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Written by Cathy Lynn Grossman
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Monday, 10 October 2011 17:03 |
Washington (ENI) Washington National Cathedral will need "tens of millions of dollars" over "numerous years" to repair extensive damage to the nation's second-largest church following an Aug. 23 earthquake, church officials said Oct. 4.
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Written by Fredrick Nzwili
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Tuesday, 04 October 2011 16:49 |
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Nairobi, Kenya (ENI) Kenya should immediately relocate people living in areas with a high risk of disaster, said Kenya's Anglican Archbishop Eliud Wabukala after a series of recent tragedies shook the East African country.
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Written by Paul R. Kopenkoskey
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Tuesday, 04 October 2011 16:46 |
Manado, Indonesia (ENI) An estimated 275 Christian leaders are meeting in Indonesia Oct. 4-7 to plan an ecumenical future.
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Written by Adelle M. Banks
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Monday, 03 October 2011 16:37 |
(RNS) New York-area residents are more spiritually active since 9/11, a new survey shows, but the uptick in faith may be a matter of coincidence rather than a religious response to the terrorist attacks.
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Written by Annysa Johnson of the Journal Sentinel
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Monday, 03 October 2011 04:56 |
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Twenty-one years ago, Scott Anderson had a choice. He could continue to serve as a Presbyterian minister but hide his identity as a gay man. Or he could leave the ministry and live, as he says, "with a sense of integrity" about who he is.
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Written by Ken Ribe
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Saturday, 01 October 2011 20:32 |
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An interim pastor laments what he calls the focus on "clearly defined essentials" at the Fellowship of Presbyterians' gathering in Minneapolis on Aug. 25-26. "I wonder how clearly defined these essentials will be," he writes. "Will there be any latitude or room for grace?" Click here to read the full blog article.
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Written by Chris Herlinger
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Saturday, 01 October 2011 20:26 |
New York (ENI) Partisan politics has disrupted the role of the U.S. religious community in debates about the nation's future, says a prominent broadcast journalist and former White House communications director.
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Written by John Zarocostas
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Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:02 |
GENEVA (ENI) The World Council of Churches (WCC) has launched
the first online digital library covering theology and
ecumenism, called GlobeTheoLib, saying it will help close the information
gap between North and South.
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Written by Anto Akkara
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Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:01 |
KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia (ENI) Speakers at an international Christian-Muslim dialogue
conference organized by the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) say religious groups need to do
more to combat greed in the global economy.
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Written by David Crampton
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Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:00 |
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (ENI) A suicide bomber blew
himself up on the porch of an Indonesian church packed with hundreds of
worshippers on Sept. 25, injuring 28 people, some critically.
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Written by Ruby Russell
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Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:58 |
BERLIN (ENI) Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Germany on Sept. 23
featured an ecumenical worship service in the town of Erfurt that
was meant to reach out to German Protestants, but for many it felt like a
missed opportunity.
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Written by Trevor Grundy
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Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:56 |
EDINBURGH, Scotland (ENI) The Scottish government has drawn fire from Catholic church
leaders for launching a 14-week public consultation, starting Sept. 2, on the question of
legalizing marriage for gay couples.
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Written by ENI News Staff
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Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:54 |
JERUSALEM (ENI) The Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem and his
family are celebrating after getting permission to remain in the city after
months of legal and diplomatic appeals.
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Written by Anto Akkara
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Saturday, 24 September 2011 17:13 |
Bangalore, India (ENI) A pastor's wife was killed and churches and schools destroyed in the Sept. 18 earthquake that killed more than 100 people in several countries in the Himalaya mountains north of India.
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Written by Adelle M. Banks
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Saturday, 24 September 2011 17:08 |
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Washington (ENI) The U.S. State Department has designated eight nations as the most serious violators of religious freedom, naming the same countries as the Bush administration.
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Written by Ruby Russell
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Saturday, 24 September 2011 17:00 |
Berlin (ENI) Pope Benedict XVI's meeting with Germany's Jewish community on the first day of his four-day state visit to his homeland was marked by both good will and honest criticism.
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Written by ENI news staff
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Saturday, 24 September 2011 16:57 |
Washington (ENI) The release of U.S. hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal from an Iranian prison on Sept. 21 "affirms the importance of the role of religious dialogue and its end product in this case, public diplomacy, as we seek ways to define common ground between our two countries," said Episcopal Diocese of Washington Bishop John Chane, who returned from a weeklong visit to Iran on Sept. 19.
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Written by Toni Montgomery
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Saturday, 24 September 2011 14:51 |
STATESVILLE, N.C. (PNS) Six years after Hurricane Katrina, rebuilding New Orleans after the country’s costliest storm continues.
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Written by Ruby Russell
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Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:34 |
Berlin (ENI) Pope Benedict XVI, on his first state visit to his native country, arrives in Berlin on Sept. 22 in what many see as a unique opportunity for increased understanding between Catholic and Protestant churches.
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Written by Fredrick Nzwili
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Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:31 |
Nairobi, Kenya (ENI) As a new international initiative seeks to stop child marriages, church-based centers in southern Kenya are an example of faith organizations providing a haven for girls and educating communities about the issue.
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Written by Pete Bloss
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Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:30 |
In a new blog posting, Pete Bloss, an elder and clerk of session at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Gulfport, Miss., calls a PC(USA) committee's recent call for divestment from Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions and Hewlett-Packard "political hypocrisy" when measured against the human rights records of other companies in the church's investment portfolio. Click here to read full blog article.
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Written by Lynn Grossman (RNS)
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Monday, 19 September 2011 04:49 |
The old wisdom: The more educated you are, the less likely you will be religious. But a new study says that, rather than driving people away from God, education gives them a more liberal attitude about who’s going to heaven.
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Written by Judson Taylor
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Friday, 16 September 2011 22:11 |
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (General Assembly Mission Council) The Rev. Mienda Uriarte will begin duties this month as coordinator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s mission work in Asia and the Pacific.
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Written by Sharon Youngs
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Friday, 16 September 2011 22:10 |
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Office of the General Assembly) Picture it: A candidate for ordination as a teaching elder (minister of the Word and Sacrament) taking all of the standard ordination exams online on a flexible schedule and receiving the results in a matter of days.
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