The highest legislative body of the Lutheran World Federation closed its eightday meeting on Tuesday with a message to the 145 church bodies in 79 countries that make up the global Lutheran communion
A 15member committee that included the Archbishop of Canterbury has rejected a proposal to separate The Episcopal Church in the US from the rest of the global Anglican Communion
From bovine TB to affordable housing the challenges facing rural Wales will come under the spotlight in a yearlong programme of seminars launched at the Royal Welsh Show today
It has been three years since the Anglican Church of Nigeria crossed borders into the United States to establish a new home for conservatives who were unhappy with the liberal direction of the US Episcopal Church
Victims of human trafficking need protection prayer and people everywhere doing as much as they can to care for others says Salvation Army Commisioner Helen Clifton
The Senate Democratic leadership Outreach Committee invited a clutch of religion reporters and media in to promote their "common ground" with believers. This translated into a pep talk by Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow about Democrats efforts on health care, immigration reform and energy.
Australia's new Prime Minister Julia Gillard assures Australia's Christian majority that her atheism would not affect government funding to church-run schools if she is re-elected.
A Gainseville, Fla, church leader claims the Bible's lesson of brotherly love and truth commands it toburn the Quran during Islam's concluding feast of Ramadan this fall on the anniversary of 9/11. And a Tennessee politician says Islam may not even be a religion worthy of U.S. Constitutional protections.
Questions are constant in humankind's dialog with -- or about -- God. So this month, Moment Magazine, a Jewish journal, asks: "Is There Such a Thing As Asking Too Many Questions? No, say a panel of rabbis, but there's are lesson in how we ask, aren't there?
Seven pastors once barred from serving in the nation's largest Lutheran group because of a policy that required gay clergy to be celibate are being welcomed into the denomination.
A popular Saudi cleric said Saturday it is permissible for Muslim women to reveal their faces in countries where the Islamic veil is banned to avoid harassment, while deploring the effort to outlaw the garment in France.
David Gibson at Disputations wonders why cassock Casanovas whose flings are with women don't rattle the Vatican to anywhere near the same degree as gay priests caught breaking their vows. Why are some broken vows more serious than other violations of the same vows?
The Catholic Church in Italy, still reeling from the clerical sex abuse scandal, lashed out Friday at gay priests who are leading a double life, urging them to come out of the closet and leave the priesthood.
The Vicar of Rome wants gay priests out of the closet -- and out of the church -- according to an Associated Press story today. Although, AP says, the Rome diocese said the article was "aimed at defaming the church," the Vicar evidentily had no problem defaming gay priests who, like straight priests, honor their vows, says Bryan Cones, managing editor at U.S. Catholic Magazine. Should the priesthood be open to all (men) who can faithfully follow the vows?
