(ENI) — The president of the Madagascar's largest Protestant church has welcomed the release of two imprisoned church radio journalists, but has warned they are still facing trial for allegedly colluding in an army mutiny after reporting on the action.
WARSAW (ENI) — A Polish archbishop has defended a Roman Catholic parish that created a memorial to German civilians who drowned when their ships were torpedoed by Soviet submarines in the final months of the Second World War.
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(ENI) — A German bishop has described as "shocking and disastrous" recent new allegations of sexual abuse by clergy at an elite Roman Catholic school run by the church's Jesuit order.
(ENI) — A self-proclaimed atheist can continue to serve as a local pastor of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, and no longer faces disciplinary action because of his controversial position on how to describe God.
NASHVILLE — The most important parts of Christian faith can be summarized by the cross and the resurrection, said Michael Lindvall at the closing worship of the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators’ annual event. Lindvall is pastor of Brick Church in New York City.
NASHVILLE — The wave of the future is here. They are a generation called the Millennials, and the church better make room because business as usual isn’t going to work.
It’s still early in the recovery efforts in Haiti – just one month after the Jan. 12 earthquake, “we’re still pretty much in the immediate response stage,” said Randy Ackley, coordinator of Presbyterian Disaster Assistance.
(ENI) — The Anglican Church of Uganda says it wants to see changes to a proposed law that would jail homosexuals and even execute them in some cases, which many international church and secular leaders have condemned.
(ABP) — Two Baptist churches within three miles of each other burned Feb. 8, the ninth and 10th in a rash of suspicious church fires in East Texas since Jan. 1.
LONDON (Ekklesia) -- In a speech aimed at calming the warring factions within the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Canterbury apologized to gay people for the way they had been vilified and overlooked - but then said that unelected bishops in parliament were right to oppose equality legislation requiring the church not to discriminate against them.
Bangalore, India (ENI)--Church officials have expressed hopes that a visit to India by a European Union delegation, which led to protests by some Hindu groups, will draw attention to the plight of harassed Christians in the Kandhamal region of the country's eastern Orissa state.
It has taken little more than one generation for American Protestantism to lose control of Sunday morning.
This edition of the Outlook was heading to the printer when news broke of a devastating 7.0 earthquake hitting Haiti, already the poorest country in the western hemisphere.
WARSAW (ENI)
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I, a spiritual leader who represents Eastern Orthodox Christianity, has urged young Christians to resist secularization in Europe.
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Bruce Reyes-Chow, moderator of the 218th General Assembly (2008) and Gradye Parsons, stated clerk, have added their signatures to a Christian statement denouncing the Ugandan “Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2009.”
NASHVILLE (PNS) Following up on its well-attended 2009 event, the Presbyterian Writers Guild’s Presbyterian Writers Conference for 2010 will be held from Wednesday through Thursday, April 28-29, at the Scarritt-Bennett Center in Nashville, Tenn.
WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Postal Service plans to honor Mother Teresa with a stamp this year in recognition of her humanitarian work.
CANTERBURY, ENGLAND (RNS) The final draft of a document aimed at mediating disputes between liberals and conservatives in the global Anglican Communion has been sent to its 38 provinces for approval.
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