CAIRO (RNS) The gruesome video released by militants from the Islamic State showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Copts in Libya has..
ROME (Reuters) The U.S. cardinal who heads the Vatican’s commission on sexual abuse of children by clergy warned his fellow Roman Catholic..
LOUISVILLE – The encounters we have with people of other faiths change us, religion scholar Diana Eck is sure – and increasingly,..
(RNS) Chances are you’ll see a bunch of folks walking around with shmutz on their foreheads this Wednesday. The ‘Splainer asks what having..
I’ve had it. This time we cannot roll our eyes, snicker under our breaths or defer to that great United States colloquialism,..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) The Reverend Gradye Parsons, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A), offers a prayer in response to..
(RNS) How do some of the nation’s Christian denominations address alcoholism among their leaders? Here’s a sampling: 1. SOUTHERN BAPTISTS The Southern..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Although I had been to a number of countries in Africa in past years, these past two weeks provided my first..
The news from Foothills Presbytery is that they convened a vibrant and energetic group of teaching and ruling elders to consider potential..
WASHINGTON (RNS) For the Obama administration and the Bush administration before it, drone strikes kill terrorists before terrorists can kill innocents, and the..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) The Reverend Gradye Parsons, Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has written a letter in opposition of H.R. 399,..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Samuel Hugh Moffett (April 7, 1916-February 9, 2015) passed peacefully at his home in Princeton, NJ, on February 9, 2015,..
The World Council of Churches (WCC) mourns the death of Leopoldo J. Niilus, former director of the WCC’s Commission of the Churches..
WASHINGTON, DC (Office of Public Witness communications staff) J. Herbert Nelson returned this past weekend from ten days in South Sudan. While..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Harold Mayo Daniels was born in Walla Walla, Wash., April 10, 1927, to Ralph Lionel Daniels and Lillie Maude (Smith) Daniels...
PHILADELPHIA — The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the agency that administers benefits and assistance for PC(USA) workers, is..
The Association of Presbyterian Church Educators (APCE) took care of business during its annual meeting as a corporation on Feb. 5, installing..
The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has not yet received word whether any of the people participating in its..
WASHINGTON (RNS) President Obama on Thursday (Feb. 5) called for an emphasis on what is just about the world’s religions as a..
WASHINGTON (RNS) Pope Francis will make an unprecedented address to Congress on Sept. 24 during his first visit to the United States...
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Gwen and John Haspels, second-generation mission co-workers who spent more than 40 years planting churches and doing community development work in..
BALTIMORE – As the annual meeting of the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators (APCE) kicked off Feb. 4 in Baltimore, 756 attendees..
(RNS) The Episcopal Church lost a major court battle on Tuesday (Feb. 3) when a South Carolina judge ruled that the Diocese..
PITTSBURGH (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Communications ) Today the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Board of Directors has named the Rev. Dr. David V. Esterline as..
(RNS) Pope Francis on Tuesday (Feb. 3) officially declared that Archbishop Oscar Romero, assassinated by a right-wing death squad in 1980 while..
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