(RNS) While the violence escalates in Israel and Gaza, a movement is taking hold that unites Jews, Muslims and others in a..
Among the 16 committees working within the 221st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Committee on Congregational Vitality had much..
It didn’t take long after his election on the first ballot for Heath K. Rada — a smooth Southern Presbyterian — to..
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis has provoked a debate within the Catholic Church after being quoted as saying that one in 50 Catholic..
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Three leading Anglicans have entered an explosive debate about whether it is permissible for Christians to allow doctors in..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Dramatic shifts in demographics and generational trends are changing the landscape in the church, capturing the attention of Asian English..
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) After 20 years of turmoil and angry debate, on Monday (July 14) the General Synod of the Church of..
(RNS) A federal court has ruled that humanist couples in Indiana can be married by their own “secular celebrants,” something that until..
(RNS) The Evangelical Immigration Table commissioned the documentary “The Stranger” to foster evangelical support for immigration reform. Linda Midgett, a graduate of evangelical..
The Reverend Gradye Parsons, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly, wrote a letter to the President of the United States expressing concern..
On June 20, in Detroit, Michigan, the Presbyterian Church (USA) voted to recognize the Armenian Genocide, urging congregations to commemorate its centennial..
Charitable giving last year (2013) continued a four-year climb from recession lows recorded in 2009. The cumulative gains amount to 22 percent..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Worshipers at the 221st General Assembly’s opening worship last month in Detroit gave more than $13,500 to ministries both local and global...
VATICAN CITY (Catholic News Service) Landmines wound innocent civilians, "prolong war and nurture fear" long after conflicts have ended, Pope Francis told..
EKKLESIA – Two hunger-striking Guantánamo Bay detainees have asked a US court to count them as ‘persons’ with free exercise of religious rights,..
Montreat Conference Center (MCC) has reopened and rededicated its historic Assembly Inn, revealing $6.2 million in renovations. While striving to retain the..
Out of the ashes … evangelical Presbyterians gathered at the Montreat Conference Center in late June to renew their faith by rebooting..
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis is sending a cardinal and a bishop to Paraguay to investigate the activities of a priest previously..
(RNS) A federal judge has approved a settlement in a 14-year legal battle over government funding of Baptist homes for children in..
(WCC) -- Attacks by the Israeli military on the civilian population in Gaza, as well as firing of rockets by militants from..
NAIROBI (WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES) Early struggles in developing a response to the HIV and AIDS pandemic were remembered by African women church..
WASHINGTON (PCUSA OFFICE OF PUBLIC WITNESS) – The Reverend J. Herbert Nelson II, director of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Public Witness in Washington,..
San Diego, CA – Sojourners recently sought the 50 “Greatest Social Justice Leaders We've Never Heard Of” to participate in “The Summit” at Georgetown..
WASHINGTON (RNS) President Obama’s faith-based advisers are coming down on different sides of a debate over a pending executive order that would..
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) On a Sunday at the Presbyterian church in the Bahati neighborhood, a young woman haltingly approaches the pulpit with..
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