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Protestants may lose majority status

Family size, immigration are factors
Aug 10, 2004
Protestants could cease to be the majority religious group in the United States within the next year, and their numbers already may have dipped below 50 percent, says a new study by the National Opinion Research Center.

Cuban-born bishop likens ploy to Castro

Castro asked for names of church members too
Jul 27, 2004
In a Fourth of July message to clergy of the Diocese of Southeast Florida, Episcopal Bishop Leo Frade expressed “grave concern” that the Bush-Cheney campaign has asked volunteers to use church member lists for political organizing.

Iliff president's exit leads to church probe

Charges of racist pressures
Jul 27, 2004
Two national United Methodist agencies are looking into disputes surrounding the sudden retirement of the first Latino president of Iliff School of Theology in Denver. One commission is looking into charges of racist pressures, although the Denver-based UMC bishop recently said the “roots of the present crisis are very deep” at the 112-year-old seminary.

Theologian-bioethicist J. Robert Nelson dies

A leading ecumenist
Jul 27, 2004
John Robert Nelson, a pioneering proponent of church unity who was later prominent for his theological contributions to biomedical ethics, died July 6 at a Houston hospital of cancer and complications. He was 84.

U.S. to deport Fuller professor back to Finland

Karkkainen doesn't fit post-9/11 visa definitions
Jul 27, 2004 by John Dart
An international expert in ecumenical and Pentecostal studies is being forced to leave the United States at the end of July because he does not fit post-9/11 visa definitions for continuing as a tenured professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, whose status as a legitimate religious institution was questioned.