(ENI) — A grouping of church organizations and Christian leaders in Zimbabwe has called for the creation of a commission to hear cases of political violence and determine punishment for perpetrators, and compensation for victims.
“What did the Calvinist say after falling down the stairs?”
Editor’s Note: As the Outlook goes to press, the Churchwide Gathering of Presbyterian Women in Louisville, Ky., is at its midpoint.
LOUISVILLE – Presbyterian Women has voted to incorporate as a non-profit corporation, which would have a “covenant relationship” with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) but would be a separate organization with control over its own finances and affairs.
Fold together 50 Presbyterian pastors, seminary professors and governing body leaders.
Sentimentality for a bygone era may have helped draw some of the participants. The promise of birthday cake – “Happy 500th!” – started the salivating.
Ashbel Green Simonton was the last of the many children in a very devout and close-knit Presbyterian family in Pennsylvania.
“No foreigners!” yelled the Dutchman.
The emergence of social networking tools is an opportunity for the church to remain relevant and in-touch with Gen Xers and Millennials, the future of the faith.
Portals. Preachers sometimes talk about portals during the Easter season, as Jesus’ passing through the grave causes us to ponder the threshold between life and death and life again.
I couldn’t make this up. A reader writes:
(ENI) — African American members of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), a U.S.-based Protestant denomination, are joining other church bodies in boycotting the state of South Carolina for displaying the Confederate flag on the state capitol grounds.
This is one of those kid-oriented films where the adults are dorky, disinterested, or distracted, which leaves the important things up to the children.
(ENI)--Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who strongly opposed Jacob Zuma becoming president of South Africa, says he should be given a chance to prove himself in office.
(ENI) — Pakistan churches have announced a day of protest on August 11 against the recent killing of Christians in central Punjab, and threats against their members in the Muslim-majority nation.
(ENI) —The Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) is encouraging parishes to commemorate the "peaceful revolution" of 1989 that marked the end of communism in eastern Europe and prepared the way for the fall of the Berlin Wall.
(ENI) — The Christian Association of Nigeria has criticized the killing of an Islamic leader whose followers set off riots in northern Nigeria that claimed hundreds of lives and caused extensive property damage.
(ENI/RNS) — Two dioceses of the U.S. Episcopal (Anglican) Church have nominated gay and lesbian priests to become bishops, testing the denomination's place within the global Anglican Communion.
Beaver-Butler Presbytery, convinced that the 2008 General Assembly had committed a series of “objectionable actions,” has issued a “Theological Declaration”
NEW DELHI (ENI) — Church schools and other Christian institutions in Karachi have closed in protest at the killing of Christians in Pakistan's central Punjab region in a mob attack.
Utrecht, Netherlands (ENI) — Four hundred years after the first Baptist congregation was established, the movement's followers have been challenged to continue championing religious liberty.
MOSCOW (ENI) -— Comments by a senior official of the Russian Orthodox Church condemning Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, accusing him of genocide, shortly before a European security forum equated the crimes of Stalin and Hitler, have stirred heated debate in the Russian media and blogosphere.
(ENI) — A series of attacks on Iraq's Christian community in July were deliberately coordinated, but the government is not paying sufficient attention to them and they have received scant media attention, says the World Student Christian Federation.
A study group considering the future of the Washington Office of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has reached some conclusions – including calling the office a “central and important instrument” through which Presbyterians reflect their faith on matters of public policy.
It’s good to do good (proper grammar notwithstanding). It’s great to give. But why do folks do good? What motivates good folks to give?
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