Religion Ohio

Central Ohio clergy have formed a coalition dedicated to abolishing the state's death penalty. The Interfaith Coalition to Stop Execution includes Protestants, Jews, Catholics and other religions. Many members have spent nights and weekends protesting the executions of inmates since Wilford Berry was put to death in 1999, the state's first execution since 1963. They acknowledged that it would be a struggle to convince lawmakers and even their congregations to support their cause.

Central Ohio clergy have formed a coalition dedicated to abolishing the state's death penalty. The Interfaith Coalition to Stop Execution includes Protestants, Jews, Catholics and other religions. Many members have spent nights and weekends protesting the executions of inmates since Wilford Berry was put to death in 1999, the state's first execution since 1963. They acknowledged that it would be a struggle to convince lawmakers and even their congregations to support their cause.

The Edgar M. Bronfman traveling revival show swooped into the San Fernando Valley in a private jet on Tuesday, bringing a billionaire whiskey magnate onto the Cal State Northridge campus with a message of religious renaissance to students. Tall and trim and wearing a wildly colored tie atop a red shirt, the chairman of Seagram Co. Ltd. left his bodyguard outside by the limo as he spent three hours joshing and noshing at the school's Hillel Jewish Center.