Politics
COMMENTARY: The murky waters of `parental rights’ legislation
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.)
(RNS)-It's an idea that has some merit. But the real key to parental responsibility i...
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NEWS STORY: Christian leaders urge new mobilization against religious persecution
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-Leaders of more than 40 evangelical and Catholic organizations Tuesday (Jan. 23) urged the federal government to take up the cause of persecuted Christians around the world.
At the same time, the leaders, representing churches, missio...
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TOP STORY: ISLAM IN AMERICAL: In prisons, a declaration of faith often means conversion to Islam
c. 1996 Religion News Service
STORMVILLE, N.Y. (RNS)-The Islamic holy month of Ramadan, said Imam Hasib Abdul-Haqq, the Muslim chaplain at Green Haven Correctional Facility here, is a time for patience, a time to develop the discipline that enables a person to accept his destiny.
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NEWS STORY: Vatican book on sexuality may bolster"parental rights"drive
c. 1996 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY (RNS)-The"parental rights"movement in the United States has gained an unintended assist from the Roman Catholic Church.
In a new book on human sexuality, the church advises parents to become more involved in their children's education, to...
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NEWS STORY: Christian Right meeting in Memphis draws five GOP hopefuls
c. 1996 Religion News Service
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (RNS)-Joined by five Republican presidential candidates, thousands of conservative Christians met in Memphis over the weekend for a two-day meeting designed to rally evangelical voters for the upcoming presidential primaries."Our goal,"sa...
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TOP STORY: WAR AND PEACE IN BOSNIA: Sarajevo cardinal a staunch advocate of a multicultural Bosnia
c. 1996 Religion News Service
SARAJEVO (RNS)-It's hard to find anyone in the government-held parts of Sarajevo with an unkind word to say about Bosnia's Catholic Cardinal Vinko Puljic. Bosnian Muslims, Catholic Croats, Orthodox Serbs and Jews alike speak of"their cardinal"with homet...
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COMMENTARY: The Millionaire’s Rumble and gods in cleats
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson...
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Denomination Report
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Following is a collection of news stories compiled from RNS staff, wire and denominational reports).
Lutheran world body will not ease support for ordaining women
(RNS)-The Lutheran World Federation will not drop its support of women's ordinati...
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NEWS FEATURE: Armenian Christian leader bridges church division
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WORCESTER, Mass. (RNS)-Armenian Christians in America, divided into two church jurisdictions for more than 60 years by Cold War politics, are on the road to reunion under a charismatic new spiritual leader.
Karekin I, elected in Armenia in April as th...
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NEWS FEATURE: Palestinian Christian cleric asks of Jerusalem, `Whose land is it?’
c. 1996 Religion News Service
JERUSALEM (RNS)-``Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds!'' says the biblical prophet Micah. ``At morning's light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and ta...
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