TOKYO (ENI) Churches are suffering after an 8.9-magnitude
earthquake and tsunami devastated northeastern Japan on 11 March.
Philadelphia (BOP) The chairman of a committee studying the issue of benefits for the same-sex partners of PC(USA) employees has said the panel’s deliberations will take more time than expected.
WARSAW, POLAND (ENI) The head of Ethiopia's Lutheran church has welcomed government efforts to curb a spate of attacks on Christians in the country, but warned that political extremists were attempting to incite violence between religious communities.
STERLING, VA. (ENI) They were moved when the first Muslim elected to Congress shed tears for a Muslim who died trying to save others on 9/11. They were irked by accusations from House members and annoyed when fellow Muslims maligned their faith. At times they were an "Amen" corner. At other moments, they jeered and glared at the images beamed live from Capitol Hill.
NEW YORK (ENI) Nearly two dozen U.S. Christian leaders are calling on the Obama administration to renew diplomatic efforts to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
WASHINGTON (RNS) Faith leaders with long-term ties to Cuban organizations are hailing a change in White House policy that reduces limits on religious travel to the island nation.
SAN FRANCISCO (RNS) A Chinese Christian should be given another chance in court after an immigration judge denied his request for asylum in part because he couldn’t answer “basic questions” about Christianity, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
LONDON (RNS) A Florida pastor who sparked fury when he threatened to burn a pile of Qurans on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has been officially banned from Britain for preaching religious extremism.
KHARTOUM (ENI) Now that voting has produced an almost unanimous call for secession, the head of the Sudan Council of Churches (SCC) has backed a statement by the president of southern Sudan that the southerners should forgive the northerners for the deaths and atrocities of the 21-year civil war.
Warsaw (ENInews) A senior Turkish Protestant has said his country's small Christian churches still face severe hardships, despite recent pledges by the government to improve protection of religious rights.
New York, 2 March (ENInews)--The Rev. Peter J. Gomes, best known as an imposing but beloved figure on the campus of Harvard University, where for many years he served as the minister of the university's Memorial Church, is being remembered as one of the era's great preachers. Gomes, 68, died 28 February in Boston of complications from a stroke he suffered in December.
A PC(USA) program called For Such a Time as This matches new seminary graduates with small churches. For some pastors it means..
…Well, as a somewhat post-modernist, I signed it because of what I believe it says. (Is that a cop-out-in-advance, in case things go south at the August meeting, which I cannot attend? Maybe!) But here are some of the particulars that made me decide to throw my hat in with “the Fellowship”. Click here to read full article.
BILOXI, Miss. – The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People has approved grants totaling $261, 255 to 14 self-help projects in the United States. 
STATESVILLE, N.C. (PNS) Many ideas start with just one person, but it takes the work of many to make them a reality. In this case the one person is Catherine Gillette. Now a sophomore at the College of Wooster in Ohio, Gillette went on two mission trips to Honduras during her sophomore and junior years of high school that left a lasting impression on her.
NAIROBI, Kenya, 23 February (ENInews) – Christian clergy in Libya said they have no intention of leaving the country, where several days of protests and retaliation by government armed forces have left hundreds of people dead.
In many ways I readily concede some of the points Wilson Gunn makes about our letter introducing the Fellowship. Sometimes it’s scary to think how naïve we are about the web of organizations and structures he mentions within the PCUSA, many of which I’ve never heard of before. I appreciate his positive tone and remarkable grasp of leadership, business and management principles in applying them to our denomination.
February 21, 2011
In Response to the Letters of February 2 and 7 from our brothers in the PCUSA,
We, the Session of Central Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Georgia, write in response to your initial and clarification letters of February 2 and 7. We are a Session of male and female, youth, young adult, adult, divorced, single, and married elected leaders of our congregation.
VATICAN CITY (RNS) After a lengthy appeals process, the Vatican has ruled that nine Boston-area Catholic parishes should be closed despite protests from parishioners.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (RNS) A coalition of more than 50 Christian, Jewish, and Muslim leaders sent an open letter to Congress urging a “time of soul searching” and national dialogue about “violent and vitriolic political rhetoric.”
BANGALORE, India (ENI) Pakistani churches say they’re frustrated by the government’s refusal to amend a controversial blasphemy law that makes it a capital crime to insult Islam or the Prophet Muhammad.
SAN DIEGO (ABP) A U.S. federal appeals court has ruled that a four-story-tall cross atop an oceanside promontory in the exclusive San Diego suburb of LaJolla is unconstitutional as currently configured.
WARSAW (ENInews) – Poland's largest Roman Catholic publishing house has defended its decision to issue a controversial book, which accuses Poles of profiting from the Holocaust by betraying Jews to the Nazis and stealing their possessions.
Many of you have read and are discussing the letter from the 45 pastors of mostly larger churches of a more conservative inclination. In the letter they claim that “to say the PCUSA is deathly ill is not editorializing,” and then proceed to propose a remedy for the church’s ills.
SAN ANSELMO, Calif. – In a surprise announcement at its Feb. 8 meeting here, San Francisco Theological Seminary’s Board of Trustees said it is closing the seminary’s Southern California campus in Pasadena by June 30.
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