We call Presbyterians to stand with our partners in the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church in deep concern and prayer for their people and for their property. Our partners report that the government of Sudan has destroyed the house of the pastor of the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church in Khartoum North. They note that church members thwarted efforts to destroy the pastor’s office.

Reading religion surveys can seem like confronting the Tower of Babel: stacked questions, confusing terms, unscientific methodology.

At age 68 and with more than 26 years under my belt with the Presbyterian News Service, I have announced my retirement as coordinator and editor, effective Dec. 5, 2014. And so concludes more than 43 years of ordained ministry in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Some of the American church’s most faithful and active members are becoming the quickest to permanently walk out the doors, according to new research.

Vicious cycles of violence often begin here. It is the holiest site in the world for Jews, the third holiest for Muslims — a place where millions of people have prayed for a millennia. Yet, often, it is a launching pad for deadly attacks and counterattacks.

Before we give thanks for our many blessings this Thanksgiving season, let us set the record straight about one aspect of the Pilgrim story. 

Montreat Conference Center has announced that the Rev. Merri Alexander will serve as its senior director for strategic partnership development.

A compilation of news from Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)-related seminaries.

[한국어] Just a short distance from where Michael Brown’s bloody body lay in the streets for hours after being gunned down on August 9, the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA (NCC) gathered Tuesday to stand in solidarity with those crying out for justice.

“We are in partnership with pastors and congregations who are preaching, seeking justice, and providing pastoral care in Ferguson’s churches in the midst of the current tensions,” the NCC said from inside Wellspring Church in Ferguson, Mo. “It is our hope that the city and its citizens, churches, law enforcement officials, justice-seekers, and media will all be shepherded by the teaching of Jesus to love God and to ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’”

미국 장로교 정서기가 유대인 회당을 공격한 것에 대해 비난하다

우리는 2014년 11월 18일에 팔레스타인 테러리스트들이 예루살렘의 정통 유대인들이 사는 Harnof의 회당에서 예배하는 자들을 잔인하게 공격한 것에 대해 가능한 한 가장 강력한 방식으로 규탄한다. 예배를 위해 모인 사람들 중 네 명의 죽음을 포함하여, 그 공격으로 인한 피해는 이미 거룩한 도시를 애태우고 있는 위험스러운 긴장감을 고조시키고, 이스라엘과 팔레스타인 사이의 평화 문제를 평화스럽게 해결하려는 전망을 더욱 멀어지게 하는 터무니없는 짓이다.

우리는 팔레스타인 대통령 Mahmoud Abbas가 그러한 살인적 행위들을 즉각적으로 비난한 것에 대해 찬사를 보낸다: “대통령은 자신들의 기도의 자리에서 예배하는 유대인들을 공격한 것을 비난하며, 그 일을 누가 행했든지 시민들을 살해한 것을 규탄한다.”

동시에, 우리는 …