Source: Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin has criticized Ukraine’s move to set up a new Orthodox church independent from Moscow and promised to defend religious freedom. Earlier […]
Source: Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek court has convicted a prominent Orthodox Church official of violating laws against racism and abusing his office over an anti-gay blog […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Sara Boboltz President Donald Trump gave Bible literacy legislation a shout-out on Monday with a tweet praising states that are “starting to make a turn back” to an […]
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent More than 2,000 clergy and lay members of the Church of England have signed a letter calling on bishops to withdraw or […]
Source: PRI By Tania Karas For the past 15 months, a Mennonite church in Columbus, Ohio, has offered sanctuary to an undocumented immigrant mother from Mexico who sought to avoid deportation. […]
by Francis Akhalbey, at 02:00 pm, January 23, 2019 There’s no doubt Christianity is one of the most widely practiced religions in Africa. Over the centuries since colonial masters […]
Source: Reuters PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech parliament’s lower house voted on Wednesday to tax churches on payments received for property confiscated during the Communist era, meeting a key demand […]
Source: Associated Press MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Ukraine’s parliament on Thursday adopted a bill spelling out procedures for transferring church property after a new unified Ukrainian Orthodox church was granted […]
Source: The New Yorker By Vinson Cunningham When I was a kid of ten or eleven years old, newly returned to New York after a few years living in Chicago, I […]
Source: BBC News Officially the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is now fully independent of Moscow, but many parishes remain loyal to the Russian patriarch – leading in some cases to […]
Source: Associated Press By DUSAN STOJANOVIC BANSTOL, Serbia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin already has a village, a wax figure, a plum brandy and several cafes named after him […]
Source: Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The head of the Russian Orthodox Church says the data-gathering capacity of devices such as smartphones risks bringing humanity closer to the arrival of […]
AFP news@thelocal.ch @thelocalswitzer 27 November 2018 Geneva theology professors Elisabeth Parmentier (L) and Lauriane Savoy pose under the reformation wall in Geneva with a edition of “A Women’s Bible”. Photo: […]
Source: Associated Press By DEREK GATOPOULOS and ELENA BECATOROS ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A crudely-made bomb exploded outside one of Athens’ most important churches early Thursday, injuring its caretaker and […]
Ed Kessler, head of the Woolf Institute, presents the 19th part in a series on belief and skepticism Indy/Life S is for… Sex May the wine go straight […]
Source: Associated Press KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president on Saturday signed a bill that orders the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to change its name to reflect its ties to Moscow. […]
Source: Associated Press By ISABEL DEBRE BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Pilgrims from around the world flocked to Bethlehem on Monday for what was believed to be the biblical West […]
Jordan will remain steadfast in defending Jerusalem, religious leaders reiterate By JT – Dec 18,2018 JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah, accompanied by HRH Crown Prince Hussein, attended a celebration […]
Source: Associated Press By YURAS KARMANAU and EFREM LUKATSKY KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian Orthodox leaders on Saturday approved the creation of a unified church independent of the Moscow Patriarchate […]
Source: The Guardian By Shaun Walker in Athos In the chilly pre-dawn gloom one recent morning, Father Makarios hurried to his chapel, one of dozens of churches and cathedrals across Mount Athos, […]