Source: Associated Press By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Ties between the Orthodox Church of Cyprus and its Russian counterpart frayed Friday over a series of services conducted by […]
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood The proportion of people from a black and minority ethnic background training to become Church of England priests doubled between 2016 and 2018. Eight […]
Source: Wall Street Journal By Ian Lovett Pennsylvania’s legislature hasn’t decided if it will join the growing number of states to lift the statute of limitations on victims of childhood sexual […]
Source: DW From the back of the dimly lit hall, one’s gaze glides over dozens of rows of chairs, colorful clothes, tightly wrapped kimonos, black suits, all the way to […]
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By Peggy Fletcher Stack Several high-ranking Latter-day Saint leaders met Thursday with Vice President Mike Pence about a common concern: religious freedom in the United […]
Source: Palm Beach Post By Sam Howard PALM BEACH GARDENS — Preacher Tullian Tchividjian told his congregation on a recent Sunday that he sees himself in a story from the Gospel of […]
Source: BBC News By Holly Honderich As Christian churches throughout the US face widespread decline, one church is bucking the trend. But is Hillsong a triumph of marketing or faith? […]
Source: The New York Times By Rick Rojas First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem had 300 members and no website when LaKeesha Walrond and her husband took over as pastors. Yet, as […]
The anti-medical dogma of Christian Science led my father to an agonising death. Now the church itself is in decline – and it can’t happen fast enough. By Caroline Fraser […]
Source: Religion News Service By Yonat Shimron (RNS) — Since they were first offered an opportunity to pool their resources and buy background checks on volunteers and employees at a discount […]
Source: The New York Times Earlier this month, workers opened two tombs on Vatican’s grounds as part of an inquiry into the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, 15.CreditCreditAgence France-Presse — Getty […]
Source: BBC News In an unprecedented move, Eritrean bishops in the Orthodox church have expelled their former patriarch, Abune Antonios. Antonios, who was the head of the church until 2006, […]
By Zubair Khan, the Muslim Times’ Editor for Germany It was dawn 13.07.2019 which witnessed appearance of almost two dozens plakarts of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in the city of Bensheim […]
June 5, 2019 by Roger E. Olson Why Not Polygamy? A Question to Progressive Churches Recently several churches with which I have friendly relations and that I respect as […]
Source: Religion News Service By Adelle M. Banks (RNS) — Southern Baptists hope to take steps at their upcoming annual meeting in Birmingham, Ala., to address continuing reports of sexual […]
Source: Charlotte Observer BY JOE MARUSAK The pastor of a Baptist church in Gastonia, North Carolina, fears a cross was burned on the church lawn because a black evangelist is […]
By Larry Slawson Throughout this work, we will examine the reality of demons, according to the Bible. Who are they, and where do these spirits come from? In more recent years, there has been a growing sense of “unbelief” in churches pertaining to the existence of Satan and demon spirits. […]
Source: Reuters WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland announced plans on Tuesday to tighten sentences for child sex abuse, just days after the country’s politics were upended by a documentary on paedophilia […]
Source: Associated Press By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Catholic cardinal received “foreign information” that attempts would be made this week to attack a church and […]
The papacy Peter Stanford Pope Francis the reformer is being challenged by his conservative predecessor – who now has a far-right backing including Steve Bannon Sat 20 Apr 2019 […]