Participants at a church-sponsored conference here on the rule of law are calling for a rethinking of the escalation of state-supported security measures. The calls come in response to reports pointing to the high cost of “securitization” and the increasing invasion of individual privacy through surveillance via social media and travel controls.
The Presbyterian church in Aleppo, Syria, was bombed the evening of Nov. 5. No casualties were reported.
With their “True Love Waits” jewelry, conferences and T-shirts, Christians may be the face of the abstinence movement, but Muslims and Hindus are more likely to abstain from premarital sex.
Presbyterians and other Christians in Aleppo, Syria, are reeling from extreme violence inflicted on them by that nation’s civil war, according to Presbyterians in that city. In an email sent to Presbyterian World Mission, members of the Presbyterian congregation in Aleppo reported that areas with a Christian majority are being targeted by rebel forces. Christians have been kidnapped and a Presbyterian church building has sustained such heavy damage that it will likely have to be torn down.
The Stony Point Center ― a national conference center of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) ― is asking people to donate 2013 calendars for a project to help prisoners ‘mark time’ while they are incarcerated.
Participants at a church-sponsored conference here on the rule of law are calling for a rethinking of the escalation of state-supported security measures. The calls come in response to reports pointing to the high cost of “securitization” and the increasing invasion of individual privacy through surveillance via social media and travel controls.
As Hurricane Sandy bore down on the barrier islands of New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie gave stubborn residents one more thing to worry about. Their decisions to defy evacuation orders, he suggested, were “selfish” and morally unjustified.
At age 17, Martin Johnstone was rescued from a bowl of boiling soup being thrown at him when two homeless men jumped in front of him, absorbing the burns themselves. From then on, he’s followed a call to ministry with those living in poverty.
The top Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) court has ruled that, in considering whether to dismiss a congregation to another denomination, a presbytery must take into account the financial worth of the congregation’s property, which is regarded as held in trust for the benefit of the PC(USA).
Nearly nine in 10 Muslim American voters pulled the lever for the Democratic candidate in the last two presidential elections, partly because of Republican policies and rhetoric that many considered anti-Muslim. In 2008, they also thought President Obama would usher in an era in which Muslims would be more accepted at home, and relations between America and the Islamic world would see improvement.