SOUTH BEND, Ind. (RNS) A Catholic bishop in Indiana recently gave his imprimatur to a thoroughly modern take on the ancient act of confession with a thumbs up to “Confession: A Roman Catholic App,” a new application for the iPhone and iPad that helps users catalog their sins before entering a confessional booth.
WASHINGTON (RNS) The architect of the Obama administration’s new consumer protection bureau met with faith-based groups in early February in a bid to shape the agency’s work as a moral crusade.
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.
ALBUQUERQUE In his younger years, Rick Ufford-Chase had a rocky relationship with the Apostle Paul. He found him racist, sexist and homophobic. “Mostly, I gave up,” preferring not to argue with those who saw Paul differently, Ufford-Chase said recently.
(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.
LOUISVILLE (PNS) In February, the General Assembly’s Mission Responsibility Through Investment (MRTI) committee concluded engagement efforts with Time Warner that the church called successful.
Where is the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) headed?
I wish I knew.
LOUISVILLE, KY. (PNS) After years of downsizings and organizational changes, the office of Collegiate Ministries of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is back — and a newly assembled task force is working to discern the state and future of collegiate ministry within the church.
NEW YORK (NCC) As news from earthquake-stricken Japan and Tsunami-devastated coastal areas worsens, U.S. churches and religious groups are pulling out all the stops to assess how they can help.
There is much that I can agree with in what Prof. Arlo Duba says in the two articles posted in the Outlook. There is great emphasis in the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles and the NT as a whole on inclusiveness…
There is much that I can agree with in what Prof. Arlo Duba says in the two articles posted in the Outlook.
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.
In immediate aftermath, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, World Mission checking in with partners, mission workers, presbyteries
Grace runs deep in Scripture, in the Reformed tradition, and in the hearts of Presbyterians.
Grace runs deep in Scripture, in the Reformed tradition, and in the hearts of Presbyterians.
CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND (ENI) Historian Simon Schama says the sudden spread of “democratic liberation” in the Middle East should prompt discussion of whether secularism has a future in emerging democracies in the region.
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