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Rome, WCC pursue conversion guidelines: Establishing a shared code of conduct
The World Council of Churches launched in mid-May a three-year joint study project with the Vatican aimed at developing a shared code of conduct on religious conversion and proselytizing. ...
African churches want UN troops in Darfur: All Africa Conference of Churches statement
Following the signing in Nigeria of a peace agreement between Sudan’s government and Darfur’s biggest rebel group, Africa’s largest grouping of churches urged that UN peacekeepers step in for dutie...
Canadian priests, nuns rap Vatican's rigidity: Challenging "intransigent stands on sexual morals"
Mincing few words, an umbrella group representing 22,000 Roman Catholic monks, nuns and priests in Canada’s religious orders has challenged the “intransigent” stands of the Vatican on such issues a...
Imperial Nature: Joy tempered by mourning
Church leaders in many parts of the world, including General Secretary Samuel Kobia of the World Council of Churches, expressed relief and joy at the freeing of three members of Christian Peacemake...
Fear: The History of a Political Idea: Looser federation unlikely solution
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has warned in a television interview that the worldwide Anglican Communion may “rupture” over the issue of homosexuality....
A Spiritual Field Guide: Meditations for the Outdoors: Nicholson lost daughter in London bombings
A debate on absolution was stirred in England recently after an Anglican priest stepped down from her parish duties because she could not forgive those who carried out the July bombings on London’s...
WCC churches urged: Address climate change: One of humanity's most dire threats
Saying climate change represents one of humanity’s most dire threats, the top official of the World Council of Churches has appealed to denominations around the world to speak with one voice to ale...
Divestment advice not ready for Presbyterians: PCUSA panel needs more time
A church investments panel said it needs more time before it can recommend whether the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) should pull assets from five companies operating in the Middle East....
Hamas to use shari‘a as governing basis; churches urge peace: Movement might moderate positions temporarily
Hamas intends to apply Islamic law, or shari'a, as the basis for running the Palestinian Authority after its landslide win in the late January elections for the legislature, officials from t...
NBC axes provocative Book of Daniel: Conservative critics claim victory
Conservative critics have claimed victory over the pulling of a fledgling prime-time TV program depicting an Episcopal priest with a host of family problems who held long conversations with a seemi...
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Papal encyclical expounds on love: Deus Caritas Est, or "God Is Love"
Pope Benedict XVI has issued the first encyclical of his papacy, dedicating Roman Catholicism’s highest form of writing to a reflection on love and charity that calls for a “purification” of erotic...
Filipino churches seek global Christian help over assassinations: Church workers and human rights activists in danger
Filipino churches seeking justice over the summary killings of church and human rights workers are looking to the international Christian community to pressure the government in Manila to put a hal...
Israelis reverse stand on Robertson: Response to Robertson's apology
Israel ended its brief suspension of relations with Pat Robertson after the controversial religious broadcaster apologized for suggesting that Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon’s stroke was divin...
WCC chief has lost close kin to AIDS: Over 40 million living with HIV worldwide
Samuel Kobia, a Methodist minister from Kenya and general secretary of the World Council of Churches, has been personally affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa....
Malawi Anglicans nix bishop over gay links: Consecration of Nicholas Henderson rejected
The Anglican church in Central Africa has rejected the consecration of British priest Nicholas Henderson as bishop of the diocese of Lake Malawi because of his involvement with a group seen as supp...
Four Anglican bishops want Iraq war apology: Bishops say democracy cannot be imposed by force
Four senior Anglican bishops have suggested that the Church of England arrange a meeting of Muslim and Christian leaders to initiate an apology by Western countries involved in the war in Iraq....