“Resist Europe’s secularization” Taizé youth urged
WARSAW (ENI)
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I, a spiritual leader who represents Eastern Orthodox Christianity, has urged young Christians to resist secularization in Europe.
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Presbyterian leaders oppose Ugandan anti-gay act
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Bruce Reyes-Chow, moderator of the 218th General Assembly (2008) and Gradye Parsons, stated clerk, have added their signatures to a Christian statement denouncing the Ugandan “Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2009.”
Presbyterian Writers Guild schedules annual conference
NASHVILLE (PNS) Following up on its well-attended 2009 event, the Presbyterian Writers Guild’s Presbyterian Writers Conference for 2010 will be held from Wednesday through Thursday, April 28-29, at the Scarritt-Bennett Center in Nashville, Tenn.
U.S.P.S. to honor Mother Teresa with 2010 stamp
WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Postal Service plans to honor Mother Teresa with a stamp this year in recognition of her humanitarian work.
Covenant sent out to Anglican churches
CANTERBURY, ENGLAND (RNS) The final draft of a document aimed at mediating disputes between liberals and conservatives in the global Anglican Communion has been sent to its 38 provinces for approval.
Report urging same treatment of Christian, Muslim Dalits hailed
BANGALORE, INDIA (ENI) Church groups have hailed the report of a federal commission recommending an end to decades of religion-based discrimination that excluded Christian and Muslim Dalits from affirmative action legislation and have also called for the laws to be changed.
Many challenges, many efforts address many needs in Haiti
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Green paradise
The tiny green patch we had been hiking toward finally began to look less like a miniature diorama and more like a life-sized forest.
God moved into the neighborhood
Christmas has come and gone. Nativity scenes rest safely in the attic. But has anything remained? For we know at Christmas, The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood.1 Perhaps it’s like this:
The profound amid the profane
The most recent half of my faith-walk has been as a Presbyterian, while the previous quarter saw me as a lapsed Catholic (mostly of the Byzantine stripe: Catholics of the Eastern Rite with a liturgy more akin to that used by the Orthodox than the Church of Rome).
No big deal
During the coffee hour between services at Saint Mark Church I often find myself, like many others, wanting to have less structure and be free to just continue talking together with old friends and welcoming new ones. And that is how Coffee Two, an unofficial extension of coffee hour, came to be.
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Obama, Clinton at prayer breakfast denounce Ugandan anti-gay proposal
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used the occasion of the National Prayer Breakfast Feb. 4 to denounce a draconian proposed anti-homosexuality law in Uganda --
ACSWP readies papers for General Assembly
LOUISVILLE — The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy feverishly worked last weekend on a half-dozen reports it is preparing for the upcoming 219th General Assembly later this year in Minneapolis.
Parsons issues statement on Supreme Court’s election finance decision: “Unlimited spending by corporations “challenges democratic ethos”
LOUISVILLE — Gradye Parsons, General Assembly stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), issued a statement today (Feb. 3) decrying the Jan. 21 U.S. Supreme Court decision to lift virtually all restrictions on corporate contributions to election campaigns.
For Haiti, a modest proposal
NEW YORK (NCCC News) — A headline ricocheted around the Internet this week, requiring no further comments. It read simply: 
Baptist group arrested in Haiti denies trafficking charge
MERIDIAN, Idaho (ABP) — A mission team from two Southern Baptist churches in Idaho arrested for attempting to take 33 children from Haiti to a temporary orphanage in the neighboring Dominican Republic was only trying to help children suffering in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince, according to the pastor of one of the churches.
Middle East study group approves recommendations amid ambiguities
LOUISVILLE – A General Assembly Middle East study group has approved recommendations that include asking that the two years from 2010 to 2012 be “a time of Presbyterian prayer and action for the Middle East.”
Update: Marriage Committee report available
The final report of the General Assembly Special Committee to Study Issues of Civil Union and Christian Marriage, which was voted on..
Committee recommends steps toward traditional marriage and same-gender ceremonies
LOUISVILLE – The General Assembly Special Committee on Civil Union and Christian Marriage has approved its final report — ending its journey with civility and mutual respect, but also with the clear possibility of a minority report.
Red Brigades planned to kidnap Pope John Paul II, says book
(ENI) — A new book about Pope John Paul II reveals that shortly before the 1981 assassination attempt on the pontiff's life, he learned that the militant Red Brigades group planned to kidnap him.
Church criticizes ‘cut off their hands’ solution to ongoing attacks
(ENI) — An Indian church leader has criticized the chief minister of India's southern Karnataka state for saying that those responsible for a continuing series of attacks on churches should have their hands cut off.
Church criticizes ‘cut off their hands’ solution to ongoing attacks
(ENI) — An Indian church leader has criticized the chief minister of India's southern Karnataka state for saying that those responsible for a continuing series of attacks on churches should have their hands cut off.
Emergent church is focus of APCE conversation
NASHVILLE — This conversation, part of the 2010 Association of Presbyterian Church Educators meeting here, was attended by pastors and church educators wondering just what the “emergent” church is all about. Or is it the “emerging” church?