(ENI/RNS)--Mary Daly, a self-described post-Christian, radical feminist theologian known for pioneering women's studies and battling administrators at Boston College, has died aged 81.
BANGALORE (ENI) — A commission aimed at safeguarding the rights of religious minorities in India cannot be effective unless it is given judicial powers, says the politician who is helping to lead the watchdog body.
(ENI) — Britain's Christian Legal Centre says it has hired a human rights lawyer to represent Olive Jones, a 54-year old math teacher who is being investigated by the North Somerset Council after she offered to say prayers in front of a 14-year-old student suffering from leukemia.
NAIROBI (ENI) — Vulnerable communities have been left own their own to adapt to climate change or perish, with only God to count on, because of the failure of a United Nations conference in Copenhagen to agree legally-binding commitments, a Kenyan theologian and ecologist has warned.
(ENI) — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I, a spiritual leader who represents Eastern Orthodox Christianity, has urged young Christians to resist secularization in Europe in a message to an ecumenical meeting that was greeted by global and regional leaders.
(ENI)--Cardinal Cahal Daly, who led the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland during the sectarian violence that wracked the island, and who has died aged 92, has been praised as a champion for peace and justice.
A Presbyterian minister from New Jersey has sent a letter to her congregation and an announcement to her presbytery, telling them that she was married in October in a same-gender wedding in Massachusetts, where such marriages are legal.
The first candidate to stand for moderator of the 2010 General Assembly has stepped forward, as National Capital Presbytery voted unanimously on Nov. 17 to endorse Cynthia Bolbach, an elder from Arlington, Va.
More than 100 people from around the country and the world gathered Nov. 2-4 in San Clemente, Calif., for the New Church Development Team Training Conference to consider and act upon the theme, “Can I Get a Witness?”
“We absolutely need to think of church planting as the act of the whole church,” Tod Bolsinger, pastor of San Clemente Church, in San Clemente, Calif., told the New Church Development Team Training Conference, which met November 2-4 in his church.
PUP was a DUD. Just don’t tell anybody. And, don’t tell any fellow Presbyterians that many other highly anticipated – and dreaded – events in the past decade turned out to be duds, too.
Edinburgh, 23 December (ENI)--If Jesus lived in Lanark you could possibly meet him in the pubs around town, says Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) minister, the Rev. Bryan Kerr.
LOUISVILLE — Harold Kurtz, an Idaho farm kid who became 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.
NEW YORK — Arabella Meadows-Rogers, 60, recently-retired executive presbyter of New York City Presbytery died Dec. 17 from the effects of pancreatic cancer.
(ENI) — Churches and faith-based organizations in Malawi are up in arms against a new measure passed by their parliament that they say gives President Bingu wa Mutharika dictatorial powers to decide when local government elections should be held.
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (ENI) — There is no room at the inn at Bethlehem this Christmas as the city's hotels are fully booked, something Mayor Victor Batarseh attributes to the efforts of Christian churches abroad to bring pilgrims to the city.
TULSA, Okla. – Oral Roberts, 91, longtime television evangelist and founder of preaching and healing ministries, and Oral Roberts University, died today (December 15) in Newport Beach, Calif., due to complications from pneumonia. His son, Richard, and daughter, Roberta, were at his side.
