The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life counted up news stories in the US again in 2010 and found that that there were slightly more stories concerned religion in the secular media than in 2009.
On Friday, Fourth Judicial District Judge Gregory R. Werner sentenced ACNA priest the Rev. Donald Armstrong to four years probation and to pay $99,247 restitution for his Alford plea to one count of misdemeanor theft of funds from the Colorado Springs church where he once served as rector.
Israel’s Interior Ministry has revoked the permit for the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem, The Rt Revd Suheil Dawani, to live in Jerusalem, and has refused requests to reinstate it, in spite of protests by Anglican authorities in the West specifically the United States.
“My greatest desire,” Emily Morgan once wrote, “has always been to make tired people rested and happy.” Generosity was one of her outstanding traits. Wherever she traveled, she purchased gifts for friends, relatives, and acquaintances, choosing articles specifically for certain people and so sharing her pleasure in travel with those at home. Her favorite form of giving, however, was in hospitality.
There was news this week that the Vatican is planning a collaboration with the Italian Space Agency to do a web-based study to examine the
It’s late Friday afternoon. Lent is a bit more than a week away. It’s an excellent time to start thinking about Sabbath; what we might
Yesterday religious leaders from across the state and around the country came out in support of the Union members and in opposition to the legislatures’ actions; Rabbi’s and Catholic bishops in that state in particular.
It’s been a whirlwind week of good news for people in the religious community who have been fighting to make same-sex marriage legal in the United States. Episcopal priest Canon Susan Russell was on NPR yesterday along with Southern Baptist Convention leader Richard Land and host Barbara Bradley Hagerty, among others, to talk about what is happening.
Bishop Minns heard from both Archbishop Nicholas Okoh and Registrar Abraham Yisa who were surprised to see a recent report in the Nigerian media that Okoh said that CANA is no longer part of the Church of Nigeria. Bishop Minns is not said to be surprised.
There’s more news of the recovery efforts in New Zealand following the series of earthquakes in Christchurch. Early reports that there may have been as many as 22 people killed in the collapse of the city’s Anglican cathedral have sadly been confirmed.