NEW YORK (ENI) Anti-Christian violence in Pakistan continued unabated as two Christians were shot and killed and two were wounded after Muslim youths allegedly attacked them outside a church building in Hyderabad on March 22.
TORONTO (ENI) Some church leaders in the United States are promoting a decades-old idea of Western and Orthodox Christians sharing a common Easter and celebrating the holy day on a fixed date every year.
(RNS) Young adults who regularly attend religious activities are 50 percent more likely to become obese when they reach middle age than their nonreligious peers, a new study shows.
(ENI) Zambian nurse Agnes Lisulo Mulemwa has been honored in Geneva for helping women in her rural community raise their standard of living, train to become leaders and support health care.
Here is a parable:
Every evening I walk by a wine and spirits store near my apartment.
Last Christmas, I had to cancel a spring break mission trip. It was a dilemma I hadn’t faced before. Many eager students simply couldn’t go.
Holy Conversations: Spirituality for Worship
by Jonathan Linman
Fortress Press, 183 pages.
reviewed by MARGEE IDDINGS
I recently had dinner with a Roman Catholic woman friend who is an artist.
Drawn to Freedom: Christian Faith Today in Conversation with the Heidelberg Catechism
by Eberhard Busch, translated by William H. Rader
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2010. 392 pages
reviewed by DEBORAH A. MCKINLEY
Christian practices are in and doctrine is out, so it seems. Confirmation classes for teenagers are moving away from doctrinal teaching to education in living Christian faith.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (ENI) Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe's latest attack on
Catholic bishops, in which he accused them of lying about the nation's dire social and
economic situation, was a sign that the relationship between the two will continue to
be difficult, observers said.
NEW YORK (ENI) In a spirit of repentance, the United Methodist Church is making
good on a pledge to support a learning center at the site of the 1864 Sand Creek
massacre of Native Americans, which was led by a Methodist minister.
WASHINGTON (ENI) Evangelist David Wilkerson, who wrote
the popular book "The Cross and the Switchblade," founded New York's Times
Square Church and an international ministry to gang members and drug addicts, died
in a traffic accident on Wednesday, April 27, according to The Associated Press.
A personal reflection by Eddie Soto with response by Outlook Editor Jack HabererDear Christian friend,This morning I read the news that the..
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (PNS) In the five and one-half years since it first organized, Grace
Presbyterian Church in Dawsonville, Ga., has been through some big changes.
Symbol or substance? Church leaders transact so much business in the language of metaphor and symbol that they can mistake it for reality.
Grace and peace to all of you. I was baptized as an infant at First Presbyterian Church, Billings, Montana. I was taught faith, Scripture, the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and confirmed at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Sulphur, Louisiana.
Almost immediately after the White Paper of the Presbyterian Fellowship appeared, intense reaction followed. Two phrases seemed to attract the most concern. The mention of bringing together a group of theologically “like-minded” people created a powerful reaction in a denomination that has learned to prize its theological pluralism. In another column we can ponder that idea. The other incendiary phrase was “deathly ill,” which was used to describe the prognosis of the PCUSA. Who said “deathly ill” and upon what basis? That prognosis came from me. Let me tell you why.
Are Christianity and capitalism a marriage made in heaven, as some conservatives believe, or more of a strained relationship in need of..
FAYETTEVILLE (WTVD) -- According to investigators, Kimani Wright, Pastor of Haymount Presbyterian Church, came home around 9:30 am to find the back..
Nairobi, Kenya (ENI) At least ten churches have been burned
in Nigeria, where violence has broken out following the re-election of
President Goodluck Jonathan, according to Barnabas Fund, a Christian
Charity in the United Kingdom.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (PNS) Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly Stated Clerk Gradye Parsons joined a number of U.S. religious leaders April 19 for the second annual Holy Week prayer breakfast at the White House hosted by President Barack Obama.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
His office on North Fifth Street is three stories above the sanctuary (always filled on Sundays), and life in Richmond (where he mostly grew up) is familiarly complex for the leader of Second Presbyterian Church. …
UPDATED APRIL 19, 2011 – The Presbytery of deChristo voted on Saturday to a 62-62 tie – which counts as a collective “no” vote – becoming the third presbytery to turn away from supporting elimination of the fidelity-chastity ordination requirement (in 2009 it voted 59-48 to overturn the policy).
TOKYO (ENI) A "cross of comfort" has been erected at a church
site about one month after its building was washed away by the tsunami that
followed the magnitude-9 earthquake on March 11, a Christian relief
organization reported.
WASHINGTON (ENI) The State Department has a "rigidly
narrow" view of diplomacy that neglects religion's role in foreign affairs,
a prominent Catholic ambassador charged on April 17 as he announced his
resignation.
How do you explain why a comedy isn’t funny? It just isn’t. But no self-respecting
critic could just leave it at that, so, here goes the whining.
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