(ENI) — Christians in eastern Germany have launched a campaign to mark the 20th anniversary of the peaceful revolution that overthrew communism, with a light sculpture shone onto the walls of the regional parliament building in Erfurt.
MANILA (ENI) — A Protestant pastor and a farmer have given testimony before the United Nations in Geneva that they have faced torture in the Philippines, giving lie to the government's claims about its human rights record.
A litany focusing on God as mother and expressing gratitude for all the earthly mothers we encounter.
(ENI-RNS) — You might think former parishioners have left the pews because of sex scandals? Or because they no longer believe in God?
(ENI) — A Christian-backed civil society group in Japan has joined human rights groups in opposing attempts to revise residential and immigration control laws, saying they will discriminate against foreigners.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has once again voted to uphold a requirement that those being ordained practice fidelity in marriage or chastity if they’re single — the third time the denomination has voted to retain the “fidelity and chastity” standard since it came into effect in 1997.
“We Methodists aren’t like you Presbyterians. We don’t know the first thing about church politics,” said Maxie Dunham, then president of Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Ky.
LOUISVILLE – The latest round of budget cuts for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) means that 14 more employees from the denomination’s national staff have lost their jobs.
LOUISVILLE – While budget concerns and impending layoffs are on the front burner for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) right now, the General Assembly Council also has other concerns bubbling on the stove.
In this year of Calvin celebrations, it is worth remembering that the Institutes are a confession of faith, not primarily philosophical theology or academic scholarship.
Editor’s Note: The Walk to Siloam began January 1, 2003, when two Corpus Christi, Texas, men met to discuss the vision for an experience like the Walk to Emmaus or Presbyterian Cursillio for homeless men.
“It’s in my DNA to be connecting tissue for the body of Christ,” explains Mark Brewer, pastor of Bel Air Church in Los Angeles.
It all started with a Saturday phone call. Our daughter, a Montreat Youth Conference Coordinator, asked if I would be interested in being the keynote speaker for the Montreat Middle School Conference held each July at Presbyterian College in Clinton, S.C., her alma mater.
Jesus through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels
Civil union is a legal contract between two adults forming a partnership of responsibility for each other’s lives and the sharing of each other’s property.
With new communications tools coming on line, it’s important that church leaders stay current but also remember the basics.
NAIROBI — (ENI) A row is simmering between the Seventh-day Adventist Church in western Kenya and Muslims in the country over reported attempts to convert to Christianity Sarah Obama, the grandmother of U.S. President Barack Obama.
(ENI)--Former Italian volleyball world champion Andrea Zorzi was one of 50 Italian runners who joined about 100 Israelis and Palestinians in the sixth annual Pope John Paul II Peace Marathon that has ended today (April 23) in Jerusalem.
LOUISVILLE — As of April 21, Amendment B, which would replace the current Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) constitutional requirement that church officers live in "fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman or chastity in singleness" with a new section G-6.0106b of The Book of Order, is within a single vote of being defeated.
On the blackboard I wrote a single sentence that had come to me the night before just as I was dozing off..
(ENI) There is an untouchable word that appears nowhere in the declaration of the U.N. conference in Geneva reviewing progress on fighting racism. It is Dalit, the self-designation of a South Asian group traditionally regarded as untouchable or of the lowest caste.
GENEVA — (ENI) Race, religion, and politics are all high-octane factors around the United Nation's Durban Review Conference on racism, which began in Geneva today (April 20) with some nations staying away in protest that the gathering is harmful to religious tolerance.
(ENI) — German Bishop Margot Kässmann has criticized the Protestant work ethic ascribed to the 16th century theologian John Calvin, saying it has excesses in the current social and economic climate.
Stephanie Egnotovich, executive editor of Westminster John Knox publishers died April 13 in Arlington, Va., after a brief illness.
At the risk of sounding unstylish and out of step, I’m sinfully proud to be a Presbyterian.
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