A pack of lawmakers and Capitol Hill aides, including a nude congressman, took a booze-fueled, late-night swim in Israel’s Sea of Galilee last summer, Politico reported on Aug. 19. Which leaves at least one question: Is skinny-dipping at the biblical site sacrilegious?

An interfaith group of religious leaders in South Africa has embarked on a national campaign to fight bribery, patronage, nepotism and abuse of public funds.

The Rev. Paul Neshangwe is no stranger to working with those across cultural and societal boundary lines.

More than 100 leaders ― including teaching and ruling elders and PC(USA) national staff ― and the Evangelical Dominican Church met here from Aug. 8-13 to participate in the Hispanic/Latino Pastoral Development Seminar.

The head of the Family Research Council Aug. 16 accused the Southern Poverty Law Center of sparking hatred that led accused gunman Floyd Lee Corkins II to shoot a security guard at the conservative Christian lobbying group’s headquarters.

The Rev. Michael Livingston, a former president of the National Council of Churches (NCC) and now leader of the Council’s Poverty Initiative, has resigned that position effective August 31.

As the National Council of Christian Churches of Brazil (CONIC) celebrates its 30th anniversary, the event has been marked by the appointment of the Rev. Romi Márcia Bencke, its first woman general secretary, elected in August.

With the laying on of hands and prayers led by Pastor José Pilar Álvarez, San Marcos Lutheran Church ordained Pérsida Gudiel as pastor on Aug. 12, the first woman ordained by the Lutheran Church in Guatemala.

Africa has topped the list of most devout regions of the world, with 89 percent calling themselves religious, according to a worldwide poll called “The Global Index of Religiosity and Atheism.”

Muslim and Coptic Christian leaders in the U.S. are calling on the Egyptian government to exclude any mentions of Islamic law or language that discriminates against minorities in its draft constitution.