New York (ENI) Partisan politics has disrupted the role of the U.S. religious community in debates about the nation's future, says a prominent broadcast journalist and former White House communications director.
The first candidate for moderator of the 2012 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has been announced. The Presbytery of Elizabeth has endorsed Neal D. Presa, a teaching elder and the pastor of Middlesex Presbyterian church in New Jersey since 2003.
Sometimes in the Christian life it’s crucial (a word, aptly enough, rooted in the cross) to take a few steps back and ask again the foundational question of our faith:
GENEVA (ENI) The World Council of Churches (WCC) has launched
the first online digital library covering theology and
ecumenism, called GlobeTheoLib, saying it will help close the information
gap between North and South.
KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia (ENI) Speakers at an international Christian-Muslim dialogue
conference organized by the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) say religious groups need to do
more to combat greed in the global economy.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (ENI) A suicide bomber blew
himself up on the porch of an Indonesian church packed with hundreds of
worshippers on Sept. 25, injuring 28 people, some critically.
BERLIN (ENI) Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Germany on Sept. 23
featured an ecumenical worship service in the town of Erfurt that
was meant to reach out to German Protestants, but for many it felt like a
missed opportunity.
EDINBURGH, Scotland (ENI) The Scottish government has drawn fire from Catholic church
leaders for launching a 14-week public consultation, starting Sept. 2, on the question of
legalizing marriage for gay couples.
Carolyn Gillette has composed a new hymn for use and it’s available free of charge for your congregation’s use.
What can you say about a movie that you’re supposed to like but didn’t?
“Moneyball” is a baseball movie, so right away that limits its audience.
However, there are many other appealing dynamics in the film that
transcend baseball and are just about life.
“Drive” is several movies at once:
1) A slick action film with car chase sequences to rival any of the muscle-car,
musclehead, predictable silliness,
“Dolphin Tale” is one of those “family films” that you know are going to
feature good-looking children, beleaguered parents, a little bit of stress, and
the triumph of love and acceptance. So what’s wrong with that? Nothing.
Watching this movie will convert thousands to the ranks of the
germophobes. As fast as you can say, “Bats on pigs.”
Bangalore, India (ENI) A pastor's wife was killed and churches and schools destroyed in the Sept. 18 earthquake that killed more than 100 people in several countries in the Himalaya mountains north of India.
Washington (ENI) The U.S. State Department has designated eight nations as the most serious violators of religious freedom, naming the same countries as the Bush administration.
Berlin (ENI) Pope Benedict XVI's meeting with Germany's Jewish community on the first day of his four-day state visit to his homeland was marked by both good will and honest criticism.
Washington (ENI) The release of U.S. hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal from an Iranian prison on Sept. 21 "affirms the importance of the role of religious dialogue and its end product in this case, public diplomacy, as we seek ways to define common ground between our two countries," said Episcopal Diocese of Washington Bishop John Chane, who returned from a weeklong visit to Iran on Sept. 19.
STATESVILLE, N.C. (PNS) Six years after Hurricane Katrina, rebuilding New Orleans after the country’s costliest storm continues.
LOUISVILLE – Heres’s some of what the General Assembly Mission Council of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) wants to be known for:
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The General Assembly Mission Council of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is considering changing its name – something it needs to do to comply with the denomination’s new Form of Government, which reserves the use of the word “council” for actual governing bodies.
LOUISVILLE – The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) continues to feel the international rumblings from its controversial decision earlier this year to allow the ordination of sexually-active gays and lesbians.
The Presbytery of San Francisco did not commit any doctrinal errors when it voted to allow the ordination of Lisa Larges, and it does not need to conduct another examination of her, the Permanent Judicial Commission of the Synod of the Pacific has ruled.
Berlin (ENI) Pope Benedict XVI, on his first state visit to his native country, arrives in Berlin on Sept. 22 in what many see as a unique opportunity for increased understanding between Catholic and Protestant churches.
Nairobi, Kenya (ENI) As a new international initiative seeks to stop child marriages, church-based centers in southern Kenya are an example of faith organizations providing a haven for girls and educating communities about the issue.
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