Source: The Guardian The UK’s biggest and fastest growing Pentecostal church is embarking on an ambitious expansion programme in 2017, in part aimed at attracting white Britons to join its […]
Source: The Washington Post By Kate Shellnutt December 24 The pastor of one of America’s largest megachurches stirred up Christmas controversy after preaching that the story of Jesus’ virgin birth […]
Source: RNS By John Bacon (USA Today) The Islamic State is urging its followers to attack U.S. churches and has published names and addresses of thousands of prospective targets, according […]
Russia Today: In his annual Christmas speech, Pope Francis slammed Vatican officials for pushing back against reforms that the pontiff has been pushing forward since 2013, saying that those taking part in “malicious resistance” have been inspired by the devil. “The absence of reaction is a sign of death! Consequently, […]
Source: The Guardian Woyin Karowei Dorgu trained as a medical doctor in Lagos before being ordained. Photograph: Diocese of Southwark By Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent The Church of England has appointed […]
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By PEGGY FLETCHER STACK | The Salt Lake Tribune Ryan McKnight hopes to become a Mormon version of Julian Assange, the Australian whistleblowing hacker who […]
Source: The Guardian By Rachel Pugh For rector Sarah Lunn, it’s only a stone’s throw from the small sandstone church of St James to the purpose-built surgery in the tiny Cumbrian […]
Source: RNS By Ini Ekott ABUJA, Nigeria (RNS) Nigeria’s national Christian umbrella group is criticizing lax enforcement of construction standards in the country following the collapse of a church during an ordination […]
Source: Chicago Tribune BY Manya Brachear Malik Gillani remembers the first day his world turned upside down. It was Sept. 11, 2001, the day terrorist attacks cast a cloud of […]
Source: The Guardian The roof of a church collapsed on to worshippers in southern Nigeria, killing at least 160 people with the toll likely to rise, according to a hospital […]
Source: The New York Times By KEVIN SACK and ALAN BLINDER CHARLESTON, S.C. — She recalled watching the young white man stroll into Bible study, thinking he just wanted to […]
Source: The Wall Street Journal By JOSEPH DE AVILA BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—One of the oldest Christian congregations in this community said it would sell its historic church to a regional Islamic […]
Source: Mass Live By Heather Adams | Hadams@masslive.com Follow on Twitter on December 05, 2016 at 6:30 AM, updated December 05, 2016 at 9:09 AM As the opioid epidemic continues, […]
Source: Associated Press By ANGELA CHARLTON Russian Patriarch Kirill attends a blessing ceremony in the Saint Trinity Church on the banks of… Read more PARIS (AP) — The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church consecrated a prominent new church Sunday near the Eiffel Tower seen as a controversial symbol of […]
Source: Reuters Slovakia passed legislation on Wednesday to effectively block Islam from gaining official status as a religion in the near future in the latest sign of growing anti-Muslim sentiment across the European Union. The former communist state has fiercely resisted EU efforts to cope with a big influx of […]
Source: The Washington Post By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. With the racist words freshly scrubbed from the door of his church, the Rev. Todd Robertson searched for a Scripture reading that would set the right tone for his congregation — somewhere between hopeful and defiant. Most of all, he didn’t […]
Source: The New York Times By DAVID W. DUNLAP Visiting the National September 11 Memorial on Monday, Lori Siders stopped and stared wordlessly. Ahead was something she never expected to see at the World Trade Center. A cross. Ms. Siders, a Long Islander transplanted to Florence, S.C., had been walking with […]
Source: Fox News GREENVILLE, Miss. – Back in the 1960s, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. observed that Sunday morning is the most segregated time of the week in America, […]
Source: Reuters Indonesian police on Monday arrested five people in connection with a suspected militant attack on a church that killed one infant and injured three. Police said they were […]
Source: The Guardian It’s been sad and moving, the outpouring of anguish that has greeted an apology from the Catholic church for its adoption policy during the 1950s, 60s and 70s. It’s reckoned that half a million babies were prised from their young mothers’ arms in the days after birth, […]