Source: Cincinnati BY Mark Curnutte, It’s Wednesday night at Crossroads church in Corryville, and about 30 people, equal numbers white and black, more women than men, stand in a circle in […]
Source: The Guardian By Nicola Slawson Faith-based organisations are increasingly stepping in to support the overstretched NHS, research has found. More than 3,500 churches and 200,000 volunteers are working on […]
Source: NPR BY DURRIE BOUSCAREN Things were going terribly wrong. Ato Boropi could feel it. Dozens of villagers had squeezed next to each other on the floor of a one-room church […]
Source: The New York Times By Sam Roberts Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, a vigorous conservative voice in the Vatican and influential figure in the Latin American church who drew attention for […]
Source: Slate By RUTH GRAHAM On June 1, the Mormon church will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the “revelation” that black men should be allowed to be full members of the church. […]
Source: CT Membership has fallen by around 20 per cent in five years, from 413,000 in 2011 to 336,000 at the end of 2017. In the next five or six years there will be a shortfall of around 300 paid ministers with 75 per cent currently over the age of […]
Source: The Economist HUNDREDS of millions of followers of Jesus Christ are about to celebrate the annual feast of Pentecost, which celebrates an event in Jerusalem roughly 2,000 years ago, […]
Source: Associated Press By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV MOSCOW (AP) — Four gunmen attacked a Russian Orthodox church in the mostly Muslim Russian province of Chechnya, but were killed by security forces […]
Source: Radio Free Asia The ruling Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown on Protestant churches continued on Thursday with warnings to churches in several provinces that they should shut down and the demolition of property funded by believers. A Christian church follower in the eastern province of Jiangxi said that a church […]
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Archbishop says removal of C of E’s privileges is decision for parliament and people Justin Welby: ‘Would disestablishment be a disaster? No … Nothing’s […]
Source: Associated Press By BRADY McCOMBS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Top leaders from the NAACP and Mormon church on Thursday called for greater racial harmony and mutual respect following […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD and EVA VERGARA VATICAN CITY (AP) — Another group of Chilean church sex abuse victims is making its voice heard as the country’s Catholic […]
Source: The Washington Post By William Booth and Karla Adam Britain’s Prince Harry is set to marry Meghan Markle on Saturday. (Matt Dunham/AP) LONDON — When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stand before the […]
Source: The Guardian By Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro Critics call film a ‘programmed success’ as viewers in half-empty shows report being given tickets by controversial church A scene from Nothing […]
Source: Reuters BY Kanupriya Kapoor SURABAYA, Indonesia (Reuters) – A family of six launched suicide attacks on Christians attending Sunday services at three churches in Indonesia’s second-largest city of Surabaya, killing at least 13 people and wounding 40, officials said. Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, has seen a […]
Source: The New York Times By Julia Baird Ms. Baird and a colleague published a series of investigative articles last year that looked at how Australian church culture intersects with domestic violence. […]
Source: Reuters NENAGH/CORK, Ireland (Reuters) – Three decades after Ireland introduced one of the world’s only constitutional bans on abortion, the Church that was so pivotal in securing the law’s […]
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By Paighten Harkins The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is ending its more than century-old relationship with the Boy Scouts of America and will create new youth programs for its members. The church announced Tuesday evening that it will sever ties with the […]
Source: RNS By Mark A. Kellner The Rev. Patricia A. Davenport speaks after being elected bishop of the ELCA Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod during its assembly at Franconia Mennonite Church in Telford, […]
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By Peggy Fletcher Stack When LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson declared April 1that the Utah-based faith planned to build a temple at a yet-to-be-determined […]