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LOUISVILLE — As the desperate search continues in Haiti for remaining survivors, confirmation has been received that Hopital Sainte Croix (Holy Cross Hospital) in Leogane, a major focus of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) mission in Haiti for decades, collapsed in the Jan. 12 quake.
ROME (ENI) — Pope Benedict XVI, visiting the Great Synagogue of Rome, has defended the actions of Roman Catholics in protecting Jews during the Second World War, amid continuing debate about the wartime role of his predecessor, Pius XII.
GENEVA (ENI) — Christians around the world are remembering the 1910 World Missionary Conference in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh as a key initiative that led to the ecumenical movement seeking the unity of the Church.
(ENI) — The ACT Alliance global network of churches and related agencies says its members are bringing food and temporary shelter to victims of the earthquake that struck Haiti but has warned that the country's food supplies may soon run out.
(ENI) — A Roman Catholic archbishop in Germany has given support to the country's senior Protestant bishop, Margot Kässmann, in her criticism of Germany's military strategy in Afghanistan.
You know how it is in Hollywood — somebody finds a successful formula, and everyone else imitates it (come to think of it, that applies to a lot of other things, also, but I digress).
LOUISVILLE — Two Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) missionaries in Haiti and mission teams from three PC(USA) congregations in the country when the devastating earthquake struck Jan. 12 have been accounted for.
The leaders and citizens of Haiti were not prepared to absorb or respond to Tuesday’s 7.0 earthquake – the most powerful to hit their island nation since 1770. Nobody is ever fully prepared for such trauma, but in Haiti “unprepared” is the ultimate understatement.
GENEVA (ENI) — A leader of a global Protestant grouping has expressed concern about violence in Egypt targeting churches and Christians.
EDINBURGH (ENI) — Britain might soon have its first female Anglican bishop, serving the 38,000-member Scottish Episcopal Church, part of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
(ENI) — The leader of the largest Protestant church in Madagascar has appealed for the release of two church radio journalists detained on January 8 by the island's government.
(ENI) The government of Belarus has refused to renew work permits for a group of Roman Catholic priests from neighboring Poland who minister in the country to make up for a shortage of clergy.
(ENI) — Jordan has complained to a United Nations agency after Canada refused to seize the Dead Sea Scrolls, which had been on display in an Ontario museum on loan from the Israel Antiquities Authority.
(ENI) — Australian Christians from many denominations are set to rally with the country's Coptic community against violence directed towards Christians in Egypt.
The time has come to turn the page from a black-and-blue magazine serving a black-and-blue church to become a high-def, full color, twenty-teens magazine informing and empowering a high-def, full color, twenty-teens church.
Eboo Patel, founder and executive director of the community service group Interfaith Youth Core, has become the first Muslim to win the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in Religion from the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville.
VATICAN CITY (RNS) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Pope Benedict XVI agreed Dec. 3 to establish full diplomatic relations between Russia and the Holy See, a step likely to be seen as healing decades of mutual suspicion and tension.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (RNS) - After receiving new evidence, the editor of a prominent compilation of famous quotations now believes theologian Reinhold Niebuhr most likely is the author of the popular “Serenity Prayer.”
GENEVA (ENI) — The sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with HIV are being ignored, the World Young Women’s Christian Association warns in a statement marking World AIDS Day.
What can we expect for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in the next decade?
Friends, Presbyterians, people of God – I come to bury Frozen Chosen, not praise him.
“How good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity.” Psalm 133:1
How tragic it would be if the denomination-wide revival of enthusiasm around being the missional church were relegated to being all talk, no action!
Can you believe we are now consulting calendars for 2010?
I’m fourteen and, playing my first game on the girls’ basketball team in high school, caught the ball and dribbled down court to the basket. Made the basket. Expected cheers, received dead silence. I looked back to the other side of the court and saw all the girls standing there watching me. The lady coach sauntered down: “We play by woman’s rules, here.” On Brooklyn streets I played by “boy’s rules.”
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