Faith communities are often seen as an obstacle to the treatment and prevention of HIV and AIDS but according to a new report they are crucial partners in responding to the disease.
Presbyterian mission workers Mamie Broadhurst and Richard Williams often hear people in Colombia say, “You never know when the rabbit will jump.”
It’s their way of talking about the unpredictability of violence in a country involved in a five-decades-long civil war. Being suspected of having sympathies with one of the parties involved in the war—the paramilitary, guerillas or the military—can be fatal.
After a break of a year-and-a-half, Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy’s (MPC) 11-year-old “Racial Task Force” (RTF) is back in business. On July 5, the RTF released its first two quarterly reports for 2012 listing incidents of racially-based, physical and verbal abuse in Moscow.
The sexual abuse scandal has tarnished the image of the priest and contributed to a crisis of priestly vocations in the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican said June 25, while also faulting a widespread “secularized mentality” and parents’ ambition for their children, which leaves “little space to the possibility of a call to a special vocation.”
The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) has chosen as one of its project partners in 2012 an organization in Peru that helps indigenous people find their voices in a society that often ignores them.
In the spirit of the old adage “A picture is worth a thousand words,” Presbyterians Today ― the award-winning magazine of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) ― is devoting a portion of its December issue to a selection of photos portraying “A year in the life of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).”
A memorial service for Deborah Bruce, research manager for the Research Services office of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and one of the foremost religious researchers in North America, will be held Tuesday, July 17 at 11:00 a.m. in Caldwell Chapel at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary here.
Death threats against human rights defenders in Colombia have caused “great concern” for the World Council of Churches (WCC). A letter from the WCC to the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, calls on the “government to take all necessary measures to effectively protect the life and physical integrity” of the human rights defenders.
According to the bishops, the Amazon continues to be negotiated as if it were private capital protected and fostered by the government. If 40 years ago it was the military dictatorship that left its mark, “today we live in an economic dictatorship,” they say.
Most Mormons in Utah believe that Mitt Romney’s rise to become the likely GOP presidential nominee is a good thing for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But many do not trust the media to cover the church fairly, according to a new poll released June 25.