The Internal Revenue Service said it will monitor churches and other houses of worship for electioneering in a settlement reached with an atheist group.
When Curtis Webster and his wife decided to adopt a child, they knew what they were looking for: an older child from Southeast Asia. While browsing children’s profiles through an adoption agency, the couple, already parents to six children, came across a photo of an 11-year-old girl named Trang and knew they’d found their daughter.
The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) is calling for nominations for a prize encouraging women to become leaders in their church.
“Is Jesus your dance partner?” Ingrid Reneau Walls asked July 20 when speaking on the hymn “Lord of the Dance” at New Wilmington Presbyterian Church during worship.
At the beginning of the history of Christianity course I taught at the end of last year here at the Latin American Biblical University (UBL) I asked the students to share experiences they had had in history classes while they were in school.
In an official statement issued on July 21, the World Council of Churches' (WCC) general secretary, the Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, expressed deep concern over the exodus of the Christian community from the Iraqi city of Mosul due to threats from the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Tveit called these developments a “tragedy” for both Christians and Muslims.
Worried about global warming, a growing number of churches and other faith groups are divesting their holdings in fossil fuel companies, which release large amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
With destinations spanning most of the continents, 10 Presbyterian mission workers ― eight under the aegis of Presbyterian World Mission and two representing Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)-related agencies ― are here this week for orientation before their deployment overseas in coming weeks.
“All right, the saints should be marching in any minute!” the Rev. Steve Deal called out just before volunteers arrived to pack food yesterday.
[Español] [Korean] As a body of 1.7-million members and more than 10,000 congregations, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) calls on the president of the United States to press for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and Israel.