JUBA, SOUTHERN SUDAN (ENI) Church leaders in Southern Sudan have called for urgent strategies to end threats caused by northern Uganda's rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The leaders said attacks are escalating, threatening a fragile peace in a region that will celebrate independence July 9.
NEW YORK (ENI) A coalition of U.S. church bodies is calling on the Obama administration not to block a proposed United Nations Security Council resolution seeking an end to construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
PHOENIX (RNS) Houses of worship and other charities often aren’t in competition for dollars but instead tend to reap donations from similar donors, a new study shows.
NEW YORK (RNS) The proposed Park51 Islamic community center and mosque project near Ground Zero is again looking for a top imam after Sheik Abdallah Adhami resigned the post less than one month into the job.
(ENI) The New Year’s Day massacre at a Coptic church in Egypt. Christian converts facing the death penalty in Afghanistan. Swastikas painted on a Jewish synagogue in Venezuela.
“Over the centuries, the issue of responsibility for Jesus' death has served as a basis for the blanket persecution of Jews -- a notion the pope repudiates.
Tokyo, 18 March (ENInews)--Churches are among those who keep searching for missing people, including clergy, members and their families, as the death toll after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami has reached the highest in the history of natural disasters in postwar Japan.
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.
