BANGALORE, INDIA (ENI) Church groups have hailed the report of a federal commission recommending an end to decades of religion-based discrimination that excluded Christian and Muslim Dalits from affirmative action legislation and have also called for the laws to be changed.
A man named Jack Hanna retired from General Electric, bought a boat, and went to the Caribbean.
The tiny green patch we had been hiking toward finally began to look less like a miniature diorama and more like a life-sized forest.
Christmas has come and gone. Nativity scenes rest safely in the attic. But has anything remained? For we know at Christmas, The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood.1 Perhaps it’s like this:
The most recent half of my faith-walk has been as a Presbyterian, while the previous quarter saw me as a lapsed Catholic (mostly of the Byzantine stripe: Catholics of the Eastern Rite with a liturgy more akin to that used by the Orthodox than the Church of Rome).
During the coffee hour between services at Saint Mark Church I often find myself, like many others, wanting to have less structure and be free to just continue talking together with old friends and welcoming new ones. And that is how Coffee Two, an unofficial extension of coffee hour, came to be.
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WASHINGTON (ABP) -- President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used the occasion of the National Prayer Breakfast Feb. 4 to denounce a draconian proposed anti-homosexuality law in Uganda --
LOUISVILLE — The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy feverishly worked last weekend on a half-dozen reports it is preparing for the upcoming 219th General Assembly later this year in Minneapolis.
LOUISVILLE — Gradye Parsons, General Assembly stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), issued a statement today (Feb. 3) decrying the Jan. 21 U.S. Supreme Court decision to lift virtually all restrictions on corporate contributions to election campaigns.
NEW YORK (NCCC News) — A headline ricocheted around the Internet this week, requiring no further comments. It read simply: 
MERIDIAN, Idaho (ABP) — A mission team from two Southern Baptist churches in Idaho arrested for attempting to take 33 children from Haiti to a temporary orphanage in the neighboring Dominican Republic was only trying to help children suffering in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince, according to the pastor of one of the churches.
LOUISVILLE – A General Assembly Middle East study group has approved recommendations that include asking that the two years from 2010 to 2012 be “a time of Presbyterian prayer and action for the Middle East.”
The final report of the General Assembly Special Committee to Study Issues of Civil Union and Christian Marriage, which was voted on..
LOUISVILLE – The General Assembly Special Committee on Civil Union and Christian Marriage has approved its final report — ending its journey with civility and mutual respect, but also with the clear possibility of a minority report.
(ENI) — A new book about Pope John Paul II reveals that shortly before the 1981 assassination attempt on the pontiff's life, he learned that the militant Red Brigades group planned to kidnap him.
(ENI) — An Indian church leader has criticized the chief minister of India's southern Karnataka state for saying that those responsible for a continuing series of attacks on churches should have their hands cut off.
(ENI) — An Indian church leader has criticized the chief minister of India's southern Karnataka state for saying that those responsible for a continuing series of attacks on churches should have their hands cut off.
NASHVILLE — This conversation, part of the 2010 Association of Presbyterian Church Educators meeting here, was attended by pastors and church educators wondering just what the “emergent” church is all about. Or is it the “emerging” church?
Disaster relief head gives thanks for donations, outlines next Haiti steps
WARSAW (ENI) — In a ruling that could affect similar disputes, a European court has ordered the government of Romania to compensate a Greek Catholic parish for failing to return to the parish properties seized from it under communist rule.
WARSAW (ENI) — In a ruling that could affect similar disputes, a European court has ordered the government of Romania to compensate a Greek Catholic parish for failing to return to the parish properties seized from it under communist rule.
(ENI) — Lithuania has come out in support of Italy in its efforts to revise a ruling of the European Court of Human Rights that obliges state schools throughout Italy to remove crucifixes from classrooms.
(ENI/RNS) — Some surprises started unfolding when a team of Calvin Theological Seminary professors and graduate students in Grand Rapids, Mich., recently launched the Post-Reformation Digital Library.
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