generation
In Friday's RNS report Andrea Simakis questions if lying has become acceptable, judging by reactions to incidents such as author James Frey's embellishments, Martha Stewart's stock dumping and Bill Clinton's activities with Monica Lewinsky: It's official. Fibbing is OK if it serves a...
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