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Written by Jonathan Luxmoore
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Sunday, 07 February 2010 16:47 |
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I, a spiritual leader who represents Eastern Orthodox Christianity, has urged young Christians to resist secularization in Europe. |
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Written by Bethany Furkin
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Sunday, 07 February 2010 16:46 |
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Bruce Reyes-Chow, moderator of the 218th General Assembly (2008) and Gradye Parsons, stated clerk, have added their signatures to a Christian statement denouncing the Ugandan “Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2009.”
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Written by Emily Enders Odom
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Sunday, 07 February 2010 16:45 |
NASHVILLE (PNS) Following up on its well-attended 2009 event, the Presbyterian Writers Guild’s Presbyterian Writers Conference for 2010 will be held from Wednesday through Thursday, April 28-29, at the Scarritt-Bennett Center in Nashville, Tenn.
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Written by Adelle M. Banks
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Sunday, 07 February 2010 16:44 |
WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Postal Service plans to honor Mother Teresa with a stamp this year in recognition of her humanitarian work.
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Written by Daniel Burke
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Sunday, 07 February 2010 16:43 |
CANTERBURY, ENGLAND (RNS) The final draft of a document aimed at mediating disputes between liberals and conservatives in the global Anglican Communion has been sent to its 38 provinces for approval.
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Written by Anto Akkara
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Sunday, 07 February 2010 16:42 |
BANGALORE, INDIA (ENI) Church groups have hailed the report of a federal commission recommending an end to decades of religion-based discrimination that excluded Christian and Muslim Dalits from affirmative action legislation and have also called for the laws to be changed.
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Sunday, 07 February 2010 16:41 |
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A man named Jack Hanna retired from General Electric, bought a boat, and went to the Caribbean. |
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Written by Michelle Wahila
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Sunday, 07 February 2010 16:40 |
The tiny green patch we had been hiking toward finally began to look less like a miniature diorama and more like a life-sized forest.
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Written by Leslie Scanlon, OUTLOOK national reporter
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Sunday, 07 February 2010 16:38 |
For some pastors, all this is brand-new territory
- and not a place they necessarily feel comfortable.
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Written by Jerry L. Van Marter, Presbyterian News Service
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Thursday, 04 February 2010 21:30 |
LOUISVILLE — The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy feverishly worked last weekend on a half-dozen reports it is preparing for the upcoming 219th General Assembly later this year in Minneapolis.
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Written by Jerry L. Van Marter, Presbyterian News Service
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Wednesday, 03 February 2010 23:22 |
LOUISVILLE — Gradye Parsons, General Assembly stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), issued a statement today (Feb. 3) decrying the Jan. 21 U.S. Supreme Court decision to lift virtually all restrictions on corporate contributions to election campaigns.
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Written by George Hunsinger and Michael Kinnamon
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Wednesday, 03 February 2010 23:10 |
NEW YORK (NCCC News) — A headline ricocheted around the Internet this week, requiring no further comments. It read simply:  |
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Written by Bob Allen, Associated Baptist Press
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Tuesday, 02 February 2010 21:03 |
MERIDIAN, Idaho (ABP) — A mission team from two Southern Baptist churches in Idaho arrested for attempting to take 33 children from Haiti to a temporary orphanage in the neighboring Dominican Republic was only trying to help children suffering in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince, according to the pastor of one of the churches.
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Written by Leslie Scanlon, OUTLOOK national reporter
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Tuesday, 02 February 2010 20:54 |
LOUISVILLE – A General Assembly Middle East study group has approved recommendations that include asking that the two years from 2010 to 2012 be “a time of Presbyterian prayer and action for the Middle East.”
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Tuesday, 02 February 2010 17:29 |
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| The final report of the General Assembly Special Committee to Study Issues of Civil Union and Christian Marriage, which was voted on and approved at the committee's meeting in January, now available on the website of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Several members of the committee have reserved the right to file a minority report, and have until March 5 to submit a report if they choose to write one. |
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Written by Leslie Scanlon, OUTLOOK national reporter
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Tuesday, 02 February 2010 15:55 |
LOUISVILLE – The General Assembly Special Committee on Civil Union and Christian Marriage has approved its final report — ending its journey with civility and mutual respect, but also with the clear possibility of a minority report.
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Friday, 29 January 2010 23:59 |
(ENI) — A new book about Pope John Paul II reveals that shortly before the 1981 assassination attempt on the pontiff's life, he learned that the militant Red Brigades group planned to kidnap him.
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Written by Anto Akkara
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Friday, 29 January 2010 22:00 |
(ENI) — An Indian church leader has criticized the chief minister of India's southern Karnataka state for saying that those responsible for a continuing series of attacks on churches should have their hands cut off.
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Written by Janet Tuck, Special to Presbyterian News Service
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Friday, 29 January 2010 15:58 |
NASHVILLE — This conversation, part of the 2010 Association of Presbyterian Church Educators meeting here, was attended by pastors and church educators wondering just what the “emergent” church is all about. Or is it the “emerging” church?
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Written by Presbyterian News Service
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Thursday, 28 January 2010 22:27 |
Disaster relief head gives thanks for donations, outlines next Haiti steps
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Written by Jonathan Luxmoore
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Thursday, 28 January 2010 20:49 |
WARSAW (ENI) — In a ruling that could affect similar disputes, a European court has ordered the government of Romania to compensate a Greek Catholic parish for failing to return to the parish properties seized from it under communist rule.
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Written by Ruta Tumenaite
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Thursday, 28 January 2010 17:20 |
(ENI) — Lithuania has come out in support of Italy in its efforts to revise a ruling of the European Court of Human Rights that obliges state schools throughout Italy to remove crucifixes from classrooms.
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Written by Leslie Scanlon, OUTLOOK national reporter
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 17:20 |
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance has approved a $200,000 grant to assist the Hôpital Sainte Croix (Holy Cross Hospital) and the nursing school affiliated with it in Léogâne, Haiti.
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Written by Paul R. Kopenkoskey
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Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:42 |
(ENI/RNS) — Some surprises started unfolding when a team of Calvin Theological Seminary professors and graduate students in Grand Rapids, Mich., recently launched the Post-Reformation Digital Library.
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Written by Bob Allen, Associated Baptist Press
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Tuesday, 26 January 2010 19:10 |
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new organization of progressive evangelicals has formed, calling for complete cancellation of Haiti's foreign debt in order to aid an already-fragile economy devastated by a Jan. 12 earthquake. |
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