Editor’s note: This is the latest in a series of stories about congregations engaged in significant outreach and evangelism ministries, reflecting the General Assembly’s commitment to “Grow Christ’s Church Deep and Wide.” — Jerry L. Van Marter
GENEVA (ENI) — Criticism of Ecumenical News International (ENI) surfaced during a routine report today (September 1) at a meeting of the World Council of Churches' main governing body, its central committee, taking place in Geneva.
(ENI/RNS)--Tens of thousands of Muslims plan to pray "for the soul of America" outside the U.S. Capitol September 25 in what is being described as a first-of-its-kind event.
GENEVA (ENI) — A senior church official in South Korea says he hopes that holding the 2013 assembly of the World Council of Churches in his country will help promote reconciliation with North Korea and will encompass fast-growing Pentecostal and Evangelical churches.
(ENI) — Roman Catholic Bishop Antonio Menegazzo, the apostolic administrator of El-Obeid diocese in Sudan, has expressed shock at a United Nations' military commander's pronouncement that Darfur's war is over, despite the lack of a peace agreement and the ongoing threat of Janjaweed militia.
We now interrupt the Presbyterians’ celebration of John Calvin’s 500th birthday to listen into our Baptist neighbors’ celebration of their 400th birthday.
UTRECHT, Netherlands (RNS/ENI) — Four hundred years after the first Baptist congregation was established, followers have been challenged to continue championing religious liberty.
NEW YORK — When Brad Braxton was tapped last year as the next senior pastor of Riverside Church, he was billed as an energetic and dynamic preacher with the power to reinvigorate the flagship pulpit of progressive Protestantism.
Beaver-Butler Presbytery, convinced that the 2008 General Assembly had committed a series of “objectionable actions,” has issued a “Theological Declaration” to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), outlining what it sees as the assembly’s failings and inviting other presbyteries and congregations to join in the declaration.
Editor’s note: A memorial service was held July 7 in Westfield, N.J., for Bill Forbes, a much-loved church leader who died June 30 after battling pancreatic cancer for several years.
Among the new “gospels” being discovered in damp and dusty caves, there is one in which Jesus is approached by a person in need of the restoration of sight, or the healing of a hemorrhage.
… Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said to himself, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?” (Genesis 17:17 NRSV)
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GENEVA (ENI) -- The World Council of Churches offers a unique network that the Norwegian theologian who will take over the helm of the Christian grouping in 2010 says he will use to forge better relations with the Roman Catholic Church, other Christian groups and Muslims.
GENEVA (ENI) -- The newly elected general secretary of the World Council of Churches has said he is concerned about the situation of "First peoples" around the world and has suggested practices from his home country of Norway may be a model for other nations in dealing with their indigenous populations.
(ENI) — The American Jewish Committee has denounced the World Council of Churches' General Secretary Samuel Kobia, for his declaration that Israel's "occupation" of Palestinian territories is "a sin against God."
GENEVA (ENI) — Organizers of an international churches' peace convocation planned for Jamaica in 2011 say they hope the event will rouse people to commit themselves to finding ways of preventing violence by exploring four areas of life that often trigger conflict.
GENEVA (ENI) — The newly-elected general secretary of the World Council of Churches has said that relations with the Roman Catholic Church and with Islam are two key issues for the Geneva-based church grouping.
GENEVA (ENI) — Olav Fykse Tveit, an ordained pastor in the Church of Norway, has been elected general secretary of the World Council of Churches today (August 27.)
There is nothing unexpected in “Post Grad.” It’s a predictable, cute, reserved, little romantic comedy that breaks no new ground. But what’s wrong with that?
BANGALORE (ENI) — Indian Christian leaders and activists have expressed disappointment over the Indian government's response to the United States placing the country on a "watch list" over the state of religious freedom in some parts of the nation.
How commendable was Kenneth MacAskill’s freeing of the terminally ill Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pam-Am Flight 203! The..
GENEVA — (ENI) The general secretary of the World Council of Churches has said that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories should be declared a "sin against God."
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