Mary Jane Patterson, a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) elder who served as a social worker and missionary to Africa before enlivening the corridors of power in the nation’s capital as director of the Presbyterian Washington Office for 13 years, died April 8 in Washington, D.C.
TOKYO --(ENI) A Japanese Christian leader is urging churches to "listen to the cries" of temporary migrant workers many of whom are now without jobs as the world's second-biggest economy's unemployment rate soars during the global economic crisis.
Charles Allen “Chick” Ferguson, 79, Chief Executive Officer of Kerygma, Inc., for the past 20 years, died April 2. He resided in Pompano Beach, Fla., and Chautauqua, N.Y.
(PNS) Brian Frick of Parkville, Mo., is the new Associate for Camps and Conference Centers for the General Assembly Council.
(PNS) Laura Bryan, who joined the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s stewardship education team in June 1996 and has most recently served as program assistant for student loans in the Office of Financial Aid for Studies (FAS), has been promoted to the position of associate in that office.
(PNS) Ray Jones, the founding pastor of the 500-member Macland Church in Powder Springs, Ga., has been named coordinator of evangelism for the Evangelism and Church Growth ministry area in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
The Presbyterian Foundation has announced a reduction in staff to reduce payroll expenses and manage budgets during the global financial crisis.
Two things I know about worship.
The latest church membership statistics are in, and the trend is clear: declines for Roman Catholics and Southern Baptists, and across-the-board losses for mainline Protestant denominations.
Bruce Reyes-Chow, moderator of the 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has returned from his first international trip as moderator, a weeklong visit to three Asian countries — the Philippines, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
Why does history matter?
Famed radio broadcaster and commentator Paul Harvey, 90, died February 28 at his winter home in Phoenix, Arizona.
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“A celebration is when we remember together who we are.”
Throughout history, relations between the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) and its Reformed brothers and sisters have never been, well, cordial.
The long procession of cars with headlights on and flashers blazing was moving at a funereal snail’s pace toward what the uninitiated assumed would be a gravesite.
Times were bad, the cash flow had flown, and I almost cancelled my subscription to Outlook.
It was Sunday morning, time for church.
I went to the movies recently to be entertained and I ended up being spiritually inspired.
Metrics sound dull, maybe even irritating.
Race to Witch Mountain is about a Las Vegas cab driver, played by Dwayne Johnson, discovering that the two children who just appear in the back seat of his taxi are actually aliens, they just look like ordinary kids.
(ENI)--South Africa's ruling African National Congress has lambasted Nobel Peace Price laureate Desmond Tutu accusing the former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town of "blasphemy" after he said he did not look forward to ANC president Jacob Zuma becoming the country's head of state.
LOUISVILLE — Despite the faltering U.S. economy, the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation (PPC) has announced that sales increased in 2008.
(ENI)--A Zambian AIDS activist and Jesuit priest, Michael Kelly, has called for the decriminalization of same-sex relations, and said that the existence of laws banning such relations was fanning the spread of HIV-AIDS.
(ENI) Kosuke Koyama, a Japanese Christian theologian who was a proponent of contextual theologies rooted in the experiences of everyday people, is being remembered for his far-sighted commitment to religious pluralism, dialogue, and peace.
(ENI-epd) Germany's senior Protestant bishop has hailed a decision by three regional Protestant churches in northern Germany to form a united church that will stretch from the Danish border to Poland.
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