(ENI) — The Roman Catholic Church in India at its first-ever national mission congress has said that neither threats nor harassment will prevent it from pursuing a path of evangelization that also takes heed of the sensitivities of other faiths.
ROME (ENI) — The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, has criticized the Swiss-born Roman Catholic theologian Hans Küng after he accused Pope Benedict XVI of an "unecumenical luring away" of discontented Anglicans by setting up a special structure to admit them into the Catholic Church.
On his recent trip through the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Outlook editor Jack Haberer arranged an exclusive interview in the royal palace in Amman with His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan Bin Talal.
More than 50 years ago, Presbyterian Women gave a gift of $206,677 from the Birthday Gift Offering to help build Yodogawa Christian Hospital in Osaka, Japan.
Philip Butin, the president of San Francisco Theological Seminary, has announced that he will step down from that position as of Jan. 31, 2010. Butin has been the seminary’s president since 2002.
Just Hospitality: God’s Welcome in a World of Difference, by Letty Russell. Edited by J. Shannon Clarkson and Kate M. Ott. WJKP, 2009. Pb., 168 pp. $19.95.
GENEVA (ENI) — Leaders of the Lutheran World Federation have approved a statement apologizing for the 16th-century persecution by Lutherans of Anabaptists, religious reformers whose successors are found in groups such as the Mennonites.
CINCINNATI – Sometimes, for rank-and-file Presbyterians, it can be hard to sense the impact of that sometimes-ambiguous word mission. It covers so much territory, and so much in the world is changing.
ROCHESTER — Virginia West Davidson, a diminutive and feisty mother of four who became a towering figure in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for her tireless advocacy of full inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered members in the life of the church, died Oct. 19 at her home in Rochester, N.Y.
(ENI) — The 251 members of the General Synod of the (Lutheran) Church of Sweden have started a four-day meeting in Uppsala today (Oct. 20) at which they are to decide whether to allow same-sex church weddings, a decision that could affect its relations with other churches.
(ENI) — South African President Jacob Zuma met with a number of church leaders including his one-time fierce critic Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu during the weekend of Oct. 17-18.
LOUISVILLE — What role should advocacy and advisory committees play in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)? And what can be done to improve the sometimes-touchy relationship between the General Assembly Mission Council and these committees, which advocate the interests of women and racial ethnic people and social witness in the life of the Presbyterian church?
LOUISVILLE – The 2010 budget for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will be balanced without more staff cuts — a relief for the denomination’s national staff, which has endured several rounds of layoffs.
LOUISVILLE — The Presbyterian News Service is a “high priority and essential function” of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and “offers the most reliable means the church has to get its story out,” a task force studying the news service has reported.
LOUISVILLE — The Washington Office of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) “remains poorly understood and supported by much of the church, and a source of controversy within it,” a study group considering the future of the office has reported.
LOUISVILLE — The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) should add the Belhar Confession, written by Christians in South Africa on the themes of reconciliation and repentance, to The Book of Confessions.
