The Most Revd Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has called his Anglican flock to unite in prayer for all of the people of the United States of America.
On 1 JAN 2017, some of the apron strings between the Kingdom of Norway and the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Norway were cut. Approved by the Norwegian parliament back in 2012, but effective beginning this year, the Norwegian constitution has been amended from referring to the church as the “state’s public religion,” to, “Norway’s national church.”
Until last Tuesday (3 JAN), members of the US Army occasionally received religious accommodations on a case by case basis. On Tuesday the Secretary of the Army, Eric Fanning, propagated new regulations affecting all army personnel from the brigade level down.
Because so many of us are unfamiliar with both Islam and the Quran, we perhaps don’t know about the Quranic nativity story found in Maryam. It is a story of the birth of Jesus unfamiliar in many ways.
The Most Revd Paul Kwong is the chair of the Anglican Consultative Council, the Bishop of Dio Hong Kong and the Primate of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, the Anglican Church in Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China. His reflections for 2017 have been published by The Anglican Communion News Service.
If you are going to a New Year’s Eve party at your parish hall tonight, you may wish to slip the DJ a thumb drive with these “Christian” popular songs in three different genres. They are all very danceable!
When Georgia teen Reagan Lee asked her boyfriend, Garrett Chisum, what he wanted for Christmas, it was a simple request, he wanted a new Bible. And there began a three-month labor of love.
Saint Mark’s Cathedral Parish reaffirms its commitment to respect the dignity of every human being, strive for justice and peace among all people, and seek and serve Christ in all persons. We are concerned about the increase in statements and actions in our nation that target particular groups of people based on their skin color, their religious affiliation, their gender or orientation, their disabilities, or their country of birth.
US federal authorities have issued warnings to local law enforcement throughout the US as ISIS has published lists of thousands of churches and encouraged lone wolf jihadists to attack them with the coming of the Christian New Year. The messages were posted to the ISIS social media site Secrets of Jihadis.
This past month, NOV 2016, ISIS featured the Anglican Cathedral in Melbourne Australia as a potential target for home-grown terrorists. In the video ISIS encouraged someone, anyone, to target the cathedral. Just a few days prior to Christmas, 400 combined forces in Australia acted upon 5 arrest warrants to arrest 6 men and a woman who were engaged in planning a plot to explode devices on or about Christmas day.