‘Church Militant’ Theology Is Put to New, and Politicized, Use
Source: The New York Times By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN A week after Stephen K. Bannon helped engineer the populist revolt that led to Donald J. Trump’s election, Buzzfeed unearthed a […]
Church of Scientology slams A&E
Source: Religion News Service LOS ANGELES (Variety.com via Reuters) Just days after A&E pulled their Klu Klux Klan docuseries, the Church of Scientology is lashing out at the network for […]
Pentecostal church looks to white Britons to boost congregations
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 […]
Megachurch pastor ignites debate after suggesting that Christianity doesn’t hinge on Jesus’ birth
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 […]
ISIS issues hit list of U.S. churches for holiday attacks
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 […]
Vatican bureaucracy & resistance to reforms ‘inspired by devil’ – Pope Francis
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, […]
Church of England appoints first black bishop in 20 years
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 […]
New website plans to showcase leaked Mormon documents
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 […]
Meet the vicar who’s swapping the sacristy for the surgery
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 […]
Nigerian Christian group slams ‘satanic antics’ of builders, regulators following church collapse
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 […]
Methodist church eases post-election fears for Muslim, minority artists
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 […]
Nigerian church collapse kills at least 160 worshippers – reports
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 […]
Heart-Rending Testimony as Dylann Roof Trial Opens
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 […]
Historic Bridgeport Church to Become Mosque
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 […]
Churches prepare for the worst as opioid deaths continue to rise
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, […]
Russian patriarch blesses new Paris church, a Putin project
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 […]
Slovakia toughens church registration rules to bar Islam
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 […]
‘We’ve never had anything like this’: Racist, threatening message left on door of black church
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 […]
Cross Takes Its Place, Temporarily, Atop Shrine at World Trade Center
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 […]
2 Mississippi churches transcend racial barriers after arson
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, […]