Faith
NEWS ANALYSIS: What will it take to fix the papacy?
c. 1996 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY _ There is something wrong with the papacy.
It's been whispered for years inside the Roman Catholic Church and hinted at in ecumenical dialogues that this monarchial office is an anachronism in modern times, out of touch with people it se...
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TOP STORY:An American-born archbishop signals new era for Orthodox church
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) In an historic move Tuesday (July 30) that signals a new era for Orthodox Christians in the West, leaders of the Orthodox Church reached into the ranks of American-born prelates and elected an Ohio native, Metropolitan Spyridon of Italy, to he...
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NEWS FEATURE: AME ZION CHURCH: AME Zion bishops address `forces of good and evil’
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, one of the nation's oldest African-American denominations, meeting here for its quadrennial conference, weighed in on issues from Congress' conservative political agenda to same-sex marr...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Buddhist monk urges end to `land mines of the heart'
(RNS) A Cambodian Buddhist monk and a prominent Lutheran pastor joined Monday (July 29) in calling for a total ban on the production, export and use of anti-personnel land mines."We come here to p...
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TOP STORY: PASTORS WHO PREY: A new breed of predatory preachers in Zaire
c. 1996 Religion News Service
KINTAMBO, Zaire _ A hymn-singing crowd of some 3,000 spills into the dusty streets around a former brothel that is now an Assemblies of God church in this suburb of Zaire's capital city of Kinshasa.
Across the main highway, another Pentecostal congreg...
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TOP STORY: REMEMBERING MERTON: A gathering of mystics remembers Merton
c. 1996 Religion News Service
TRAPPIST, Ky. _ Twenty eight years ago, Thomas Merton set out from his monastery to explore the world of Asian spirituality. This week, part of that world came here to honor the late author for his pioneering work in religious reconciliation."Thomas Mer...
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NEWS STORY: REBUILDING BURNED CHURCHES: Fire-damaged churches receive money to rebuild
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) The National Council of Churches will distribute nearly $1 million of the $8.3 million it has collected so far to nine congregations in its first round of grants to help predominantly African-American congregations that have been damaged by fi...
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TOP STORY: Common ground for Buddhists and Catholics abloom with new ideas
c. 1996 Religion News Service
TRAPPIST, Ky. _ In search of common ground between the Buddhist and Catholic traditions of prayer and meditation, monks, nuns and religious scholars have come together at a monastery here in the rolling hills of rural Kentucky.
The spiritual terrain t...
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TOP STORY: FIRST-PERSON THEOLOGY: Where was God when the plane crashed?
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Frederick Houk Borsch is bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. This article is adapted from his new book,"Outrage and Hope,"published by Trinity Press International.)
(UNDATED) God did not intervene to prevent the tragic crash Wednesday nea...
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Pentecostal group gives women ministers added authority
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) The Rev. Catherine Payne has traveled the globe, representing the Church of God of Prophecy and preaching in pulpits from India to Bulgaria to Ukraine. But wherever Payne preached, she could not baptize converts, officiate at Holy Communion se...
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