Donald V. Weatherman, who left Lyon College in Batesville, Ark., 10 years ago as a professor of political philosophy, will return in July as the 17th president of the college. He will succeed Walter B. Roettger, who is retiring in June after 11 years as the college's president.
(ENI)--Germany's top Protestant cleric, Wolfgang Huber, has highlighted German's role as a major global arms exporter, and he has castigated the fact that at his country has become the top armaments exporting nation of Europe.
(ENI)--Religion has always played a part in South African elections say voters, but this year the voice of churches and their leaders at times has been shrill during campaigning for the April 22 general election. Some voters say the pulpit has been used to great effect, other says it is being misused.
(ENI)--Russian Orthodox Christians must resist the temptation to live exclusively within their own subculture and need to reach out to other groups, especially youth, Moscow Patriarch Kirill I, has said.
(ENI) — Philippine traditional Protestant, evangelical, and Pentecostal churches have agreed with their South Korean counterparts to cooperate "in establishing God's kingdom" in Asia rather than competing to the point of "stealing sheep from one another.”
(ENI) — Minority church leaders in Muslim-majority Turkey have welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama's defense of religious rights during a visit to the country.
(RNS) Over the last decade, mainline Protestant clergy have inched leftward, with more identifying as Democrats, supporting gay rights, and calling on the government to solve social problems, according to a recently released survey.
Princeton Theological Seminary’s Erdman Center of Continuing Education and Hispanic Leadership Program is offering a “Meet the Author” book series featuring authors speaking on the topic “Meeting in the Middle: Faith in the Public Square.”
NEW ORLEANS — The staccato banging of dozens of hammers dispelled the morning quiet as college students, lawyers, and nurses from Massachusetts clambered about four new houses rapidly taking shape at the hands of Habitat for Humanity and St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church.
Mary Jane Patterson, a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) elder who served as a social worker and missionary to Africa before enlivening the corridors of power in the nation’s capital as director of the Presbyterian Washington Office for 13 years, died April 8 in Washington, D.C.
TOKYO --(ENI) A Japanese Christian leader is urging churches to "listen to the cries" of temporary migrant workers many of whom are now without jobs as the world's second-biggest economy's unemployment rate soars during the global economic crisis.
Charles Allen “Chick” Ferguson, 79, Chief Executive Officer of Kerygma, Inc., for the past 20 years, died April 2. He resided in Pompano Beach, Fla., and Chautauqua, N.Y.
(PNS) Laura Bryan, who joined the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s stewardship education team in June 1996 and has most recently served as program assistant for student loans in the Office of Financial Aid for Studies (FAS), has been promoted to the position of associate in that office.
