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(ENI) -- Two international church-backed humanitarian organizations that operate in Afghanistan have been stopped from doing their work while officials investigate allegations that they have been engaging in proselytizing, which they strongly deny.
(ENI) -- A member of the German parliament who was on the ferry Mavi Marmara when it was attacked by Israeli special forces has called on the World Council of Churches and other church organizations to get more actively involved in lifting the Gaza blockade.
The report going to the General Assembly cuts to the quick. It affirms the denomination’s determination to be faithful to the teachings of Scripture and the Reformed tradition, but it admits that the effort to define what constitutes such faithfulness “has created significant debates among us.” It laments, “These debates (have) both clouded understanding of our mission and inhibited cooperative participation in it.”
Maggie Lauterer, (firstburnsville.org/) a journalist-turned-minister, has become the third candidate endorsed to stand as moderator of the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Roger Dermody, pastor of Bel Air Church in Los Angeles, Calif., has accepted the post of deputy executive director for mission of the General Assembly Mission Council, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
(ENI) The U.S. National Council of Churches and a Roman Catholic health association agree that a directive by President Barack Obama granting same-sex partners the legal right to visit their loved ones in the hospital is an affirmation of people’s human rights.
PHOENIX (PNS) The April 15-17 “Crossing Borders, Encountering God” conference — co-sponsored by the Synods of the Sun and Southwest of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Presbyteries of Noroeste and Israel of the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico — brought together close to 200 participants to consider border relations between the two countries and churches.
(RNS) The National Collegiate Athletic Association has banned the use of eye black with messages — a practice prominently used by former University of Florida star quarterback Tim Tebow to display Bible verses.
KATMANDU (ENI) Buddhist monks and Christian organizations are working with thousands of official rescue workers in China’s northwestern Qinghai province to rescue people missing still after a series of earthquakes killed almost 800 people.
Ovt 087 » Pby of San Fernando: Amend G-3.0103 and G-3.0111 of the New Form of Government to require committees of representation.
interview by Jack Haberer, OUTLOOK editor
Linda Valentine has been re-elected by the General Assembly Mission Council (subject to confirmation by the 219th General Assembly) to serve a second four-year term as executive director – the chief of staff to most of the denomination’s national and international staff. Editor Jack Haberer sat down with Linda Valentine to talk about her first term and to look ahead.
Perhaps the most stunning piece of business coming to the 219th General Assembly is Recommendation 42 proposing to create a commission (the..
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is being asked to authorize the retranslation of the entire Heidelberg Catechism to try and fix the translation of five specific questions — and more.
I remember a story my mother often told me. As a late teenager, she read in 1 John 4:7 that God is love, and concluded that God was nowhere to be found in the church in which she was raised.
Editor’s note: The Presbyterian Outlook will confer the E.T. Thompson Award for lifetime achievement in service to our Lord, the church and world to Syngman Rhee at its General Assembly luncheon banquet on July 3. Louisville Seminary President Dean Thompson prepared this tribute.
the silence in the coastal communities
is almost deafening,
Perhaps the most difficult principle for the Multichannel Church to implement is moving some activities and ministries off site, out into neighborhoods and homes.
My friend Molly T. Marshall is accustomed to controversy.
The Reverend David W.A. Taylor died on May 23, 2010, in Cary, N. C. He was an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), active in ecumenical and international relationships among churches.
Haiti’s poverty and problems run far deeper than the damage done by the recent earthquake, said General Assembly Moderator Bruce Reyes-Chow after his recent visit to the island nation.
TOKYO (ENI) -- Japan's Christian Council has urged U.S. churches to gain awareness, pray, and appeal to their government about the impact of a U.S. military base relocation in Okinawa, an archipelago south of Japan's main islands.
EDINBURGH (ENI) -- The international director of the 2010 World Missionary Conference, South African-born Daryl Balia, says he has been suspended from his job, two days before the start of the gathering here to commemorate a conference of the same name held 100 years ago.
NAIROBI (ENI)--The president and the general secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches have condemned political actions in Madagascar that they warn are curtailing freedom of expression and threaten the welfare of Malagasy citizens.
Three recent film offerings shed light, in their own unique ways, on the perplexing issue of being macho in 2010.
This movie is “Lawrence of Arabia” meets “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, or, if you prefer, Ishmael takes Abraham’s blessing from Isaac, but it looks more like Aladdin with a magic knife instead of a magic carpet.
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