MERIDIAN, Idaho (ABP) — A mission team from two Southern Baptist churches in Idaho arrested for attempting to take 33 children from Haiti to a temporary orphanage in the neighboring Dominican Republic was only trying to help children suffering in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince, according to the pastor of one of the churches.
LOUISVILLE – A General Assembly Middle East study group has approved recommendations that include asking that the two years from 2010 to 2012 be “a time of Presbyterian prayer and action for the Middle East.”
LOUISVILLE – The General Assembly Special Committee on Civil Union and Christian Marriage has approved its final report — ending its journey with civility and mutual respect, but also with the clear possibility of a minority report.
(ENI) — A new book about Pope John Paul II reveals that shortly before the 1981 assassination attempt on the pontiff's life, he learned that the militant Red Brigades group planned to kidnap him.
(ENI) — An Indian church leader has criticized the chief minister of India's southern Karnataka state for saying that those responsible for a continuing series of attacks on churches should have their hands cut off.
(ENI) — An Indian church leader has criticized the chief minister of India's southern Karnataka state for saying that those responsible for a continuing series of attacks on churches should have their hands cut off.
NASHVILLE — This conversation, part of the 2010 Association of Presbyterian Church Educators meeting here, was attended by pastors and church educators wondering just what the “emergent” church is all about. Or is it the “emerging” church?
WARSAW (ENI) — In a ruling that could affect similar disputes, a European court has ordered the government of Romania to compensate a Greek Catholic parish for failing to return to the parish properties seized from it under communist rule.
WARSAW (ENI) — In a ruling that could affect similar disputes, a European court has ordered the government of Romania to compensate a Greek Catholic parish for failing to return to the parish properties seized from it under communist rule.
(ENI) — Lithuania has come out in support of Italy in its efforts to revise a ruling of the European Court of Human Rights that obliges state schools throughout Italy to remove crucifixes from classrooms.
(ENI/RNS) — Some surprises started unfolding when a team of Calvin Theological Seminary professors and graduate students in Grand Rapids, Mich., recently launched the Post-Reformation Digital Library.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new organization of progressive evangelicals has formed, calling for complete cancellation of Haiti's foreign debt in order to aid an already-fragile economy devastated by a Jan. 12 earthquake.
GENEVA (ENI) — World Council of Church General Secretary Olav Fykse Tveit is to tell the World Economic Forum at its upcoming meeting in Davos, Switzerland, that Haiti's foreign debt must be immediately and unconditionally cancelled.
(ENI) — A curfew in Jos, a city in the central part of Nigeria, has been relaxed a week after interreligious violence erupted and left about 500 people dead.
A few weeks ago I led a workshop with the pastoral staff and lay leadership of St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church, a grand and historic congregation in the Uptown, or University area, of New Orleans.
Philip W. Butin and his wife, Jan Butin, have accepted a call to serve as co-pastors of First United Presbyterian Church of Fayetteville, Ark., effective March 1.
(RNS) - More Americans believe a statement about giving “justice to the poor and homeless” came from President Barack Obama instead of its true source, the Bible.
Laird J. Stuart, pastor of Calvary Church in San Francisco, Calif. 1993-2010, has been elected interim president of San Francisco Theological Seminary effective March 1.
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Harold Kurtz, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s preeminent evangelist to peoples without the gospel around the world, died of brain cancer Dec. 18 in Portland, Ore., surrounded by his family. He was 85.
Two-thirds of Protestant pastors believe Islam is a dangerous religion, according to survey results recently released by the Southern Baptist-affiliated LifeWay Research.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (RNS) The National Institutes of Health has approved the first human embryonic stem cell lines for research after President Barack Obama lifted Bush-era bans on such research last March.
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) A standing group of about two dozen area clergy — Christian, Jewish, and Muslim — is circulating a “Faith Statement on Public Discourse.”
