Last AUG we reported a story about refugees in a squalid camp in Calais, France. We also mentioned and pictured a small church erected and used by refugee Christians from Africa. In OCT a Christian makeshift church was erected serving mostly Middle Eastern Christians. Last Monday the local French authorities bulldozed the more recent church and also a mosque.
Next Friday, 12 FEB, Pope Francis is flying to Mexico City to begin a 6 day visit to Mexico. But on his plane is making about a 2 hour layover at the airport in Havana, Cuba. The Pope will meet in an historic face-to-face with the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, +Kirill.
Last summer, the Barna Group, the conservative Christian research and polling organization, was commissioned by Josh McDowell Ministries, also conservative Christians, to research the observation and use of pornography in today’s highly sexualized culture.
ATLAH World Missionary Church is the Harlem NY church well known for the horrendous messages it posts on it sign. Recently a New York judge
Open Door UK & Ireland is a charity that has spent the last 60 years supporting Christians living in countries in which they are persecuted. The organization recently released a video through its YouTube channel highlighting the five most dangerous countries in which Christians live.
The American Bible Society and the Barna Group have teamed up to survey how folks in the US feel about the Christian Scriptures in 2016. This is an annual survey the two organizations have undertaken for the last 10 years.
The Task Force on the Study of Marriage, held its recent first meeting and addressed its charge from Resolution A037 from the 2015 General Convention.
Three TV series with a religious subplot or theme will begin airing in mid January.
A lot of our differences as Christians can be boiled down to how we individually feel about the Bible, our approach to scripture. Earlier this week, Pastor John Pavlovitz, posted an essay on his blog Stuff That Needs to be Said, entitled 10 Things This Christian Doesn’t Believe About The Bible.
The wife of the Most Revd Dr Barry Morgan, the Primate of the Church in Wales and the Bishop of Llandaff, Hilary Morgan, passed away in her home Friday, 15 JAN 2016.