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We also have a list of religious intolerance news
for this month. |
 | 2001-NOV-1: MA: Salem witches exonerated: Five people who had been convicted of Witchcraft and hanged in 1692-3 were exonerated when Governor Jane Swift signed a bill into law. There were a total of 24 men and women who were hanged, crushed to death or died in prison. In 1711, the state issued a general amnesty that exonerated all but six of the judicial victims. Ann Pudeator was exonerated in 1957. Susannah Martin, Briget Bishop, Alice Parker, Margaret Cott and Wilmot Redd were exonerated on NOV-1. (Witchcraft in this context means alleged Satan worshiper; it has nothing in common with modern Witchcraft, often called Wicca, which attempts to duplicate an ancient Celtic Pagan religion. 11 |
| 2001-NOV-15: DC: House to open with an Islamic prayer: The United States House of Representatives will mark the beginning of the Muslim fast of Ramadan with an opening prayer by an Islamic religious leader. Imam Yahya Hendi, Muslim Chaplain at Georgetown University and spokesman for the Islamic Jurisprudence Council of North America, will offer the prayer. (Ramadan is expected to begin November 16 or 17, depending on the sighting of the new moon.) |
References:
- 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
- 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
- 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/
- 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
- Reuters is "the world's leading financial information and news group. Their web page is at: http://www.reuters.com/
- 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
- Earth Religions Legal Assistance Network is a leading anti-defamation group which fights discrimination against Neopagans. See: http://www.conjure.com/ERAL/eral.html
- Anglican Communion News Service (ACNS) maintains a free mailing list. Go to http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/ to subscribe.
- 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
- 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
- Christopher Noble, "Salem witches finally cleared," Reuters, 2001-NOV-2.
Copyright © 2001 by Ontario Consultants on Religious
Tolerance
Originally written: 2001-NOV-2
Latest update: 2001-NOV-15
Compiler: B.A. Robinson
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