Bishop John Bryson Chane and Ambassador Akbar Ahmed have co-written an article on persecution of Christians by extremists in the Muslim world.
In Salt Lake City, two teen members of St. James Episcopal Church in Midvale, Utah have raised an incredible $800,000 for the homeless!
“We want to honor those individuals, honor their worth and dignity as our neighbors and children of God. It’s also an opportunity for us to raise awareness to raise consciousness in our city,” said Rev. Wallace Adams-Riley.
By Richard E. Helmer The week before Thanksgiving, I received an email from a self-proclaimed Christian labyrinth expert in Australia, who was inviting recipients to
O Rex Gentium
O King of the Gentiles, and their Desire,
the Corner-stone, Who madest both one:
Come and save man,
whom Thou hast made out of the dust of the earth.
The United States succeeded on Tuesday in getting the United Nations to restore a reference to killings due to sexual orientation that had been deleted from a resolution condemning unjustified executions.
Archbishop of Kaduna, in the Church of Nigeria, Dr. Josiah Idowu-Fearon has urged Primates from the Global South not to boycott the Primates’ Meeting in Dublin in January.
… we are called to daily involvement in prayer and advocacy for all our fellow-Christians in situations of oppression and danger – and all their neighbours too, of whatever belief, since the evils of violence and tyranny are not felt by Christians alone, nor can their sufferings be isolated from those of their neighbours.
In Boston, the Puritans outlawed Christmas in 1659. Although the ban was lifted in 1681 when the British government took control of the colony, an armed guard had to protect the governor on his way to church on Christmas of 1686.
In a country whose people are divided almost equally between Christian and Muslim faiths, all Nigerian religious leaders seem to come together around a single issue: the persecution of homosexual. The Anglican Church leads the persecution.