(ENI) — African American members of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), a U.S.-based Protestant denomination, are joining other church bodies in boycotting the state of South Carolina for displaying the Confederate flag on the state capitol grounds.
(RNS) Mormon missionaries serving abroad will not be counted in the 2010 U.S. census, despite the hopes of Utah congressmen that they would be included, the Census Bureau said.
The proposal before the General Assembly Mission Council to transfer title of Ghost Ranch Conference Center in Abiquiu, N.M., to the Ghost Ranch Governing Board, a separate non-profit corporation, is raising a lot of eyebrows and rhetorical dust.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is undertaking a mission study of its Washington office. We don’t know how many Presbyterians are aware of the existence and significance of this study, although many have noted the discord of recent years. We are confident many are praying for a solution to the disharmony of recent years.
(ENI)--Churches in Taiwan welcomed exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama who prayed in the village of Hsiaolin on the south of the island on August 31 while visiting typhoon victims. Beijing said, however, it "resolutely opposes" the trip by the Dalai Lama, who it accuses of leading a campaign to separate Tibet from China.
(ENI) — Members of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan have written an open letter to President Barack Obama asking that his administration review U.S. policy to China and Taiwan and reiterate the need to respect the island's independence.
GENEVA, (ENI) — The main governing body of the World Council of Churches has called on the government of Pakistan to repeal the section of the country's penal code which carries a mandatory death penalty for anyone found guilty of blasphemy.
GENEVA (ENI) — The World Council of Churches has called upon the Israeli government to "implement an open-ended freeze" on all settlement construction and expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem "in preparation for negotiating peace in good faith" in the region.
SOLANA BEACH, Calif. - Learning to manage one's life is a form of success, but giving up that success is necessary when trying new things, said speakers at the closing of the Presbyterian Global Fellowship meeting here Aug. 21-22.
Geneva (ENI) — The global economic crunch has hit membership contributions to the World Council of Churches, which have dropped, a meeting of the church grouping's main governing body, its central committee, has heard.
Editor’s note: This is the latest in a series of stories about congregations engaged in significant outreach and evangelism ministries, reflecting the General Assembly’s commitment to “Grow Christ’s Church Deep and Wide.” — Jerry L. Van Marter
GENEVA (ENI) — Criticism of Ecumenical News International (ENI) surfaced during a routine report today (September 1) at a meeting of the World Council of Churches' main governing body, its central committee, taking place in Geneva.
(ENI/RNS)--Tens of thousands of Muslims plan to pray "for the soul of America" outside the U.S. Capitol September 25 in what is being described as a first-of-its-kind event.
GENEVA (ENI) — A senior church official in South Korea says he hopes that holding the 2013 assembly of the World Council of Churches in his country will help promote reconciliation with North Korea and will encompass fast-growing Pentecostal and Evangelical churches.
(ENI) — Roman Catholic Bishop Antonio Menegazzo, the apostolic administrator of El-Obeid diocese in Sudan, has expressed shock at a United Nations' military commander's pronouncement that Darfur's war is over, despite the lack of a peace agreement and the ongoing threat of Janjaweed militia.
UTRECHT, Netherlands (RNS/ENI) — Four hundred years after the first Baptist congregation was established, followers have been challenged to continue championing religious liberty.
NEW YORK — When Brad Braxton was tapped last year as the next senior pastor of Riverside Church, he was billed as an energetic and dynamic preacher with the power to reinvigorate the flagship pulpit of progressive Protestantism.
Beaver-Butler Presbytery, convinced that the 2008 General Assembly had committed a series of “objectionable actions,” has issued a “Theological Declaration” to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), outlining what it sees as the assembly’s failings and inviting other presbyteries and congregations to join in the declaration.
Editor’s note: A memorial service was held July 7 in Westfield, N.J., for Bill Forbes, a much-loved church leader who died June 30 after battling pancreatic cancer for several years.
Among the new “gospels” being discovered in damp and dusty caves, there is one in which Jesus is approached by a person in need of the restoration of sight, or the healing of a hemorrhage.
