(PNS) Ray Jones, the founding pastor of the 500-member Macland Church in Powder Springs, Ga., has been named coordinator of evangelism for the Evangelism and Church Growth ministry area in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
The latest church membership statistics are in, and the trend is clear: declines for Roman Catholics and Southern Baptists, and across-the-board losses for mainline Protestant denominations.
Bruce Reyes-Chow, moderator of the 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has returned from his first international trip as moderator, a weeklong visit to three Asian countries — the Philippines, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
The long procession of cars with headlights on and flashers blazing was moving at a funereal snail’s pace toward what the uninitiated assumed would be a gravesite.
(ENI)--South Africa's ruling African National Congress has lambasted Nobel Peace Price laureate Desmond Tutu accusing the former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town of "blasphemy" after he said he did not look forward to ANC president Jacob Zuma becoming the country's head of state.
(ENI)--A Zambian AIDS activist and Jesuit priest, Michael Kelly, has called for the decriminalization of same-sex relations, and said that the existence of laws banning such relations was fanning the spread of HIV-AIDS.
(ENI) Kosuke Koyama, a Japanese Christian theologian who was a proponent of contextual theologies rooted in the experiences of everyday people, is being remembered for his far-sighted commitment to religious pluralism, dialogue, and peace.
(ENI-epd) Germany's senior Protestant bishop has hailed a decision by three regional Protestant churches in northern Germany to form a united church that will stretch from the Danish border to Poland.
(ENI)--Former U.S. president Ronald Reagan tried to convert the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to Christianity during a Moscow summit in May 1988, according to a new biography of the late U.S. head of state.
GENEVA — (ENI) Religious and secular organizations have expressed concern that a new United Nations resolution to protect religious ideologies may do so at the expense of freedom of expression.
The Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area did not make a mistake when it voted in January 2008 to restore the ordination of Paul Capetz, an openly gay theology professor who will not promise that he will live in celibacy, the General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commission has ruled.
(RNS) Six in 10 Americans think the U.S. is “uniquely blessed” by God, but a higher percentage — almost eight in 10 – think the country sometimes does more harm than good when it relates to the rest of the world, according to a new study on religion and America’s role in the world.
When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “There is still one thing lacking. Sell all that you own and distribute the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.” (Luke 18:22)
No one was making hotel reservations for the 2009 presidential inauguration week in 2007 when the youth, parents, and advisors of Central Church in Atlanta, Ga., decided to make Washington, D.C. the site of their next mission trip.
