A Philippine church that traces its start to American colonization in the early 1900s is now 100 years old, and leaders and parishioners are celebrating the legacies of Protestantism for “a century of God’s faithfulness and love.”
Pope Benedict XVI was once a card-carrying organ donor, but the offer expired when he assumed the papal throne, according to the Vatican.
Institutional questions around polity and governance are secondary to questions around identity and mission, two middle governing body executives who are polity experts told the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Middle Governing Body Commission at its second meeting here Feb. 3-5.
Retired Anglican Bishop Macleod Baker Ochola of Kitgum, chairman of a group of religious leaders that supports peace initiatives, said faith leaders opposed military options against LRA because they had failed in the past, hurting the local people.
To many viewers, the “I'm a Mormon” ad blitz from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints seemed hip, refreshing and original.
“The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is excited to work with First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move Initiative because of our commitment to ending childhood poverty, hunger, and obesity,” said Moderator of the 219th General Assembly, Elder Cynthia Bolbach. “We believe that ‘poverty in a world of abundance is an intolerable violation of God's good creation’[i] and hunger and obesity are symptoms of such poverty. It is our responsibility as individuals, as the church and as a nation to eliminate the root causes of hunger.”
In his Feb. 4 plenary, Rick Ufford-Chase urged the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators to form communities that will transform the world.
More than a year after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti killing over 250,000 people and paralyzing its communications and information infrastructure, reconstruction of the country is slowly gaining momentum.
With the former Hindu kingdom of Nepal ending a seven-month political deadlock by electing a new prime minister, Christian organizations are asking the new government to finalize a new constitution by May and guarantee the rights of Christians, including allowing an official burial site.
Wanda Colie vividly remembers what she saw in 1984 when, at age 28, a condition that produced blood in her lungs nearly killed her. The pain vanished and a crowd of familiar faces came to welcome her in a light-drenched valley.
For more than two decades, Colie kept her experience secret. But she’s recently joined hundreds of others who’ve started going public with their near-death experiences, or NDEs.
“For a long time, I couldn’t talk about this stuff because it was just stuff you didn’t talk about,” said Colie, a housecleaner who lives in Rougemont, N.C. “I had to deal …