Articles – Page 51

China: leaders sound caution on Bibles for China project

By Bettina Krause, 8 April 2002

The Institute for Christian Studies at People’s University in Beijing is planning a Bible translation in modern Chinese to be sold in ordinary bookstores throughout China. Adventist News Network – 2 April 2002 – According to Professor Yang Huilin, his institute is cooperating closely in this project with Nanjing Union Theological Seminary in Jiangsu Province. To […]

ANN World News Bulletin is a review of news and information issued by the Communication department from the Seventh-day Adventist Church World Headquarters and released as part of the service of Adventist News Network. It is made available primarily to religious news editors.

Internet Church starts english worship service: Christ preached in English from Hungary

By Stefan J. Bos, 11 March 2002

The International Christian Internet Church (ICIC) has launched its English language worship services in cyberspace to reach especially those who otherwise don’t visit a regular church, its Hungarian co-founder announced. “Many people live in countries such as Saudi Arabia or China where being a Christian can be dangerous,” said Rev. Lazlo Banfi, who himself suffered […]

According to information provided by ANS, award winning journalist Stefan J. Bos was born on the 19th of September 1967 in a small home in downtown Amsterdam, in the Netherlands not far from the typewriter of his father, who was (and still is) a Reporter and ghostwriter. Already at a very young age Bos decided to become journalist and finally arrived in Hungary, the same country where his parents had smuggled Bibles during Communism. Bos has traveled extensively to cover wars and revolutions throughout the region and received the Annual Press Award of Merit from the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for his coverage about foreign policy affairs including Hungary’s relationship with NATO and the European Union.

This article was published by ANS (ASSIST News Service). ASSIST is an evangelical ministry started by journalist and author, Dan Wooding, as a way to help Christians living under difficult circumstances, and to share the Gospel with those who do not know Christ.

[Assist News Service can now be found at the URL: http://www.assistnews.net/ – 21.08.2016]

United States: scholars get religion

By Mark Clayton, 2 March 2002

More academics are starting to see the ‘religion factor’ as key to understanding forces in economics, politics, and society, reports Mark Clayton, staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. Christian Science Monitor – 26 February 2002 – When it comes to academic scholarship, blue sky and dollars are often the only limits on research. But Luis […]

This article was first published in The Christian Science Monitor on 26 February 2002. URL for the article: http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0226/p12s01-lehl.html

The article is posted on this website with permission from the CS Publishing Society. It can not be re-posted or re-printed without permission from the CS Publishing Society. RELIGIOSCOPE thanks the CS Publishing Society and recommends The Christian Science Monitor, a fine newspaper with a nice and interesting website.

Turkey: court ruling shows authorities’ refusal to see Alevism as a religious community

By Jean-Christophe Peuch, 26 February 2002

Until a few years ago, Kurdish separatism was the only movement in Turkey that openly challenged the official view that the country was a homogeneous nation-state. But the past two decades have seen a resurgence of Alevis, a minority religious group that has had difficult relations with both the state and Sunni Islam, Turkey’s predominant […]

This article was first published on 18 February 2002 by RFE/RL (Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty). Posted on RELIGIOSCOPE with permission. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a private, international communications service to Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Middle East, funded by the United States Congress. RELIGIOSCOPE highly recommends the RFE/RL website, with its informative daily newsline and various other reports: http://www.rferl.org/

Saudi Arabia: an ancient ritual, this year’s hajj wore a modern face

By Don Hill, 26 February 2002

Nearly 2 million Muslims descended on Saudi Arabia in February for the hajj, the pilgrimage required at least once in the lifetime of all Islamic faithful able to make the trip. Muslim clergy customarily use the occasion for sermons on established themes, including calls for Islamic unity. RFE/RL correspondent Don Hill talks to Muslim scholars […]

This article was first published on 26 February 2002 by RFE/RL (Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty). Posted on RELIGIOSCOPE with permission. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a private, international communications service to Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Middle East, funded by the United States Congress. RELIGIOSCOPE highly recommends the RFE/RL website, with its informative daily newsline and various other reports: http://www.rferl.org/

The “last anchor” of Serb presence: Serbian orthodox sites in Kosovo

By Geraldine Fagan and Branko Bjelejac, 25 February 2002

Since the arrival of NATO forces in Kosovo in mid-June 1999, some 108 Serbian Orthodox churches in the province have been destroyed or vandalised; the work, according to the Serbian Orthodox Church, of Albanian extremists. At present, these churches are under the protection of KFOR, the international Kosovo Force, but there are worrying signs that […]

Source: Keston Institute <http://www.keston.org>

United States: new statistics for American Churches: 2002 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches – Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints now 5th largest in the United States

By NCC, 23 February 2002

For the first time, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) is reported within the five largest churches in the United States, according to the National Council of Churches’ 2002 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches,off press this week. NCC News – 13 February 2002 – “This ranking represents a very brisk increase in […]

The 2002 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches (416 pages, paperback) is published by Abingdon Press, Nashville, Tenn.
Source: National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA
Web: www.ncccusa.org

Russia: varied State response to Orthodox-Catholic rift

By Geraldine Fagan, 22 February 2002

Over the past ten days different representatives of the Russian state have adopted varied positions in response to the Catholic Church’s decision to upgrade its four existing ecclesiastical structures in Russia into dioceses. Keston News Service – 22 February 2002 – On 12 February the Press and Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued […]

Source: Keston Institute <http://www.keston.org>

Orthodox Churches: schism in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR)

By Jean-François Mayer, 26 January 2002

A schism has developed in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), one of the larger exile Russian Orthodox churches, over leadership issues and the prospect of rapprochement with the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate). Following the retirement of Metropotitan Vitaly Ustinov (b. 1910), who had been the Primate of the ROCOR since 1986, the […]

Current expressions of the New Age

By Philip Johnson, 20 January 2002

1. The term “New Age” has largely fallen out of favour in most circles. The preferred expressions include “new spirituality”, “do-it-yourself spirituality”, “self-spirituality” – or as lots of bookstores now designate it “mind-body-spirit”. 2. New Age has so saturated mainstream culture it has ceased to be a fringe phenomenon – this parallels the civil rights […]