WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on March 8 to decide whether the father of a fallen soldier can sue protesters picketing at his son’s funeral with signs that read “Thank God for dead soldiers.”
WASHINGTON (RNS) On the heels of their March 21 rally on the National Mall, immigration reform advocates, including religious leaders, met at the White House to plot strategy.
NEW YORK (ENI) A geneticist and molecular biologist, who has argued that science and religion should be kept separate, has won the Templeton Prize – an award associated with honoring those who advocate dialogue between the two disciplines.
KATHMANDU (ENI) Girija Prasad Koirala, a former prime minister of Nepal and the architect of a secular republic in what was once the world’s only Hindu State, died after a protracted illness in Kathmandu on March 20.
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What will the next generation’s leaders of church and country look like? If the presidents have anything to do with it, they will look a lot like this year’s graduating class of PC(USA)-related colleges and seminaries.
JHH: What was the impetus that generated this report?
Presbyterian seminaries
Austin, May 30, 2:30 p.m.
Columbia, May 15, 10 a.m.
Dubuque, May 8, 9:30 a.m.
Not surprisingly, responses have begun to roll in to the report of the General Assembly Study Committee on the Middle East – with some critics contending that the report is biased and predicting it will ignite anew tensions between Presbyterians and Jews.
“We are the Church of Jesus Christ. When the powers of the world decide that they will conduct business as usual, and that business is contrary to the teachings of Christ and the will of God for humanity, then it is time for the church to end its complicity in this sinful behavior. If we do not, then we remain unrepentant.”
In July, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will receive two documents of great relevance to Christians and Jews and to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Middle East. They are already drawing fire from both Jewish and Palestinian groups.
This summer, in addition to doing less of the main thing, I suggest you do more of smaller things.
The year is 1948. The place, the holy island of Iona. The Rev. Dr. George MacLeod is sitting with a young man, John, who has spent time in a borstal for young offenders. Sensing that the young man is troubled, MacLeod invites him to write down any burden he has on a piece of paper and seal it in an envelope, before receiving the laying on of hands.
(ENI) Two church leaders in Thailand say they can see no obvious way out of current political turmoil gripping the southeast Asian nation, as they offered prayers for justice and peace.
(ENI) — Protestant and Roman Catholic churches in Germany have condemned a far-right party campaigning for a ban on minarets in forthcoming elections in the country's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia.
(ENI) — The Hindu governor of India's Meghalaya state has at a mass gathering of Presbyterians hailed the role of Christian missionaries in spreading a message of "love, trust, and peace in the turbulent tribal societies" of the country's northeast.
(ENI/RNS) — U.S. President Barack Obama and ailing evangelist Billy Graham have exchanged prayers during their first meeting at Graham's home in western North Carolina.
Maggie Lauterer, (firstburnsville.org/our-staff.html) a journalist-turned-minister, has become the third candidate endorsed to stand as moderator of the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
This is one of those cute romantic comedies that is refreshingly simple.
LOUISVILLE — The moderators and vice-moderators of the 18 committees for the 219th General Assembly (2010) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) have been named. The leadership was chosen from among the 712 commissioners to this year's assembly, to be held July 3-10 in Minneapolis, Minn.
EDINBURGH (ENI) — The (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland says that a growing problem of suicide among young people is to be discussed at the yearly general assembly of the church in May.
DUE WEST, S.C. — The General Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church has appealed the order of a Circuit Court Judge filed earlier this month that granted a preliminary injunction in the case brought against the General Synod by three members of the Board of Trustees and the Erskine Alumni Association.
DECATUR, Ga. — Columbia Presbyterian Church here was filled as the Columbia Theological Seminary (CTS) community gathered April 12 to celebrate the inauguration of Stephen A. Hayner as the ninth president in the school’s 182-year history.
LOUISVILLE — Gradye Parsons, General Assembly stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has joined religious leaders from across the political and theological spectrum in praising President Barack Obama's April 15 memorandum on hospital visitation ensuring the rights of all patients to designate and receive visitors when admitted to a hospital.
HONG KONG (ENI) — Christian and social activists in Hong Kong have protested outside an evangelical church accusing its pastor of seeking to placate Chinese authorities by asking his parishioners to cast "blank votes" in an upcoming election, viewed as a referendum on political reform in the territory.
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