Presbyterian Disaster Assistance has awarded a $50,000 grant to an interfaith mission from New Jersey that is working to provide medical care and education in Haiti.
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America has directed its Interchurch Relations Committee to study the denomination’s participation in the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) and offer its findings to the 2012 General Assembly.
(rNS) The National Association of Evangelicals is siding with Jews and Muslims in opposing a proposed ban on infant male circumcision in San Francisco.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (ENI) Migrant religious workers in New Zealand are welcoming the opportunity to be permanent residents after the government announced changes to the law on July 19. Starting in November, an updated temporary visa will allow workers to stay in the country for four years before applying for residency.
NAIROBI, Kenya (ENI) The Kenyan government has promised to expand a refugee camp for thousands of desperate Somalis fleeing a drought crisis in the Horn of Africa, and faith groups and humanitarian agencies are praising the move.
WASHNGTON (Special to the Presbyterian News Service) On July 11, more than 150 U.S. citizens from faith-based, environmental and human rights organizations gathered in front of the White House to protest the pending Colombia Free Trade Agreement. A Presbyterian presence was prominent among them.
HONG KONG (ENI) The Vatican has excommunicated the Rev. Joseph Huang Bingzhang, a Catholic bishop in Shantou in the southern Guangdong province in China, for being ordained without a papal mandate.
NAIROBI, Kenya (ENI) Roman Catholic Bishop Caesar Mazzolari of South Sudan's Rumbek diocese died suddenly on July 16 at age 74, one week after the mainly Christian and animist region celebrated its independence from the mainly Arab and Islamic North.