Some Presbyterians are picking up on the idea of creating a new, non-geographic synod as a way of holding the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) together in its disagreements over whether to ordain gays and lesbians.
(ENI) — A German bishop has described as "shocking and disastrous" recent new allegations of sexual abuse by clergy at an elite Roman Catholic school run by the church's Jesuit order.
(ENI) — A self-proclaimed atheist can continue to serve as a local pastor of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, and no longer faces disciplinary action because of his controversial position on how to describe God.
NASHVILLE — The most important parts of Christian faith can be summarized by the cross and the resurrection, said Michael Lindvall at the closing worship of the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators’ annual event. Lindvall is pastor of Brick Church in New York City.
NASHVILLE — The wave of the future is here. They are a generation called the Millennials, and the church better make room because business as usual isn’t going to work.
It’s still early in the recovery efforts in Haiti – just one month after the Jan. 12 earthquake, “we’re still pretty much in the immediate response stage,” said Randy Ackley, coordinator of Presbyterian Disaster Assistance.
(ENI) — The Anglican Church of Uganda says it wants to see changes to a proposed law that would jail homosexuals and even execute them in some cases, which many international church and secular leaders have condemned.
(ABP) — Two Baptist churches within three miles of each other burned Feb. 8, the ninth and 10th in a rash of suspicious church fires in East Texas since Jan. 1.
LONDON (Ekklesia) -- In a speech aimed at calming the warring factions within the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Canterbury apologized to gay people for the way they had been vilified and overlooked - but then said that unelected bishops in parliament were right to oppose equality legislation requiring the church not to discriminate against them.
Bangalore, India (ENI)--Church officials have expressed hopes that a visit to India by a European Union delegation, which led to protests by some Hindu groups, will draw attention to the plight of harassed Christians in the Kandhamal region of the country's eastern Orissa state.
WARSAW (ENI)
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I, a spiritual leader who represents Eastern Orthodox Christianity, has urged young Christians to resist secularization in Europe.
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Bruce Reyes-Chow, moderator of the 218th General Assembly (2008) and Gradye Parsons, stated clerk, have added their signatures to a Christian statement denouncing the Ugandan “Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2009.”
NASHVILLE (PNS) Following up on its well-attended 2009 event, the Presbyterian Writers Guild’s Presbyterian Writers Conference for 2010 will be held from Wednesday through Thursday, April 28-29, at the Scarritt-Bennett Center in Nashville, Tenn.
WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Postal Service plans to honor Mother Teresa with a stamp this year in recognition of her humanitarian work.
CANTERBURY, ENGLAND (RNS) The final draft of a document aimed at mediating disputes between liberals and conservatives in the global Anglican Communion has been sent to its 38 provinces for approval.
BANGALORE, INDIA (ENI) Church groups have hailed the report of a federal commission recommending an end to decades of religion-based discrimination that excluded Christian and Muslim Dalits from affirmative action legislation and have also called for the laws to be changed.
A man named Jack Hanna retired from General Electric, bought a boat, and went to the Caribbean.
The tiny green patch we had been hiking toward finally began to look less like a miniature diorama and more like a life-sized forest.
Christmas has come and gone. Nativity scenes rest safely in the attic. But has anything remained? For we know at Christmas, The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood.1 Perhaps it’s like this:
The most recent half of my faith-walk has been as a Presbyterian, while the previous quarter saw me as a lapsed Catholic (mostly of the Byzantine stripe: Catholics of the Eastern Rite with a liturgy more akin to that used by the Orthodox than the Church of Rome).
During the coffee hour between services at Saint Mark Church I often find myself, like many others, wanting to have less structure and be free to just continue talking together with old friends and welcoming new ones. And that is how Coffee Two, an unofficial extension of coffee hour, came to be.
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used the occasion of the National Prayer Breakfast Feb. 4 to denounce a draconian proposed anti-homosexuality law in Uganda --
LOUISVILLE — The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy feverishly worked last weekend on a half-dozen reports it is preparing for the upcoming 219th General Assembly later this year in Minneapolis.
LOUISVILLE — Gradye Parsons, General Assembly stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), issued a statement today (Feb. 3) decrying the Jan. 21 U.S. Supreme Court decision to lift virtually all restrictions on corporate contributions to election campaigns.
NEW YORK (NCCC News) — A headline ricocheted around the Internet this week, requiring no further comments. It read simply: 
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