(ENI) Two church leaders in Thailand say they can see no obvious way out of current political turmoil gripping the southeast Asian nation, as they offered prayers for justice and peace.
(ENI) — Protestant and Roman Catholic churches in Germany have condemned a far-right party campaigning for a ban on minarets in forthcoming elections in the country's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia.
(ENI) — The Hindu governor of India's Meghalaya state has at a mass gathering of Presbyterians hailed the role of Christian missionaries in spreading a message of "love, trust, and peace in the turbulent tribal societies" of the country's northeast.
(ENI/RNS) — U.S. President Barack Obama and ailing evangelist Billy Graham have exchanged prayers during their first meeting at Graham's home in western North Carolina.
Maggie Lauterer, (firstburnsville.org/our-staff.html) a journalist-turned-minister, has become the third candidate endorsed to stand as moderator of the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
LOUISVILLE — The moderators and vice-moderators of the 18 committees for the 219th General Assembly (2010) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) have been named. The leadership was chosen from among the 712 commissioners to this year's assembly, to be held July 3-10 in Minneapolis, Minn.
EDINBURGH (ENI) — The (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland says that a growing problem of suicide among young people is to be discussed at the yearly general assembly of the church in May.
DUE WEST, S.C. — The General Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church has appealed the order of a Circuit Court Judge filed earlier this month that granted a preliminary injunction in the case brought against the General Synod by three members of the Board of Trustees and the Erskine Alumni Association.
DECATUR, Ga. — Columbia Presbyterian Church here was filled as the Columbia Theological Seminary (CTS) community gathered April 12 to celebrate the inauguration of Stephen A. Hayner as the ninth president in the school’s 182-year history.
LOUISVILLE — Gradye Parsons, General Assembly stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has joined religious leaders from across the political and theological spectrum in praising President Barack Obama's April 15 memorandum on hospital visitation ensuring the rights of all patients to designate and receive visitors when admitted to a hospital.
HONG KONG (ENI) — Christian and social activists in Hong Kong have protested outside an evangelical church accusing its pastor of seeking to placate Chinese authorities by asking his parishioners to cast "blank votes" in an upcoming election, viewed as a referendum on political reform in the territory.
Editor's note: Paul Timothy Roberts Sr., assumed full responsibility as administrative dean of Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary, at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Ga., effective April 19.
(ENI/RNS) — Researchers say they've found the most religious place on Earth — between the southern border of the Sahara Desert and the tip of South Africa.
A North Carolina pastor in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church has written a widely-circulated statement critical of the denomination's handling of governance issues at ARP-affiliated Erskine College and Seminary in Due West, S.C.
MINNEAPOLIS — This July several thousand Presbyterians will attend the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in Minneapolis. But there are many more who would like to be at the Assembly, but can’t attend because of time, distance, or other commitments.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (ENI/RNS) The coins and dollar bills added up quickly last Christmas, despite the economic slump, as Americans donated a record US$139 million to the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle campaign.
(RNS) Traditional Christian values and modern culture need not clash, according to Brian McLaren, 53, a nondenominational pastor and one of the leading lights of the Emerging Church Movement and a polarizing figure in conservative circles.
Louisville. Barbara Wheeler, director of the Center for the Study of Theological Education at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York, has a knack for laying hard issues directly before the Presbyterian church – and encouraging it to push for better ways of doing ministry.
A devastating fire on April 9 at A Community of the Servant-Savior Presbyterian Church (servant-savior.org) in Houston, Texas, destroyed the church’s building. Arson is suspected, but the investigation is still ongoing, according to Pastor Alan Brehm. It was insured for $1.6 million, according to the pastor.
SHENYANG, China — Three large classrooms at Dongguan Church here are filled on a Friday afternoon with well over 1,000 church members who are studying Psalm 92. A young female pastor leads the Bible study in one room; her image is projected on large screens in the other two rooms by closed circuit television. Students nibble on the remnants of their lunches as they take copious notes.
(ENI) — The Church of Sweden is celebrating 50 years since the first woman was ordained a priest by the church, the largest denomination in the Lutheran World Federation.
A South Carolina circuit judge has issued a preliminary injunction affirming a status quo situation for Erskine College and Seminary’s Board of Trustees in response to a lawsuit filed in March by three board members and the Erskine Alumni Association against the General Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church.
“When it comes to incriminating videos these days, the one of Bruce K. Waltke might seem pretty tame. It shows the noted evangelical scholar of the Old Testament talking about scholarship, faith and evolution.
