GENEVA (ENI) Religious leaders in Switzerland and abroad have warned that a referendum in which Swiss citizens voted for a constitutional ban on the building of minarets in their country undermines social harmony.
Sometimes Vacation Bible School can look and feel like barely controlled chaos. But the Spirit of God is hovering over those swirling children and dazzled teachers, creating a community of faith our Savior must thoroughly enjoy dancing around in. So it is undeniably fun, but what are they learning?
(RNS) When Switzerland recently voted to ban the construction of minaret towers at mosques, some observers interpreted it as an expression of European xenophobia that would never find a home in multicultural America.
Counterpoint Press. San Francisco, Calif. 2008. 304 pages. By: Sara Maitland
Some weeks ago, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori, preached at a Kansas City area church. So I went to the early service and, at the Communion rail, received the body and blood of Christ.
By doing much of its work off-site and online, the Multichannel Church challenges a longheld assumption, namely, the necessity of being together on Sunday.
Joe R. Engle, a Presbyterian elder and ardent supporter of church music and theological education, has died in New York City at 87.
LOUISVILLE — The death toll from the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti is mounting and chaos threatens in the capital city of Port-au-Prince because of fractured infrastructure that is making relief efforts difficult at best.
PORTLAND — The Oregon farm kid whose biggest dream as a child was traveling to Salem to see the Oregon state capitol building first-hand probably would have been surprised — but shouldn’t have been — to see hundreds of Presbyterians turn out for his memorial service.
LOUISVILLE — Marj Carpenter, former General Assembly moderator and former director of the Presbyterian News Service, is recovering in a Big Spring, Texas, hospital from a Dec. 31 fall in her home that resulted in a broken hip.
LOUISVILLE — The National Middle Eastern Presbyterian Caucus has condemned an attack on Christmas Eve worshipers in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, that killed eight Coptic Christians.
The 6th General Assembly of the Fellowship of the Middle East Evangelical Churches (FMEEC) has concluded its historic gathering and issued a final communiqué. FMEEC includes Reformed, Anglican, and Lutheran churches in the region. The Assembly met from Jan. 11-13 in Harissa, Lebanon.
LOUISVILLE — As the desperate search continues in Haiti for remaining survivors, confirmation has been received that Hopital Sainte Croix (Holy Cross Hospital) in Leogane, a major focus of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) mission in Haiti for decades, collapsed in the Jan. 12 quake.
ROME (ENI) — Pope Benedict XVI, visiting the Great Synagogue of Rome, has defended the actions of Roman Catholics in protecting Jews during the Second World War, amid continuing debate about the wartime role of his predecessor, Pius XII.
GENEVA (ENI) — Christians around the world are remembering the 1910 World Missionary Conference in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh as a key initiative that led to the ecumenical movement seeking the unity of the Church.
(ENI) — The ACT Alliance global network of churches and related agencies says its members are bringing food and temporary shelter to victims of the earthquake that struck Haiti but has warned that the country's food supplies may soon run out.
(ENI) — A Roman Catholic archbishop in Germany has given support to the country's senior Protestant bishop, Margot Kässmann, in her criticism of Germany's military strategy in Afghanistan.
You know how it is in Hollywood — somebody finds a successful formula, and everyone else imitates it (come to think of it, that applies to a lot of other things, also, but I digress).
LOUISVILLE — Two Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) missionaries in Haiti and mission teams from three PC(USA) congregations in the country when the devastating earthquake struck Jan. 12 have been accounted for.
The leaders and citizens of Haiti were not prepared to absorb or respond to Tuesday’s 7.0 earthquake – the most powerful to hit their island nation since 1770. Nobody is ever fully prepared for such trauma, but in Haiti “unprepared” is the ultimate understatement.
GENEVA (ENI) — A leader of a global Protestant grouping has expressed concern about violence in Egypt targeting churches and Christians.
EDINBURGH (ENI) — Britain might soon have its first female Anglican bishop, serving the 38,000-member Scottish Episcopal Church, part of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
(ENI) — The leader of the largest Protestant church in Madagascar has appealed for the release of two church radio journalists detained on January 8 by the island's government.
(ENI) The government of Belarus has refused to renew work permits for a group of Roman Catholic priests from neighboring Poland who minister in the country to make up for a shortage of clergy.
(ENI) — Jordan has complained to a United Nations agency after Canada refused to seize the Dead Sea Scrolls, which had been on display in an Ontario museum on loan from the Israel Antiquities Authority.
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