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TOP STORY: BURUNDI - A SPECIAL REPORT: Divided and off-balance, church in Burundi an impotent peacem
c. 1996 Religion News Service
BUJUMBURA, Burundi _ In a rural parish here, a Roman Catholic priest stands in the peaceful confines of the church garden and speaks in hushed tones about what he calls"the troubles"that haunt this tiny central African nation torn by civil war."People c...
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TOP STORY: RELIGION AS A WEAPON OF WAR: In Uganda, rebels fight in name of Jesus, Allah and bad juju
c. 1996 Religion News Service
GULU, Uganda _ Smoldering under the midday sun are the ashes of the thatch-and-mud huts that once was the village of Apec, home to over 20 families. The whole village, soldiers said, had been set afire just a few hours before."We heard the rebels coming...
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Burundi: Roots of the conflict
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Trouble has been brewing for centuries in Burundi. But longstanding tensions between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups that were exacerbated by European colonists in the 19th century have been manipulated by present-day political leaders to cre...
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COMMENTARY: Kiss controversy: A glimpse of public morality at work
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest, author and former Wall Street Journal reporter living in Winston-Salem, N.C. Contact Ehrich via e-mail at journey(at)interpath.com.)
(UNDATED) Lexington, N.C., is known mainly for its barbecue, as well as a flamboya...
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COMMENTARY: A blinding insight: children today deserve a childhood, too
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C., an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(at)interpath.com)
UNDATED _ Halloween found my son William dressed as a cowboy _"Pecos Bill"_ with boots, hat, bandanna...
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COMMENTARY: When a town chooses to profit from evil, what happens to its soul?
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C., an author and a former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(at)interpath.com.)
UNDATED _ I drove my 17-year-old son to work Saturday morning. He still smelled of the previous ni...
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COMMENTARY: Tidings of discomfort and joy
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C, an author and a former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(at)interpath.com.)
UNDATED _ I can tell Christmas is near:
_ The obituary section in my local newspaper is longer.
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At domestic violence gathering, NCC head says she, too, was abused
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Religious leaders and advocates for victims of domestic violence met here Friday (Oct. 11) for an emotional interfaith gathering marked by personal disclosures about domestic violence and challenges to Scriptural admonitions for women to su...
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NEWS STORY: RIGHTS AND RACISM: Panel: Racism, highlighted by church burnings, needs local action
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Racial tensions, highlighted by the recent spate of predominantly black church burnings, need increased attention at the local level, Mary Frances Berry, chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, said Wednesday (Oct. 9).
Berry an...
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Religious leaders join forces to fight cyberporn
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ In a sign of growing concern about the intersection of pornography and new technologies, a broad cross-section of religious leaders has called on faith communities and society at large to combat the spread of material they consider obscene...
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