On January 27, five more presbyteries voted, including: Utica (NY), Carlisle (PA), Palisades (NJ), Donegal (PA), and San Fernando (CA) and, on January 31, four more will cast their ballots: Southern Kansas, Western North Carolina, Huntingdon (PA), and Cayuga-Syracuse (NY). Results of these votes will soon be announced.
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Read moreIt should press Saudi Arabia to end its sponsorship and spread of religious hatred; undertake real textbook and education reform; end persecution of and discrimination against Shiites and individual Muslims accused of apostasy and blasphemy by its clerical establishment; and allow non-Muslim places of worship inside the Kingdom.
Read moreThe bishop had appeared days earlier on Swedish television claiming that historical evidence denies the gassing of Jews in Nazi concentration camps. He also alleged that no more than 300,000 Jews were killed during World War II.
Read moreThe prisoners looked generally emaciated and exhausted, but one man was animated. He leaned over to discuss his case with a lawyer who sat on the bench behind him. The bone-thin detainee, who was wearing a grimy lime-green oxford shirt and gray slacks barely held up by a belt, was Duncan Mutungi. He was not a political prisoner being abused by an autocratic state; he was a night watchman who had once earned thirty dollars a month for guarding a gated community in Nairobi.
Read moreIt’s with great sadness that we recognize the extent to which the violation of this mandate has done damage to our mission. The affirmations of Bishop Williamson do not reflect in any sense the position of our Fraternity. For this reason I have prohibited him, pending any new orders, from taking any public positions on political or historical questions.
Read moreThe timing was significant -- this year is the 60th anniversary of Communist power and the government is keen to ensure that there are no disturbances to mar its celebrations.
The Year of the Ox also begins today and Beijing is anxious to usher in a year of stability despite economic difficulties.
For three decades China has allowed officially sanctioned churches to operate within strict limits.
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Read moreI recently visited a new church trying to get established in our community.
Read moreBy mentioning, for the first time in an inaugural address, the 16.1 percent of Americans who check "no"' when asked about religion, Obama turned it into the most controversial line in his speech -- praised by The New York Times editorial board and cited by some Christians as evidence that he is a heretic, and in his well-spoken way, a serious threat. With that one line, the president "seems to be trying to redefine American culture, which is distinctively Christian," said' Bishop E.W.
Read moreThese men probably had no idea that they were unleashing a struggle for the soul of the nation. Five had been appointed by Republican presidents-two by Eisenhower, three by Nixon. Four of these five were regarded as "conservative," "law and order" judges: Warren E. Burger, Potter Stewart, Lewis F. Powell, and Harry Blackmun.
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