Billing itself as “The Crossroads of America,” Indianapolis is the home of racers and Pacers and, come June 30, Presbyterians, as we gather at the Big Tent event.
Nearly two years after 10 Christians were killed and nearly 100 houses burned in the Punjabi town of Gojra, a special court has suspended the trial of suspects in the carnage after a key witness fled Pakistan.
The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops began a review of church sex abuse policies here on June 15, bypassing several recent reports that raise questions about whether the rules are effective at removing abusive priests.
The Rev. Adel Malek didn’t necessarily intend to become a Presbyterian minister. An engineer by profession, he and his wife moved from Egypt to the United States in the late 1980s. Malek worked as an engineer until he retired last December.
Union Theological Seminary in New York has announced the launch of NewMediaProjectAtUnion.org, the website and blog of the New Media Project funded by a generous grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.
The volatile situation facing Christians in the Middle East is a key topic of concern for members of the central committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC), and will be highlighted at an upcoming conference to be held in Volos, Greece from June 20 to 22, according to a WCC press release.
Southern Baptists on Wednesday (June 14) called hell an “eternal, conscious punishment” for those who do not accept Jesus, rebutting a controversial book from Michigan pastor Rob Bell that questions traditional views of hell.
“If you use the model of judging a church’s health by how full the sanctuary is on a Sunday morning, you might think that the small gathering of worshippers is a sign of a church in trouble.”
The PC(USA) partners ecumenically in Nepal through the United Mission to Nepal (UMN), which appealed to its partners to issue the call to prayer.
The interim constitution in Nepal, adopted in 2007, declares the country a secular state, gives every citizen freedom of opinion and expression and the right to “profess, practice and preserve his/her own religion as handed down to him/her in ancient times.”
The president of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Bishop Munib Younan, urged members to pursue justice in the world, as the federation’s governing Council considers a strategic plan for 2012 to 2017.