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WORLDWIDE NEWS OF RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE FOR 2001-MAY

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2001-MAY-9: Tennessee: Youths create Holocaust memorial: According to ReligionToday: 4
Students at a small middle school in Tennessee, with an overwhelming white and Christian student body, studied the Nazi holocaust. They had heard that many Norwegians expressed solidarity with Jews during World War II when their country was occupied, by pinning paper clips to their lapels. The students decided to collect six million paper clips: each one representing a life exterminated by the Nazis. They will house the collection in a 1940 era German railroad car. They are about halfway to their goal of six million.
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2001-MAY-9: Missouri: Church wins disability caring award: According to ReligionToday: 4
The Christian Council on Persons with Disabilities (CCPD) presented their 2001 Caring Church Award to the Central Assembly of God church in Springfield, MO. They have a track record of full inclusion of people with disabilities that can be documented back to the early 1960s.
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2001-MAY-27: Poland: Bishops apologize for massacre of Jews: According to Associated Press:
About 100 bishops led by Cardinal Jozef Glemp, participated in an unprecedented ceremony in which they apologized for past Roman-Catholic treatment of Jews. They apologized both for a massacre of as many as 1,600 Jews by Roman Catholics during World War II, and for other wrongs committed by Catholics on their fellow citizens who were Jews. The mass crime against humanity occurred during 1941-JUL in Jedwabne, a town in north-eastern Poland. For many years, it was believed that the slaughter was done by Nazis. The truth has only recently been determined. About 2,500 people attended the service. Rabbi Michael Schudrich, the leader of Poland's Jewish community said that the ceremony had "the potential to be one more very important step" in reconciliation between Polish Catholics and Jews. Unfortunately, he was unable to attend the ceremony, because it was held during the Jewish holy day Shavout. 

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References:

  1. DayWatch is a daily service of Maranatha Christian Journal. It provides "a daily summary of news headlines with a Christian perspective..." The newsletter is free on request. Their web site is at: http://www.mcjonline.com 
  2. ENI (Ecumenical News International) provides free bulletins and subscriptions to full text articles. Their home page is at: http://www.eni.ch Its postal address is: PO Box 2100, CH - 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland
  3. Newsroom is a service of Worldwide Newsroom Inc. Their articles are written by "a network of journalists, scholars and other professional contacts in country." You can subscribe to their free service from their website at http://www.newsroom.org/ 
  4. ReligionToday provides free newsletters to which you can subscribe at: http://www.ReligionToday.com. These summaries are part of GOSHEN.net, which also includes LiveIt.net, Devotionals.net, ChristianShareware.net, ChristianClassifieds.net, ChristianMessageBoards.net, BibleStudyTools.net, MediaManagement.net, WorldNewsToday.net, WebCastGuide.net, and ChristianCollegeGuide.net
  5. Reuters is "the world's leading financial information and news group. Their web page is at: http://www.reuters.com/ 
  6. CitizenLink is a service of Focus on the Family. They send regular Emails containing news items interpreted from a Fundamentalist Christian perspective. Signup is at: http://www.family.org/cforum/clinksignup.cfm 
  7. Earth Religions Legal Assistance Network is a leading anti-defamation group which fights discrimination against Neopagans. See:  http://www.conjure.com/ERAL/eral.html 
  8. Anglican Communion News Service (ACNS) maintains a free mailing list. Go to http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/ to subscribe.
  9. EWTN is a news service of the Roman Catholic Church. It posts news items from Newsline, Newslink, and The World Over on its Internet site at: http://www.ewtn.com/news/index.htm
  10. Alternative Religions Educational Network (AREN) is an information organization located in Philadelphia. It has monitored discrimination against Wiccans throughout North America for three decades. Their web page is at: http://aren.org

Copyright © 2001 by Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
Originally written: 2001-MAY-3 
Latest update: 2001-MAY-9 
Compiler: B.A. Robinson

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