Buddhist Nuns Putting Equality Into Practice

Herizons;  October 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Buddhist Nuns Putting Equality Into Practice A quiet revolution...groups of all is stepping forward: Buddhist nuns. Forty years after China invaded Tibet...compassion, and scholarship. The role of nuns in Ladakhi society is becoming a vital part...

A SYMBOL OF ENLIGHTENMENT BUDDHIST NUNS' ART REFLECTS EXPANSION OF THEIR...

The Boston Globe;  March 8, 1998 ;     700+ words ......over a table, several Tibetan Buddhist nuns carefully spread colored sand onto a canvas...design. Working several hours a day, the nuns have been at their project for two weeks...waste of time and energy. But to these nuns, the creation and destruction of the sand...

ARCHDIOCESE'S COMMISSION TO URGE PROTECTION FOR ACCUSED PRIESTS

The Boston Globe;  September 8, 2002 ;     492 words ......were released earlier this summer. The 15- member commission, some of whom met with Cardinal Bernard F. Law on...wanted to give them all their appropriate due." The commission had "honed" the proposed policies in response to...Abused by Priests, said it's appropriate for the commission to craft its ...

`Stars in heavens' help shaken nuns keep their faith

The Boston Globe;  January 30, 1996 ;     700+ words ...WATERVILLE, Maine -- Friends of the four elderly nuns bludgeoned and stabbed in a murderous weekend...Blessed Sacrament here. Memories of the two nuns who died were of laughter, and compassion...encourage. Other sorrowful remembrances were of nuns whose belief in the power of prayer in...

THAILAND: BUDDHIST NUNS LIVE BETWEEN TWO WORLDS

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  February 5, 2003 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 BANGKOK, Feb. 5 (IPS) - Thai Buddhist nuns find themselves caught between two realms...left the secular life to enter the monastic, nuns or 'mae chi' cannot be monks in Thailand. Yet the nuns do not have the rights that ordinary citizens...

Activist nuns take aim at military companies

International Herald Tribune;  February 19, 2005 ;     700+ words ......of child soldiers or perpetuate never-ending wars. The nuns are also promoting an ethical code of conduct that holds...countries where they operate. One company that has met with the nuns is Raytheon, where the ethical conduct proposal was discussed...said Jack Kapples, Raytheon's corporate secretary. ''The ...

Another Blue-Ribbon Blunder; The Pay-Raise Fiasco: Governing by Old-Boy...

The Washington Post;  February 12, 1989 ;     700+ words ......of his $22 billion conglomerate. But the pay-raise commission was no frivolous band of sugar-daddies. At least...The insurance industry line-up on the pay-raise commission was no accident as far as Rep. Don Edwards (D-Calif...lose its anticompetitive license. Members of the commission said there was no ...

News: International: `Traffic in nuns' scandal shocks Spain Convents have...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  June 25, 2000 ;     441 words ......the alleged "trafficking in nuns" from Third World countries...Segovia and head of the Church's commission on closed orders, confirmed...Conference, declined to say how many nuns had been "imported" to Spain...many ageing communities of nuns are acutely in need of young...convents active. The ...

Pope Orders Nuns at Auschwitz to Move

The Washington Post;  April 16, 1993 ;     700+ words ......expansion in Poland, 14 Carmelite nuns moved into a columned building...where the sisters live. The nuns intended to pray for all the...during World War II made the nuns' presence at the camp intolerable...intellectual life. In 1985, commissions were established to consider...said. Years passed, ...

Campaign Calls On Vatican To End Sexual Abuse Of Nuns By Priests And...

U.S. Newswire;  July 14, 2001 ;     700+ words ......other nuns." Maes talked of the difficulty of Catholic nuns reporting such abuse to their superiors. "It is hard to...true story about such sexual violence into the open. The nuns fear the priests. The only way to speak out about this...immediately take action to end sexual violence against nuns, ...

'Labors, self-sacrifices' of nuns serving as nurses.(SATURDAY)(THE CIVIL...

The Washington Times;  July 12, 2003 ;     700+ words ......WASHINGTON TIMES The Roman Catholic nuns who went to war to help out...attendants. Doctors, Sanitary Commission members and the men themselves...commented on the efficiency of the nuns. Many of the nuns did not come from nursing backgrounds...were teachers. Above all, the nuns were quiet, ...

I suffered 48 hours of hell, naked & frozen in detention at home.. I was...

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  March 8, 2008 ;     497 words ......the Good Shepherd was run by nuns. The Record revealed this week...from an ex-worker to the Care Commission. Yesterday, we told how teenager...the girls who didn't obey the nuns were stripped and locked up...complained about the cold, the nuns would beat them with a cane...centre is no longer run ...

Landlords biased, nuns charge // Eviction based on racism, suit alleges

Chicago Sun-Times;  July 18, 1996 ;     378 words ...For two years, two white Roman Catholic nuns rented a Northwest Side apartment without incident. When...allegedly said relatives needed the apartment and forced the nuns to leave. A lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that the landlords...the lawsuit. The federal lawsuit, filed on behalf of the nuns by the ...

KNUCKLES NEED WHACKING WITH RULERS AT CITY HALL, BOARD OF EDUCATION : NUNS...

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  May 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......see in curbing these sinful ways rests in his good hands. Nuns, your eminence. We need more nuns in this city to take on the blaggards downtown. Law and...hand and an extra pair of eyes in the back of her head. Nuns like my saintly fifth-grade teacher, Sister Mary Norbatina...peek at those books, and ...

THAILAND: IT'S TIME FOR RELIGIOUS EQUALITY, BUDDHIST NUNS SAY

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  September 16, 2002 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 BANGKOK, Sep. 16 (IPS) -- Buddhist nuns have been part of Thailand's religious...the respect they deserve. The Buddhist nuns or mae chi live in a state of limbo...Kuan-Orn, chairwoman of the Institute for Thai Nuns, which has operated as a community service...